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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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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
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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Supermarkets selling loose produce for more than plastic-wrapped items.

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
Landfill in Sydney

Sydney’s running out of rubbish space. Is this the end of your red bin?

Sydney’s available landfill space is vanishing as NSW falls well behind its recycling targets. 

  • Alexandra Smith

This is the key to happiness and economic prosperity

Since the industrial revolution, we’ve fattened up our economy by pumping out products and consuming more. But there’s a way to grow outside the box.

  • Millie Muroi
A 2018 industrial fire in West Footscray sent a toxic plume over the city.

Council accused of negligence over major West Footscray chemical blaze

Maribyrnong council and gas giant BOC are accused of failing to take action on stockpiling of gas cylinders at a factory that burned for nearly two weeks in 2018.

  • Chris Vedelago

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