The initiative, founded by husband-and-wife restaurateurs Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore in 2016, sources surplus food from local restaurants, supermarkets, farmers, and suppliers to prepare meals for the homeless and hungry. Link:
Mais »Residents Protest Israeli Government‘s Waste-to-energy Incinerator Plan
Incinerator is part of larger plan aiming to have a quarter of the country‘s waste to be used for generating energy by 2030 Link:
Mais »Ankara wastepickers struggle to be formally incorporated into the legal waste collecting framework, Turkey
New technologies and economic structures led to increases in Turkeys recycling rate but 500.000 wastepickers are excluded from commercial gains in the recycling and waste collection sector. Link:
Mais »Waste management in the modern world
NORTH OF THE THAMES, between Barking and Dagenham, a new town the size of Windsor is springing into life. When Barking Riverside is complete, it will bring a new river walkway, a linear park, shops, offices, schools, an overground railway station and more than 10,000 new homes to the east …
Mais »Putting an end to plastic waste
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a group of more than 40 companies along the supply chain, was formed in an attempt to help eradicate plastic waste in the environment. Link:
Mais »Turn your Christmas Tree into Compost!
Lets make this holiday season green. After the holidays, take advantage of the Citys free Treecycle program by dropping off your real tree at the permanent Yard Waste Depot, next to the Landfill, from December 27, 2019 to January 31, 2020. Link:
Mais »No futuro o ideal era que não houvesse aterros sanitários
Separar todos os resíduos e reaproveitá-los. Zero desperdício. Zero lixo. E zero aterros sanitários. Seria a economia circular a funcionar em pleno. Pode não ser uma utopia, mas ainda falta para lá se chegar. Link:
Mais »Portugueses produzem uma média de 508 quilogramas de lixo por ano
Estatísticas do Ambiente de 2018, divulgadas esta sexta-feira pelo INE, mostram sinais contraditórios. A qualidade do ar e da água melhoraram mas temos cada vez mais carros na estrada e fazemos (ainda) mais lixo. Link:
Mais »Entre os maiores produtores de lixo plástico está o Brasil, em quarto lugar
A pesquisa foi baseada no What a waste 2.0: A global snapshot of solid waste management to 2050, um estudo do Banco Mundial. Link:
Mais »Lixo pode gerar combustível para carros compartilhados na Capital
Iniciativa da Secretaria Municipal de Conservação e Serviços Públicos (SCSP) propõe utilizar material de aterros sanitários para produção de combustível para veículos. Projeto ainda precisa de parceria para ser implementado Link:
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