Waste
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Garbage island no more: how one Japanese community triumphed over a toxic waste dump
Teshima – site of Japan’s worst case of illegal dumping of industrial waste – was saved by locals who fought r…
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Toxic fumes fill Delhi’s skies after vast landfill site catches fire
Blaze at 65-metre high ‘mountain of shame’ in Ghazipur still not completely put outParts of a fire that broke …
- Animal welfare, Animals, Environment, Plastics, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Waste, World news
Two more elephants die after eating plastic waste in Sri Lankan dump
About 20 elephants have died in eight years after eating plastic in open landfill siteConservationists and vet…
- Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Global development, India, Marine life, Oceans, Recycling, South and Central Asia, Waste, World news
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…
- Diwali, Environment, Global development, India, Life and style, Rail transport, South and Central Asia, Waste, World news
All change: India’s railways bring back tea in clay cups in bid to banish plastics
Stations switch to humble earthen kulhads in move to cut down on toxic waste and boost incomes of village pott…
- Asia Pacific, Environment, Guam, Nuclear waste, Nuclear weapons, Pacific islands, South Pacific, Waste, World news
‘Poisoning the Pacific’: New book details US military contamination of islands and ocean
More than 12,000 pages of US government documents show military operations contaminating the Pacific with radi…
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Sri Lanka returns illegal waste to Britain
21 containers violated international laws governing the shipping of hazardous materialSri Lanka has shipped ba…
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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…
- Asia Pacific, Environment, Ethical and green living, Europe, European Union, Italy, Malaysia, Plastics, Pollution, Recycling, Waste, World news
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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China moves to phase out single-use plastics
Plastic bags to be banned in all major cities by end of 2020, says state plannerChina is stepping up restricti…
- Cities, Environment, Ethical and green living, India, Plastic bags, Plastics, Recycling, South and Central Asia, Waste, World news
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…
- Asia Pacific, Energy, Environment, Fukushima, Greenpeace, Japan, Japan disaster, Nuclear power, Nuclear waste, Olympic Games, Sport, Waste, World news
Radiation hotspots ‘found near Fukushima Olympic site’
Greenpeace calls for fresh monitoring of region where nuclear disaster occurredGreenpeace has said it detected…
- Asia Pacific, Energy, Environment, Japan, Nuclear waste, Nuclear weapons, Second world war, US news, Waste, World news
Strategies for nuclear weapons and waste | Letters
It is essential that Europe does not become the arena for a build-up of nuclear weapons, writes Catherine West…
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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…