Recycling crisis: land owners face millions in clean-up costs after SKM collapse
The company, which was wound up on Friday, stockpiled tens of thousands of tonnes of recycling at rented sitesLand owners across Victoria are facing a multimillion-dollar clean-up bill after the...
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PM will also seek support for Coalition’s deregulation program, along with vocational education reformsScott Morrison will seek agreement from the states to take more action on plastic recycling when...
View ArticleHow can a man be too straight to recycle? | Owen Jones
Research shows some men shun environmental activities for fear of looking gay – proof that homophobia doesn’t only harm LGBTQ peopleSo that’s how the world’s going to die, is it, because straight men...
View ArticleThe sustainable surfer: meet the team behind the world's first fully...
It is estimated that 380 tonnes of wetsuit waste is dumped every year. But one company has come up with a radical solutionOut the top of St Agnes, a steep village on Cornwall’s north coast, sits a...
View ArticleAustralia will ban export of recyclable waste 'as soon as practicable', PM vows
State environment ministers will consult industry to develop a timeline to improve the recycling systemThe prime minister has vowed to do more to tackle plastic waste in the world’s oceans, saying the...
View ArticleHow secondhand clothes can save student budgets – and the planet
Fed up of fast fashion? Start a revolution with your wardrobe by swapping, sharing and repairing clothesIt may be cheap and on-trend but fast fashion isn’t the answer for cash-strapped students. For...
View ArticleRecycling industry calls for dollars and action after decision to end exports
Australian Council of Recycling warns 4.5m tonnes of waste could end up in domestic landfill without investmentAustralia’s recycling industry has said the “nice words” of a government agreement on...
View ArticleHow will a domestic waste recycling industry work in Australia?
Despite the prime minister’s pledge, there are plenty of challenges facing the country’s waste recovery effortsScott Morrison has vowed to take action on Australia’s recycling crisis, flagging creating...
View ArticleWhat do you do with a derelict Center Parcs? Map out a waste-free world |...
Welcome to BlueCity in Rotterdam, where a collective of 30 small businesses is putting the zero-waste ‘circular economy’ to the testIn an office made from a jigsaw puzzle of reclaimed windows, a...
View ArticleBrenda - penguin and genius - vs the micro plastics raining from the sky |...
Plastic manufacturers without a plan to recycle all of their plastic stuff should not be allowed to ... make any more plastic stuff!Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are...
View ArticleOoshies: the natural habitat for these plastic Lion King figures is landfill...
The Australian designers and environmental activists Alex Wadelton and Tom Whitty have recreated scenes from The Lion King using Woolworths plastic ooshies figures set in landfill plastic trash...
View ArticleThe rain in Spain: how an ancient Arabic technique saves Alicante from floods
To protect itself from destructive flooding, the city has built a park designed to store and recycle rainwater In Alicante it never rains but it pours. The city in southeast Spain goes without rain for...
View Article'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?
You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global...
View ArticleHere's what I learned from my privileged, western failure to go plastic-free...
I tried to re-enact my nanna’s depression-mindset, zero-waste home, but no victory over plastic went unpunishedMy “plastic-free” July began with an idea to retain every piece of plastic waste I...
View ArticleCleanaway takes over SKM amid Victoria's recycling rubbish crisis
Australia’s largest garbage company buys $60m of debt, aiming to get SKM ‘back to capacity’The garbage company Cleanaway has taken effective control of most of the Victorian recycling group SKM and...
View ArticleTesco promises to ban brands that use excessive packaging
Chief executive says hard-to-recycle plastic on own-brand products will be eliminated‘I want packaging overhaul to plug into a national framework’Tesco has pledged to step up its efforts in the battle...
View ArticleI want Tesco's packaging overhaul to plug into a new national framework |...
CEO says retailer has recycling targets for itself and its suppliers but wider collaboration is neededTesco promises to ban brands that use excessive packagingIt’s almost two years since the television...
View ArticleWestminster’s recycling rates and reducing waste | Letters
Tim Mitchell of Westminster city council responds to a report on what really happens to our rubbish. Phil Gyford suggests a way of dealing with Amazon’s unrecyclable plastic bagsYour excellent article...
View ArticleLet’s just burn all household waste | Letters
If we can’t sort out recyclable plastic from non-recyclable, we should incinerate waste, says David Reed, while Janet Poliakoff responds to criticism of Amazon using plastic bagsWestminster councillor...
View ArticleBlurred lines betwixt reality and television | Brief letters
Scarlett Moffatt and the Himba people | Danish drama or UK documentary? | Reducing waste | Amazon | Boris JohnsonYou report that Channel 4 has announced a show called The British Tribe Next Door,...
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