Posts tagged: Climate

Building a circular economy is one of the biggest aims to achieve sustainability and fight climate change. But what if cycles cannot be closed easily? Then it’s time to apply rougher measures and – literally – smash everything to pieces. Some material cycles can be closed relatively easily, and appropriate systems have been in place for years: Glass, steel, but also certain types of plastics as long as they are homogeneous. But what about the giant amounts of municipal waste containing mixed and often soiled plastics?

There are still people, including some high-ranking politicians, who are denying the human-induced climate change caused by excessive greenhouse gas emissions. However, science agrees quite well on the mechanisms that have led to a warming of the atmosphere and continue to heat it up.