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A Northern Irish experiment in recycling

The tiny island aiming to get to net zero

Rathlin Island
The future is combingPhotograph: Aidan O’Neill/Future Island-Island
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Being at the heart of an experiment isn’t new for Rathlin Island. It was from the L-shaped outcrop off Northern Ireland’s north-eastern coast that Guglielmo Marconi sent the world’s first commercial wireless transmission in 1898. More than a century later, the province’s only inhabited island is a laboratory again.

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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Waste test”

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