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Australians pay $163 a month on average to store all the stuff we buy – how can we stop overconsuming?
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Australians pay $163 a month on average to store all the stuff we buy – how can we stop overconsuming?

Many of us are drowning in “stuff”. To find space for all our possessions, we are paying off-site storage companies. Australians spend an average of A$163 per month on self-storage, one recent survey found.

Here’s how the new global treaty on plastic pollution can help solve this crisis
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Here’s how the new global treaty on plastic pollution can help solve this crisis

Plastic pollution is a global problem, contaminating terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Microplastics — plastic particles smaller than five millimetres in size — infiltrate and circulate in the global planetary dust cycle, water cycle and carbon cycle.

Low-technology: why sustainability doesn’t have to depend on high-tech solutions
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Low-technology: why sustainability doesn’t have to depend on high-tech solutions

It’s a popular idea that the path to sustainability lies in high-tech solutions. But the risks of this approach are becoming ever clearer. In some places, the principles of low tech are already influencing urban design and industrial policy.