Notícias

Las imágenes de playas llenas de deshechos de plástico y de animales muertos con el estómago lleno de plástico han provocado indignación, y muchos países, entre ellos más de dos docenas en África, han prohibido por completo el uso de bolsas de plástico.

Link:

https://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=257189

Suecia es un de los países más innovadores en materia de reciclaje, han reciclado tanta basura al punto de tener que importarla de otros países para que sus plantas de tratamiento sigan funcionando.

Link:

https://www.aporrea.org/tecno/n343358.html

Waste Not offers customers packaging free food and cleaning product refills into their own containers, alongside a wide range of every day alternatives to help them lead a minimal waste lifestyle.

Link:

https://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/17703551.minimal-waste-shop-celebrates-first-anniversary/

“By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken for dust you are and to dust you will return,” the Book of Genesis says.
But what if instead of dust, your remains were composted into dirt?

Link:

https://www.gazettenet.com/body-composting-funerals-26050923

Over the last few weeks, the leaders of several Southeast Asian nations have taken unusually strong measures to protect the environment of their countries. Almost in unison, leaders and senior government officials have threatened and then carried out the threat of returning illegal exports of garbage, most of it very hazardous to humans and the environment.

Link:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1510406

La Universidad de Valladolid emplea un residuo llamado bagazo de cerveza para la obtención de biobutanol, carburante renovable parecido a la gasolina

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La Universidad de Valladolid emplea un residuo llamado bagazo de cerveza para la obtención de biobutanol, carburante renovable parecido a la gasolina

£4.7 million government fund launched to drive up the recycling of hard-to-recycle materials.

Link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fund-opens-to-reduce-waste-from-plastic-packaging-and-textiles

Ya puedes leer la versión digital del número 214 ‘Especial Reciclaje 2019‘ de RETEMA. Un número enfocado integramente a la industria del reciclaje, en la que abordamos de la mano de algunos de los principales actores del sector la situación y desafíos de la industria.

Link:

https://www.retema.es/noticia/ya-puedes-leer-la-edicion-digital-del-numero-especial-reciclaje-2019-sWdXn

China’s experience offers lessons for countries facing growing waste problems and energy demand, writes Courtney Weatherby

Link:

https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/11093-Waste-to-energy-A-renewable-opportunity-for-Southeast-Asia-

An amendment to the Basel Convention will staunch the global flow of plastic waste, writes Tang Damin

Link:

https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/11305-Developing-countries-turn-away-from-plastic-waste-imports