Click on this link to see all the winners of this year's Covering Climate Now awards: coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...

And watch the documentary edited by Le Monde here: www.source-material.org/total-mozamb...

Many other excellent journalists and stories were nominated. You can see the full shortlist here: www.societyofeditors.org/events/media...

Our story investigated millions of used UK tyres being shipped to India to make dirty fuel, harming people and the environment in the process.

Read more here: www.source-material.org/waste-tyre-p...

With thanks to my top photographer colleague
Costanzza Gambarini @source-material.org and our co-publishers Al Jazeera.

You can read both stories below (AJ and SourceMaterial):

www.source-material.org/game-of-gree...

www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...

...their frustration with international and national models of funding for plastic waste management.

Investors + corporations have poured millions of dollars into a 'plastic credit' project in Ghana.

But waste picker workers say they do all the hard work yet remain in poverty.

This is the story of 51-year-old Lydia Bamfo, a waste picker worker for 25 years and head of Accra's tricycle waste workers' association, and 38-year-old Johnson Doe, a waste picker worker for 22 years and head of a landfill workers' association.

It's an investigation into...

Francis survived the attacks, going on to appoint 82 more cardinals before his death—many of whom will take part in the conclave to elect his successor.

The voting will determine whether Francis was able to secure his reformist legacy, or if Burke’s conservative allies regain the Holy See.

Bannon courted conservative critics of Francis, like Cardinal Raymond Burke, and planned to build a Catholic institute to act as a ‘gladiator school’ for the populist right.
SourceMaterial and others exposed irregularities surrounding the institute’s headquarters, sparking a legal spat.

Thanks very much to @annameisel.bsky.social @bbcradio4.bsky.social File on 4 Investigates for being a brilliant co-reporting partner.

And then Indian buyers pretend to recycle the tyres, but actually flog them onto illegal pyrolysis plants, so THEY can make a bigger profit.

Then they reach the final destination: unsafe tyre pyrolysis plants. We spoke to people who know children who have died inside them.

UK buyers without a proper permit then flog the tyres onto ships bound for India, so THEY make a bigger profit.

(Instead of actually recycling them, which would cost a lot more.)

So this undercuts the UK tyre recyling sector, which is on the brink of going bust, according to sources.

The graphic here explains the journey of the tyre (courtesy of my fab co-reporter @atikarehman.bsky.social).

Basically, garages are charging you an 'environmental disposal fee' for your tyre, but then flog it on extremely cheap to buyers so they make a bigger profit.

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