"The resources we need are no longer in the ground, but in landfill"
We need to recategorise waste as a raw material to begin the transition to a circular economy, says Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure author Katie Treggiden.
Anybody who has been watching David Attenborough's recent flurry of documentaries will have the sense that he's in a rush to convince us of something before it's too late.
But too late for him, or for us, it's difficult to tell. In January, usually circumspect scientists described a new UN report, showing that global temperatures could pass a dangerous threshold within just five years, as "a screaming warning signal". So, what did Attenborough say when Andrew Marr asked him what we should do to address climate change"
"Stop waste. Stop waste of any kind. Stop wasting power. Stop wasting food. Stop wasting plastic. Don't waste ? this is a precious world." Waste is important because it impacts so many environmental issues
Robert Kunzig called waste "the mother of all environmental problems"Â in his National Geographic cover story in March. And I've just spent a year writing a book on the same subject. So, why the sudden interest in the things we throw away"
Waste is important because it impacts so many environmental issues. In 2009, a group of scientists set out nine planetary boundaries in an attempt to define a "safe operating space for humanity".
Stay inside them and we can thrive within the limits of the earth's finite resources. Breach them and we risk setting int...
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