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World Expo 88 in South Bank, Brisbane.

How Brisbane’s kerbside collection sent me back nearly four decades

Few council services generate as much excitement as the kerbside pick-up, and none more so than this year’s, which turned up a bona fide treasure.

  • Cameron Atfield

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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
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
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
Peter Dutton says the nuclear waste problem is not his to solve.

There’s a gaping hole in Dutton’s nuclear plan. He says it’s Albanese’s problem to solve

Those who fear they will bear the burden of his nuclear power scheme want answers from the opposition leader.

  • Julia Carr-Catzel
The sweeping pandemic powers of Queensland Chief Health Officer John Gerrard are wound back on Monday afternoon.

‘Needs to be resolved’: Health inquiry into Ipswich waste concerns

The Crisafulli government has called on former chief health officer John Gerrard to head an inquiry into the effect of odours from waste facilities.

  • Savannah Meacham
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The Hinkley C nuclear plant under construction in the UK, the country’s first in two decades.

The $80 billion question buried in Dutton’s nuclear power plan

The public could be left with a big clean-up bill after the opposition’s proposed nuclear reactors reach the end of their life.

  • Mike Foley
The discovery of asbestos at Rozelle Parklands prompted the Minns government to set up the name-and-shame register.

The environmental offenders being named and shamed by the government

The new name and shame register was promised after the discovery of asbestos at the Rozelle Parklands in January.

  • Michael McGowan
Peter Dutton once claimed a small modular nuclear reactor would produce only a Coke can’s worth of waste.

Dutton said a reactor’s waste would fill a Coke can. Try 27,000 of them

Australia would face a big nuclear waste task under the opposition’s energy policy, which would generate hundreds of barrels of spent nuclear fuel a year.

  • Mike Foley
Joost Bakker at the home he has built for his mother in Monbulk, Victoria.

He’s known for his zero-waste mantra. Now Joost Bakker is turbo-charging it – for his mum

Building with straw, turf and recycled materials are no small-scale fantasy for Bakker: he says the world needs millions more homes like one he’s just built.

  • Andrew Mackenzie

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