Curiosidades

Logo se percebe que esse não se trata de um grupo qualquer de folião. De longe parecem prontos para prestigiar a festa, até se dividirem lentamente. Cada um agora se concentra em um ponto diferente, no meio da multidão, a recolher latas de cerveja e refrigerantes. Esse é o trabalho …

O lixo dos Estados Unidos transformou Zhang Yin na pessoa mais rica da China. Em 1990, Zhang começou a coletar papel usado em Los Angeles e a enviá-lo para a China, onde seria utilizado na confecção do papelão necessário para os setores exportadores do país em expansão. Sua empresa, a …

This piece from The Arizona Republic elaborates a reference we made a few months ago to the interesting work of Professor Jones from the University of Arizona. By pawing through people‘‘s garbage, professional dumpster diver Timothy W. Jones has concluded that Americans have no respect for the food they eat. …

The Commission‘‘s Biomass Action Plan should reduce oil imports by 8%, prevent greenhouse gas emissions of 209 million tons CO2-equivalent per year and create up to 300,000 new job. Too good to be true? This note from Euractiv. The Commission adopted the Biomass Action Plan on 7 December 2005. The …

Household waste landfilling cut by 60% since 1993 Sweden‘‘s fourth national communication on climate change has been published by the Government of Sweden‘‘s Environment Ministry has been published. It presents basic facts about Swedish society and reviews the various sectors of society according to the classification commonly used in the …

"An early and welcome Christmas present for our environment", is how Mr. Dick Roche, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government described the announcement by the two producer compliance schemes – WEEE Ireland and ERP – that 5,000 tonnes of old electrical and electronic equipment has been collected …

The US Army has completed a major manoeuvre by switching to environmentally friendly grit blast media, made from recycled glass, at its Field Support Battalion base near Southampton. Glass grit, sourced from reprocessor Krysteline, is being used to refurbish military equipment – including land vehicles, generators and watercraft – at …

An interesting tale from newsday.com, showing a neat vermicomposting scheme. A 23-year-old Princeton dropout set out to be a smart entrepreneur, not an environmental hero. His growing business is built on organic fertilizer made from worm faeces, then bottled in recycled plastic bottles. TerraCycle markets plant fertilizer created by "vermicomposting" …

Japanese SII Micro Parts Ltd. (SMP) has developed a mercury/lead-free silver oxide battery and will put it on the market in the spring of 2006. SMP is a subsidiary of Seiko Instruments Inc. (SII), a Japanese electronic components manufacturer. Japan for Sustainability reports that silver oxide batteries are small button-type …

India is said to generates 5,000 tonnes of plastic waste each day, while a uniform law for the use of bio-degradable plastics is not yet under consideration of the government. NewKerala.com reports that information provided by the Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment shows about 60 per cent of …