Tag: landfill
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Shop ’til we drop: SA’s mass clothing recycling weekend tackles dire dumping figures
In a state-wide bid to save thousands of tonnes of unwanted clothes from landfill, a Set Your Clothes Free event for pre-loved clothing and footwear suitable for donation, along with household linens like bedding, bath towels, tablecloths and curtains, is happening at 13 sites. Linens in good condition would be offered for free to charities,…
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Adelaide dump search for human remains
Police converged on the Uleybury site on Monday morning as they try to find the head and limbs of McLean, whose torso was found stuffed into a wheelie bin on a vacant block in Salisbury South. The 55-year-old had been reported missing several weeks earlier, sparking a major police search. Four people have so far…
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Aussies asked to recycle 100 million pairs of unused shoes
A survey from national recycling initiative TreadLightly has found the average Australian owns about five pairs of shoes they don’t wear. Almost a quarter (24 per cent) of the more than 1000 people surveyed keep the shoes for a “rainy day or for sentimental reasons”, while more than half (51 per cent) throw them in…
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There’s a chair in there: My secret (former) life as a kerbside collector
First to come into view were those pins: beautiful, hairpin legs, barely a curve in sight. This roadside discard was from another era, before flimsy flatpack furniture and mass-produced blah. But what made this wreck of a cabinet even more stunning was the fact those legs went all the way around to drawers – who…
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Podcast: Waste and Death
CityMag publisher Josh Fanning and editor Farrin Foster dated for six years, but then they broke up. Unlike sane people, they kept seeing each other every day at work. On The Third Wheel they invite a friend along as they argue about current events. This week, they speak with writer, CityMag contributor, and loving cat…