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Waste Management Workspace 2021

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May 24, 2016 05:00 EDT - Aug 12, 2021 11:00 EDT
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Aug 12, 2021 11:00 EDT
How can greenhouse gas emissions from waste management be reduced?

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11 Proposals
Jan 11, 2018
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Using food remains of employees as fertilizer for plants around the office, potentially giving working spaces a healthy and positive mood.
Feb 19, 2020
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We can stop putting 28 Million single-use plastic bottles into waste each month. Each and every month. Year after year.
Dec 22, 2017
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Weed out methane from the atmosphere to keep our earth in the limits of the 2 degree as during the pre - industrial levels.
Jul 24, 2020
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Recyclinghof auf dem Planeten Venus
Jan 3, 2018
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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?
Jun 12, 2018
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Older, used (but useful) solar panels are usually thrown away. Instead, we use them to power low-income households, schools, & nonprofits.
Apr 3, 2019
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Stores chill products that don't require it. We can reduce GHG's by lobbying business and policy makers to only chill perishables.
Apr 3, 2018
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Blueprints for a social enterprise aimed at slums; which recycles materials to build solar water heaters, mainly for showers.
Dec 3, 2019
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How to link the SDGs, communities, permaculture and data generation for land restoration, research and goal achievement assessment?
Mar 23, 2019
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fold environmental costs into recycling by regulating that businesses have to offer recycle the products they sell.
Jul 15, 2019
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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