Recently I met Farouk Banna of the World Bank, and we discussed the bank’s investments in the global waste business. What always strikes me is how the waste industry is all about collection and landfills. In fact, out of the $220 billion per year spent today, and even more importantly, the $375 billion anticipated annual
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal that ran under the headline “Bottle Recycling Plan is Left at the Curb” described how $60 million had been invested in this 120,000-square-foot Coca-Cola facility in Spartanburg, S.C., that is now sitting mostly idle. It was, I thought, a perfect illustration of the need for new approaches