Postcards: Indonesia fishing village grapples with piles of trash brought in by tides
WILLY KURNIAWAN, of Reuters, reports from the fishing village of Teluk…
Forced to start again: Forced out of Pakistan, Afghan waste pickers count their losses
Pakistan’s push to deport undocumented migrants has turned life upside down for thousands of Afghan garbage collectors. ZOFEEN T EBRAHIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
StrangeSights: Musicians play Bolivian garbage dump; Turkish soccer fans throw toys for quake survivors; and, Ukraine’s Banksy gets stamp of approval
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
Postcards: In Nepal’s capital, piles of garbage put off tourists and residents
GOPAL SHARMA, of Reuters, reports on Kathmandu’s garbage problem…
Essay: What is wishcycling? Two waste experts explain
JESSICA HEIGES and KATE O’NEILL, of the University of California, explain – in an article first published on The Conversation – the concept of ‘wishcycling’…
Youth activist calls for joint effort to clean up Indonesia’s seas
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation Local leaders in Indonesia must get involved with young people to tackle the trash problem that blights the nation’s islands and surrounding seas, a leading Asian youth environmental activist said on Monday. The archipelago of 17,000 islands is the world’s second biggest contributor of plastic pollutants in the oceans, according […]
Quick facts – Weird waste, from sandy syringes to space junk
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation From medical waste washing onto the beach at Pakistan to man-made debris orbiting the earth, the scale of waste – and the strange shape it can take – is a growing global concern. Without urgent action, the world’s waste will increase by 70 per cent by 2050, according to a 2018 report […]
POSTCARDS: AS TOURISTS FLOCK TO HIMALAYAS, WOMEN LEAD PLASTICS CLEAN-UP
ATHAR PARVAIZ, in an article published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from India…
TRENDSPOTTER: “ZERO WASTE” LIVING
DAVID ADAMS looks at the concept of “zero waste”…
Island of plastic debris in Pacific far bigger than previous estimates, study says
Thomson Reuters Foundation A giant island of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean holds as much as 16 times more debris than was previously thought, posing a significant threat to the food chain, scientists said last last week. The so-called garbage patch in waters between California and Hawaii consists of fishing nets, plastic containers, packaging […]