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A hungry mama bear resorted to dumpster diving for an evening snack this week in Kamloops, B.C., and she brought her cubs along for the adventure.Shawn King was out for a walk in the Valleyview neighborhood of Kamloops — about 167…

There are grand plans in place which could change the way we dispose of soft plastics nationwide.The collapse of the REDcycle recycling scheme in November 2022, which used to allow people to take their soft plastics to supermarkets to be…

Bin workers across Sydney and Canberra have walked off the job in an attempt to stop pay stagnation, a cut in overtime rates and longer shifts.Workers gathered outside the Erskine Park Cleanaway centre on Tuesday at 7.30am.The action…

Bin night is pretty simple here in Australia with two, three or maybe four bins to separate rubbish into. Spare a thought then for the people living in Germany where rubbish has to be sorted into up to 20 different bins. And with hundreds…

Overflowing bins piled with stinking rubbish scattered throughout some Sydney streets is symbolic of angry workers at flash point around the world as “economic volatility” sends people into financial pain.Strikes are increasingly…

Waste workers employed by a major company will refuse to collect at least 35,000 bins in what will be their third strike action since the start of the year.Members of the Transport Workers Union employed by waste giant Cleanaway on…

Deb Knight has made a controversial admission, revealing she is the type of person to throw her dog's poo bags into residential rubbish.Speaking on 2GB Sydney earlier today, the Afternoons with Deborah Knight presenter ignited the age-old…

A trucker is on his deathbed. He wheezes. He coughs. Then he tape-records the tale of one of the worst environmental crimes in UK history: the illegal dumping of a million tonnes of waste near Derry, in Northern Ireland.This is the starting…