In some places less waste is being created in the first place.

ECONOMIST: Talking rubbish

The company has a distinctive core business: rather than dealing with middlemen, it deals directly with 250, 000 suppliers and thereby squeezes out some of the waste that hobbles farming in poor places.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

The report also highlights better use of collection sites and designated places for residents to drop-off bags of waste if the need arose.

BBC: Household rubbish piled up outside a house in Cheltenham

It makes the crops local farmers grow almost worthless, which makes them stop growing food and drives them to move to places where foreigners pass out free food, which lays waste to those areas which must produce food after that alphabet soup of aid agencies have moved on to the next crisis.

NPR: Niger's Desperation

The National Union of Teachers says this is a waste of public money when some areas face an acute shortage of primary places.

BBC: Free schools 'in areas of surplus places', says NUT

Greenco Environmental collects the residual food from places like the Hyatt and blends that with wood and yard "waste" from tree companies, landscapers and municipalities.

CNN: Downtown Atlanta recycles self into a Zero Waste Zone