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Environment 4 years ago

What a waste: US campaigner wears his trash for a month

We all know someone with a rubbish fashion sense, but Rob Greenfield is proud to be wearing garbage.

Environment 4 years ago

UN to take first step towards 'historic' plastic treaty

The United Nations is to launch formal negotiations on Wednesday for a global treaty to address a plastic trash "epidemic" that supporters say is a historic moment for the planet.

Environment 4 years ago

Art of trash: feting S. Africa's overlooked waste pickers

Across South Africa, thousands of "reclaimers" are helping the country recycle.

Environment 5 years ago

Waste pickers fear for future at Senegalese mega dump

Scores of pickers move along a raised platform of rubbish, scooping up pieces of plastic with iron hooks, alongside cattle and hundreds of egrets also scouring the trash.

Lifestyle 5 years ago

Trash or fashion: Internet personality turns empty packaging into statement pieces

Unlike most people, Putri Samboda keeps the empty bags of chips she’s finished. She turns them into wearable fashion items, turning heads in the process.

Environment 5 years ago

China's 'Spidermen': Litter-picking over the abyss

The 48-year-old Yang Feiyue's job is to abseil down cliffs on central China's Tianmen mountain -- an area famed for its natural beauty but plagued by plastic and other waste.

Environment 5 years ago

Viral trash: French COVID clean-up nets mounds of masks

A French-British duo have completed their campaign to stop mask litter during the coronavirus crisis, having picked up every discarded face covering they spotted while walking to Paris from the Mediterranean city of Marseille.

Environment 5 years ago

South Korean hiker turns trash into art with 'don't drop litter' message

When hiker Kim Kang-eun found the slopes of Mount Jiri, South Korea's largest national park, littered with rubbish during a two-day trip in 2018, she decided it was time to send out a message about taking better care of nature.