With innovations and new technologies prompting significant progress in this field, leaders with engineering, business, finance, and policy backgrounds are playing important roles.
The economy today works as one straight line. Raw materials are taken from the environment, made into goods and then thrown away. However, this method of manufacturing isn’t sustainable in the long run.
The world has a troubled relationship with trash. The amount of waste created worldwide could fill more than 800,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools every year.