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Is your smartphone generating unnecessary e-waste?
Bottom line: The ability to repair your smartphone is more important than you might think. How exactly do smartphones contribute to waste? And how can we proactively reduce this e-waste output? We’ve got all the information you need. Men selecting electronic waste from used cellular phones at a workshop in Bantar Gebang area, Bekasi, West…
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How much trash do you produce in a week?
If you could see all the waste you produce, would it change the way you consume? This photographer is hoping so. Australians produce a lot of waste. According to Clean Up Australia, the amount of waste that hits landfill in Australia every year is enough to cover the entire state of Victoria. The average Australian…
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Toxic water pollution demonstrates that even dead coal mines are dangerous
Press release – 20 August, 2017August 21, 2017: The contamination of Sydney’s drinking water catchment by millions of litres of highly toxic water from a decommissioned mine is yet another reason for the government to distance itself from the polluting coal mining industry.One of Australia’s leading water scientists, Dr Ian Wright, today described the waste…
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The Arctic Sunrise has been seized. Here’s why:
The message is clear: Norway, it’s time to choose people over oil. 35 activists from 25 countries around the world are in the Barents Sea to demand an end to Arctic drilling. |Four people in kayaks have reached Statoil’s rig, the Songa Enabler. They are bringing a huge globe with messages from people around the…
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Fraud investigation yet another reason to keep Australian taxpayers’ money out of Adani mine
Press release – 17 August, 2017August 16, 2017: The Australian government must immediately rule out a taxpayer-funded loan to coal miner Adani after revelations the company is accused of fraudulently siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars of borrowed money into overseas tax havens.The Guardian [1] today published details around the allegations that the company inflated…
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Greenpeace activists confront Norwegian government’s Arctic oil drilling site
Press release – 17 August, 2017Korpfjell, Barents Sea, Norway 17 August 2017: Peaceful activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have entered the exclusion zone of Statoil’s oil rig, Songa Enabler in the Barents Sea with kayaks and inflatable boats, while swimmers are in the waters protesting with hand banners.The activists are there to deliver…
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Government doing nothing to protect communities from toxic power plants
Press release – 14 August, 2017August 15, 2017: A report has found that levels of toxic air pollution emitted by Australian coal fired power plants are so high that many of them would be illegal in the US and Europe.Released today Environmental Justice Australia’s report Toxic and terminal: How the regulation of coal-fired power stations…
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Commonwealth Bank flunks climate test
Press release – 13 August, 2017August 14, 2017: The climate policy released today by the Commonwealth Bank is significantly worse than expected and will do nothing to restore the bank’s tattered reputation.CommBank today released a one-page “Climate Policy Position Statement” which now makes them the only of the “big four” to not restrict lending around…
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Keep the pressure up on CommBank
The Commonwealth Bank have just announced that they have ruled out funding the Carmichael mine. They have joined 24 other banks from around the world in saying they won’t fund this dodgy, destructive, mega mine project. This is Big News! The Commonwealth Bank have just announced that they have ruled out funding the Carmichael…