カテゴリー: Waste
Teshima – site of Japan’s worst case of illegal dumping of industrial waste – was saved by locals who fought relentlessly to have their beloved home restoredToru Ishii remembers when the shredded car tyres, batteries, and runoff the colour and consiste…
Blaze at 65-metre high ‘mountain of shame’ in Ghazipur still not completely put outParts of a fire that broke out on Monday at a gigantic landfill site on the outskirts of Delhi known as the “mountain of shame” were still smouldering 24 hours later, ch…
About 20 elephants have died in eight years after eating plastic in open landfill siteConservationists and veterinarians have warned that plastic waste in an open landfill in eastern Sri Lanka is killing elephants, after two more were found dead at the…
The waste caught by fishing boats used to be thrown back into the sea but in Kerala it is now turned into black goldFor years, plastic caught by fishing communities on the Kollam coast in India’s southern state of Kerala was thrown back into the water,…
Stations switch to humble earthen kulhads in move to cut down on toxic waste and boost incomes of village pottersA small and humble relic from India’s past is about to stage a major comeback. At all 7,000 railway stations in the country, tea will be se…
More than 12,000 pages of US government documents show military operations contaminating the Pacific with radioactive waste, nerve agents, and chemical weapons like Agent OrangeIn 1968, Leroy Foster was a master sergeant in the US Air Force, assigned t…
21 containers violated international laws governing the shipping of hazardous materialSri Lanka has shipped back to Britain container-loads of waste that the Colombo government said were brought into the island in violation of international laws govern…
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…
Plastic bags to be banned in all major cities by end of 2020, says state plannerChina is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s…
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 …
Greenpeace calls for fresh monitoring of region where nuclear disaster occurredGreenpeace has said it detected radiation hotspots near the starting point of the upcoming Olympic torch relay in Fukushima.Japan’s environment ministry said the area was ge…
It is essential that Europe does not become the arena for a build-up of nuclear weapons, writes Catherine West MP. It is surely time to bury the Micawber principle, says Professor Neil HyattAs we mark the 74th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiro…
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…