Houston's plastic waste, waiting more than a year for "advanced" recycling, piles up at a business failed three times by fire marshal recycling plastics Article 1307 words 13 votes
Eleven on trial in Sweden's largest environmental crime case – Bella Nilsson's company Think Pink accused of dumping at least 200,000 tonnes of waste recycling pollution.ground Article 567 words 23 votes
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Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system sustainability energy Article 201 words 21 votes
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Denmark's second-largest city is trialling a first-of-its-kind deposit scheme to tackle single-use coffee cups Article 518 words, published Jan 25 2024 20 votes
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The neglected clean heat we flush down the drains water.waste energy.renewable Article 1937 words 37 votes
Norway is to allow mining waste to be dumped in its fjords after the government won a court case against environmental organisations trying to block the plan pollution.water Article 550 words 29 votes
Plant-based spread maker tries move into paper-based tubs plastics recycling sustainability Link 13 votes
Finland and Italy seek to hinder restrictions on single-use packaging ahead of next week's gathering of EU ministers in Brussels Article 599 words 11 votes
NGO CLASP report - Out of date, inefficient air conditioners sold by the millions in smaller Asian countries climate change Link 6 votes
Site Zero recycling plant in the city of Motala should double the amount of plastic packaging being recycled in Sweden recycling plastics Article 687 words 6 votes
New York residents say a hazardous waste incinerator’s emissions violate their new constitutional right to a “healthful environment.” pollution.air Article 2087 words, published Nov 9 2023 14 votes
Curbside trash is a problem in NYC. Officials have a not-so-novel fix: plastic bins Article 1392 words 29 votes
The remote Danish island of Bornholm has pledged to eliminate trash by 2032. How will it get there? recycling Article 2411 words 13 votes
'License to hide': Western plastic waste dumped in Myanmar recycling plastics Article 662 words 9 votes
Sweden's right-wing government says it will turn its back on plastic bag tax from November 2024 pollution plastics Article 350 words 20 votes
Why investing in new nuclear plants is bad for the climate energy.renewable climate change Link 32 votes
How a Japanese-run wastewater treatment plant in Mexico shamelessly polluted until the site was shut down pollution.water water.waste Article 1771 words 7 votes
Lawsuit over polychlorinated biphenyl contamination filed by Massachusetts mother of boy with leukemia. Lawsuit targets GE, Monsanto, Bayer and others. pollution Article 1090 words 28 votes
Judge rules in favor of Oklahoma against big chicken producers in poultry-pollution lawsuit pollution.water Article 1141 words, published Jan 19 2023 17 votes
Plastic overshoot day spotlights growing 'climate nightmare' of global waste pollution plastics climate change Article 1775 words 19 votes
Decades of public messages about recycling in the US have crowded out discussion and implementation of more sustainable ways to manage waste recycling Article 1213 words 33 votes
Danish environmental campaigner Merijn Tinga has windsurfed up the Thames to return plastic bottles from the UK which he found in Sweden pollution plastics recycling Article 10 votes
Spanish authorities are seeking €90 Million in damages from a Swedish mining company for a major toxic spill near the famed Doñana National Park in 1998 water.waste Article 382 words 11 votes
Finland is on the verge of becoming the first nation to bury spent nuclear fuel rods deep underground for the long term energy Article 2756 words 12 votes
The Huussi toilet in Finland's pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale disposes of waste without any water sustainability Article 7 votes
Australian governments impose recycling rules after the packaging industry fails on waste recycling plastics Article 615 words 7 votes
Finland's vast network of tunnels 400m underground will soon begin operating as the world's first spent nuclear fuel disposal facility energy Video 2:21 9 votes
Nearly half of every pineapple you eat ends up in the trash. But now, companies across the globe are turning the inedible parts of the fruit into textiles, plates, soap, and more. | World Wide Waste Video 17:33 8 votes
Welsh council bids to print McDonald’s customer car number plates on wrappers Article 345 words 12 votes
UK looks to Sweden for a solution to nuclear waste – repeated attempts to find a suitable location have been stymied by political intransigence and environmentalists Article 1042 words 4 votes
Environmental defenders celebrate a ‘huge’ win for ‘unique’ Tasmanian rainforest pollution Article 1207 words, published Jul 26 2022 6 votes
Finland is building the world's first permanent disposal site for nuclear waste, with no shortage of people wanting to be its neighbours Article 853 words 13 votes
Many in India make a living off garbage, from ragpickers to entrepreneurs. Join us as we look at how they turn trash into shoes, tiles, teddy bears, and more | World Wide Waste plastics pollution recycling Video 28:22 2 votes
Single-use plastic waste is getting phased out in California under a sweeping new law pollution plastics.single use Article 23 votes
How people live off a garbage mountain that keeps catching on fire | World Wide Waste pollution plastics recycling water.ground Video 10:52 2 votes
A plastic bag’s 2,000-mile journey shows the messy truth about recycling recycling plastics energy Article 6 votes
UN experts call for Sweden to scrap a planned iron ore mine – toxic waste and other contaminants would cause 'irreversible risks' to land used by the Sámi pollution Article 514 words, published Nov 7 2017 2 votes
Can bitcoin be sustainable? Kryptovault's operation is part of a fightback against criticism of the famously energy-intensive industry sustainability energy Article 1040 words 7 votes
Sweden approves plans for Forsmark nuclear waste storage site – will bury nuclear waste in the bedrock, and seal the facilities once they are full Article 342 words, published Nov 7 2017 7 votes