カテゴリー: Ethical and green living
Industry bigger than all but seven world economies, and accounts for more than third of China’s economic growthChina’s clean energy industries drove more than 90% of the country’s investment growth last year, making the sectors bigger than all but seve…
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 tonnes of textile waste a yearThe air inside Panipat’s recycling factories is heavy with lint that glints in the light before settling over every s…
Plans for a sprawling factory in rural Michigan making batteries for electric cars offer an economic lifeline, but for some residents there is a big problem: the parent company is in ChinaSet among green rolling hills and tall pines, Lori Brock’s story…
The high street retailer may be shutting shops in the UK but its legacy lives on for a plastics company which continues to help improve the lives of India’s waste pickersSitting in a sultry corner of southern India, beside the rain trees and beaches o…
As vast solar plants multiply, so does the scrap, set to reach 19m tonnes by 2050. But disposing of the waste often falls to informal traders who risk injury when dismantling broken panelsUnder the scorching sun, a sea of solar panels gleams in the sem…
Rosemary Penwarden says the vehicle, powered by home rooftop solar, has been running smoothly for three years and has thanked oil companies for the motivationA New Zealand woman has converted a 29-year-old wreck into a homemade, electric vehicle, “to s…
Break into male-dominated public-transport helps tackle city’s pollution crisis and safety concernsMonika Devi is thrilled to be driving her autorickshaw. The 35-year-old has two reasons to be particularly proud as she winds her way through New Delhi’s…
For 20 years Kamikatsu has led the way in the world’s second biggest producer of plastic wasteThe residents of a remote village on the Japanese island of Shikoku have spent almost two decades reusing, recycling and reducing, united behind a mission to …
Greenpeace finds hundreds of tonnes end up in landfill or burned at illegal factoriesThe Italian government has been urged to end the illicit export of plastic waste to Malaysia after an investigation exposed the environmental and health implications o…
The Garbage Cafe in Ambikapur, India, is helping to tackle the country’s plastic waste problem – and their novel idea is catching onOn bad days, when his employer made some excuse for not paying him his paltry daily wage, Ram Yadav’s main meal used to …
A year without air travel taught me the path to carbon neutral won’t be easy, but I learned I could inspire others to actWhat is the single thing that you could do that would most reduce your carbon footprint? Take your bike to work rather than your ca…
Steep fines and social credit penalties face people violating complex waste sorting rules – but some say the answer is all about pigsFor the last two weeks, Shanghai residents have grappled with a singular question: “What kind of trash are you?”The que…