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Why Aren’t My Fellow Americans Doing More Recycling?
Grace Lee
27th July, 2012
Grace Lee has just spent a month in Seoul, South Korea working as an intern for the Resource Recirculation Management Division under the Climate Change and Environment Bureau of Seoul City Hall. Here’s what she has to say to her fellow US citizens about their domestic waste… more...
How to… make recycling pay
Bethany Hubbard
30th March, 2012
From turning old clothes into bags to making plastic cups into fabulous pencils, spring-cleaning just got lucrative more...
Ten of the best…ways to reuse your rubbish
Valentina Jovanovski
5th August, 2011
Whether it’s plastic bottles or old magazines, Valentina Jovanovski has a creative way to turn it into something entirely new more...
Can a landfill site ever return to nature?
Nick Kimbrell
6th July, 2010
One of the biggest landfill sites in the US is in the process of becoming a nature reserve and a recreation ground. Is this just papering over the cracks, or can our rubbish heaps really turn into something beautiful? more...
Campaign: Fighting food waste through feasts
David Hawkins
17th June, 2010
A campaign to force food manufacturers and retailers to reduce their waste is coupled with an innovative celebration of the rejected food more...
10 groups campaigning against waste
Ecologist
19th June 2009
Viewed in new light, waste is a resource – to be used again, recycled or resurrected for another use more...
How to bake your own bread
Tracey Smith
10th August, 2009
Move over Delia, Tracey Smith tells us how to bake no-fuss fabulous flatbread, hand made with minimal ingredients, including leftovers. more...
Urban Composting
The Ecologist
1st February, 2005
Imagine you could turn 30 per cent of your household waste, at no cost, into high-quality compost for your plants, while also reducing toxic emissions from incinerator plants...more...
Waste management proves a profitable business
Martin O'Brien
7th August, 2008
Martin O'Brien investigates how waste management has become a lucrative business. more...
Incinerators: the lethal consequences of breathing fire
Pat Thomas
6th September, 2007
Despite the best efforts of the industry to rebrand and clean up incineration, the fact remains that today's incinerators still permit pollution. more...
Irish eyes are smiling
News
30th May, 2007
Environment Secretary David Miliband's proposed reforms to the British waste collection system have caused no end of bitter debate. But would the public be more welcoming if the Secretary of State took a leaf out of Ireland's book? more...
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