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Waste

August 2024

  • Zongo Lane in Accra, Ghana

    The Guardian picture essay
    Carmignac photojournalism award: Ghana and e-waste

    Photojournalists and an investigative writer documented the flow of electronic waste between Europe and Ghana

July 2024

  • a woman holds a tote bag and a reusable water bottle

    Our unequal earth
    Marketing a tote bag as reusable is silly. Let’s say no to more stuff

  • Two donkeys eating something from a pile of rubbish that includes plastic bottles and food wrappers

    The age of extinction
    Donkeys in Kenya are dying with stomachs full of plastic – and other animals are at risk

  • Workers at desks with sewing machines and spools of thread

    John Lewis trials repair service in partnership with Timpson Group

  • A man wearing a baseball cap stoops down and reaches into a plastic bag to collect cans and bottles.

    The Guardian picture essay
    He ‘redeems’ the trash New Yorkers throw away, finding value – and opportunity – in waste

  • Change by degrees
    Sleeping on waste: how to recycle a mattress in Australia so that it doesn’t end up in landfill (or on the street)

  • There’s a ‘trash revolution’ in New York – exciting for everyone but the rats

    Emma Brockes

  • New York City has just discovered wheelie bins – in Australia, they’re about more than just rubbish

  • Trash talk: New York City has finally discovered the wheelie bin – and it only cost $1.6m

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • Wessex Water’s TV ad banned for omitting sewage record

  • ‘Weak link’ in Sydney’s waste disposal infrastructure could leave city with piles of uncollected garbage

June 2024

  • Earth mover on an active landfill site.

    Landfills across England could be leaking harmful toxic ooze, warn experts

  • Rebecca Currie holding her son Mathew

    ‘It’s a poison and it’s killing us’: the hidden dangers of old UK landfills

  • ‘The scientist almost fell off his chair’ … Dan Ashby tests for PCBs – then finds off-the-scale levels of chemicals banned since 1981.

    ‘Please come and see me because I’ll be dead soon’: how Michael Sheen got sucked into a forever chemicals exposé

  • A heron on the bank of a river

    Citizen testing finds 75% of rivers in Britain in poor ecological health

  • John Lewis clothing range aims to ‘minimise waste and maximise longevity’

  • Nuclear Leaks
    Sellafield pleads guilty to criminal charges over cybersecurity failings

  • Shadow energy minister says system in ‘dire trouble’ – as it happened

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Your plastic is here’: how Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore

May 2024

  • Plastic containers sorted for processing at a recycling facility in the US

    Packaging firm calls for tighter UK rules on plastics to drive green economy

    FTSE 100 firm DS Smith, which works with firms over alternatives, urges next government to match global standards
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