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6 Jan 2021 3 minute read

This article is more than two years old.

What if…exporting waste were banned?

Time to face our own rubbish, Vanessa Baird suggests.

Rag pickers collect recyclable material at a garbage dump in New Delhi November 19, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

8 Jan 2020 3 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

Invisible green warriors

Nilanjana Bhowmick heralds India's most overshadowed environmentalists: waste-pickers

French law forbids food waste by supermarkets ... France has become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing ... In December a bill on the issue passed through the national assembly, having been

24 Dec 2018 2 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

When it is illegal to waste food

By supermarkets, that is. Timothy Baster and Isabelle Merminod on the progress of a much-...

20 Dec 2018 2 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Dirty work: a photo essay

Dirty Work showcases the everyday lives of those making a living in the waste trade.

the packaging industry is not taking responsibility waste is not just an issue for the individual

13 Dec 2018 4 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

It’s all down to you

Dinyar Godrej explains why the packaging industry loves shunting the blame on individual consumers

The Chinese waste ban is giving the global recycling industry an enormous headache. ... Beijing has last year banned the imports of 24 varieties of solid waste, including types of plastic and unsorted paper.

5 Dec 2018 7 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

No more of your junk

Adam Liebman explains why we need a less rosy notion of what actually happens to our recycling.

1 Nov 2018 1 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Modern life is rubbish

Dinyar Godrej argues that consumption patterns in a wasteful society add up to much more than the sum of individual actions....

Lebanon’s trash #StopTheBurning campaign last week after it was revealed that staff at the landfills had been instructed to burn the vast amounts of garbage leftover by the 2015 crisis.

27 Nov 2018 4 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Fighting the big burn: Lebanon's waste dilemma

The mismanagement of Lebanon’s trash has brought citizens onto the streets – and the latest plans are also stoking outrage....

New internationalist 516 cover: waste

20 Nov 2018 2 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

How we chose the cover of NI516

A dump in Cambodia and a child waste-picker to show that our waste never really disappear.

21 Oct 2018 2 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Editor’s letter: deep disconnect

Co-editor Dinyar Godrej pens an opening letter for the latest magazine: 'The dirt on waste'

9 Mar 2018 5 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

‘Seashore landfilling’ and other waste woes

Lebanon’s waste is literally spilling beyond its shores. Daniel Hilton reports.

Arvind Gupta in his lab. Ashok Rupner

19 Dec 2017 3 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

Arvind Gupta: making toys from trash

Making learning fun for young minds. Priti Salian reports from a classroom in Bangalore.

17 Aug 2017 5 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Inside Addis Ababa’s landfill disaster

Five months after the disaster, the people have been abandoned and are wasting away. Vijay Kolinjivadi...

4 Aug 2015 4 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

Global protests oppose Vedanta mining company

Protestors used the company’s annual meeting to highlight human and environmental abuses, write Samarendra Das...

1 Jun 2014 5 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

Fill bellies, not bins

Lydia James uncovers some novel ways to divert food from landfill.

4 Apr 2014 4 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

Tackling food waste, one big picnic at a time

Thanks to grassroots action, corporations are being encouraged to divert edible excess from bins to bellies. Jemma...

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