Movements to eliminate single-use plastics are sweeping the globe. The first thing you notice when you enter Natural Weigh, Chloe and Rob Masefield’s small shop in the Welsh town of Crickhowell, is the enticing smell of food. Then you see that people have brought their own containers and bottles and are filling them with rice, […]

Heat trapped by greenhouse gases is raising ocean temperatures faster than previously thought, according to a new research which shows that earlier claims of a slowdown or “hiatus” in global warming over the past 15 years were unfounded. Ocean heating is critical marker of climate change because an estimated 93 per cent of the excess […]

You probably had a lovely shower this morning before you sat down to read the paper. Imagine if, when you turned the tap, the water that came out stank. That’s life for people in Menindee and surrounding areas right now. Politicians from every state and federal parliament should be at Menindee to experience the stench […]

HONOLULU – U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has announced she’s running for president in 2020. The Hawaii Congresswoman made the announcement Friday on CNN after months of speculation that she’d launch a bid for the White House. “I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week,” Gabbard told CNN’s […]

HONOLULU – Three B-2 Spirit bombers and more than 200 Air Force personnel have been deployed to the islands from Missouri. “This training is crucial to maintaining our regional interoperability,” said Lt. Col. Joshua Dorr, 393rd Bomb Squadron director of operation, in a news release. “It affords us the opportunity to work with our allies […]

OCEAN NOT OUR GARBAGE COLLECTOR Re: Plastic and a hard place, letter, Jan. 5 I couldn’t stop laughing at another scintillating letter from Jill Young. What a great sense of humour. On the serious side, Jill makes a good point that Ottawa garbage doesn’t end up in the oceans. If there are eight million tons of […]

Conservation officials in New York are hoping to locate an “exotic,” non-native species of the elk family that has reportedly been spotted in the central part of the state and may have potential to infect the native white-tailed deer population with a deadly disease. The  New York Department of Environmental Conservation has purportedly received multiple trail camera […]

No longer able to export as much waste, companies seek new solutions TOKYO — Japanese companies are pouring investment into plastic recycling facilities to handle the rise in bottles and used home electronics remaining in the country following China’s near-total ban on imports of plastic waste. Established businesses are joining the field. Suntory Holdings helped develop a technology that reduces […]

As a political term, we might want to keep the circular economy in the present, but the practices that are part of it have long been part of human existence. Maikel Kuijpers explains. The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the products […]

NamiGreen a local e-waste recycling company has vastly increased e-waste recycling rates in 2018, saying that this indicates that more and more Namibian companies are concerned about discarded electronica ending up on landfill sites. According to the company’s internal records, in 2018 more than 50,000 kg of e-waste were recycled, which is 52% more than […]