The artificial island, called the Recycled Ocean Plastic Resort, will be located off the coast of remote Australian territory Cocos (Keeling) Islands and could be accepting visitors by 2025.
A former American Idol contestant was arrested for domestic violence. Doug Kiker, 28, competed on season 18 of the hit reality competition series in 2020, and impressed the judges as the show’s resident singing garbage man. Now he is in police custody in Alabama after law enforcement officials said he was involved in a domestic violence … Read more
The North Pacific is home to an enormous swirl of plastic waste twice the size of Texas known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but how the trash made its way to the region has been a mystery among scientists – until now. Researchers from the US and Germany set out to uncover pathways that … Read more
Bali’s iconic beaches have transformed into rubbish dumps with tonnes of filth piling higher than the deck chairs where Australian tourists once sunned themselves on holiday. The once-popular Kuta and Jimbaran beaches are now deserted and strewn with washed-up bottles, bags and plastic, leaving them looking more like a tip than an idyllic tourist destination. … Read more
Bali’s iconic beaches have transformed into rubbish dumps with tonnes of filth piling higher than the deck chairs where Australian tourists once sunned themselves on holiday. The once-popular Kuta and Jimbaran beaches are now deserted and strewn with washed-up bottles, bags and plastic, leaving them looking more like a tip than an idyllic tourist destination. … Read more
Eight lives left! Cat is saved from being crushed in a garbage machine after worker scoops sack off conveyor belt and finds the moggie tied inside it A worker found a cat inside a bag while he was sorting through waste in Russia The cat was moments from being mangled in the garbage separating machine … Read more
She recently endured an incredibly bitter split from boyfriend Harry Bink. So you can’t blame Shelby ‘Bilby’ Mills, 26, for being side-tracked, which she made evident by showing off her disastrously messy room on her Instagram Stories on Wednesday. The former Love Island star documented the piles of garbage bags, half-opened suitcase and strewn underwear … Read more
Pete Evans has been dropped by 15 sponsors and companies after posting a neo-Nazi meme to his Instagram over the weekend. The list includes his publisher, Pan Macmillian, Dymocks bookstore, BIG W, Coles, kitchenware company Baccarat, Woolworths, House homeware, Target, Kmart, Booktopia, David Jones and Channel Ten’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Also reportedly severing ties … Read more
Rescue teams are searching for a 12-year-old girl who was buried under a 100 foot mountain of stinking refuse when it collapsed on Saturday at one of India’s largest rubbish dumps. As the search operation today entered its fifth day, hopes are fading fast of finding her alive. Neha Vasava was on top of a … Read more
A Liberal MP has stripped off to just a garbage bag to make a point about what she called a ‘sexist’ attack from an ABC radio host. South Australian Liberal MP Nicolle Flint shared a video of herself responding to comments made by ABC presenter and Sunday Mail columnist Peter Goers. Mr Goers made comments regarding Ms … Read more