Start growing your waste business today This practical guide is designed for waste pickers and small-scale dealers and recyclers working with recovered materials. It helps you better understand your operations, organise your work, and increase your income. Built around four simple steps to small-scale entrepreneurship, the guide walks you through: With real-world examples, focused guidance…
This publication, Solid Waste Management in the World Cities, is the third edition in UN-HABITAT’s State of Water and Sanitation in the World Cities series. It aims to capture waste management trends and draw attention to the importance of waste management, especially regarding its role in reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals. The publication acknowledges…
As part of it’s Government to Government programme with RVO, RWS Environment asked WASTE to analyse and present case studies showing involvement of the informal sector waste collection and recycling generated from packaging. One of the activities under this programme in Columbia involved the support of the National Business Association of Colombia (ANDI) who represent…
As the scale of the plastic pollution problem continues to grow, so too does the need for reliable, consistent data. The Closing the Data Gap Challenge was designed by the Circulate Initiative to bridge knowledge gaps that prevent action on tackling plastic pollution across different geographies. We are pleased to share the findings of this…
This catalogue shows a selected number of machines suitable for the valorisation of plastics into products which can be used as secondary material for the plastics industry. The first chapter gives a short explanation on plastics, the types and how they can be recycled or valorised. Then the various valorisation processes are shown in diagrams…