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2025
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Homes built with clay, grass, plastic and glass: How a Caribbean island is shying away from concrete, bbc.co.uk/future (Jan 04, 2025)
2024
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- ‘Because secondhand is feckin’ grand’: how clothes swapping became huge in Ireland, theguardian.com (Oct 03, 2024)
- ‘It needs to stay in the loop’: German reuse schemes turn shopping upside down, theguardian.com (Jul 04, 2024)
- How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution, theguardian.com (Jun 20, 2024)
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- Analysis of the adopted Directive on Common Rules Promoting the Repair of Goods, repair.eu (Apr 23, 2024) — EU campaigning pays off with promising new repair rules, but we need many more products to be covered
- Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts, BBC Future (Apr 22, 2024)
- 'I want to erase my own footprint': The women looking after an island paradise, BBC News (Apr 21, 2024)
- At ‘Garbage Cafes,’ You Can Trade Plastic Bottles for Free Food, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 05, 2024)
2023
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- ‘It’s kind of gross but we can do it’: How a community learned to go zero waste, theguardian.com (Dec 07, 2023)
- These cities are building solar plants on trash to save space, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 14, 2023)
- Broad support for repair at the EU Parliament – will the Council keep up with the ambition?, repair.eu (Oct 25, 2023) — “We applaud the huge improvements introduced by the IMCO Committee to ensure the affordability of repair, the ban of unfair anti-repair practices and the promotion of broad repair options for consumers. We now urge the European Council and Member States Ministries not to let their citizens down. They have been demanding the right to repair what they own for years and this is the time to make it happen.” Cristina Ganapini, Coordinator of the Right to Repair Europe coalition
- The zero-waste city: what Kiel in Germany can teach the world, theguardian.com (Oct 18, 2023)
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- How South Korea’s composting system became a model for the world, latimes.com (Aug 24, 2023)
- Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business, news.mongabay.com (Aug 21, 2023)
- Welcome to the world’s first zero-waste island, positive.news (Aug 21, 2023)
- Marvin Hayes Is Spreading ‘Compost Fever’ in Baltimore’s Neighborhoods. He Thinks it Might Save the City., insideclimatenews.org (Aug 20, 2023)
- How refugees are helping Amsterdam become one of the first circular cities, positive.news (Jul 18, 2023)
- Plastic recycling is failing – here’s how the world must respond, The Conversation (May 30, 2023)
- Not yet accessible, affordable nor mainstream: campaigners tighten the screw on new EU Right to Repair proposal, repair.eu (Mar 22, 2023)
2021-2022
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- How Eco Fibra is tackling the fashion dumpster in the Chilean Desert, Shareable (May 11, 2022)
- Repairing and reusing household goods could create thousands of green jobs across the UK, Aug 4, 2021...theguardian.com
- Right to repair movement gains power in US and Europe, Jul 7, 2021...BBC News
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