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Up to five trillion grocery bags are used each year and like most plastic garbage barely any is recycled, the UN said Tuesday as...
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A Vietnamese mangrove draped with polythene, a whale killed after swallowing waste bags in Thai seas and clouds of underwater trash near Indonesian “paradise”...
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Protests have been growing in recent months over the stench from landfill sites around Moscow, overflowing with millions of tonnes of rubbish. Authorities have...
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The scabies on Indonesian rice farmer Yusuf Supriyadi’s limbs are a daily reminder of the costs of living next to the “world’s dirtiest river”....
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Campaigners on Thursday criticised British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste within 25 years, calling it a “missed opportunity”...
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Flies throng over piles of faeces, the drains overflow with sewage and the foul smell in the air is inescapable. Welcome to Awas Vikas:...
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Putting an end to the unnecessary burning of biodegradable waste, one restaurant at a time, has become the forceful mission of a team of...
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The critique of the waste collection sector comes from the AMCS Group, in the form of a white paper from Mark Abbas, who raised...
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Instead of unwanted food going to landfill to decompose (and to produce atmospheric emissions), researchers have outlined a new approach — one which presents...
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Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by next week,...