Finns trying to enjoy beaches and parks during their all-too-brief summers have been vexed by legions of geese and their droppings – the smelly mess has resisted even the most innovative solutions
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Malaysia no longer takes US plastic waste, creating a dilemma for California
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Bergen in Norway has been building one of the world's most advanced trash systems, using vacuum tubes to whisk waste away
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Sweden's recycling centres overflowing with clothes after EU-wide ban on throwing away textiles – municipalities eager to have fast fashion giants take responsibility
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Danish deposit system: 93% of bottles and cans are returned and of those, 99.7% recycled (translation in comment)
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In 2023 the Danish city of Aarhus launched a three-year trial project to curb the number of disposable coffee cups – more than 700,000 were returned last year
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Denmark's second-largest city is trialling a first-of-its-kind deposit scheme to tackle single-use coffee cups
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The remote Danish island of Bornholm has pledged to eliminate trash by 2032. How will it get there?
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'License to hide': Western plastic waste dumped in Myanmar
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The metres-high mountain of mannequins in the British Midlands
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The uneasy afterlife of our dazzling trash: Where do CDs go to die?
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Even garbage is under threat from the coronavirus' impact on the economy
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Struggling to keep up, Finland exports plastic waste – a quarter of all plastic waste will be sent to facilities in Sweden or Germany for sorting and repurposing
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China is forcing the world to rethink recycling
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Amager Bakke, the incinerator and the ski slope tackling waste
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How the Swedish town of Eskilstuna became the world capital of recycling
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Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste
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Carefully, Japan reconsiders the trash can
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How US recycling is changing now that China won’t take it
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Hundreds of US cities are killing or scaling back their recycling programs
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What happens now that China won't take US recycling: Many waste-management companies are simply burning recyclables or sending them to landfills
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Five Melbourne councils forced to dump recycling in landfill as Victoria crisis deepens
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Taiwan has one of the highest recycling rates in the world. Here’s how that happened.
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No more of your junk
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China has refused to recycle the West's plastics. What now?
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China just handed the world a 111-million-ton trash problem
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Here's where your donated clothing really ends up
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