What is Waste and What are its impacts?
In this webinar, FIN interns Jairaj Gopalakrishnan and Rita Bakunda discuss the true definition of waste. They explore the different types of waste and how we can effectively deal with them. Furthermore, they also give us an insight on what we mean by “Circular Economy” and what could the future of life in a circular economy look like.
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International Trade in Hazardous Waste.
In this webinar, FIN intern Riley Place explores the topic of hazardous waste and how different global superpowers try to pawn off the management of these wastes to smaller countries with a lower capability of dealing with this waste safely and effectively.
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Understanding food waste.
In this webinar, FIN intern Srotoswini Karmakar investigates the issue of food waste and the value lost when we cumulatively waste food during our meals and from restaurants and cafes.
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Landfills and waste.
In this webinar, FIN intern Prithvi Chauhan looks at one of the most common forms of waste disposal, landfills. He explores why this form of disposal is not only unsustainable, but has major ramifications for the people, flora, fauna and the environment surrounding it.
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Ocean Waste
In this webinar, FIN intern Shreya Agarwal takes a deep dive into one of the largest hazards to marine life, ocean waste. More specifically, she looks at the problem posed by plastic waste disposed in the oceans, how it impacts marine life and the aquatic ecology, and how eventually, all this will come to harm us humans in the end.
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E-waste and its impacts
In this webinar, FIN intern Tooba Rahman Khan looks at the most modern form of waste, electronic waste. Every aspect of our lives has electronics associated to it, and most of these appliances are not built to exist. This has caused one of the largest amounts of waste being disposed without an effective method to dispose off this type of waste.
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