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Australia’s oldest commercial wind farm is due to shut down in 2027.

This wind farm is retiring, so what happens to its tonnes of steel?

Wind and solar power is cutting emissions, but millions of disused panels and tonnes of turbine waste raise questions about how green clean energy really is.

  • Mike Foley and Bianca Hall

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Men have added about 12 minutes a day of household labour since 2012, but women haven’t dialled back.

I’ll FOGO the extra yard for the planet, but this French laundry plan stinks

Saving the environment can be a messy business but re-wearing gym gear?

  • Michelle Cazzulino
St Kilda residents Grant and Melissa Munday and Rocco Sorace say every possible authority has hand-balled the issue of the noisy container deposit machine.

Recycling scheme a clanking hell for residents

It’s been heralded a success but the Container Deposit Scheme has become a major headache for apartment residents in St Kilda.

  • Rachael Dexter
Vapes are an increasing source of litter.

‘New problem child of waste’: The hazard increasingly littering Melbourne’s streets

Discarded vapes make up a growing part of the mess as e-waste moves into the top 10 types of litter found in Victoria for the first time. 

  • Cara Waters
I am stuck in a vicious cycle of attempting to recycle, and no amount of colour-coded bins can save me.

Red, yellow or green? The stress of putting the wrong thing in the wrong bin

I am stuck in a vicious cycle of attempting to recycle, and no number of colour-coded bins can save me. 

  • Thomas Mitchell
Sayo Leahy has started a movement she is calling “Only Cans (and bottles)“.

‘I wouldn’t be alive without this rubbish’: The rapidly growing scheme that has Victorians cashing in

For the truly dedicated, earning a “bincome” from the state’s Container Deposit Scheme is paying off nicely.

  • Rachael Dexter
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The Plasrefine recycling facility was planned for construction next to a critical medical research mouse-breeding facility.

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

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
Belleville run Project Stationary, which collecting unused school supplies and repackages them.

How parents are erasing stationery waste

Vast quantities of costly school stationery goes to waste each year.

  • Noel Towell
Marie and Brian Long have suffered the effects of pollution in Brooklyn for decades.

‘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

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