by Komoneed | Nov 26, 2024
The Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia (WMRR) is using National Recycling Week 2024 (11–17 November 2024) to encourage the community and business to actively choose to buy Australian recycled materials.
WMRR CEO Gayle Sloan said: “Recycling plays a vital role in protecting the environment, reducing the strain on the planet’s natural resources and cutting carbon emissions. Whilst the ideal is we do not create waste, the reality is we do. Of all the waste generated in Australia, 63% of it is recovered.
“Recycling does not stop at placing material in the correct bin. It starts and continues at the shelf with what we buy and keep buying, using, sharing and repairing,” Sloan said.
WMRR encourages the community, business and government to actively think about what they buy and how they can use less for longer.
“We must extend the life of materials by keeping them circulating for longer and valuing them in the same way we value new. Recycling the planet’s valuable resources and reducing demand on virgin materials and reducing emissions must always be the goal,” Sloan said.
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by Grace Ebert | Nov 26, 2024
When words can’t quite sum up a feeling, Ben Zank leans into a bizarre visual language.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article My Brain Took an Extended Vacation: Ben Zank Playfully Twists the Banal appeared first on Colossal.
by Komoneed | Nov 26, 2024
Cruise ships are producing higher levels of toxic air pollutants than they did before the pandemic, according to a new study by the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E). The analysis, “Europe’s luxury cruise ships emit as much toxic sulphur as 1bn cars,” found that despite the introduction of a sulphur cap four years […]
The post Europe’s Cruise Ships Produce Toxic Sulphur Emissions Equivalent to 1 Billion Cars, Study Finds appeared first on EcoWatch.
by Komoneed | Nov 26, 2024
Pharmaceuticals from cold medicine, antidepressants and painkillers to cancer drugs and antibiotics pollute the environment…
The post How Medicine Makes the Environment Sick appeared first on Earth911.
by Komoneed | Nov 26, 2024
2024 USAID Climate MEL Learning Series: Climate Finance Reporting Slides
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These slides were presented during the Climate Finance Reporting webinar in the 2024 USAID Climate MEL Learning Series.
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