The Value of Waste is the motivator to clean our lives and our climate!
Even a gold mine does not present itself so you can just pick it up.
We have a treasure trove on our hands that is being ignored.
OK, it is not made of gold, but it ALL has Value! Are you ignoring it?
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Waste: The commodity of the future
Maximising the value of your untapped resources
Waste is everywhere, and waste is constant. While waste is often viewed as a dilemma, at PAConsulting we see opportunity and value.
Forward-looking organisations are rethinking processes and challenging attitudes about waste. The biggest and often most unexpected opportunities come from repurposing waste into entirely new business opportunities, turning it into value – also known as valorization.
It’s up to you to take the first step. Don’t waste the opportunity!
Where can you find information on Waste?
Lots of places…………..
Magazines and Online News platforms
Zero waste takes off – Resource Recycling, Inc.
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the history of the zero waste movement and its impact; see part 1 here.
June 2024 – Our three legacy movements — recycling, anti-incineration and zero waste — are working expeditiously to reach 90% diversion with no incineration, organics out of landfills and no toxics in our packages or products. Communities, businesses and local governments today are equipped with strategic policies and programs that were not available when the three legacy movements emerged prior to 2000.
June 2025 – On May 15, George Smith, director of MSU AgBioResearch, and Wei Liao, director of the MSU Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC), testified in front of the Michigan House Agriculture Committee that through cutting-edge anaerobic digestion research and deployment, MSU researchers are demonstrating how agricultural and food waste can be harnessed to produce clean energy, recover valuable resources and protect the Great Lakes ecosystem.
WasteDive
Waste Dive provides in-depth journalism and insight into the most impactful news and trends shaping waste & recycling. The newsletters and website cover topics such as collections and transfer, recycling, organics, zero waste, landfills, policy, and conferences.
Waste Dive is a leading publication operated by Informa TechTarget for 14 million decision makers in competitive industries.
https://recyclinginside.com
4 Jun 2025 | Separation and Sorting Technology
Two brothers, who head up HUDEI Metals Pvt Ltd., are using their company to set new standards in scrap sorting and demonstrate how recycling is becoming a key resource for India’s sustainable growth. Recycling inside covers Events around the world.
Taking Pulse Of The Biogas Industry
Landfill gas comprises the largest amount of biogas generated, while wastewater treatment plants’ anaerobic digesters represent the greatest number of biogas projects.
BioCycle is the go-to resource on composting, organics & other waste recycling, anaerobic digestion and biogas, end product markets, policies and regulations, community outreach and education.
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Maps
Plastic Tracker
This map is an educative tool to illustrate the fate of floating plastic 20 years from now, should you lose it today from your location or anywhere else in the world………..
Where will it go?
How probable is it that it will reach the ocean?
See where it could go With this tool !
WasteMAP is a collaboration between RMI and Clean Air Task Force (CATF) with generous support from The Global Methane Hub and Google.org. The Waste Methane Assessment Platform, or WasteMAP, was created to improve waste methane emissions transparency, and to highlight mitigation opportunities and best practices to reduce solid waste methane emissions.
Climate TRACE is a non-profit coalition of organizations building a timely, open, and accessible inventory of exactly where greenhouse gas emissions are coming from. We need additional information about exactly where and when greenhouse gas emissions are occurring in order to set actionable goals to reduce them.
Carbon Mapper‘s data portal includes observations of thousands of methane and CO2 plumes. Data is sourced from multiple sensors onboard aircraft, satellites, and other space-based systems and added on an ongoing basis.
Data Portal: https://data.carbonmapper.org/#1.03/25.4/50.5
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Waste Commodity Online Platforms
Sell what you used to throw away
Here is an example:
The Global Waste Marketplace WasteTrade provides a supportive virtual environment for the producers and reprocessors of waste commodities to come together to buy and sell waste materials with ease. By removing the barriers to ethical waste disposal, such as compliance and logistics, by dealing with them ourselves, we are increasing the efficiency, fluidity and profitability of the global waste industry.
Yes, it is past time for a WasteRush!
“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting.
We allow them to disperse
because we have been ignorant of their value.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
WasteRush is based on the idea that if we found the Value of all our Waste, it would be like the Gold Rush >> Every body getting on board and our climate will clean up. All Waste has Value of some sort! ……….
These posts from this blog are one of my Main Focuses:
WasteRush is Now! Tools to Sell & Buy Waste Commodities! 2025-01-09
Waste Oriented Organizations
Who We Are Since 1976, StopWaste has been helping Alameda County, California’s businesses, residents, and schools waste less, recycle better, and use water, energy and other resources efficiently. With local partners, we helped launch the green building movement in California and organized one of the first and largest food scrap collection programs in the country.
Californians Against Waste, CAW believes in preventing waste at its source and holding producers responsible throughout a product’s lifecycle to transition California to a thriving circular economy. Founded in 1977, Californians Against Waste is a non-profit environmental research and advocacy organization. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: We have sponsored or helped craft almost all of California’s major nation-leading recycling policies.
WasteAid has launched the Zero Waste Cities Challenge to find entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas that help reduce or recycle waste and create green employment opportunities.
WasteAid works with communities and policy makers in low and middle-income countries to implement circular solutions focused on waste management and recycling.
“The ‘Waste to Use Challenge is an important element of WasteAid’s CIWM-funded Project Dennakuwo. The challenge helps Gambian entrepreneurs develop Gambian solutions, pioneering ways to recover, reuse and divert waste from dump sites. It is a fantastic example of how nurturing innovation can lead to the protection of the world’s environment and resources for future generations.
Harness the Benefits of Biogas – from Organic Waste
Biogas systems recycle decomposable Waste– like manure, food waste, wastewater solids and other organic material–into energy and fertilizer.
There is an urgent need to manage millions of tons of food, water and animal waste. The main benefits of biogas systems come from the fact that they are recycling all this material by producing renewable energy and soil fertilizers.
The American BioGas Council estimates that in the USA alone about 17,000 additional biogas projects could be built to:
*convert waste into valuable domestically-produced energy
*improve crop yields and nutrients
*preserve landfill space
*create good-paying jobs
These new biogas systems hold the potential:
>>>To produce lots and lots more Renewable Natural Gas (RNG)
>>>To produce as much as 29 gigawatts of 24/7 electricity
>>>To create thousands of short-term construction jobs, permanent operations jobs, and other indirect supply chain jobs.
National Clean-Up Day – Zimbabwe Presidential Declaration
On the 5 December, 2018, President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared the first Friday of each new month as a national clean-up day. The National Clean-Up Day states that it is the duty of every individual across the country to clean their surrounding areas be it places of work, education, religion, recreational and residential premises to manage waste management in the country. From 8:00hrs -10:00hrs on the first Friday of each calendar month every stakeholder is expected to play a role in this commitment.
Serving 90,000+ professionals worldwide, Waste360 is a leading information, event, commerce and education provider to solid waste, recycling, organics and sustainable communities and plays a critical role in connecting industry professionals worldwide. Anchored by its flagship event, WasteExpo and digital properties, including Waste360.com, Waste360 continues to grow and evolve its portfolio to meet the needs of the Waste industry.
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Waste Wise Cities
Click on the image below or go straight to https://relondon.gov.uk/
Waste Wise Cities Tool – Step by Step Guide to Assess a City’s Municipal Solid Waste Management Performance through the SDG indicators. The tool has been translated to various languages
Waste Wise Online Courses to study the solutions.
The idea of Mysore corporation was to decentralize the waste management system and to ensure public participation in turning organic waste into resources. Mysuru City Corporation has one centralized compost unit that has a screening system to separate out non-recyclable materials and produces compost by using the wind-row composting method. They are planning another. The city corporation is also encouraging people to start biogas units at the household level. The unique decentralized waste management approach by Mysuru has shown India how to convert Waste to Wealth. But more than anything, Mysore’s success story is one where people and their government work together to keep their city clean.
Background to #WasteWiseCities UN-Habitat launched the Waste Wise Cities Campaign on World Habitat Day in 2018. The campaign aims to enhance waste management and resource efficiency in the world’s cities.
UN-Habitat will support cities that want to become
Waste Wise in the following action areas:
- Waste Data & Monitoring (e.g. feedback on available data, support in collection of data with Waste Wise Cities Tool)
- Knowledge & Good Practices Sharing (e.g. Newsletter, City-to-city Partnerships, Waste Wise Academy)
- Advocacy & Education (e.g. educational toolkit, awareness raising material)
- Project Finance & Bankability Support (e.g. for drafting project proposals, marketplace)
The 7 Cleanest Cities: India’s best waste managment models: Starts with this one…………….6 more cities to learn about…………
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Research
There are thousands+ research projects on all aspects of Waste. Below I mention some unusual ones………….
Global Waste Research Institute
Transforming waste into opportunities
A Global Initiative for the Advancement of Waste and Byproduct Research
All human and industrial activities result in generation of waste and byproducts. In the U.S. alone, the amount of waste and byproducts generated on an annual basis is measured in hundreds of millions of tons. At GWRI, our mission is to advance the development of sustainable technologies and policies for more effective management of these materials.
Alliance to End Plastic Waste
The global plastic waste challenge requires solutions that are beyond the capabilities of any single organisation. At the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, we drive systems by harnessing the power of collective action.
Ideas come from anywhere in the world. That’s why we partnered with Plug and Play Tech Center in 2019 to develop the End Plastic Waste Innovation Platform for startups from across the plastic value chain. In February 2020, we kickstarted the first Selection Day with 10 finalists in our inaugural Silicon Valley hub. This was followed by the Paris hub programme, and the Singapore hub programme all in August 2020. We aee providing the startups with access to world-class resources and expertise through the accelerator platform.
Sustainability by numbers [email protected]
Around a decade ago I read a book that changed the lens that I view the world through.
David MacKay’s Sustainable Energy – without the hot air was the book I had been waiting for. MacKay stepped back and crunched the data on what the UK’s energy system looked like at that time, and how feasible a transition to net-zero would be. Not based on instincts, but on data. Big data. It was a breath of fresh air.
I don’t only look at energy. Sustainability spans a range of environmental impacts: from climate and energy, to food, deforestation the oceans, and resource consumption – key parts of sustainability.
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Waste Investors
Waste and Recycling Investors
We’ve built the most extensive list of investors who are active in the waste and recycling industry. This is a record-breaking time with game-changing innovation fueled by venture capital and we’ve hit an amazing time to get involved in the waste and recycling industry. This site is like introducing you to the Waste Investors community on both sides; those looking for funds and those that want to invest. Stock Screener: Tracking publicly traded waste and recycling stocks worldwide.
Recyclesaurus was born from our own struggles to find new, exciting jobs in waste and recycling. As we looked for the “next step” in our own careers, we realized that the roles we were looking for certainly exist–they’re just difficult to find.
Tackling global challenges together
At the European Investment Bank (EIB), we believe that the need for multilateral action and effective support of development and growth outside Europe has never been greater. Through our projects, we aim for more jobs and opportunities, a clean planet and a better quality of life for everyone.
Solid waste management
The EIB provides long-term financing and technical assistance to public and private waste management projects, both inside the EU and around the world, in line with EU sector policy objectives and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNTAPPED POTENTIAL:
INVEST IN WASTE MANAGEMENT BUSINESS IN AFRICA
Africa’s rapid urbanization is leading to increased volumes of municipal, industrial, and electronic waste. The demand for effective waste management systems is critical to mitigate environmental pollution and health risks associated with uncontrolled disposal practices. Governments across the continent are enacting stringent environmental regulations and waste management policies. This regulatory framework creates a conducive environment for investment in modern waste management infrastructure and technologies, addressing pressing environmental challenges.
ABOUT ARISE IIP/Africa for Investors:
DEVELOPER & OPERATOR OF WORLD-CLASS INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IN AFRICA Africa for Investors (AFI) is an ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP) initiative. ARISE designs, finances, conceives and operates industrial ecosystems across Africa. Together, we identify industrial gaps in African countries and design tailor-made solutions to enable the sustainable and local transformation of raw materials, boost exports, and promote trade.
ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (Arise IIP), since October 2024, counts three shareholders: Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), Equitane and Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA) – a subsidiary of Afreximbank.
Surplus recycled
Making good Happen through REUSE
Millions of perfectly usable items end up in landfills every year – overflow inventory, returns, and even material excess. Instead of spending time, money, and energy on disposal, Happen Ventures sets up reuse programs that divert surplus to people and communities in need!
Transform your excess inventory into meaningful impact
The Charity Hub is changing the narrative
Even the most sophisticated and successful companies can experience inventory challenges. The Charity Hub’s approach presents a new way to enable companies to amplify the benefit of monetizing their excess inventory and at the same time protect the planet and enhance the lives of those in need.
We are a social enterprise helping to fix inventory challenges, not landfills.
The Charity Hub (TCH) officially launched in 2021 with a mission to help reduce consumer product waste. Through our partnerships, TCH generates what every nonprofit needs most – cash to fund their programs and services – all while solving challenging inventory issues for businesses and extending the useful lives of goods which supports a company’s commitment to Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) goals.
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Strengthening communities through building material reuse.
Turning waste into wealth and opportunity
Jan 16, 2023 – Lifecycle Building Center is a nonprofit that captures building materials from the waste stream and directs them back into the community through reuse.
Material reuse is a sustainable way to divert construction waste destined for landfills. Material reuse can create a number of financial benefits for communities by lowering disposal costs, reducing tax liabilities for material donors and providing access to low-cost or free building materials. Deconstruction, or the selective removal of building materials for reuse, also helps create green jobs; for every one job created through “demolition”, 7 jobs can be generated through de-construction. Material reuse also has many positive environmental impacts, such as reducing the extraction of natural resources.
CDI World USA helps support LBC by being both a material donor and corporate sponsor. CDI World specializes in the creation and delivery of trade show exhibitions, event structures, retail interiors, and commercial environments for top brands and corporations.
Posts about Waste to Gas to Electricity or RNG
posts on Cleaner Renewable Gases – Fuel or Electricity
Anaerobic Digestion In Full Swing – #1 Waste To Energy?
CNG, LNG, RNG Fuelling Stations – #2 Waste To Energy
#3 Municipal Solid Waste – MSW To BioFuel? Yes!
Landfill Gas (LFG) – Fuel or Electricity – Capture Methane
ALL Islands: Just Go Zero – NOW! – Like Tilos
Look To Garbage Dump Sites For The Energy We Need! Sure Fire!
Landfill Gas Projects Worldwide – – – Clean Up The Air, Now!
SMALL Landfills – Capture The Methane And Make Energy, Too.
The Most Compelling Issue, Right Now! – -Climate Or Waste?
Why We Need To Capture Landfill Gas – – -Right Now!
How To Get More Electricity For Your Community – Worldwide
INVESTING in LFG – Capturing the Methane!
Cleaner Energy Investments! Time To Invest In Your Landfill!
CH4 Investments Urgent! Today! Landfill Gas (LFG)
what needs to be cleaned up
Too Much Methane !
Why We Need To Capture Landfill Gas – – -Right Now!
The Greenhouse Gases List …..A Re-Review
The “Relief” Of Phasing Out Fossil Fuel! …Now!
Finally In The Mood To Phase Out Fossil Fuel? Environment
Finally In The Mood To Phase Out Fossil Fuel? People-Civic
Finally In The Mood To Phase Out Fossil Fuel? – Governance
We CAN Deal With The #1 Mistake: Fossil Fuel – Today
cleaning up the mess
Fossil Fuel Is Ancient Waste. But, There’s Plenty Of Waste Now!
Can We, Are We Pulling In The Excess CO₂ ?
Fuel From Air? – Capture CO₂
Carbon Dioxide – Who Else Has Ideas To Pull It DOWN And OUT?
We Need To USE THE CO2! …..For Industry – Big Market!
Urban Mining – Recycling – for clean energy
Urban Mining ! – More Important Than Ever
Critical Minerals & Rare Elements! ….. COLOSSAL WASTE RUSH
Other approaches to waste:
Useful Green WASTE Business Ideas That Scale To Any Size
Harvesting Waste Ideas. Waste Rushes? NOW!
Climate Retrofits On Land Or At Sea
Shipping’s Carbon Footprint And Your Small Business >> Your Vote
Industrial Zone – Closed-Loop Networking
Cellulosic Ethanol – One Of Many DSM Sustainability Projects
We Need To USE THE CO2! …..For Industry – Big Market!
INTERESTING !