Public authorities implement new waste management models that are capital-intensive and technology-driven at the cost of more socio-ecologically sustainable alternatives provided by waste pickers.
… Waste pickers under threat Barcelona Research … management models that are capital-intensive and technology-driven at the cost of more … environmental sustainability . The informal recycling sector in the Global South sustains …
Scavenging is on the rise in the US and is no longer the exclusive domain of the poor. Felicity Carus reports on San Francisco's attempts to close down this informal sector and its impact on a burgeoning recycling culture
… scavengers: a story of gangs, poverty andrecycling Felicity Carus | 16th August 2011 News WasteAndRecyclingrecycling.jpg A scavenging …
Obesity is a problem that is chronic, stigmatised, costly to treat and rarely curable. Why? Because we are looking in the wrong places for a solution. Pat Thomas reports
… Obesity Fat Overweight Heart Disease Food And Health Health Society … about’ climate change, or to recycle to end waste. Focusing on individual efforts – and … are chemical factories, incinerators andwaste transfer facilities regularly releasing …
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed...
… orginal Ecologist investigation into Monsanto and Brofiscin Quarry Jon Hughes Pat Thomas | … Farming Health Politics And Economics WasteAndRecycling may cover 2007 silenced.jpg What …
Biogas - a methane-rich fuel made from rotting food waste or sewage - has huge potential as a clean, green fuel for the UK. But a perverse web of subsidies, rules and contracts could mean UK councils are about to kiss goodbye to the real power of waste...
… Biogas: is your council about to waste your waste? David Strahan | 4th August 2009 News WasteAndRecycling Energy Climate Change Biogas Biofuel …
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed...
… Risk Industrial Farming Health Politics And Economics WasteAndRecycling Investigates_21.jpg What does …
The UK government’s Net Zero Strategy just does not add up. We read every word - so you don't have to.
… is now experiencing a climate emergency, and therefore that more drastic action is … e.g. to ban peat sales altogether. But why waste time consulting, when ending the … to collect separately certain materials for recycling: paper and card, glass, metal, …
Attempts to recycle E-waste and donations of old electronic devices are harming poor people's health and devastating the environment, writes Nele Goutier. Agbogbloshie, once an idyllic landscape of wetlands and small farms, is now the most toxic place in the world ...
… E-waste in Ghana: where death is the price of … agbog-fire.jpg Attempts to recycle E-wasteand donations of old electronic devices are … their final destination under the cloak of recycling. It is the most toxic place in the …
The Environmental Investigation Agency and BBC Panorama use GPS to prove British electronic waste is being exported to poor African nations where it threatens the environment and human health. Andrew Wasley reports
… UK company implicated in toxic e-waste trail from London to West Africa Andrew Wasley | 14th May 2011 News E-waste … Agency Pollution Health WasteAndRecycling ghana-244-1.jpg Boys collecting …
The decision to defend capital has led to governments taking too little action too late to stop the spread of novel coronavirus.
… The novel coronavirus is infectious, deadly and invisible to the naked eye. It spreads … exponentially, has traversed the globe and today poses a threat to the very … 1,000 cows creating reservoirs of stinking waste, and slaughtering all these animals in a …
The long term problems of what to do with nuclear waste remain entirely unsolved, writes Andrew Blowers. Yet governments and the nuclear industry continue to peddle their untenable 'bury and forget' policy of deep geological disposal, which only unloads the toxic legacy of modern day nuclear power and weapons onto uncountable future generations.
… Why worry about nuclear waste? What has the future ever done for us? Andrew Blowers | 16th November 2016 News … remote location spent fuel is reprocessed for recycling in the form of mixed oxide fuel …
The Environment Agency and Interpol are being forced to tackle the growing trade in electrical waste to stop our unwanted TVs, computers and refrigerators falling into the wrong hands
… Criminal gangs cash in on thriving illegal e-waste trade Matilda Lee | 2nd December 2010 News Waste & Recycling Environment Agency E-waste Hazardous … worried about the links between e-wasteand organised crime. The Environment Agency …
Next time you grumble that it's too much effort to seperate you plastic from your cans, imagine doing it as the bullets are flying over head
… Barr | 28th March 2009 News Composting War Recycling Indigenous Peoples Composting Indigenous Peoples Politics And Economics WasteAndRecycling Archive_181.jpg Next time …
Packaging of brands familiar from UK supermarkets found strewn across multiple sites thousands of miles away.
… | 23rd October 2018 News Unearthed Plastic Waste Malaysia … Packaging of brands familiar from UK supermarkets found … from everyday British products – exported as recycling – has been discarded at multiple … allegations that exported UK plastic waste is not being recycled. UK exports of …
Incineration is a dirty word amongst environmentalists, its reputation earned through the use of outdated technology. Could new techniques help bring green approval to energy-from-waste facilities?
… technology Mark Jansen | 18th May 2010 News WasteAndRecycling Energy Energy From Waste …
With the 5th International Degrowth Conference taking place next week Spanish Ecologists Professor Joan Martinez Alier and Federico Demaria - both working at the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) - explain why we need a 'less is more' alternative economic model and how the burgeoning Global Environmental Justice movement is a key concept in achieving the only goal that will halt Climate Change.
… Degrowth and the Global Movement for Environmental … in different categories, such as mining, waste disposal, tourism, biodiversity, water … mining and biomass, also in the export of waste, such as the breaking of huge ships on …
As UK supermarkets scramble to reduce packaging in the face of growing legislation and consumer demand, Aimee Steen talks exclusively to those tackling the problem at high street stores and asks what role customers have to play
… ASDA and Marks & Spencer lead assault on packaging waste crisis - but will it work? Aimee Steen | … News Packaging Waste Tesco Asda M&S WasteAndRecycling Investigations waste 2 resized.jpg …
'For the rich, much much less, while for the billions who lack the basics: more good food, better housing, abundant clean water...'
… Degrowth and the Green New Deal Gareth Dale | 28th … due to Chernobyl alone, and the problem of waste. Scientists are still stumped by the … problem of warning the creatures approaching waste dumps a hundred thousand years from now. …
How does capitalism condition the ways in which we measure, imagine and weaponise time - and what does this mean for our future?
… Davos and 'capitalist time' Gareth Dale | 22nd … the ways in which we measure, imagine and weaponise time - and what does this mean … destructive effects of the former or the wastefulness and colossal energy thirst of …
In the wake of President Sarkozy's crackdown on the Roma people, an Ecologist investigation uncovers how poverty and discrimination are forcing persecuted communities to scratch a living recycling France's growing mountain of e-waste - potentially threatening health and raising questions over the effectiveness of waste policies
… Revealed: scandal of Roma people forced to scavenge toxic e-waste Carolyn Lebel | 12th October 2010 News E-waste Roma Investigations WasteAndRecycling low-res-web-holder.jpg In the wake …
Persecuted Roma communities in France are being forced to scavenge for dangerous e-waste, potentially threatening health and questioning the country's recycling policies
… Poverty forces Roma people to scavenge toxic e-waste Carolyn Lebel Jemima Roberts | 12th October 2010 News Roma E-wasteWasteAndRecycling News web-no3.jpg Persecuted Roma …
On current trends the world will contain 33 billion tonnes of plastic by 20150, writes Mae Wan Ho, and much of it will litter the oceans, concentrating toxins and damaging marine life throughout the food chain. The alternative is to classify the most toxic plastics as 'hazardous waste', and for all plastics to be reused and recycled in 'closed loop' systems.
… Mae-Wan Ho | 13th February 2015 News Oceans Waste Toxics Recycling beach-plastic-qr-mexico-cut.jpg On … of plastic by 20150, writes Mae Wan Ho, and much of it will litter the oceans, …
Current 'dump it or burn it' mindset can only be resolved by moving away from incineration and landfill and aiming for a zero waste policy, say campaigners
… UK can achieve 'zero waste' without incineration Tom Levitt | 5th October 2010 News Landfill WasteAndRecycling Incineration prel.png Plans for …