There have been more than 1,000 huge leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane from landfill waste dumps since 2019, the Guardian can reveal. Analysis…
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Stitch in time: France to help pay for clothes to be mended to cut waste
A broken heel, a rip in trousers, buttons missing from a shirt? Don’t throw them away if you live in France, where the government will…
View More Stitch in time: France to help pay for clothes to be mended to cut wasteThe rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us
In 1971, the Angling Times sent reporter Dave Nash to document a disaster in Ockendon, Essex. The resulting article described the extinction of a local…
View More The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt usToxic waste revealed as eroding coastlines expose old landfills
Stretching from Lyme Regis towards Charmouth, East Cliff beach is a hotspot for fossil hunters scouring the shore for spiral-shaped ammonites or the glint of…
View More Toxic waste revealed as eroding coastlines expose old landfills‘It’s terrifying’: the English village overwhelmed by landfill stink
It may have been labelled the country’s smelliest village but it is much more than a bad stench from the local landfill making life miserable…
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