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Global Partnership Launches USD $60 Million Initiative to Advance Circular Electronics in 16 Countries
It brings together governments, international organizations, the private sector, civil society and other stakeholders to reduce electronic waste (e-waste), improve resource efficiency and promote more sustainable electronics value chains.
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- Technology, WASH
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- circular economy, partnerships, recycling, scale, waste
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Ororo Waste Secures Up to $1 Million to Expand Used Cooking Oil Collection in Nigeria
The company collects used cooking oil from markets, households, restaurants and institutions before supplying certified material to international biofuel and sustainable aviation fuel markets.
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- Energy, Environment, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- circular economy, clean cooking, scale, waste
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Eight More Nations Pledge New Circular Economy Roadmaps in Africa
As part of this second phase of the National Roadmaps for the Circular Economy (NCER) program, Angola, Liberia, Madagascar, and Senegal will develop their own roadmaps by identifying priority sectors, aligning institutional efforts, and tailoring strategic guidelines to their local productive structures.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Are Electric Car Batteries as Dirty as Critics Claim?
Claims that electric vehicle batteries are tainted by exploitative mineral supply chains are discrediting non-fossil cars as electrified road transport booms.
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- Technology
- Region
- Global
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Report: The Human Cost of Recycling Tech Devices
Using more than 20 years of data, Finn and Gounaridis are working to make sense of what they call the “informal paradox”; a complex trade-off between relative economic opportunity and exposure to chronic health and environmental harm.
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- University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) (link opens in a new window)
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Europe’s Textile Future at a Turning Point: New 2030 Circularity Blueprint Aims to Scale Recycling and Unlock Investment Opportunities
This ambitious initiative is designed to support the transformation of the EU textile ecosystem to advance textile-to-textile recycling and drive the transition to a circular economy.
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- WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Who Pays for Dignity? Rethinking India’s Waste Economy
Despite the essential role that waste workers perform in any functioning city, they are often severely underpaid and denied the dignity, security, and recognition they deserve.
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- WASH
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- Global
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Viewpoint: The Economy That Remembers: Institutional Amnesia and the Regenerative Correction
Modern capitalism has perfected a hidden discipline: the systematic design of economic systems that forget. What we call “externalities” are not costs that disappear — they are consequences displaced. The regenerative economy, at its core, is not simply greener or more inclusive. It is an effort to build systems that remember.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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