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Zero Waste: Is Recycling a Waste of Time and Money?

March 11, 2019 zwconsultants Leave a comment

As the garbage and recycling trucks rumble through my neighborhood this morning, I feel a little bit better and more…

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Posted in: Circular Economy, Zero Waste Filed under: circular economy, economic, recyclable materials, recycling, waste recovery, zero waste

Zero Waste: The SDG Challenge

March 7, 2019 zwconsultants Leave a comment

Theodore Roosevelt once suggested “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do…

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Posted in: Circular Economy, Zero Waste Filed under: b corp, benefit corporation, c corp, circular economy, leadership, sustainablility, zero waste

Zero Waste: Are We Rationalizing Sustainable Practices?

January 22, 2019 zwconsultants Leave a comment

Smart people rationalize. They can’t help themselves. Once you feel as though you have the intellectual capabilities, you are more…

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Posted in: Circular Economy, Zero Waste Filed under: alternative organics, circular economy, leadership, organic recovery, organic waste, sustainablility, zero waste

Zero Waste: Sustainable Heuristics

January 2, 2019 zwconsultants Leave a comment

“Heuristics are commonly defined as cognitive shortcuts or rules of thumb that simplify decisions. They represent a process of substituting…

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Posted in: Circular Economy, Zero Waste Filed under: circular economy, food waste, heuristics, recycling, sustainablility, zero waste

Zero Waste: Recycling Headwinds for 2019

December 27, 2018 zwconsultants Leave a comment

The end-of-year forecasting is a pointless exercise for a number of reasons. There is no real need for predictions beyond…

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Posted in: Circular Economy, Zero Waste Filed under: alternative organics, bigideas2019, circular economy, environmental, organic recovery, plastic recycling, sustainablility, zero waste

Zero Waste: Environmental Class Warfare?

December 19, 2018 zwconsultants Leave a comment

ex·trap·o·late /ikˈstrapəˌlāt/ verb extend the application of (a method or conclusion, especially one based on statistics) to an unknown situation…

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Posted in: Circular Economy, Zero Waste Filed under: circular economy, environmental, organic recycling, plastic recycling, sustainablility, zero waste, zero waste consultants

Zero Waste: EPR and Plastics

December 12, 2018 zwconsultants Leave a comment

I apologize if, in a previous post focused on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), I may have oversimplified the problem with…

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Posted in: Circular Economy, Zero Waste Filed under: circular economy, economic, environment, plastic bag bans, plastic recycling, sustainablility, zero waste

Zero Waste: Extended Producer Responsibility and the K-Cup

December 7, 2018 zwconsultants 1 Comment

You may have heard the term Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). It has been around since the nineties, introduced first in…

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Posted in: Circular Economy, Zero Waste Filed under: circular economy, end-of-life, epr, extended producer responsibility, pcr, post consumer recyclables, zero waste

Zero Waste: The Landfill in the Sky

November 26, 2018 zwconsultants Leave a comment

Landfills are the out-of-sight, out-of-mind, not-in-my-neighborhood necessities, a fact of life not only here in the U.S. but globally as…

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Posted in: Circular Economy, Zero Waste Filed under: circular economy, innovation, landfill gas, landfills, methane, organic waste, recyclable materials, sustainablility, zero waste

Zero Waste: Five Ways to Achieve a Circular Economy in Five Years

November 15, 2018 zwconsultants Leave a comment

In a previous post, we asked the question of whether a holistic circular economy can exist. The question is not…

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Posted in: Circular Economy, Zero Waste Filed under: CE, circular economy, economic, recyclable materials, recycling, sustainablility, zero waste, zero waste consultants

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