Notícias

Braskem fecha primeira parceria para retirada de resíduos plásticos domiciliares de aterro sanitário na Grande São Paulo

Objetivo da Braskem é estimular a Economia Circular, reinserindo resíduos plásticos na cadeia de valor e transformando-os em matéria-prima para a indústria

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Logística reversa permite que Faber-Castell recicle 2 milhões de itens.

Um programa de logística reversa criado em parceria com o TerraCycle permitiu que a Faber-Castell conseguisse coletar 2 milhões de instrumentos de escrita para reciclagem. A empresa alcançou a marca nesta semana, mesmo em meio à pandemia, em uma ação que reúne mais de 5 mil pontos de coleta, reduzindo de maneira significativa o impacto do setor de papelaria, que produz milhares de produtos todos os anos, principalmente na volta às aulas.

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Copenhill, BIG’s skiable waste-to-energy power plant, gets sweeping new photos from Hufton + Crow

British architectural photography studio Hufton + Crow has released new images of the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)-designed Amager Bakke, a combined heat-and-power waste-to-energy power plant on the industrial outskirts of Copenhagen that famously doubles as a vertiginous outdoor urban recreational hub—a hub that’s no doubt getting plenty of good use lately as life shifts outdoors during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Waste not, want not: the future of Energy from Waste

A common complaint of the grumpy middle-aged European academic is the creeping Americanisation of language. An example often cited is ‘garbage’, although the pedants amongst us know that garbage was originally an English word that went to America with the pilgrims on the Mayflower and has only recently come back to its mother country via the medium of television. I was musing on this whilst watching an American program on the Discovery channel about Roman ‘garbage’ dumps and hence the inevitable segue into a blog about rubbish.

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