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Waste

August 2024

  • Woman thrift shopping

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

  • Gulls flying over landfill site.

    Urban birds are teeming with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, study finds

  • Household clutter: ‘The buildup can be overwhelming.’

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

  • Photo montage and graphic tinted in red of the Sallafield plant and its central dome

    Nuclear Leaks
    Sellafield apologises after guilty plea over string of cybersecurity failings

  • Ocado starts trial selling everyday products in refillable packaging

  • The dirt files
    NSW waste industry faces crackdown on recycled soil after asbestos found in more than half facilities tested

  • 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

  • How dumpster diving went from taboo to trendy: ‘It’s a treasure hunt’

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

  • Two donkeys eating something from a pile of rubbish that includes plastic bottles and food wrappers

    The age of extinction
    Donkeys in Kenya are dying with stomachs full of plastic – and other animals are at risk

  • Workers at desks with sewing machines and spools of thread

    John Lewis trials repair service in partnership with Timpson Group

  • A man wearing a baseball cap stoops down and reaches into a plastic bag to collect cans and bottles.

    The Guardian picture essay
    He ‘redeems’ the trash New Yorkers throw away, finding value – and opportunity – in waste

  • 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)

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

    Emma Brockes

  • New York City has just discovered wheelie bins – in Australia, they’re about more than just rubbish

  • Trash talk: New York City has finally discovered the wheelie bin – and it only cost $1.6m

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • Wessex Water’s TV ad banned for omitting sewage record

  • ‘Weak link’ in Sydney’s waste disposal infrastructure could leave city with piles of uncollected garbage

June 2024

  • Earth mover on an active landfill site.

    Landfills across England could be leaking harmful toxic ooze, warn experts

    More than 21,000 old sites may be releasing ‘forever chemicals’ into land often left as open space
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