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Ao menos 20 tartarugas morreram neste domingo (12) em uma praia de Bangladesh, onde ficaram presas em resíduos plásticos, conforme informaram autoridades e grupos ambientais.

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What if the fashion industry functioned like an ecosystem? In the way a plant grows with the help of sunlight, eventually decomposes back into soil and serves as a building block for future life, so too could our shirts, shorts and shoes.

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Os dados são referentes aos trabalhadores da empresa Valor Ambiental, que presta serviço ao SLU

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Envases de shampoo, gaseosas y otros contenedores se transforman en tablas para la industria vitiviníola, en un proyecto de tres amigos mendocinos.

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Setting a great example in waste conservation, Vermont became the first state in the United States of America to prohibit food scraps in trash.

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The Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI) has organised a group of industry partners to examine recycling of PET thermoform packaging.

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Basf has worked out a chemical recycling process for used mattresses which breaks down flexible polyurethane back to its two building blocks. Laboratory tests have successfully started at the Schwarzheide site in Brandenburg, Germany. Most mattresses are thrown away after an average of ten years, squandering resources and creating high quantities of waste.

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El ‘upcycling’ o suprarreciclaje, proceso con el cual artículos desechados se convierten en objetos nuevos, es adoptado por la moda como una solución frente al desperdicio textil. En Ecuador, las marcas Makiatto, Lula Kirei, Sublime y Katherine Andrade hacen reciclaje creativo.

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En la ciudad se calcula que hay cerca de dos mil recicladores de oficio, organizados en 29 asociaciones. Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico busca que el aprovechamiento de residuos tenga un potencial económico y de transformación ambiental de la ciudad.

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Avid gardeners know that compost can add vital nutrients to soil used in gardens, container plants and lawns. The fact that compost is so versatile and nutrient-dense may not even be its most admirable quality. Made from items used in and around the house, compost costs just about nothing to produce.

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