Environmental Nonprofit Rethinks Recycling
is higher than those of most U.S. cities.To date, Rethinking Recycling has improved the livelihoods of more than 450 waste workers, many of whom are marginalized women, by increasing their salaries by up to 200 percent and providing them with access to health care and safe working environ- ments, Delterra said. Tim Hortons Launches Recycling Pilot Programs Through a partnership with Vancouver-based Intuitive AI, waste bins at 12Tim Hortons restaurants across Canada will be equipped with a screen and product image recognition technology to identify packaging items that guests scan.The screen provides guidance to guests on whether the items they scanned can be recycled or go into the compost bin or should go in the waste bin. Also,Tim Hortons is partnering with WestRock to launch a test of a new hot beverage cup design in January at select Vancouver restaurants. The test will feature cups that are made with up to 20 per cent post-consumer recycled con- tent and are compostable and recyclable. This design allows a greater proportion of the cup’s paper fibre to be recovered in the repulping process. This latest design builds off previous work that separately tested cups made with post-consumer recycled materials, and cups that featured a liner that was compostable or recyclable.This tri- al is testing a cup that is compostable or recyclable while also utilizing recycled materials.
McKinsey & Co. is a founding partner in a new environ- mental nonprofit known as Delterra, which has adopted the company’s Rethinking Recycling initiative as a flagship project. McKinsey & Co. will provide $6 million in multi- year funding, as well as a $3.5 million challenge grant and additional in-kind support, to help realize Rethinking Recy- cling’s goal of delivering recycling to countries across Asia, Latin America and Africa. McKinsey.org launched Rethinking Recycling in 2018. Over the last three years, the initiative has built scalable, self-sustaining recycling ecosystems in Indonesia and Ar- gentina, including solutions for plastics and organic waste. The nonprofit said it believes the initiative has reached an inflection point and is ready to further accelerate and scale its impact. Proof-Of-Concept In the coming years,Delterra it will add other initiatives to its portfolio that are designed to develop scalable solutions that redesign human systems for the good of people and the planet. Through its proof-of-concept and scale-up programs in In- donesia andArgentina,Delterra said Rethinking Recycling is on track to bring recycling and waste management services to more than 250,000 people by 2022, most of whom had no access to recycling solutions before. Its programs have also achieved recycling rates of up to 60 percent, which
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