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Waste pickers battle for recognition at plastic treaty talks

As diplomats negotiate behind closed doors in the South Korean city of Busan on a treaty to curb plastic pollution, the waste pickers who are on the front lines of the problem are fighting for recognition.

Radio France Internationale

My solar panels are faulty. Can I repair them or is it time for new ones?

Waste generated by discarded systems is enormous. Here’s how to decide if it’s really time to replace your current array

The Guardian - AU

Neil Goldman obituary

Other lives: Head of a food packaging business that set trends in using environmentally friendlier materials

The Guardian - UK

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Is Emeco's 'No Foam KNIT' a sustainable answer to synthetic upholstery textiles?

'Make more with less' is Emeco's guiding light. Now, the US furniture maker's new mono-material textile, the 'No Foam KNIT', may offer a sustainable solution to upholstery materials

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Waste Pickers Battle For Recognition At Plastic Treaty Talks

As diplomats negotiate behind closed doors in Busan on a treaty to curb plastic pollution, the waste pickers who are on the front lines of the problem are fighting for recognition.

International Business Times

Councils given four bin guidelines to end ‘wild west’ recycling policies

Under current legislation, some households are required to separate waste into seven bins.

Evening Standard

Chinese Island Plastic Pollution Turned Into Artistic Omens

As storm clouds gathered on a forgotten beach in China's Miaodao islands, artist Fu Junsheng picked his way through piles of plastic waste washed up along the shoreline, looking for inspiration.

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Best products to mend shoes: Tools, glue and more

Broken shoes? Time to take sole responsibility, urges Abha Shah

Evening Standard

Textile waste a growing environmental concern

The last quarter of each year is chock-full of festivals--which, traditionally, is when Indians shop for new clothes, spurred on by myriad sales and big discounts.

Newslaundry

Where does the Fogo go? The challenge of recovering Sydney’s green waste – and how you can help

Food and garden rubbish is sorted and then cooked to produce rich compost at this waste management centre

The Guardian - AU

Rescuing the treasure from the trash: Sanitation workers help save diamond that mistakenly landed in garbage

The owner of the diamond was ‘hoping for a miracle (and a way to open the Big Belly),’ officials said

The Independent UK

Bali plastic recycling scheme swamped with garbage

Scheme has collected a fraction of the waste it set out to handle and is struggling with broken machinery and poor finances

The Guardian - UK

These countries produce the most plastic pollution in our oceans – and they’re not the ones you might have guessed

Trillions of pieces of plastic are estimated to float in oceans around the world

The Independent UK

How winter makes recycling harder with 40% jump in contamination

New data reveals an extra 5,000 tonnes of waste is sent to landfill or incineration from November to March

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The Independent UK

Clean energy could create millions of tons of waste in India. Some are working to avoid that

As clean energy infrastructure like solar panels and electric car batteries becomes more common in India, some small businesses are working to recycle them when they reach the end of their lifespan, dismantling panels to sell individual components and using old EV batteries’ remaining power to provide electricity to remote,…

Woman & Home

EarthKind Feather & Down Support Pillow review: an ethical spin on a traditional pillow type

This felt like sleeping on the traditional pillows of my childhood – but the feather and down in this pillow are all recycled.

The Guardian - UK

Tide’s out, dinner’s up: why Wales is at the forefront of a seaweed revolution

Food, fertiliser, fuel … seaweed has been a life force for centuries. On a coastal foraging trip in Pembrokeshire, we discover it’s now behind a new green initiative, too

The Guardian - AU

Beautiful, eco-friendly and fire resistant: why architects are choosing walls made of hemp

Sumptuously textured, carbon negative and just a bit more expensive, hempcrete is being increasingly used in eco-friendly building

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The National (Scotland)

Deposit return scheme ‘misrepresented’ by ministers, Biffa claims

MINISTERS “negligently misrepresented” a now collapsed drinks container return scheme to a waste management company to persuade it to sign up, a…

Evening Standard

Deposit return scheme ‘misrepresented’ to waste firm by ministers, court told

Biffa is suing the Scottish Government for a sum in the region of £160 million after the scheme collapsed.

Newcastle Herald

How Newcastle stacks up: benchmark report to compare councils

'It is very much a feather in our cap to be asked.'

AAP

Electric prime movers finally rolling into Australia

More companies are swapping heavy-duty diesel trucks for electric prime movers, but industry experts say regulations still need to change to get more on roads.

The Guardian - AU

Can I fix it? Yes you can! Don’t throw away these household items before trying to repair them

From household electrical appliances to timber furniture and a family fairy floss machine – so much can be saved from landfill

InsideEVs

The Life Cycle Of An EV Battery: From Manufacturing To Recycling

As EVs continue to reshape the transportation industry, understanding the journey of an EV battery—from its creation to its eventual recycling—has never been more important.    The life cycle of these batteries is a complex, multi-stage process, and every phase holds opportunities to reduce environmental impact, maximize efficiency, and extend the value…

AAP

Wasting away: dump crisis needs 'landfill transition'

The Harbour City is not alone in facing a landfill problem but a recycling advocate warns governments are getting overly excited about burning junk.

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