Dive Brief:
- The Canadian Scholarship Trust Plan released a list of new employment opportunities expected to be available by the 2030s. Among the new positions: Garbage designer.
- The designer's job will be to help implement "upcycling" -- the recycling of thrown-away items into higher-quality products.
- Research showed that upcycling would continue to gain momentum as a popular solution to reduce waste in the next 15 years.
Dive Insight:
According to the Careers2030 website, garbage designers could study material science and engineering, with experience in manufacturing and product design, or environmentalism becoming more options that could propel candidates successfully into this new frontier. A movement toward social responsibility was projected to become an important factor in all fields across the board. Around 40 career experts contributed their expertise to come up with the results for the study.