Municipal Waste as a Resource: Scaling the Circular Economy

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Explore how municipal waste management can scale the circular economy by transforming local government logistics into a sustainable resource recovery system.

Municipal Waste as a Resource: Scaling the Circular Economy

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How local municipality can help with your mission. They collect it from each home... its just to filter the ghutli and share it where it is useful... The more cooperative munciplity in any area.... not the one, who only think of money..... Right now we have new government, so it may be the best time for you to pitch Even AI have computer vision, which may build machine for municipality to easily filter ghutly from garbage based on shapes and pixels.

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