The pace of change during the 4th industrial revolution is so fast that we need to step back and see the whole picture in order to understand the disruption ahead. Digital manufacturing, artificial intelligence, new sensors, robotics and driverless cars converge with the circular economy shift and create a new unmapped landscape. And this is just the beginning of the 4th industrial revolution. There are 10 trends that will reshape the waste management and recycling industry. The best is coming: the terms waste and recyclables will be completely redefined as it happened during all the industrial revolutions. Get more details in my recent brief that is available at Wasteless Future Resources. In a glance: the era of disruption is coming much faster that we think – we have to be prepared for a rapid, radical and game-changing transformation of the waste management and recycling industry. We have to redefine waste management and recycling during the 4th industrial revolution.
From waste bins to recycling drones!
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The future of recycling: driverless, robotic and decentralised
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In a recent interview I gave to Marcus Ng, for the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize, I went...
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Creating a Wasteless Future: is it possible?
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“I believe that the solution is outside of the resource and waste management world. We need a new economic...
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Technology of the future – Trend #2: New materials – new waste – new recycling technologies
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This post deals with the second trend that I believe it will reshape the future of waste management and...
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How Algorithms undermine Democracy
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As more and more artificial intelligence is used, we discover new unbelievable potential for resolving difficult problems, but we...
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Ecological behaviour and commitment to the environment
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This is from Science for Environment Policy, an EC service, issue 265, December 2011.“Researchers have used the psychological concept...
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Waste is Information! A great new book
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I exchanged some emails with Dietmar Offenhuber few years ago, when I was trying to persuade Carlo Ratti to...
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New materials –> New Waste: The case of coffee capsules
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We all know that recently coffee capsules (known also as K-Cups) became a fashion, with the support of some...
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A social – environmental comment by George Sbokos
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Sitting in my small Attorneys office a week before Christmas. Cases in postponement due to strike, banks in wooden...
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