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Image copyright Glenn Mingham Image caption Scylla was found with a discarded – or “ghost” – fishing net around his neck A grey seal rescued on the North Sea coast has become the 50th to be treated by a wildlife centre for injuries caused by discarded man-made rubbish. The animal, a male named Scylla, was …

Image copyright Getty Images Waste company Biffa has been fined £350,000 for sending household waste, including used nappies and sanitary towels, to China. The waste was illegally labelled as paper. So how much of the UK’s waste is recycled, and how much of it do we send abroad? How much waste does the UK produce? …

Worried at the thought of her children wading through rubbish in years to come, Jana volunteered for a scheme that enables her to turn her community’s rubbish into money. She collects items in her Berkshire home that her council doesn’t recycle and sends it off to firm Terracycle, which processes it and sends her cash …

Image copyright Essex Wildlife Trust Image caption The seal is made from plastic waste collected on a beach by litter-pickers A life-size sculpture of a seal and her pup has been created out of rubbish cleared from a beach over six months. It has been made by a local artist for the Essex Wildlife Trust …

Mount Everest’s popularity this season has left the Nepalese government with a huge amount of rubbish to clean up, including human waste, campaigners say. A record number of climbers have taken on the mountain this year, but it has created a huge task for the ethnic Sherpas who work on the government’s clean-up drive. The …