Avainsana: Waste management
Germany’s KfW to finance 13.7 mln euro waste project in Serbia
Serbia’s infrastructure ministry has signed an agreement with German development bank KfW for the financing of a 13.7 million euro ($16.2 million) project for the…
Report: Northern Ireland faces ‘potential waste crisis’
An updated market report by independent waste and bioenergy sector advisors, Tolvik Consulting, suggests that Northern Ireland needs the proposed arc21 residual waste treatment…
Canada launches second half of its $20-million Food Waste Reduction Challenge
To help spark new ideas and engage diverse perspectives, the Government of Canada launched the $20-million Food Waste Reduction Challenge in November 2020, calling…
How AI beats spreadsheets in modelling future volumes for city waste management
All over the world, large cities are running out of space for municipal solid waste. Existing landfill sites are rapidly filling up and no-one wants…
#ECOSQUADGOALS: A Digital Citizen Science Approach to Understanding Solid-Waste Management
To commemorate World Science Day 2020 and as response to the pandemic UNESCO supported the #EcoSquadGoals launched on 11 December 2020 and organized by De…
New initiative to help tackle the global waste crisis
Currently 2 billion people – almost a quarter of the global population – have no waste collection of any kind. In order to help tackle…
Alliance to End Plastic Waste Releases 2020 Progress Report
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste today released its 2020 Progress Report, detailing the organisation’s focus on addressing its vision and mission. The report outlines…
Starbucks reintroduces reusable cups to stores
Having reopened stores under Government guidance, Starbucks is enabling the use of reusable cups in a safe method. No shared touchpoints are in place between…
Amount of plastics in oceans will quadruple by 2040, major new research finds
The world’s plastic pollution problem is vastly outpacing efforts to stop it, meaning that the volume of plastics in oceans globally will be four times…
New research highlights solutions to eliminate plastic pollution
The amount of plastic trash that flows into the oceans every year is expected to nearly triple by 2040 to 29 million metric tons, new…
UK electrical waste mountain growing
UK households and businesses produce 1.45 million tonnes of electrical waste each year, research shows. The e-waste research organisation Material Focus calculates that at least…
WWF: Major consumer goods giants only sourcing 8% recycled plastics
McDonald’s, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Keurig Dr Pepper and Procter & Gamble (P&G) collectively source 4.3 million metric tonnes of plastic annually, of which just 8% comes…
Portugal suspends foreign trash imports to cope with own increased waste
Portugal, which usually attracts huge mounds of rubbish from other European states because of its low waste management fees, has suspended imports of trash until…
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