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It's safe to say the last few decades have been filled by a tide of consumerism in the West. Many of us now buy products with little thought and throw them away with little more, mainly thanks to lower prices and higher disposable incomes. We're on a never ending consuming loop of brand new smartphones every couple of years and cheap flat-pack furniture. And with a few clicks, we  can essentially buy just about anything delivered to our door within 24 hours. But, it appears the tide is turning when it comes to trying to make items last longer.  A combination of environmental concerns over i...

Cops launch urgent search for missing Aberdeenshire woman as concern grows for her welfare The 22-year-old is described as being 5ft 10, of medium build, and has shoulder-length brown hair. Stephanie was last seen around 5pm today (Image: Police Scotland) Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accord...

Danny Abood with Sylvia and the Synthetics at Paddington Town Hall. Photograph: William Yang Danny Abood with Sylvia and the Synthetics at Paddington Town Hall. Photograph: William Yang They hung themselves from meat hooks, pelted their audience with offal – and blazed a trail for radical queer performance in Australia LoCarmen Thu 25 Feb 2021 11.30 EST Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 19.38 EST Sylvia and the Synthetics – Australia’s audacious drag provocateurs and underground LGBTQ pioneers – burned brightly and chaotically for the short two years of their reign. In 1972, Morris Sp...

Circular Economy must be top of the business agenda in 2021 Published 1 month ago CEO of CDSL, the UK’s leading appliance spare parts distributor The last year has been one in which we were all forced to change our behaviour. We have become far more familiar with the four walls of our home than we would have liked, we have had to give up the social activities that mean the most to us and we have spent much longer apart from relatives than we could have imagined. But alongside the many reluctant changes that we have made, there have been some silver linings. Both consumers and businesses h...

A parent watchdog group is criticizing the San Diego Unified School District for spending tens of thousands of dollars — including some coronavirus relief money — on a federal lobbying firm. In April, the school board hired The Raben Group of Washington, D.C., with a contract worth up to $150,000 to advocate for more school stimulus funding, advance the district’s interests among federal lawmakers and raise the district’s “profile as a leader,” according to the contract. On Jan. 26, the board unanimously approved another contract with Raben for up to $180,000 for this year. The di...