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Retail assistant Dorothy Togara says the quality of secondhand clothing imported from Australia has declined over the past few decades.

Our Pacific neighbours are drowning in fast fashion. And we’re the ones to blame

Pacific nations have become the dumping ground for our lowest-quality second-hand clothing. A new documentary examines the impact of “waste colonialism” and the steps we should be taking to end it.

  • Lauren Ironmonger

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A trolley full of products covered in unnecessary plastic.

How we got conned into recycling by Big Plastic

Rinsing that yoghurt tub was never going to solve the problem. We’ve all been fooled.

  • Jonathan Baker
Methane is extracted from rotting rubbish and used to create renewable energy.
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How landfill is powering homes

Methane is extracted from rotting rubbish and used to create renewable energy.

Dumping

The mistaken ‘dead body’ that reveals illegal dumping shame

Rates of illegal dumping are soaring in NSW as local councils spend millions of dollars on cleaning up items.

  • David Barwell
Eva, left, in ReLove’s Sydney warehouse, with co–founder Renuka Fernando.

Just like a real store, but everything is free for people doing it tough

ReLove Free Store is kitting out about 25 households a week, with furnishings worth $10,000 or more.

  • Jane Cadzow
Keep Cup

The four small daily habits that will minimise your waste

Australians produce 5.2 megatons of landfill a year. Tackling it can feel like an impossibly high mountain to climb, but there are simple ways to cut it down.

  • Nick Newling
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Mornington Peninsula Beach Box Owners president Peter Clarke at Dromana beach this week.

‘It got pretty foul’: Stink over seaweed ends cleaning peninsula beaches by hand

Mornington Peninsula councillors said locals preferred groomed beaches, without unsightly and smelly seaweed, and voted to bring back mechanical raking over hand-cleaning of the bay’s beaches.

  • Adam Carey
Planet Ark championed the Australasian Recycling Label.

Labor commits to national packaging rules as Planet Ark collapses

The environmental charity behind a number of high-profile recycling schemes went into voluntary administration this week.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Things are so bad on the streets of Birmingham, even the rat wants to know when the local council will reduce the rat population and fix the problem.
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The rat's question

Things are so bad on the streets of Birmingham, even the rat wants to know when the local council will reduce the rat population and fix the problem.

Covert cameras are recording hundreds of south-east Queensland drivers breaking the law, in sometimes bizarre scenes.

Brisbane’s covert cameras catching more than just litterbugs

A series of covert cameras, netting hundreds of dollars a year in fines, are catching more than just careless litterers.

  • Josh Bavas

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