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Break Free From Plastic, a non-profit organization fighting plastic pollution, published the results of its annual brand audit last week.

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I was in Switzerland recently and discovered that they haven’t had any landfill since the early 2000s, because all of their waste is either recycledincinerated to produce electricity. How “green” is it to incinerate waste in order to produce electricity? Is it something New Zealand should consider, so that 1) we have no more landfill, and 2) we can replace our fossil-fuel power stations with power stations that incinerate waste?

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Em sessão remota nesta quinta-feira (10), o Plenário do Senado aprovou o Projeto de Lei (PL) 4.253/2020, que cria um novo marco legal para substituir a Lei das Licitações (Lei 8.666/1993), a Lei do Pregão (Lei 10.520/2002) e o Regime Diferenciado de Contratações (RDC – Lei 12.462/11), além de agregar temas relacionados. O texto, relatado pelo senador Antonio Anastasia (PSD-MG), vai agora à sanção do presidente da República.

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Com o avanço do delivery de alimentos e do comércio eletrônico, além do maior uso de material hospitalar descartável como máscaras e luvas, o consumo de plásticos explodiu durante a pandemia do coronavírus.

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These days, recycling is almost second-nature to many people. When we take out the trash, we put the plastic, glass, metal, and paper in its respective bin, and bring it to the curb. When we’re out and about, we know which bin to throw the recyclable products into, and which is just for trash. How do we know all that? Because of the recycling symbol, of course. But the history of the recycling symbol and the person who invented it, are not widely understood by many of the people who take that now-iconic symbol for granted.

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Así lo refleja el informe anual de Break Free From Plastic, que ha analizado y documentado 347.000 piezas de plástico recogidas por todo el mundo.

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An updated report on the European list of ship recycling facilities, commissioned by BIMCO, shows progress in increasing the number of active yards on the list, but the rules still do not reflect commercial realities and lag behind on capacity to scrap large commercial ships.

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Los consumidores en general no se preocupan de dónde vienen los productos que adquieren ni a dónde van a parar sus residuos una vez aprovechada su utilidad, cuánta basura produce o de qué manera el cúmulo de desechos de las ciudades afecta al medio ambiente y qué se hace al respecto.

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El gerente de la empresa, Mariano Bollo, contó a Cadena 3 sobre el innovador proceso eco-friendly. "Tanto en el 2018 y 2019, hemos utilizado un equivalente de casi 30 canchas de fútbol completas de residuos", dijo.

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En el Perú, cada año se generan alrededor de 205,000 toneladas de residuos que provienen de aparatos eléctricos y electrónicos (RAEE).

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