Waste
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‘Pacific ashtray’: Australian billionaire’s plan to ship and burn waste in Fiji condemned by villagers
After his project got rejected in Sydney, a rubbish disposal magnate now hopes to build a $630m port and waste…
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Life and death on India’s toxic trash mountains – video
Towering above Delhi’s skyline, emitting an inescapable stench of rotting flesh, are giant mountains of rubbis…
- Employment, Environment, Ethical and green living, Fashion, Garment workers, Global development, Global health, India, Life and style, Recycling, South and Central Asia, Waste, World news
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…
- Cold war, Communism, Education, Environment, Europe, Geology, Health, Kazakhstan, Nuclear waste, Nuclear weapons, Russia, Science, Soil, South and Central Asia, Ukraine, Waste, World news
Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future
Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, …
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Musical vans, school oaths and civic pride: how an Indian city beat the litter
Indore in Madhya Pradesh was once dotted with fetid waste dumps but after a huge campaign is now virtually spo…
- Environment, Environmental sustainability, Global development, Hinduism, India, Kumbh Mela, Religion, Society, South and Central Asia, Sustainable development, Waste, Water, World news
The pop-up megacity: how the Kumbh Mela prepared for 660m Hindu devotees
Hundreds of millions of pilgrims flocked to the Ganges for this year’s festival, housed in a sprawling tempora…
- Business, Employment, Environment, Ethical and green living, Global development, India, Plastics, Recycling, South and Central Asia, Waste, World news
‘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 …
- Business, Energy, Environment, Ethical and green living, Global development, Global economy, India, Pollution, Recycling, Renewable energy, Solar power, South and Central Asia, Waste, World news
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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‘It’s impossible to breathe’: Delhi’s rubbish dumps drive sky-high methane emissions
Leaking, ‘super emitter’ landfills of India’s capital are a global hotspot for the potent greenhouse gas, acco…
- Asia Pacific, China, Energy, Environment, Fukushima, Japan, Japan disaster, Nuclear power, Nuclear waste, Waste, World news
Japan to release second batch of wastewater from Fukushima nuclear plant next week
UN-approved release to go ahead despite China’s ban on all Japanese sea imports following first batchJapan wil…
- Asia Pacific, Environment, Fukushima, Greenpeace, Japan, Japan disaster, Nuclear power, Nuclear waste, Waste, World news
Wednesday briefing: Fukushima nuclear plant is set to flush tonnes of water into the sea – but is it safe?
In today’s newsletter: Japan’s decision to release radioactive water from the tsunami-hit power plant has divi…
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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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The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado – podcast
When a Romanian businessman returned to his hometown and found a city blighted by mining waste, he hatched a p…
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As more space junk falls to Earth, will China clean up its act?
Parts of a 23-tonne piece of rocket will come crashing down – somewhere – in the next few daysIn the next few …