Environment
Sustainability
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Recycling
Cycling’s dirty secret: 300,000 bikes a year dumped in landfill
The frenzy of bicycle purchases during the early COVID-19 pandemic is about to make the problem even worse. But one Sydney group has rescued almost 11,000 bikes from landfill.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Are wine drinkers too snobbish to drink wine from cans instead of glass?
Winemakers spruik the environmental credentials of canned wine, but retail sales suggest drinkers are yet to be convinced to give up the bottle.
- by Andrew Taylor
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Renewables
Zen Energy's Tunnel Project to Power Half a Million Homes
An eight-metre wide tunnel connecting Lake Burragorang to a reservoir built into the pit of a disused coal washery will create hydropower for 500,000 homes.
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Fashion retail
How a dress rented 53 times saved the equivalent of 159 trees
There’s a new trend in fashion: sustainability, with many shoppers no longer trying before they buy, merely renting.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Editorial
Pollution
On-screen chemistry helps explain how the chemistry went wrong
An Australian documentary tracking the battle to hold Wall Street giant 3M Company to account for decades of toxic contamination around the planet has some extra star power to help get the message across.
- The Herald's View
How humans are taking whale food and feeding it to cats and dogs
“It’s like a dystopian, post-apocalyptic David Attenborough documentary where you have penguins swimming on one side and a massive trawler on the other.”
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons