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A global environmental assessment process, the GEO Process, that is cross-sectoral and participatory. It incorporates regional views and perceptions, and builds consensus on priority issues and actions through dialogue among policy-makers and scientists at regional and global levels. GEO outputs, in printed and electronic formats, including the GEO Report series. …
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A global environmental assessment process, the GEO Process, that is cross-sectoral and participatory. It incorporates regional views and perceptions, and builds consensus on priority issues and actions through dialogue among policy-makers and scientists at regional and global levels. GEO outputs, in printed and electronic formats, including the GEO Report series. …
Mais »Global Environment Outlook (GEO)
A global environmental assessment process, the GEO Process, that is cross-sectoral and participatory. It incorporates regional views and perceptions, and builds consensus on priority issues and actions through dialogue among policy-makers and scientists at regional and global levels. GEO outputs, in printed and electronic formats, including the GEO Report series. …
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O polietileno tereftalato é o mais importante membro da família dos poliésteres, grupo de polímeros descoberto na década de 1930 por W.H. Carothers, da Du Pont e que há mais de 40 anos vem sendo utilizado em variados setores de atividade, desde fibras têxteis a recipientes para bebidas carbonatadas, passando …
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Cerca de 1.000 garrafa PET, 100kg de papel e 3.000 lacres de latinhas de refrigerantes e dois meses de trabalho intenso resultaram em um presépio maravilhoso. A obra de arte está ocupando um espaço de aproximadamente 20m2 do interior da Paróquia São João Maria Vianney, Zona Oeste de São Paulo, …
Mais »WRAP announces £1.2m investigation into new uses for glass cullet
The UK Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with some 25 industrial partners, have funded the University’s Centre for Cement and Concrete to carry out two major investigations – with a total value of around £1.2m – into the potential for using waste …
Mais »Big shift needed to avoid hazardous waste disposal gap
Publishing new data on hazardous waste, the Anglo-Welsh Environment Agency welcomed the announcement by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) of the setting up of an Advisory Forum on Hazardous Waste. With growing hazardous waste streams and landfill capacity set to reduce dramatically, the Agency said the …
Mais »EU mandates CEN for solid recovered fuels standards
The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) Technical committee on Solid Recovered Fuels (CEN/TEC343) has recently been instructed by the European Commission to draw up technical specifications for the use of solid recovered fuels (SRFs) in waste incineration facilities and in industrial co-combustion plants. EUWID reports that the Commission is interested …
Mais »Mobile phone makers to help dispose of old handsets
Major mobile phone manufacturers have signed a declaration expressing their interest in cooperating with the Basel Convention and with other stakeholders in the mobile-phone sector on the environmentally sound management of end-of-life mobile phones. The Initiative for a Sustainable Partnership on Environmentally Sound Management of End-of-life Mobile Phones addresses the …
Mais »Statoil looks for drilling waste solutions – composting could work
Statoil is pursuing new approaches – including earthworm composting and asphalt production – in its search for ways to treat drilling waste. Statoil’s total fluid management project is working to develop environmental strategies and methods to reduce problems posed by various types of waste from drilling and downhole operations. OilOnline …
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