Browsing: waste

‘It’s important work’ Back at the waste yard, business has died down for the day. Bamfo and her youngest children, Nkunim, 10, and Josephine, 6, are…

Armed with gloves, metal tongs and plastic rubbish sacks, hordes of determined litter-pickers will descend on Hackney Marshes in east London this weekend.Spogomi, a Japanese litter-picking…

Your Garbage Has a ‘Wild Afterlife’ on the International Black MarketAlexander Clapp, author of new nonfiction book Waste Wars, tracks the worldwide black market trade of…

Bacteria can be used to turn plastic waste into painkillers, researchers have found, opening up the possibility of a more sustainable process for producing the drugs.Chemists…

In the US, residents have to contend with bears and racoons rummaging through the trash.In the UK, we have donkeys.A decision to introduce food waste bins…

Eight police officers linger with their backs to the two-hectare (five-acre) site known as Stocamine. The place is nondescript in the morning drizzle: two mine shafts,…