Office furniture headache:15,000 unwanted desks,172 whitegoods,1000 blinds

Office furniture headache:15,000 unwanted desks,172 whitegoods,1000 blinds

Each time Australia’s corporate titans relocate their staff into a new office,they leave a trail of unwanted furniture and fittings,most of which ends up in landfill.

  • bySimon Johanson

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When X does more than mark the spot
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When X does more than mark the spot

The butterfingers award everyone wants.

‘Rubbish’ pay offer leaves garbage filling streets

‘Rubbish’ pay offer leaves garbage filling streets

Moreland Council workers are refusing to empty street bins as part of industrial action over a “rubbish” pay offer.

  • byBianca Hall
Commuters didn’t stand a ghost of a chance
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Commuters didn’t stand a ghost of a chance

No wonder COVID has occasioned a drain on spirits.

‘Dog of a project’:Backlash grows against proposed waste incinerator

‘Dog of a project’:Backlash grows against proposed waste incinerator

Plans to build a waste incinerator in Matraville have been labelled a “dog of a project” by a local mayor who has vowed to fight the proposal.

  • byAndrew Taylor
Calls for national ‘bin harmonisation’ to make recycling easier

Calls for national ‘bin harmonisation’ to make recycling easier

Recycling bins across the country would be “harmonised” to have standard rules about what can and cannot be included under a push by federal environment minister Sussan Ley,who has secured agreement from state ministers to address the issue.

  • byLaura Chung
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Fringe World’s nifty cup scheme saves staggering load from landfill

Fringe World’s nifty cup scheme saves staggering load from landfill

If you head to Fringe World this weekend and get a beer you’ll be asked for $2 extra. But don’t get mad,you’ll get it back – or something even better.

  • byEmma Young
‘That’s a crazy amount of floor area’:Top architect on boom in big homes

‘That’s a crazy amount of floor area’:Top architect on boom in big homes

It doesn’t matter how sustainably a large home is built,every metre has an impact on the environment,the incoming president of the Australian Institute of Architects says.

  • byJulie Power
Bin there,done that:confessions of a festive empty-bin hunter
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Bin there,done that:confessions of a festive empty-bin hunter

These are desperate times. When the rubbish started piling up,laws of the land be damned,I started prowling for bins with room for my Christmas crap.

  • byPenny Flanagan
Medical waste,pesticides,dead dog and cash found at illegal toxic waste dump

Medical waste,pesticides,dead dog and cash found at illegal toxic waste dump

For eight months the EPA has been cleaning up the illegal dumping ground in country Victoria,making a range of toxic and grisly underground discoveries.

  • byChris Vedelago
How Emily went from a heaving bin to producing barely any rubbish

How Emily went from a heaving bin to producing barely any rubbish

Joining the “zero waste movement” can be challenging,but it isn’t actually about producing no waste whatsoever.

  • byEvelyn Lewin