Dead white man’s clothes: How fast fashion is turning parts of Ghana into toxic landfill (ABC News) – For decades, the West’s unwanted fashion has made its way to used-clothing markets in Africa. Now it’s fuelling an environmental catastrophe. It’s the…
It’s not clear who exactly is throwing out all these bowling balls.
No, you can’t recycle bowling balls. Bowling balls are made of polyurethane and liquid plasticizer with weighted cores made from polyester resin filled with varying amounts of calcium carbonate, barium sulfate, and glass microspheres. Want to learn mor…
@thetrashwalker
The woman who rifles through New York’s garbage – exposing the city’s excesses (The Guardian) – Anna Sacks documents her ‘trash walks’ on social media, shining a light on the everyday shame and indignity of producing and living with so much waste
Repairing and reusing household goods could create thousands of green jobs across the UK
The Green Alliance thinktank found more than 450,000 jobs could be created by minimising waste Reusing and repairing household goods, from washing machines to phones, and recycling throwaway consumer items such as plastic bottles, could create hundreds…
Today it’s cool, tomorrow it’s junk. We have to act against our throwaway culture | Jonathan Chapman
We need products we can repair, reuse and recycle – not ones deliberately built to become obsoleteNever have we wanted, owned and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through modern life leaves a wake of social and ecological destruction – traine…