Reducing Waste Through Green Procurement Practices – A Twitter Chat... January 16, 2017 | Swetha Dandapani
A Message From be Waste Wise’s Co-founder, Ranjith Annepu... January 4, 2017 | Swetha Dandapani
Food Waste – A Quick Guide December 21, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani
Informal Waste Economy – A Quick Guide November 28, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani
Circular Economy – A Beginner’s Guide November 7, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani
Does Recycling Create More Waste? – A Tweetchat... November 4, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani
Consumption & Waste Management – A Beginner’s Guide... October 24, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani
Climate Change & Waste Management – A Quick Guide... October 13, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani
Oceans and Plastic Pollution – A Quick Guide... October 5, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani
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be Waste Wise is a non-profit organization addressing the need for knowledge dissemination in waste management by bringing the best minds in the world together to build a global waste management community. be Waste Wise provides educational resources, direct access to experts and networking for free and builds momentum around the global challenge of waste.
be Waste Wise also manages grants and provides consultancy services in knowledge transfer and training, communications and content marketing, networking and community building, conference support and waste management. Learn more…
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Creating change through knowledge | An year in one post
January 30, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Results from 2016 show that we’re moving towards the goal of an engaged global community faster. In 2016, we also started providing knowledge dissemination services. We made high-quality capacity building affordable by savings 65% of costs in a project funded by the European Union. Towards the end of last year, a student told us that be Waste Wise gives him access to diverse perspectives, easily. A scientist told us that our work helped his group reorient their research and provides new ideas. be Waste Wise’s model of knowledge dissemination has a great potential to impact the world. The results show that we have just started scratching the surface.Read More
Are Light Emitting Diodes (LED) e-waste?
October 4, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani
Prof. Brajesh Dubey, from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, tells us about LED (light emitting diodes) and what happens when they become waste.
Recently, we received a query from the community enquiring about LED (light emitting diodes), their … Read More
“One of the things often missed is what developed world can learn from developing world.” – Interview with Margaret Bates
September 11, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani
Margaret Bates is Professor Sustainable Wastes Management at the University of Northampton. She has been involved in wastes management for over 25 years and undertook her PhD on landfill microbiology. She is the curator of this month’s #wastedialog. … Read More
Bilikiss Adebiyi on Waste & Wellbeing : bWW Essays
July 14, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani
Improper waste management can have far reaching negative impact, which go beyond immediate negative externalities and can significantly impact the frame of mind of people inhabiting those areas.Read More
“People will look back to this era as the ‘Plasticene’ – plastic is the best marker of human ‘civilization’!” – Interview With Anna Cummins
June 23, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani 1
We chatted with Anna Cummins about the impact of the plastic problem on earth, communicating about the ocean plastic problem, the 5 Gyres Ambassador Program, and their planned Arctic Expedition, among other things.Read More
Adam Read On Waste & Wellbeing – bWW Essays
June 16, 2016 | Swetha Dandapani
As part of our #WasteDialog around the 2016 Global Dialogue On Waste, we posed a question to visionaries and leaders in waste management. We will share their answers to how good waste management can improve well-being. Here’s the response from Adam Read, Ricardo-AEA’s … Read More
