A mountain town that sorts its rubbish into 45 categories
Kamikatsu, a small town in Tokushima, declared Japan's first zero-waste goal in 2003; residents wash, sort and bring their waste to a central station.
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Sustainable consumption
3 stories tagged sustainable consumption.
The Amsterdam meet-up that made repair social again
In 2009 Martine Postma held a free repair meet-up in Amsterdam. The idea of volunteers helping neighbours fix broken things has since spread to thousands of Repair Cafés worldwide.
Two schoolgirls ask Bali to say goodbye to plastic bags
Sisters Melati and Isabel Wijsen started Bye Bye Plastic Bags in Bali in 2013, campaigning with petitions and clean-ups until the province restricted single-use plastic.