Madonna proposes mystical water solution for ridding the world of nuclear waste. I feel safer already.
Africa is still the world’s rubbish dump.
Airline flies empty planes to hold on to airport slots.
Interesting approach to reducing the wasted energy from all those power supplies we use.
Interesting approach to reducing the wasted energy from all those power supplies we use.
Nuclear waste: Keep out - for 100,000 years.
It’s indeed crazy that trying to live waste-free is considered more extreme than spending the night queuing in the cold for a new phone.
The problem is that waste has always been a marginal issue, both literally and figuratively. It has been dumped in and on the peripheries, consigned to that mythical place called ‘away’. It has always been an ‘externality’, an unavoidable byproduct of necessary industrialisation. But it is now an internality – internal to every ecosystem and every digestive system from marine micro-organisms to humans.
A great article on our throwaway culture and the central position of waste in it all. This generated waste is, basically, the metabolism behind economic growth.
