Recycling
Fear of thousands of cannibal mice helped sink a huge NSW recycling plant
Australia’s largest recycling plant was set to be built next to a crucial medical facility – and the potential impacts were dire.
- Angus Dalton
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If you’re served a Coke at a cafe, should you get the 10¢ bottle refund?
Consider this your chance to celebrate this recycling golden age, writes our Modern Guru.
- Danny Katz
How parents are erasing stationery waste
Vast quantities of costly school stationery goes to waste each year.
- Noel Towell
‘It’s beautiful, but we’d like fresh air’: Life inside Melbourne’s most polluted suburb
The Age explores why the western suburbs are Australia’s fastest-growing region, and what’s holding them back from realising their full potential.
- Sophie Aubrey
The Sydney business turning Fiji’s beach litter into power poles
While labour-intensive sorting and cleaning makes most plastic recycling processes financially unviable, the shredder system can use any plastics.
- Tim Barlass
Despite ‘smell issues’, NSW plans to mandate household food scraps collection
Australia is unlikely to meet national goals like halving the amount of organic waste going to landfill by 2030. But efforts are stepping up.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘Like Armageddon’: Impact of toxic SKM rubbish blaze laid bare
Those who lived and worked near the massive 2017 fire at the recycling facility in Melbourne’s north told a court how it had left their lungs burning and the ground covered in smouldering ash.
- Sarah Danckert
- Opinion
- Plastic
We have a once-in-a-generation chance to halt the march of plastic
This week, in a port city in South Korea, delegates from around the world will gather for the most consequential negotiating session you’ve probably never heard of.
- Andrew Forrest
Coalition votes with Greens to ditch Morrison-era fee on rubbish shipped overseas
The removal of the levy could force taxpayers to foot the bill for the cost of administering waste export licences.
- Mike Foley
Buying fruit and veg without plastic wrapping? You’re paying extra for it
Supermarkets are charging shoppers more for loose produce than the same items covered in plastic.
- Mike Foley
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