A throwaway economy harms more than the natural environment. It also harms our mental environment.
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A engaging show at the Perth Festival is an homage to obsolete objects - pen knives, blotting paper, inkwells, the handwritten letter, telegrams - and a meditation on time.
The Swedish government is rewarding repair work with a tax break to stop people buying unnecessary new products.
Australia is among the world’s top ten users of electronic and electrical products. But our systems for recycling the resulting ‘e-waste’ fall a long way short of other rich nations.
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Professor, Head of Sustainable Consumption and Clothing Sustainability research groups, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Environmental Geography, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, UNSW
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Journalist, author and educator, Swinburne University of Technology