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Active clearance and drainage of peatland rainforest in a concession run by PT Asia Tani Persada, which is also an orangutan habitat.

Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out

Petro Kotzé 15 Mar 2024

To wipe or to wash? That is the question

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 31 May 2024

Active clearance and drainage of peatland rainforest in a concession run by PT Asia Tani Persada, which is also an orangutan habitat.

Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out

Petro Kotzé 15 Mar 2024

Rolling towards circularity? Tracking the trace of tires

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 12 Jan 2024

Wheat field in Kansas. Image by Lane Pearman via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Getting the bread: What’s the environmental impact of wheat?

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Aug 2023

Tires by the road.

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2023

A landfill with mixed waste.

Takin’ out the trash: How do transnational waste traffickers operate?

Guia Baggi, Laura Carrer, Rahma Behi, Virginia Kirst 3 Aug 2023

The shuttered Eurokeys recycling plant in the town of Zielona Góra. Image by Eva Dunal/Outriders.

Into the Wasteland, part 3: Buried in Europe’s recycling

Mongabay.com 20 Dec 2022

British plastic packaging and other waste soils the countryside as far away as Turkey (pictured). Image by Caner Ozkan via Greenpeace Media Library.

Is waste crime ‘the new narcotics’ in the U.K.? Into the Wasteland, part 2

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2022

A mountain of UK plastic waste near Wespack Recycling Factory in Malaysia, via Greenpeace Media Library.

True eco-crime in the U.K., ‘Into the Wasteland’

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2022

Chocolate bar

Consumed: What is the environmental impact of chocolate?

Sandy Watt 22 Aug 2022

Coca plantation on a hillside near Caranavi, western Bolivia.

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2022

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