Zero waste
Zero wasteThe Ocean Cleanup will make Australia and Asia-Pacific its primary focus, directing two-thirds of its effort to Southeast Asia — source of 79% of ocean plastic reaching Australia — while urging 'action and cash' ahead of COP31.
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Zero wasteCalifornia's landmark "Truth in Recycling" law — designed to stop misleading recycling labels on packaging — is now in legal limbo. A federal court blocked the state from enforcing it in July, and in late September the fight took another turn when the judge refused to let two environmental groups join the state's defense of
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Zero wasteEmirates Shipping Line (ESL) has stopped accepting plastic waste as cargo, becoming only the second ocean carrier in the world to impose a blanket ban on the trade — a move campaigners have called a major milestone in the fight to stop plastic waste being dumped on developing countries. In a circular issued on 15
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Zero wasteThe UK's Deposit Return Scheme has named five waste firms — SUEZ, CIRQLR, Bywaters, Re.Group and Re-Gen — to run collections and processing when the 20p deposit goes live in October 2027.
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Zero wasteBANGKOK — The diplomat chairing talks on a world-first treaty to limit plastic pollution says countries are less divided than before, and a deal could be adopted at the next formal round of negotiations in March 2027. Chilean ambassador Julio Cordano, who took over as chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee earlier this year after
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Zero wastePlastic Bank, the Canadian social enterprise behind one of the world's largest bottle collection networks, is courting more Philippine companies to join its plastic waste collection drive, pitching the partnership as a practical route for firms to meet their extended producer responsibility targets. Founder and chief executive David Katz made the appeal to reporters on
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Zero wasteMalaysia has set one of Southeast Asia's most ambitious municipal-waste targets: diverting 53 per cent of solid waste from landfills by 2035 under its zero waste 2035 plan, up from 42 per cent this year. The announcement was made by Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming during an oral question session in the
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Zero wastePhase 2 of Alberta's extended producer responsibility program took effect on 1 October 2026, adding glass containers, foam packaging, flexible plastics, aerosol cans and laminated packaging to curbside recycling for about 1.4 million households across 287 communities.
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Zero wastePlastic waste is on course to almost triple by 2060 while only 9% is recycled, and wasted food generates 8–10% of global emissions. This explainer sets out why zero waste has become a practical climate strategy — from Türkiye's Zero Waste movement to the road to COP31 in Antalya.
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Zero wasteThe Zero Waste Foundation's two-day Türkiye Plastic Waste Workshop in Istanbul brought 15 working groups together to draft a life-cycle plastic policy framework ahead of COP31 in Antalya.
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Zero wasteINC chair Julio Cordano told AFP after closed-door talks in Bangkok that the global plastics treaty could be adopted at INC-5.4 in March 2027, saying countries are closer to agreement than before.
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Zero wasteTürkiye is turning its zero waste philosophy into a national strategy against plastic pollution, as the Zero Waste Foundation brought around 600 representatives from government, industry, academia and civil society together in Istanbul for a two-day Türkiye Plastic Waste Workshop. The meeting, held on 31 August and 1 September 2026, is designed to feed directly
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The Ocean Cleanup will make Australia and Asia-Pacific its primary focus, directing two-thirds of its effort to Southeast Asia — source of 79% of ocean plastic reaching Australia — while urging 'action and cash' ahead of COP31.
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ClimateGreen JournalismCANADA. The Equality Fund has opened applications for its inaugural Journalism Fellowship, a new opportunity designed to support working journalists in Global South countries who report on local solutions to global crises — including the climate crisis — through a gender lens. The fellowship, launched in partnership with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and
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Green JournalismThe Solutions Journalism Network and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have opened applications for the SJN/MIT Climate Journalism Fellowship 2027, an eight-month programme that will give ten local and regional U.S. journalists a $7,500 stipend each to report on climate solutions in their own communities. Applications close at midnight on 26 October 2026. What the
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Green JournalismAwareness article: Climate reporting is one of the most dangerous beats in modern journalism. UNESCO data shows that environmental journalists are attacked, threatened and in some cases killed for their work — and that protecting the press is a prerequisite for protecting the planet. Journalists who investigate illegal logging, poaching, pollution and the climate crisis
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Green JournalismWASHINGTON – The Washington Post’s sweeping investigation into the world’s rising flood danger, Floods Above, has won the inaugural Poynter Journalism Prize for Excellence in Climate Change Reporting, a new award for scientifically grounded climate journalism announced by the Poynter Institute. The prize, sponsored by the Hennecke Family Foundation, recognizes rigorous reporting that enlightens and
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Green JournalismLECCE: Italy's Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) has named Agence France-Presse's "Future of the Planet" desk and Sky TG24 Deputy Editor-in-Chief Daniele Moretti as the winners of the 2026 Romeo Bassoli Award for scientific journalism on climate and sustainability. The prize will be presented on Thursday, 15 October, in Lecce during the Conversazioni sul
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Green JournalismThe European Parliament has shortlisted ten investigations — including probes into data centres' environmental toll and green investment funds — for the 2026 Daphne Caruana Galizia Journalism Prize. The winner is announced on 21 October in Strasbourg.
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Green JournalismWUFT's Rose Schnabel and the Miami Herald's 'Built on Sand' series share the 2026 Waldo Proffitt Award for outstanding environmental journalism, announced 2 October.
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Green JournalismA new international planetary health journalism prize is calling on journalists to report one of the least-covered intersections in climate coverage: how demographic change shapes the health of the planet — and vice versa. The Demographics & Planetary Health Story Prize 2026, hosted by Johns Hopkins University institutions, will award $500 in each of two
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