Consumed

Consumed traces the life cycle of a variety of common consumer products from their origins, across supply chains, and waste streams. The circular economy is an attempt to lessen the pace and impact of consumption through efforts to reduce demand for raw materials by recycling wastes, improve the reusability/durability of products to limit pollution, and expand business practices that regenerate rather than deplete nature.

To wipe or to wash? That is the question

Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out

Rolling towards circularity? Tracking the trace of tires

Getting the bread: What’s the environmental impact of wheat?

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Takin’ out the trash: How do transnational waste traffickers operate?

Into the Wasteland, part 3: Buried in Europe’s recycling

Is waste crime ‘the new narcotics’ in the U.K.? Into the Wasteland, part 2

True eco-crime in the U.K., ‘Into the Wasteland’

Consumed: What is the environmental impact of chocolate?

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine

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