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Discarded containers and bags are an eyesore in many towns, while beaches are covered by debris — Senegal’s notorious problem of plastic pollution is...
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Business
Two portraits of Albert Einstein hang on the walls of a makeshift laboratory on Nairobi’s outskirts, inspiring a pair of self-taught Kenyan innovators who...
Life
There is a common concern with toxins since most of the different materials that end up in landfills contain noxious substances.
Business
Mounds of waste scattered along roads and vast landfills are a Nigerian eyesore.
Business
As Indonesia's capital Jakarta grapples with overflowing plastic waste and pollution pours into the sea.
World
Trash overflowed from bins on the streets of Edinburgh as a strike by council workers hit the city during its internationally renowned arts festival.
Life
Despite the poor disposal figures, the importance of utilising food is high in the public consciousness.
World
India imposed a ban on many single-use plastics on Friday in a bid to tackle waste choking rivers and poisoning wildlife.
Business
Annual production of fossil-fuel-based plastics are set to top 1.2 billion tonnes by 2060 and waste to exceed one billion tonnes.
World
They appear at nightfall, dragging heavy carts from dustbin to dustbin in the affluent northern suburbs of the Colombian capital Bogota.