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Perth council says no to public skip bins despite ‘dumping galore’
A community-led request to place skip bins on public verges to fight “dumping galore” has been binned by City of Canning councillors, despite a massive spike in illegal littering.
- Indigo Lemay-Conway
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Fortnightly rubbish collection ‘inevitable’ as waste costs mount
Daniel Andrews vowed it would never happen under Labor. But one in three councils have ditched weekly pick-ups, and a big inner-city council plans to follow suit.
- Rachael Ward
Have your bins gone uncollected? Lord mayor says he’s ‘not happy’ with contractor
A 16-year collection contract worth almost $1 billion was issued in 2017. Now, Adrian Schrinner says the waste company is falling short of expectations.
- William Davis
Our Pacific neighbours are drowning in fast fashion. And we’re the ones to blame
Pacific nations have become the dumping ground for our lowest-quality second-hand clothing. A new documentary examines the impact of “waste colonialism” and the steps we should be taking to end it.
- Lauren Ironmonger
- Opinion
- Plastic
How we got conned into recycling by Big Plastic
Rinsing that yoghurt tub was never going to solve the problem. We’ve all been fooled.
- Jonathan Baker
How landfill is powering homes
Methane is extracted from rotting rubbish and used to create renewable energy.
The mistaken ‘dead body’ that reveals illegal dumping shame
Rates of illegal dumping are soaring in NSW as local councils spend millions of dollars on cleaning up items.
- David Barwell
Just like a real store, but everything is free for people doing it tough
ReLove Free Store is kitting out about 25 households a week, with furnishings worth $10,000 or more.
- Jane Cadzow
The four small daily habits that will minimise your waste
Australians produce 5.2 megatons of landfill a year. Tackling it can feel like an impossibly high mountain to climb, but there are simple ways to cut it down.
- Nick Newling
‘It got pretty foul’: Stink over seaweed ends cleaning peninsula beaches by hand
Mornington Peninsula councillors said locals preferred groomed beaches, without unsightly and smelly seaweed, and voted to bring back mechanical raking over hand-cleaning of the bay’s beaches.
- Adam Carey