Waste Management Workspace 2021
How can greenhouse gas emissions from waste management be reduced?
You are invited to submit your proposal here for waste management outside of the contest period. Try out new ideas, share your work, connect with other members and recruit collaborators, and invite a global community to review and help develop your proposal. When new rounds of Climate CoLab contests begin, you will be able to move your proposal(s) to the relevant contest. To see previous Climate CoLab contests, see the Climate CoLab contest outline view.
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Proposals
Weed out methane from the atmosphere to keep our earth in the limits of the 2 degree as during the pre - industrial levels.
I recycle (some of) my paper and plastic. But do I know what happens to it. How much is actually converted to a new product?
Using food remains of employees as fertilizer for plants around the office, potentially giving working spaces a healthy and positive mood.
Blueprints for a social enterprise aimed at slums; which recycles materials to build solar water heaters, mainly for showers.
Older, used (but useful) solar panels are usually thrown away. Instead, we use them to power low-income households, schools, & nonprofits.
fold environmental costs into recycling by regulating that businesses have to offer recycle the products they sell.
Stores chill products that don't require it. We can reduce GHG's by lobbying business and policy makers to only chill perishables.
How to link the SDGs, communities, permaculture and data generation for land restoration, research and goal achievement assessment?
We should treat the earth the same way we do our home If we place large air purification systems in large populated areas of may work
We can stop putting 28 Million single-use plastic bottles into waste each month. Each and every month. Year after year.
Recyclinghof auf dem Planeten Venus