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Food Waste

The Case for Reducing Food Waste

Mariano Trevino - August 27, 2024

Waste not, want not – why not? Changing the way we manage food waste is an important step toward improving the global food system and making the cities we live in more sustainable. A...

Water

The Challenges Facing Urban Water Management

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2023

What water is available to cities is unevenly distributed and increasingly stressed due to population growth. Human activity backed by poor policy safeguards increases volumes of wastewater, reduces that of potable quality, and triggers...

Construction

CityChanger Dominik Campanella: Accelerating Circularity with Data

Karl Dickinson - April 28, 2022

Digitisation of the construction sector is an important step. It will simplify and streamline material reuse and carbon emission reduction. But this takes brains, cooperation between computing and construction, and a personal determination to...

FWE Nexus

The Case for the Food-Water-Energy Nexus: How Cities Benefit

Metka Novak - October 25, 2022

It’s about synergy of sectors – not competition – for sustainable use of given resources. We’re talking about the FWE nexus. Food, Water, and Energy “are highly interconnected: water is required for almost all...

Construction

What a Waste: Global Good Practices of Urban Waste Management

Abbie Harby - December 27, 2021

From lack of planning to a shortage of resources or an absence of imagination when it comes to strategies, there are many reasons why responsible waste management falls through our fingertips. However, with the...

Construction

How Urban Mining Can Promote Circular Construction

Abbie Harby - August 26, 2021

Since writing his thesis on “Recyclable Building in Residential Construction” over 20 years ago, Thomas Romm has only delved deeper into how we can reduce the environmental impact of construction and planning practices. Cue:...

Construction

Waste to Resources: Tampere’s Triumphs With Trash and Trade

Abbie Harby - July 1, 2021

The importance of good waste management is no secret, but how to do it can sometimes allude us. This is where the city of Tampere comes in. So, if you’re lacking innovative ideas and...

City Logistics

Jacqueline O’Donovan – London’s Only Female MD in the Waste Sector

Mathis Hampel - April 7, 2021

Female Skills That Make a Good Leader Interview with Jacqueline O’Donovan, Managing Director of O’Donovan Waste Disposal. Under her steer, the waste management business has gone from strength to strength and has 185 employees and a turnover of over...

Construction

Recycling Construction and Demolition Waste with SeRaMCo

Karl Dickinson - March 17, 2022

Is there a market for recycled concrete? This was such a sizeable question that the EU part-funded a multi-million-Euro project to find out. Leading SeRaMCo, Christian Glock set out to ascertain how construction and...

Construction

Recycling Concrete: Can We Really Reuse Construction and Demolition Waste?

Karl Dickinson - February 3, 2022

Concrete. As a staple of construction, it’s everywhere in our cities. What happens when a building has served its purpose? Could we recover, recycle, and rebuild with construction and demolition waste material? Would that...

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