Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image

| be Waste Wise | June 1, 2023

Scroll to top

Top

Ranjith Annepu

Ranjith Annepu

Damage to public health and quality of life –because of reasons like improper waste management, which already have technological solutions– keeps me on my feet.

Ranjith Kharvel Annepu is a Co-Founder of be Waste Wise and an International Waste Management Consultant. He builds tools, systems, and institutions which can foster and support long-term improvement in well-being on our rapidly changing planet.

He holds a Master’s degree in Earth and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering. He works in South and South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Middle East. He consults for the World Bank Group, and the Earth Engineering Center at Columbia University to improve decision making in investments and governance through technology and policy analysis, life cycle analysis, and capacity building and knowledge dissemination. He also manages a grant for waste management organizations in India and is the India Coordinator for the Global WTERT Council.

Contributions


June 16, 2017 from our Blog, News Ranjith Annepu has created and is running be Waste Wise since 2013. Read More



May 24, 2017 from our Video Panels We organized a couple of conversations this week with two people working in the space of consumption in very different ways. Read More



January 30, 2017 from our Blog Results from 2016 show that we're moving towards the goal of an engaged global community faster. In 2016, we also started providing knowledge dissemination services. We made high-quality capacity building affordable by savings 65% of costs in a project funded by the European Union. Towards the end of last year, a student told us that be Waste Wise gives him access to diverse perspectives, easily. A scientist told us that our work helped his group reorient their research and provides new ideas. be Waste Wise's model of knowledge dissemination has a great potential to impact the world. The results show that we have just started scratching the surface.Read More



January 4, 2017 from our Blog Ranjith Annepu has a message for everyone, about PDFs, what can be done to disseminate knowledge, experiences in 2016 and people & organizations who played a big role in be Waste Wise's success. Happy new year!Read More



January 2, 2016 from our Articles, Blog Here is what we did in 2015 - represented in numbers. Read More



September 7, 2015 from our The 2015 Global Dialogue on Waste, Video Panels Watch Diana Dehm of Trash On Your Back challenge and Ferran Rosa of Zero Waste Europe discuss culture, consumption and waste management as part of the 2015 Global Dialogue on Waste.Read More



August 28, 2015 from our The 2015 Global Dialogue on Waste, Video Panels Watch Adam Baddeley (Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd) and Stephen Wise (Ricardo-AEA) discuss the export of refuse derived fuel in UK and Europe as part of the 2015 Global Dialogue on Waste.Read More



August 6, 2015 from our The 2015 Global Dialogue on Waste, Video Panels Watch Robert Lee (Rescuing Leftover Cuisine) and Hanna Morris (Food Shift) discuss reducing hunger & food waste as part of the 2015 Global Dialogue on WasteRead More



August 4, 2015 from our Blog

We are proud to announce the list of 30 individuals who made it to our Waste Influencers List this year. Every person on this list is there because they communicated about waste management in a way that resonated with their ... Read More





July 15, 2015 from our Blog

We are proud to announce the list of 30 organizations which made it to our Waste Influencers List this year. These organizations are here because they are effectively sharing stories about their work and solutions to waste management. They were chosen based on a ... Read More




Archive Thumb
April 1, 2015 from our Surveys Please take the 2015 Global Waste Survey to tell us what you want to know or discuss about waste in 2015.Read More



March 31, 2015 from our Blog

“Waste can become wealth when you put a price on pollution and regulations are strictly implemented.”

 

This interview was originally broadcast on tbs eFM’s This Morning with host Alex Jensen on March 20, 2015.

1. ... Read More




March 5, 2015 from our Blog Inaccessible Expertise

In 2013, I was at World Bank’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C. to attend a forum on waste management. That day, in a single room, I was surrounded by so many world class experts that I felt I was ... Read More





June 15, 2014 from our Articles, The 2014 Global Dialogue on Waste Why do apparently rational consumers waste so much food? The drivers behind food waste are complex and include food pricing, logistical and storage issues.Read More



June 11, 2014 from our The 2014 Global Dialogue on Waste, Video Panels Watch Thomas Vogler and Edith Iriruaga discuss the barriers and drivers for improving waste management in India and Nigeria.Read More



June 10, 2014 from our The 2014 Global Dialogue on Waste, Video Panels Watch Dr. Nimmi Damodaran and Gary Crawford discuss the impact of short-lived climate pollutants from waste management on climate change and public health.Read More



June 5, 2014 from our The 2014 Global Dialogue on Waste, Video Panels Watch Dr. Linda Godfrey, Maria Tsakona and Dr. Sanjay Gupta talk about improving waste collection systems in developing countries.Read More



June 4, 2014 from our The 2014 Global Dialogue on Waste, Video Panels Watch Sandra Cointreau, Derek Greedy and Asit Nema discuss the Relevance of landfills in developing countries - Public Health & Quality of Life themeRead More



May 22, 2014 from our Articles, The 2014 Global Dialogue on Waste For climate change mitigation, food waste disposers are better than composting, waste-to-energy and landfilling. Their wider adoption calls for integrated decision making encompassing solid waste management and wastewater.Read More



May 1, 2014 from our Blog 30 individuals who are effectively sharing stories about their work, insights about the waste industry and solutions. We call them Waste Influencers.Read More



April 21, 2014 from our The 2014 Global Dialogue on Waste, Video Panels Watch Prof. Adam Read, Dr. Tim Evans and Michael Keleman discuss the relevance and sustainability of food waste disposal units.Read More



April 21, 2014 from our The 2014 Global Dialogue on Waste, Video Panels Watch Phillip Ward, Julia Hailes, Jonathan Bloom, and Dean Pearce discuss Behaviour Change and Food Waste as part of the 2014 Global Dialogue on Waste.Read More



January 3, 2014 from our Blog, The 2013 Global Dialogue on Waste Through our 2013 global dialogues on waste, we amplified 20 hours of time from the best in waste into 500 hours of education. Twenty seven experts from...Read More



October 3, 2013 from our Articles, The 2013 Global Dialogue on Waste "When designing solutions for inteftrating informal waste recycling, we need an adequate understanding of how the overall system is currently working including both formal and informal elements". - Jane Olley This panel explored how solid waste management is different in the Global South, and in particular in Latin America and the Caribbean, and considers the benefits of integrating the informal sector into municipal waste management strategies.Read More


 

Comments