Revitalizing Recycling

In our final episode of this season, we explore the often overlooked potential of Indigenous knowledge and local expertise. Harish Hande, CEO of the SELCO Foundation, explains how listening to and collaborating with his clients in developing economies led to more effective solar ...  Show more

Soil plays a critical role when it comes to ecosystem services: storing carbon, growing our food supply, managing the flow of water, and supporting life, but we’ve neglected and degraded it through intensive farming, deforestation, and pollution. In this episode, we meet people i ...  Show more

With plastic production set to double by 2050, immediate action is needed to address plastic waste pollution and the inefficiencies of existing recycling systems. Chemical recycling could help process lower-grade feedstocks, significantly upping the amount of plastic that can be ...  Show more

Plastics production has doubled in the last two decades, clogging up our oceans and showing up in our organs. The massive growth in plastics production is also increasing CO2 output and driving up fossil fuel demand. Meanwhile, only 8% of plastic actually gets recycled, challengi ...  Show more

To accelerate the transition to a circular economy, we need the materials to help us get there.

In this episode, we hear from three companies about how their work contributes to taking us away from the linear take-make-waste economy, to a circular one.

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Tai tries to do his part by recycling whenever he can. But it turns out just tossing stuff into the blue bin doesn't do a whole lot: less than 10 percent of our plastic waste actually gets recycled, with the rest either ending up in landfill, burned or shipped overseas! How did w ...  Show more