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Urban mining recovers valuable resources from the vast amounts of waste cities produce.
As a sustainability researcher, I know how quickly we could make big changes to reduce plastic pollution. Here’s what we – both individually and globally – should be doing more of, and what to avoid.
When governments want people to do less of something, one way to make that happen is to charge them for doing it. That’s the idea behind pay-as-you-throw waste policies.
Construction and demolition creates more waste than any other sector, but much of it can be recycled. However, public resistance to setting up new plants stands in the way of a sustainable market.
Plastic products that claim to be ‘compostable’ aren’t great either.
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Associate Professor and Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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