“Our world is becoming more controversial than ever. We are capable to identify the quantity and quality of water in March, in a distance which ranges between 35 -100 million km but, due to poverty and lack of appropriate global response, roughly 700 million people (1 to 10) lack access to safe water. We are discussing how to utilize the Internet of Things in industrialized economies but, according the recent ISWA’s “Wasted Health: The tragic case of dumpsites” report, the health impacts of dumpsites are worst than malaria in India, Indonesia and Philippines. On the bright side, the third industrial revolution creates new, unimaginable opportunities for making sustainability a cornerstone of each and every industrial sector. On the dark side, the recent “Global Waste Management Outlook” (GWMO) report revealed that roughly 2-3 billion people lack the most elementary waste services while
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As we move towards a more and more intensive recycling new and innovative approaches for awareness and campaigns are...
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Climate Change is as alarming as Paris Attacks!
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Brain – Machine Interfaces: Algorithms Vs Consciousness
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Urban waste management challenges in LAC
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Watch my recent interview on urban waste management challenges in Latin America – available both in English and Spanish...
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Breaking the link between economic growth and waste generation
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Jet fuels derived from waste resources: a new alternative!
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This is an interview with my colleague and good friend Jeff Cooper, ISWA’s president. I know Jeff for many...
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Martin Luther King, Environmental Justice and Waste Management
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Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1968, as Martin Luther King was getting ready for dinner, he was shot...
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Reality Check: Bans and Taxes for single use plastics
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We are leaving in a world that generates 17,000 plastics bottles per second. This means a million bottles per...
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