Floating in the ocean: a rubbish pile the size of TexasIn the middle of the ocean, in areas of strong currents and little winds, exists giant whirlpools of swirling rubbish. The garbage patches are doubling in size every decade, with severe implications for marine life.
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Designers pick through the scraps
Fashion often takes its inspiration from the street, but this is taking it to a whole new level. Are bag ladies and toilet paper inspiring fashion’s biggest names this season? A whole new angle to recycling trends.
Garbage in a designer box? Sold!
Further proof of the ‘people will buy anything as long as it’s in pretty packaging’ theory, a NY artist has been selling actual rubbish in a classy clear cube. Over 1,200 have been sold.
Wall-E in real life
An Italian town obsessed with garbage is the testing ground for DustCart, a prototype robot that seems to have escaped from the animated movie “Wall-E” and could revolutionise rubbish collection.
Diet of an albatross: four lighters, a condom and toothbrushes
This collection looks pretty doesn’t it? What if we told you all these pieces were found in the stomach of a dead fledgling Laysan albatross?
Got landfill? Turn it into an eco park!
A landfill isn’t normally the kind of place where residents have picnics and take nature walks. But Singapore’s Semakau landfill is far from ordinary.
Trash monsters: making art out of rubbish
Sculptor Jason Lane has created a series of weird and wonderful creatures out of recycled and found steel, proving that being environmentally friendly can be eerily beautiful.
Shrek should listen to the kids on WorkChoices
Uncle Joe Hockey has responded to the release of a report commissioned by the NSW Teachers’ Federation on school students’ experience of, and attitudes to, WorkChoices and work by proclaiming: “It’s complete rubbish”.
