December 22nd, 2020, by Alex Kirby
Lost or abandoned fishing nets can devastate marine life.
Image: By Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia, via Wikimedia Commons
In a world choking on its own discarded rubbish, Chile’s waste bus is showing a way to slow the flood.
LONDON, 22 December, 2020 − If the climate crisis keeps you awake at night, the impact of what we casually throw away is sure to have you worried: it makes global heating a lot worse. But Chile’s waste bus is managing to change behaviour in a country with ingrained ways of disposing of what it no longer wants.