Capturing value from urban organic waste

In collaboration with the World Economic Forum as part of Project MainStream, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has launched the new scoping paper ‘Urban Biocycles’. It focuses on the significant volume of organic waste in urban environments. Organic waste, from municipal solid waste streams and wastewater from sewage systems, is traditionally seen as a costly economic and environmental problem. The paper draws on case studies from the US and Europe to explore the idea that designing more effective recovery and processing systems can reverse this equation, turning organic waste into a source of value and helping to restore natural capital (News Item Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 28 March 2017).
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