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Recycling

August 2024

  • An illustration of a globe cracking under pressure

    Fertility crisis
    Slow the growth, save the world? Why declining birth rates need not mean an end to prosperity

    The pursuit of eternal growth is toxic, campaigners say. The economy, and the planet, can thrive with fewer people
  • Woman thrift shopping

    Change by degrees
    Say less to the dress: why I’m cutting back on secondhand clothes shopping

    While the intention behind buying preloved is often rooted in sustainability, I’m uncomfortable enabling our culture’s shopping addiction

    • What do I do with my broken kettle? How to mend, reuse or dispose of 11 everyday items

    • Royal Mint opens factory in south Wales to recover gold from e-waste

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution

July 2024

  • a woman holds a tote bag and a reusable water bottle

    Our unequal earth
    Marketing a tote bag as reusable is silly. Let’s say no to more stuff

  • Mosaics by Gill Aitken (Lancaster) for the Artangel show Come as You Really Are

    July design news: 50 years of Casio, an iPod revival and mending as an art

  • A composite image for Change By degrees Mattress Recycling

    Change by degrees
    Sleeping on waste: how to recycle a mattress in Australia so that it doesn’t end up in landfill (or on the street)

  • Emma Brockes

    There’s a ‘trash revolution’ in New York – exciting for everyone but the rats

    Emma Brockes

June 2024

  • A bird's eye shot of a woman squatting on a rocky beach, sorting through plastic using a pink sieve.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Your plastic is here’: how Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore

  • Coldplay.

    Coldplay: vinyl copies of new album Moon Music will be made from old plastic bottles

May 2024

  • Plastic containers sorted for processing at a recycling facility in the US

    Packaging firm calls for tighter UK rules on plastics to drive green economy

  • A middel-aged white woman sits on a rock by the sea, wearing a wetsuit and surrounded by other wetsuits

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The search for the perfect wetsuit: is there one that doesn’t harm the planet?

  • Person with pink nail varnish holding a carton of white seedless grapes in their right hand

    M&S teams up with recycling tech group to trace plastic packaging

  • Waste bins outside a home in Melbourne

    Snakes, donkey heads, a dead cow: the odd things found in recycling – and how they should be disposed of

  • ‘It just didn’t work’: how businesses are struggling with re-useable packaging

  • ‘The Body Shop held our hand’: how the troubled British firm helped a recycling startup in India

  • ‘A world first’: project recycles polyester into yarn for new clothes

  • Change by degrees
    Cut down on baby clutter: how to recycle, swap and upcycle your children’s clothes

  • UK public warned after huge rise in fires caused by binned batteries

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