$10 for a table and eight chairs: why tip shops are Australia’s DIY treasure troves
Change by degrees
How to skip the too-hard basket and recycle Australia’s most challenging household items
The age of extinction
Pale, porous and 3D-printed: inside the weird and wonderful quest to make compostable shoes
Energy from data centres could heat UK swimming pools after green investment
The Audio Long Read
From the archive: How Nespresso’s coffee revolution got ground down – podcast
Could you commit to buying just five new items of clothing in a year?
How digitally tracking clothes consumption is taking off online
The Audio Long Read
Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism? – podcast
I used to hunt for the perfect discarded magazine at my gran’s as a child – and the joy of rescuing rubbish has never left me
Nova Weetman
Our unequal earth
Less beef, more leftovers: 21 food sustainability resolutions for 2024
December 2023
‘Textile zombie’ v fossil fashion: the battle to clean up the clothing industry in 2023
Retailers to pay for consumers’ e-waste recycling from 2026 under UK plans
Tesco switches pocket tissue packaging to paper to cut plastic waste
Would you drink toilet water? California approves wastewater for human consumption
Australia’s plan to phase out expanded polystyrene packaging is failing and was never possible, industry says
2023 in Culture
Best designs and designers of 2023: ‘A chunk of glossy sexiness’
The alternatives
‘It’s kind of gross but we can do it’: How a community learned to go zero waste
Brief letters
Mrs Griffiths had a recipe for waste
The age of extinction
UK ad watchdog to crack down on ‘biodegradable’ and ‘recyclable’ claims
November 2023
The long read
Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?
The long read: Alarmed by the rising tide of waste we are all creating, my family and I decided to try to make do with much less. But while individual behaviour is important, real change will require action on a far bigger scale
