Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02349-5
Sonia M. Dias
Waste pickers are often invisible in climate discourse. Waste specialist Sonia Dias discusses their essential part in climate resilience and what we can learn from their experience.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02374-4
Waste is not only a material issue but also a social one. Our Focus on waste highlights the crucial role of the human perspective, and calls for the recentring of human experience, equity and local knowledge in waste management. A people-centred approach is essential for creating strategies that are both effective and equitable, and promote environmental, health and social justice for all.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02351-x
Anderson Assuah
Anderson Assuah teaches and promotes sustainability strategies in Canada. In this World View, he discusses the role of culture in waste management.
Anderson Assuah在加拿大教授和推广可持续发展战略。在这个世界观中，他讨论了文化在废物管理中的作用。
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02353-9
Ioana Cotutiu, Xiao Wang
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) fights transnational crimes: the illegal trade in waste is one major topic, as it generates multibillion-dollar profits for organized crime networks. We spoke to Ioana Cotutiu, programme officer for illegal trade in waste in the Asia–Pacific region, about the illegal waste trade and how behavioural science can help.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02333-z
Katy Tapper, Bethan Thompson, Christian Reynolds, Luiza Toma
Households waste huge amounts of food, which leads to considerable financial costs for individuals and substantial contributions to CO2 emissions. But this is a complex problem to address. In this Comment, Tapper and colleagues discuss how behavioural and systems science can help to provide solutions.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02330-2
Riccardo Torelli
Corporate waste strategies are limited, and recycling is not enough to solve the global waste crisis. This Comment highlights the urgent need for businesses to adopt zero-waste principles by redesigning products and systems and discarding greenwashing. To drive this change, corporate governance must be inclusive and incentivize reduction.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02341-z
Pauline Deutz
Human behaviour has been identified as a key dynamic in sustainable waste management and circular economy research. Drawing on recent behaviour publications from both fields, this Perspective highlights three issues relating to how they frame people. First, reference to ‘consumers’ in circular economy research contrasts with ‘people’ in some sustainable waste management papers. This represents an artificial separation of approaches to activities that are interwoven; furthermore, it implicitly defines a business agenda for the circular economy. Second, research into behaviour needs a broader methodological approach to identify variable needs and address underlying contextual and structural issues. Third, attention is needed to ongoing inequalities within and between countries that limit the effectiveness of circular economy implementation. Future research in these fields should prioritize human-centred approaches, including critical realism and qualitative methods, to uncover the socio-political constraints on behaviour and guide sustainability strategies that address the needs of people. This Perspective urges a shift away from viewing people as ‘consumers’ in circular economy and sustainable waste management research, highlighting a need for human-centred methods to better understand behaviour and drive meaningful change.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02342-y
George Baffour Awuah
Economist George Baffour Awuah discusses how a quiet revolution is helping to turn a waste crisis to economic opportunity in the Global South. But for scale, a supportive ecosystem is required.
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