Curiosidades

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 …

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) have developed a database which will help governments choose a mix of economic instruments and voluntary approaches for environmental protection. These new tools play an increasingly important role in many countries, supplementing or replacing various types …

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 …

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 …

Letsrecycle.com (http://www.letsrecycle.com) reports that a two-year project, entitled “PROVE”, has established a set of industry-wide generic standards for recycled plastics across a range of engineering applications. Led by the British Plastics Federation (BPF) and the Consortium for Automotive Recycling (CARE Group), the study claims that it will give manufacturers – …

Brian Wilson MP, Minister for Construction and Energy, today visited Greenwich, London to open the first Construction and Demolition Waste Eco Site of its kind in the UK. Britain’s building industry is a major extractor of raw materials and annually produces over 14 million tonnes of waste in London alone. …

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 …

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

Public administrations can save greenhouse gas emissions to the tune of 18% of the EU’s obligations under the Kyoto Protocol just by switching away from conventional power supplies to using electricity generated from renewable forms of energy. This is one of the early conclusions to emerge from a research project …