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VICTORIAN WASTE PROBLEM
In 2018, Victoria put the equivalent of 40 million discarded bottles into a freeway; 8,000 tonnes of crushed glass went into one widening projectScience news: 8,000 tonnes of recycled glass used in the 2018 Tullamarine Freeway widening project is a powerful example of how recycling c...- In 2021, Victoria used 2,100 tons of recycled road base to rebuild the Hume Freeway. 5 years later, its 850-metre stretch had turned waste into a longer-lasting road tooPlastic bags and glass bottles usually end up in the trash. In Australia, some became part of a highway instead. Engineers rebuilt an 850-m...
- In 2019, Victoria's Wyndham City turned 199,000 recycled bottles into a 200-metre footpath. 1 year later, the project had reached 339 metres and delivered 1,700kg in carbon savingsVictoria’s Wyndham City turned 199,000 recycled bottles into a 200-metre footpath in 2019. The project showed how plastic waste could be gi...
- How Delhi can learn from Beijing & London to combat air pollutionDelhi's annual winter smog crisis, while severe, is not insurmountable. Drawing inspiration from Beijing and London's successful anti-pollu...
- Bather, beware: British beaches and rivers have a sewage problem. It has seeped into election talkEndurance swimmer Joan Fennelly faces contaminated water in the River Thames while swimming year-round. She takes precautions due to sewage...
- You win & yet you don’t: The case of one-farthing court verdictsPublic opinion plays a big role in libel cases, like the one filed by former Union minister MJ Akbar
- The case for and against public toiletsPublic urination is, of course, still common in India, but it is being constrained by initiatives like Swach Bharat – yet without easy prov...
- El-Niño phenomenon: Lessons government can take from failings of Victorian predecessorsThe understanding is what can change our experience of ENSO today. Knowing that it is coming makes it all the more important to be prepared.
- Treat Indians as adults on individual's right to drink liquor: BH KhardekarAs sarkari types wage a war on drinking, we recall & celebrate a parliamentary speech by an MP no one remembers now. BH Khardekar had urged...
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