Waste management
Costing the Earth. Tread Lightly. Audio, 28 minutes
Tyres have an enormous impact on the environment. What can be done to make them better?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
CrowdScience. Is Recycling All Our Waste at Home Possible? Audio, 31 minutes
Could we recycle all of our unwanted household materials ourselves?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Compass. The History of Wastefulness, The History of Wastefulness: The Tipping Point. Audio, 27 minutes
Could the future be rubbish-free?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Compass. The History of Wastefulness, The History of Wastefulness: Rubbish Through the Ages. Audio, 27 minutes
Three historical landmarks that shaped modern attitudes to waste
- AttributionBBC World Service
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The Compass. The History of Wastefulness, The History of Wastefulness: Today’s Trash Challenge. Audio, 27 minutes
How our relationship with rubbish has evolved over time
- AttributionBBC World Service
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People Fixing The World. Recycling to Turn Trash into Cash. Audio, 23 minutes
Two projects that make life better for people keeping rubbish off the streets
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Documentary Podcast. Recycling Beirut. Audio, 27 minutes
How Lebanese citizens are learning to clean up their own government’s stinking mess
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Assignment. Recycling Beirut. Audio, 27 minutes
How Lebanese citizens are learning to clean up their own government’s stinking mess
- AttributionBBC World Service
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People Fixing The World. Would You Rent Your Clothes? Audio, 23 minutes
Would you rent your clothes?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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People Fixing The World. Turning Haiti’s Plastic Trash into Cash. Audio, 23 minutes
Can “social plastic” keep the oceans clean and fight poverty too?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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People Fixing The World. Toilets in Haiti and Circular Runways. Audio, 23 minutes
A scheme to solve the problem of human waste disposal in Haiti.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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People Fixing The World. Denmark’s Food Waste Vigilante. Audio, 23 minutes
Meet the woman who’s made it her mission to stop Danes throwing away food
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Discovery. Throwaway Society. Audio, 27 minutes
What is swelling the world’s mountain of electrical and electronic waste?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Face the Facts. 09/05/2012. Audio, 26 minutes
Why PHS Wastetech, a leading workplace services firm, is in legal dispute with 92 clients.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Costing the Earth. Crisis, What Crisis? Audio, 30 minutes
Miriam O'Reilly investigates whether a crash in prices has made recycling a waste of time.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Global Concerns. Aerial Seed Bombers. Audio, 14 minutes
Reforestation by dropping trees from airplanes in icecream cone-shaped delivery packages
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Global Concerns. Land Recovery. Audio, 14 minutes
The wet paper that helps to reclaim land that's too salty, dry, polluted or radioactive
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Global Concerns. Heavy Metals. Audio, 14 minutes
The waste disposal of heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, chrome and arsenic
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year