Lisbon, Portugal
The phone that lasted seven years
Two battery replacements, one screen, one stubborn owner — and a device that outlived four upgrade cycles.
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Stories
Reports from
the pile.
Waste is abstract until it has a name and a street. These are early stories from the network — submissions open with the Trash Map.
Nairobi, Kenya
A repair market, not a waste market
Technicians who fix what the rest of the world discards, and what happens when parts stop being sold.
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Bandung, Indonesia
River clean-up, week 140
A volunteer group that stopped counting bags and started counting brands and packaging types.
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Manchester, UK
A school that weighed its lunch waste
Six hundred students, one set of scales, and a canteen policy that changed in a term.
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