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Delusional recycling and the problem with plastic

Many of us are guilty of wishful thinking when it comes to our rubbish. Arianne Shahvisi exposes shaky recycling infrastructure and overseas dumping, arguing for an end to waste colonialism.

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  • The Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research: staff including the director Andrew Balfour (seated centre) and his successor Charles Wenyon (seated to his left). Photograph, 1923.
  • The Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research: staff including the director Andrew Balfour (seated centre) and his successor Charles Wenyon (seated to his left). Photograph, 1923.
  • A man is leading a woman and her baby on a donkey with their belongings and a flock of sheep, attended by other people. Engraving by P. Laurent after P.J. de Loutherbourg, ca. 1777.
  • Ysbrandt van Diemerbroeck. Line engraving after R. de Hooghe.
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