Month: November 2025
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How AI Actually Works in Waste Management (And Where It Falls Short)
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If you’re managing sustainability at a large enterprise, you’re seeing AI pitched as the solution to every waste challenge. But when you strip away the conference presentations and vendor promises, what’s actually being delivered? The gap between AI hype and practical reality matters because you’re dealing with real problems: messy data from multiple contractors, incomplete…
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The Hidden Cost of Poor Quality Waste Data
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Your sustainability team has targets to meet. Regulators want proof. Investors ask questions. But when you sit down to pull together your waste reporting, you know the data’s messy. Poor quality waste data costs more than time. It undermines your reporting credibility and stops you from identifying where real improvements could happen. With stronger assurance…
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Lessons from Sustainability Leaders in Hospitality and Tourism
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The hospitality and tourism sector accounts for approximately 10% of global GDP and supports more than 330 million jobs worldwide. With that scale comes significant impact on energy, water, materials, biodiversity, and local resources. Recently, we convened a panel discussion with The Data Lab, bringing together sustainability practitioners from across the sector—from small regenerative startups…
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The map is not the territory when it comes to waste data
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I have been reflecting on the concept of ‘the map is not the territory’ when thinking about corporate waste streams. Accepting that #waste is a dynamic system of #material flowing around organisations and territories. These materials emerge from operational sites (depending on the nature of the organisation). They are then collected by third parties (haulers/carriers)…
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wAIste management
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The past five years has seen a host of regulatory, environmental, social, technical and geopolitical developments that have weighed upon global systems of materials creation, use and disposal. Despite a push for circularity in our industrial systems, the continued spread of regulations such as Extended Producer Responsibility and the impact of supply side shocks, globally,…
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From Data Chaos to Circular Clarity: How Digital Intelligence is Powering the Next Wave of Circular Economy Innovation
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In the transition from fragmented data to circular clarity, the perspectives of Dr. Michael Groves and Casilda Malagon at the Exeter Circular Economy Masterclass highlight the strategic value of digital intelligence in waste and by-product management. Their insights reveal how data can be turned into actionable intelligence, supporting operational efficiency, compliance, and sustainable leadership. The…