Garbage
19 Mar 2022
Shady Rabab and his band play instruments he makes from trash. The Egyptian also offers workshops on instrument-making and recycling at schools.
13 Feb 2022
Seagulls like to rummage through garbage, and have led investigators on the trail to illegal dumps. But feeding at landfill sites is dangerous for the birds: Plastic particles end up in their stomachs — and in the environment.
20 Jul 2019
Sidestepping cowpats and garbage, Myanmar's only local junior rugby side train barefoot on a patch of land in the outskirts of Yangon - more than holding their own against rival international schools.
3 May 2019
A special team has been tasked with cleaning up the world's highest mountain, littered with garbage from decades of commercial mountaineering. Everest is sometimes described as the world's highest rubbish dump.
20 Apr 2019
Defying intimidation attempts, thousands of people in Arkhangelsk, a city some 1,200 kilometers north of Moscow, have taken to the streets to protest plans to ship Moscow's garbage to their province.
23 Feb 2019
The people of Kolomna have been protesting against Moscow refuse being dumped nearby their city. Now, vocal anti-garbage activists have had their homes raided and searched. DW's Miodrag Soric reports.
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