From trash to art

Nestle: activists confront company about its plastic waste 12.04.2019

Fighting pollution in Laos 26.03.2019

European Parliament votes to ban single-use plastics 27.03.2019

Sierra Leone struggles with pernicious plastic pollution 17.12.2018

Euromaxx - Lifestyle Europe 20.04.2019

Colorful kites in the sky 20.04.2019

Artistic Giant Easter Eggs from Rome 20.04.2019

Heavy Metal Hymns 20.04.2019

Warning: Smoking kills you — and the planet 25.02.2019

Health warnings for smokers have never been clearer. But what about the health of the planet? Cigarette butts are the most common item of single-use plastic waste in the world — and that's only one piece of the puzzle.

Saving Mumbai's natural mangrove buffer against rising tides 27.03.2019

Young people in Mumbai are taking action to protect the city's vanishing mangrove forests. The trees, a vital flood defense, help protect millions of vulnerable people on India's coast from rising sea levels.

After China's import ban, where to with the world's waste? 05.04.2019

When China announced it would no longer recycle the world's old plastic bottles, cardboard boxes and tattered newspapers, it triggered a global trash crisis. The search for new refuse dumps is ongoing.

Plastic waste and the recycling myth 12.10.2018

Germany is hailed worldwide as a recycling champion. But like many European countries, it actually recycles a lot less plastic packaging waste than commonly understood — with dire consequences for the environment.