Less than 25% of all e-waste globally gets recycled. That’s because there are many challenges involved – but there is a way forward, too.
- Associate Professor in Sustainability, Adelaide University
Personal action on climate still has a place – but it works far better with institutional backing
Whether we can recycle plastic or not depends on what it’s made of (because there are many different types of plastic), if it’s sufficiently clean and if enough people will buy recycled products.
Businesses have long been a big part of the climate problem. They shouldn’t scale back environmental initiatives when it all feels too hard.
In places where reusable cups are allowed, coffee drinkers, cafe owners and local governments can use insights from behavioural science to discourage use of throwaway cups.
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