How the World Scout Jamboree descended into chaos in South Korea
Seoul, South KoreaReuters Overflowing trash bins. Dirty toilets. Bug-infested fields. These were some of the conditions that about 40,000 teenage scouts had to contend with in the past week at the World Scout Jamboree, sending red-faced organisers in South Korea scrambling to fix matters before a looming typhoon forced everyone to leave the ill-fated campsite. […]
A Sustainable Life: Households find low waste living challenging. Here’s what needs to change
Researchers ROB RAVEN, DAVID O REYNOLDS, JO LINDSAY and RUTH LANE look at what their data shows about how Australians engage with low waste living…
Wow!: No trash goes to waste on Greek islands racing to recycle
SEBASTIEN MALO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports how, through practices ranging from shunning plastic to composting cigarettes, places like Tilos and Paros are ramping up efforts to reach zero waste and cut carbon emissions…
Rubbish collection tour cleans up Sydney Harbour, one kayak at a time
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Arming each participant with a paddle, bucket, sieve and picker stick, ‘Clean Up Kayak’ is a tour of Australia’s Sydney Harbour with a difference. The sole objective, says founder Laura Stone, is to clear rubbish from the harbour – and business is thriving. Kayakers on the ‘Clean Up Kayak’ tour paddle near the […]
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 […]
TRENDSPOTTER: “ZERO WASTE” LIVING
DAVID ADAMS looks at the concept of “zero waste”…