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New EU wide scheme will allow asylum seekers to be returned, exchanged, rerouted and occasionally discovered in Belgium.
An illegal waste dumping investigation tackles the revolutionary idea that a field is not a skip with an impressive view.
New lost container rules require ships to report missing cargo, giving the ocean a long overdue tracking update and a formal lost property service.
A real high seas treaty due to take effect meets a fictional globe with an urgent desire to manage the ocean.
The Food Waste Breakthrough aims to halve food waste by 2030, while an office fridge rebrands ancient yoghurt as a climate solution.
The electronic waste crisis has reached the drawer of mystery cables, where no charger has admitted what it once powered.
A new national forest seeks delivery partners, while one fictional sapling requests a strategy and a tiny chair.
A permanent 40 percent first year allowance supports eligible business investment, while one forklift mistakes tax relief for a leadership qualification.
Workplace recycling rules bring order to English office bins, but the shared fridge, Trevor’s stapler and one suspicious chilli remain beyond control.
A New Year message meets a fictional progress folder, map and chart that all want a meeting.
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