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Waste

September 2024

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    ‘Queen of trash’ among 11 on trial in Sweden’s largest environmental crime case

  • Alex Baldock (left) with a technician at the Currys customer repair centre in Newark

    VAT should be cut on refurbished electricals, says Currys boss

August 2024

  • A man chooses secondhand clothes at a flea market

    Change by degrees
    Know your measurements and stick to the rules: Guardian readers’ top tips on shopping secondhand

  • Traditional stone farmhouse, chickens, Glaisdale, Yorkshire, UK.<br>A traditional stone farmhouse with poultry in the foreground. The farmhouse is situated in the heart of the North York Moors National Park near the village of Glaisdale, north Yorkshire, UK. The photo was taken late in the afternoon on a fine winter's day.

    One solution to animal sewage leaking into rivers: turn chicken poo into fertiliser

  • Children play with Lego

    Lego plans to make half the plastic in bricks from renewable materials by 2026

  • Children use vaping products in London

    Vapes redesigned to avoid UK crackdown could lead to more waste, say critics

  • Australian climate and environment in focus
    Prozac in waterways is changing how fish behave, research finds

  • Plutonium levels near US atomic site in Los Alamos similar to Chornobyl, study finds

  • Bacteria helping to extract rare metals from old batteries in boost for green tech

  • Our unequal earth
    ‘Sip, return, repeat’: US city tackles throwaway cup culture with first-of-its-kind system

  • Change by degrees
    How to be an expert tosser: know when to recycle and when to chuck it out

  • Rubbish and disease could disrupt Antarctic ecosystems as ice buffers melt, study finds

  • The dirt files
    Former NSW Coalition government was warned recycled soil products posed ‘unacceptable risks’

  • Change by degrees
    Say less to the dress: why I’m cutting back on secondhand clothes shopping

  • Urban birds are teeming with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, study finds

  • What do I do with my broken kettle? How to mend, reuse or dispose of 11 everyday items

  • Nuclear Leaks
    Sellafield apologises after guilty plea over string of cybersecurity failings

  • Ocado starts trial selling everyday products in refillable packaging

  • The dirt files
    NSW waste industry faces crackdown on recycled soil after asbestos found in more than half facilities tested

  • Royal Mint opens factory in south Wales to recover gold from e-waste

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