60-second insights
Who actually gets paid for a kilo of PET?
Following one kilogram of bottles from a household in Hanoi to the buyer who pays for it, counting the hands and the margin at each step.
Facility tours
Inside a Hanoi transfer station
A walk through the point where household collection becomes bulk transport, and what gets pulled out along the way.
60-second insights
The arithmetic of a waste bank
What a member earns per month, what the bank spends to operate, and the gap that decides whether it is open next year.
Citizen stories
Eight years of weighing other people rubbish
A waste bank operator in Surabaya on what changed in her neighbourhood, and what did not.
Technology
What a sorting line can and cannot see
Optical sorters, near-infrared and the materials that defeat both. Filmed on a running line.
Country discoveries
Where the ash goes
The end of Singapore waste chain is an offshore landfill built out of the sea. What happens when it is full.
Facility tours
One hotel kitchen, one evening service
Weighing what leaves a single commercial kitchen in a night, and following where it goes.
Expert answers
The five questions, answered in sixty seconds
Every expert we interview answers the same five questions. This is the short form of one of those conversations.
India lessons
What would this cost in an Indian city?
Taking one international model and working through the municipal finance it would actually require.
Behind the journey
Two hundred emails, and the ones that came back
How research access is actually arranged, including how often the answer is no.