Yves here. Recycling and waste processing are or should be important practices that get far too little attention. A lot of consumer schemes, like separating garbage, are so inconsistently applied as to be of no use (do not get me started on what I have seen all over the world) when business and industrial programs would seem to have more potential (as in re-use more material and also be easier to implement and manage due to the scale of operations). I assume those are in place in forward-thinking countries, but the US fixates on household-level feel-goodery. 1 Also in a bit of drafting laziness, the authors designate Russia an emerging country by virtue of its membership in BRICS. By Aifani Confidence Tahulela, Researcher, Durban University of Technology, and Fulufhelo Netswera, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Postgraduate Studies, University of Venda.…