A group of homeowners are fed up after forking out an eye-watering $75,000 — to try to fix a faulty sewage pump on their new-build estate.

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

Pumping is no pleasant task. “There is a smell, especially if it’s stirred up,” says Dittmer. “You sort of get used to it and ...