On the car-free island of Lamu the animals are vital for transport. But with little grass for grazing, donkeys are rummaging through rubbish – and eating deadly plasticThe smell of sea water and fresh dung fill the oceanfront air on the Kenyan island of Lamu, as donkeys plod along the…
Five stores will offer to alter, clean or mend clothes in service marketed as a way to help prevent wasteJohn Lewis customers will be able to give their favourite leather jacket a new lease of life or have a cushion cover fixed, as part of a repairs partnership with Timpson…
Pedro Romero is one of hundreds of thousands of informal waste workers the world over, from Paris to Bangalore Pedro Romero’s story is a familiar one in New York: he wasn’t born or raised here, but he moved to the city to take advantage of the bustling metropolis’s many opportunities.…
It is possible to give your mattress a second life. Here are some handy tipsChange by Degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at [email protected] 1.8m mattresses are thrown out…
NYC has lagged behind the UK in waste disposal. But with wheelie bins replacing bin bags, we’re finally catching upLast year, 200 composting bins were rolled out in New York City, with a unit on every other corner you could open and close via an app. This was exciting for…
Keeping cockatoos out of them, fending off crocodiles with them – four decades of using wheelie bins has taught Australians they’re not just a place to dispose of your wasteNew York City has unveiled its latest tactic in a “trash revolution” to wrangle control of its city back from rats.So…
After decades of bags lining the streets, the mayor has proudly wheeled out a McKinsey-approved trash canThe revolution will not be televised. Unless it’s Mayor Eric Adams’s Trash Revolution, of course. In which case a press conference will be held, music blasted, and every camera crew in the five boroughs…
Advert trumpeting storm overflow plans should have disclosed past environmental harms, says ASAA Wessex Water TV advert about its plans to tackle storm overflows has been banned as misleading because it omitted key information about its record on sewage pollution.The Advertising Standards Agency investigated after receiving a complaint about the…
Exclusive: Ageing, flood-prone rail line carrying the city’s waste to landfill increasingly vulnerable to disruptions, experts sayGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSydney is fast running out of landfill, but an “emerging weak link” in the plan for how the city manages solid waste…
More than 21,000 old sites may be releasing ‘forever chemicals’ into land often left as open space‘It’s a poison and it’s killing us’: the hidden dangers of old UK landfillsThousands of polluted landfills across England could be leaking toxic chemicals into the environment and harming people who live nearby, experts…
With thousands of sites possibly leaking toxic chemicals, some people have already faced years of miseryLandfills across England could be leaking harmful toxic ooze, warn expertsOld landfills are often described as ticking timebombs, but some have already detonated.In the 1960s, a landfill at Brofiscin quarry in Groesfaen, south Wales –…
The star met an eco-activist who was convinced we’re all being poisoned by a chemical that was banned in 1981. Then he went to a toxic site and got sick. Head inside staggering new podcast Buried: The Last WitnessAn opera-loving member of high society turned eco-activist who was forced into…
