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The last decade has shown that climatechange is already happening and causing irreversible damages, loss of human life and species forever. As a result, heatwaves are starting earlier and earlier and becoming more frequent and severe due to record concentrations of...
The throw-away culture is reaching its peak since the latest IPPC report issued a “last call” for humanity to take urgent measures against climate change in the following years. Some of these measures need to entail a shift in our production and consumption patterns...
According to the latest report by the World Bank, by 2050, global waste generation is expected to grow to 3.4 billion tonnes per year. This means a 70% increase compared to 2016 levels. The growth of global municipal solid waste will mainly affect the poorest...
North of Dakar, the immense open-air dump of Mbeubeuss resembles a science-fiction landscape. Its 114 inhabitants alternate between makeshift villages where about 2,000 "reclaimers" live and mountains of garbage where men, women and children work in search of metals...
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