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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
Cleaning up beaches - Sydney plastics recycling firm opens micro processing plant in Fiji.

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
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Michelle Gray with her son Harry with their FOGO bin in Rose Bay.

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
Huge stockpiles of rubbish went up in flames at SKM Recycling plant in Coolaroo in July 2017.

‘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
Plastic chemicals are making us fatter, sicker and less fertile.

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
A levy on paper and cardboard exports has been scrapped.

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

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