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Waste

December 2024

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    The Audio Long Read
    The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it – podcast

    Every informed observer agrees that food waste and loss must be reduced if we are to feed all humans. What’s stopping us? By Julian Baggini

November 2024

  • Woman barista serving coffee in takeaway paper disposable cup

    Poor labelling allows ‘massive amounts’ of plastic into Australia’s garden waste, companies warn

  • Lorries in a mound of waste

    Staffordshire residents plagued by ‘the stink’ celebrate shutdown of landfill site

  • In Accra, Ghana, two boys run away from waves crashing on to a beach choked by discarded fast fashion.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    We need to talk about plastic: five everyday items choking the planet

  • A Renewi truck

    Australia’s Macquarie offers to buy UK-listed waste management firm Renewi for £700m

  • Plastics lobbyists make up biggest group at vital UN treaty talks

  • November design news: modernist graphics, a football shirt for Grenfell and tiles made of corn cobs

  • Revealed: how a San Francisco navy lab became a hub for human radiation experiments

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert

  • British Olympic sailors threaten to quit Dorset base over plans for waste incinerator

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

  • Bali plastic recycling scheme swamped with garbage

  • Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’

  • UK pension fund loses more than £350m with waste incinerator power plants

  • How winter makes recycling harder with 40% jump in contamination

  • UK student invents repairable kettle that anyone can fix

  • Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find

  • Tar ball theory debunked as Sydney’s mystery beach globules found to be ‘fatbergs’ containing human faeces

  • World’s first wooden satellite launched into space

  • Tell us: how have garden waste bin charges affected you?

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