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Home poisoning risk as take-back scheme for leftover and out-of-date medicines delayed

Medication, which can also have a serious impact on the environment if flushed down toilets or left to decompose with organic waste, are among hundreds of thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste the EPA says Ireland is failing to properly manage. Half of it, just under 190,000 tonnes in 2023 - the most recent year for which data is complete - is shipped abroad because there are no facilities in Ireland.

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Photos: The perilous lives of miners in South Africa's abandoned mines

Poverty and joblessness drive thousands into dangerous illegal coal mining in Mpumalanga, causing severe health risks and environmental damage despite regional coal wealth.

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Home poisoning risk as take-back scheme for leftover and out-of-date medicines delayed

Photos: The perilous lives of miners in South Africa's abandoned mines

People Who Don't Smoke Are Getting Lung Cancer in Scary Numbers

Profits over people and microplastics in every meal?

Microplastics are everywhere, even in human testicles. So will the patriarchy finally step in? | Van Badham

Tires are a top microplastic polluter. Here's what communities can do

Are Beer Bottle Caps Helping to Spread Microplastics?

Scientists find microplastics in semen and ovaries

Cancer-causing toxins lurking in UK regions could cause sudden death

Profits over people and microplastics in every meal?

Microplastics are everywhere, even in human testicles. So will the patriarchy finally step in? | Van Badham

Tires are a top microplastic polluter. Here's what communities can do

Are Beer Bottle Caps Helping to Spread Microplastics?

Scientists find microplastics in semen and ovaries

Cancer-causing toxins lurking in UK regions could cause sudden death

Satellite images show surge in rare earth mining in rebel-held Myanmar

World in $1.5tn plastics crisis' hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

There's a new acid in our rain - should we be worried?

The mysterious impact of microplastics on health: The long-term effects are unknown'

This Southern California Beach Has the Highest Bacteria Rates in the State-and It's One of the Dirtiest in the U.S.

Nanoplastics Are All Around (and Inside) Us

The hidden cost of Indonesia's nickel boom DW 04/30/2025

Company supplying critical EV metal did not disclose' Erin Brockovich pollutant in drinking water

The hidden cost of Indonesia's nickel boom DW 04/30/2025

Company supplying critical EV metal did not disclose' Erin Brockovich pollutant in drinking water

Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout 70 years after use, research finds

South Carolina Says PFAS-Contaminated Farmland Should Be Superfund Site

About 15% of world's cropland polluted with toxic metals, say researchers

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