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LOL > Woop Woop Woop - that's the alarm going off after your disposal cup gets confiscated

 
In New Zealand , Auckland , they have 3 rubbish bins on the streets in a group, specifically designed.
One is for plastic/glass, one is for paper, the other general.

The place is very clean, they care much more for the environment. If we tried to do it here would probably be a backlash.

They also have scooters you use an app to use. You are meant to wear a helmet but it is not policed. You can have nice things If You are not a prick about it and don't throw them in the sea or up a tree.
 
I thought this was an amazing story. Also quite heartening in terms of looking for natural solutions to the cane toad problem.

Australian water rats cut cane toads open with 'surgical precision' to feast on their hearts
Scientists say native rodents in Western Australia have discovered how to kill and eat parts of the poisonous pests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...h-surgical-precision-to-feast-on-their-hearts
 
Knobby, do you live in Melbourne? Sydney have had the three bin system you described in Auckland for at least a decade.
 
Macquack said:
Knobby, do you live in Melbourne? Sydney have had the three bin system you described in Auckland for at least a decade.
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Really? We really should be doing better in Melbourne.
Derby day today, black and white.
 
Absolutely no surprise in what has happened with the attempts to distort the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.

The nice point is that the scientific community has called it out.

Australia's science academy attacks 'cherrypicking' of Great Barrier Reef research
Senate inquiry told that misrepresentation and selective use of science is dangerous

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The president of the Australian Academy of Science has warned against the selective use of research to question whether the Great Barrier Reef is being degraded by pollution from farm runoff. Photograph: Alamy
Australia’s peak scientific institution has told an inquiry into the reliability of Great Barrier Reef science that it is “greatly concerned” over a trend to cherrypick and misrepresent scientific evidence.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-cherrypicking-of-great-barrier-reef-research
 
Interesting analysis of why the huge kelp forests that once sustained giant marine ecosystems are disappearing.

What is replacing them is so ugly...

As Oceans Warm, the World’s Kelp Forests Begin to Disappear

Kelp forests — luxuriant coastal ecosystems that are home to a wide variety of marine biodiversity — are being wiped out from Tasmania to California, replaced by sea urchin barrens that are nearly devoid of life.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-oceans-warm-the-worlds-giant-kelp-forests-begin-to-disappear
 
No surprises here but worth a look.
When did countries/factories realise asbestos was a killer ? What did they do about it ?
 
On a similar note 'trees', my wife goes ape about the way developers and councils take down native trees and replace them with non native trees, then complain about the lack of native birds and animals. Who dreams up these suburban plans?
 
This is a long read but an eye opener.
What you might have feared about The Sopranos but didn't really want to confirm.
What is the risk in 2020 ? You'll have to read the story to find out...

'It was like a movie': the high school students who uncovered a toxic waste scandal
In the 90s, an inspirational teacher and his students uncovered corruption and illegal dumping in their backyard. Nearly 30 years on, is Middletown still at risk?

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-movie-students-uncovered-toxic-waste-scandal
 
Restoring the natural environment in teh UK.
How, why, the consequences and one of the farmers leading the movement.

'It’s going to be our way now': the guerrilla rewilder shaking up British farming
Derek Gow is winning over doubters in his bid to reintroduce storks, beavers, wildcats, water voles and much, much more

I am sleeping in a shepherd’s hut 30 metres from a dozen wildcats. It’s an unusual way to spend a Monday night, especially in rural Devon. In the valley are the familiar sounds of dogs barking and foxes shrieking, as well as the unfamiliar sounds of storks clapping their beaks together, a noise that has been absent from Britain for 600 years. Beavers, iron age pigs, mouflon (wild sheep), Heck cattle and Exmoor ponies also live on this 120-hectare farm near Lifton, owned by rewilding specialist and farmer Derek Gow.

This unassuming old dairy farm with its small whitewashed barns is a hub for covert species reintroductions. In 1995, Gow started working with water voles – his first species of interest – after buying a batch from a fish farm in Hampshire. Then he noticed restored wetlands were naturally silting up and realised another keystone species was missing: beavers. Bereft of beavers, ponds require huge amounts of management to keep them open, so in 1997 he drove to Poland to get some.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...rilla-rewilder-shaking-up-british-farming-aoe
 
Posted this in The science thread but believe it also deserves a wider view.
Amazing and inspiring.

 
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