Faced with images of turtles smothered by plastic bags, beaches carpeted with garbage and islands of trash floating in the oceans, environmentalists say the world is waking up to the need to tackle plastic pollution at the source.
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https://m.news24.com/Green/News/oceans-of-garbage-prompt-war-on-plastics-20181215
Carolina Urrutia hablará esta noche en Semana Sostenible en Vivo con Nohora Padilla, Andrés Felipe Padilla y Guillermo Ramírez sobre la urgencia que existe en Colombia de implementar una política nacional de reciclaje.
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The war on waste has begun. Last year’s outrage at plastics polluting the ocean was followed this year with anger at the fashion industry.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-your-portfolio-can-profit-from-the-war-on-waste-q7gsh0lj6
Globally, WEEE is a rapidly growing problem. The adage that there is ‘more gold in a tonne of e-waste than a tonne of ore’ is an old one, but holds true. However, a host of other rare,
valuable and/or toxic materials are also contained. Safely
recovering them is not cheap. A report commissioned by
EERA explores the economic realities of the situation.
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Pay-as-you-throw, city-wide composting could be coming to Saskatoon in 2020
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-composting-pay-as-you-throw-1.4941064
Pese a los anuncios de tratamiento y recolección, la ciudad retrocede y el vertedero es tierra de nadie. Hoteleros alientan la separación y reutilización: shampoo y jabones, lo más buscado.
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As the UK’s troubled exit from the European Union looms ever closer on the horizon, the RDF Industry Group has called on both the UK Government and the EU to take action to enable RDF exports to Europe to ‘continue unhindered.
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Duncan Geddes argues that the lack of clarity and direction is beginning to become a very real concern for British industry as the prospect of a no-deal Brexit looks increasingly likely…
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In a recent paper Prof. Dr. Rainer Bunge argues that efforts to improve the recycling of plastics are not always the most environmentally beneficial. Often energy recovery is preferable.
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https://waste-management-world.com/a/in-depth-why-switzerland-does-not-enforce-plastics-recycling
The European Commission has launched an alliance of industry stakeholder as to reduce plastics littering, increase the share of recycled plastics and stimulate market innovation.
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