Recycling
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Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick
Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonne…
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‘Waste collection is green work’: how a pro-poor partnership created jobs and cleaned a city
A cooperative in Pune, India, is diverting waste from the landfill while also alleviating povertyThree decades…
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‘The Body Shop held our hand’: how the troubled British firm helped a recycling startup in India
The high street retailer may be shutting shops in the UK but its legacy lives on for a plastics company which …
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Clean energy’s dirty secret: the trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom
As vast solar plants multiply, so does the scrap, set to reach 19m tonnes by 2050. But disposing of the waste …
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Classical trash: how Taiwan’s musical bin lorries transformed ‘garbage island’
Army of yellow garbage trucks blasting out classical jingles brings out a Pavlovian response to take out binsT…
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Net gains: how India trawlers’ plastic catch is helping to rebuild roads
The waste caught by fishing boats used to be thrown back into the sea but in Kerala it is now turned into blac…
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‘No-waste’ Japanese village is a peek into carbon-neutral future
For 20 years Kamikatsu has led the way in the world’s second biggest producer of plastic wasteThe residents of…
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Italy told to stop using Malaysia as plastics dumping ground
Greenpeace finds hundreds of tonnes end up in landfill or burned at illegal factoriesThe Italian government ha…
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From rubbish to rice: the cafe that gives food in exchange for plastic
The Garbage Cafe in Ambikapur, India, is helping to tackle the country’s plastic waste problem – and their nov…
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‘A sort of eco-dictatorship’: Shanghai grapples with strict new recycling laws
Steep fines and social credit penalties face people violating complex waste sorting rules – but some say the a…