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"Fingi ser gari por 8 anos e vivi como um ser invisível" PLÍNIO DELPHINO Psicólogo varreu as ruas da USP para concluir sua tese de mestrado da "invisibilidade pública". Ele comprovou que, em geral, as pessoas enxergam apenas a função social do outro. Quem não está bem posicionado sob esse …

O lixo carioca vira adubo: Fertilizante a base de resíduos sólidos pode ser usado na agricultura orgânica, desde que excluídos alguns riscos

A project to encourage shoppers to re-use their plastic supermarket bags is to receive funding from the Welsh Assembly Government. The three-month pilot project will be launched later this year by the Wales Environment Trust and Asda at its 14 superstores across Wales. It will be the first of its …

CIUDAD DE MEXICO (Reuters) — Una decena de lombrices se retuerce sobre una bandeja de laboratorio mientras un grupo de científicos mexicanos calienta el horno donde los gusanos se convertirán en sabrosas galletas. Aunque poco agraciadas a la vista, las lombrices de tierra — cuyo nombre científico es lumbricus terrestris …

Folsom, California plans to close its city-run prison in which nearly 400 minimum-security inmates sort recyclables from trash and launch a kerbside recycling collection programme instead. City officials say the plant was losing US$1.5 million annually

South Africa’s major retailers had no alternative but to comply with new legislation on plastic bags to be introduced early in May, they said yesterday, although Pick ‘n Pay would introduce its own “green bag” as an alternative. SA Online Business Report notes that the new legislation, which becomes law …

Here is an article which raises interesting and not unique issues: a country with no energy recovery (EfW) and a five per cent recycling rate is considering a first waste incinerator, while a neighbour already has a significant programme of EfW and a recycling rate of 40 per cent. As …

In Waterford, Ireland women are better at recycling waste than men – except when it comes to disposing drink cans! That was one of the insightful findings of the survey on Waterford People’s Attitudes, Knowledge and Use of recycling facilities conducted by the Transition Year students of St. Angela’s Secondary …

Automotive and construction industries are set to benefit from a commercially viable route towards sustainable manufacture. New technology based on pyrolysis and physical separation could tackle a growing problem for automotive, construction and other major industries – how to recycle composite plastics. Forthcoming legislation sets increasingly stringent targets for recovery …