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 …
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 …
More robust enforcement of laws designed to tackle the growing problem of e-waste is urgently needed, says Anja ffrench of Computer Aid, along with improved management of electrical waste by governments
… How to combat the growing menace of e-waste Anja ffrench | 31st May 2011 Comment … Computers Pollution EIA WEEE Directive WasteAndRecycling Comment nigeria-e-waste-(15)-1.jpg …
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 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 …
Biodegradeable Waste (BDW), ‘plants and animals’, comprises an amazing 59 per cent of your household waste. Do you simply throw yours in the bin? If so you...
… 59 per cent and counting... George Pilkington | 1st … 2006 Ethical Living Compost Composting Waste BDW Worms Vermicompost Vermicomposting … Lifestyle Composting Green Living WasteAndRecycling Green_Living_MAIN_1.jpg …
Mel Poluck visits a flagship environmental project that rescues, reuses and recycles tonnes of wood destined for landfills, doing much the same for those it employs
… CASE STUDY: recyclingwaste wood Mel Poluck | 9th June 2009 Activism WasteAndRecycling Case Study Wood Recycling …
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 …
Why do we dispose of organic waste in landfill sites? Shouldn’t we – individuals, councils and businesses – all be using worms to compost it? By Janis Crawford.
… Ethical Living Composting Worms Gardening Landfill Landfills Community Recycling Green Living WasteAndRecycling Archive_78.jpg Why do we …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
African and Asian countries need proper electronic waste recycling systems to prevent the surge in consumer demand creating toxic e-waste mountains
… UN warns India and China over growing problem of e-waste The Ecologist | 22nd February 2010 News E-wasteWasteAndRecycling computer.jpg Consumer electronic …
They're becoming more and more common - wrapped around everything from milk to chickpeas. But just how environmentally friendly are composite cartons compared to the good, old-fashioned tin or jar?
… Emilie Filou | 19th January 2010 News WasteAndRecycling Green Living Cartons Tetrapaks …
An Ecologist investigation reveals that three quarters of London Boroughs are advising their residents to simply throw compact fluorescent lightbulbs in their general waste, despite the hazard posed by their mercury content
… - Council advice on toxic lightbulbs Ian Randall | 9th March 2010 News WasteAndRecycling Energy Saving Lightbulbs Cfl Mercury …