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photographed while on an assignment for Indonesia?s largest coal mining company, South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Environment

Six graphics that reveal what materials we consume – and what we waste

We are devouring ever more biomass, fossil fuels, metals and minerals each year. These graphics show how, and the shocking picture of how much we throw away

Features

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Environment

Janez Potočnik interview: How a circular economy can help us go green

Features

The end of waste: The grand plan to build a truly circular economy

Environment

The end of waste: The grand plan to build a truly circular economy

Features

Fashionable modern woman on landfill, consumerism versus pollution concept.

Environment

How to cut material use in buildings, clothes, electronics and plastic

Features

Out of date food, in kitchen bin

Question

How can we prevent and reduce food waste?

A green rubbish bin being loaded onto a refuse cart in the UK

Environment

Call for English households with bulging waste bins to pay extra

News

A pile of e-waste

Environment

Slump in electronics sales due to pandemic could help tackle e-waste

News

Pile of old computers

Environment

The EU may make recycling e-waste a legal requirement – will it work?

Analysis

Plastic pollution

Environment

Earth faces plastic pollution disaster unless we take drastic action

Analysis

Lake Victoria is at risk of dying from pollution and climate change

Earth

Lake Victoria is at risk of dying from pollution and climate change

Wetlands usually filter water that makes its way into Africa's largest lake, but now untreated waste dumped into the lake risks killing off local wildlife

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