Rome, free metro tickets for passengers who recycle plastic bottles
Circular
economy: plastic bottles in exchange for free bus or metro tickets. In Rome all
this is reality thanks to the initiative launched by Atac for the collection
and recycling of plastic...
Environment, EU steps up action to protect and restore the world’s forests
Today the European Commission adopted a comprehensive Communication setting out a new framework of actions to protect and restore the world's forests, which host 80% of biodiversity on land,...
Volkswagen WeShare launched in Berlin as full-electric service
Volkswagen is entering the growing car sharing sector. With 1,500 e-Golf vehicles, the Volkswagen brand is bringing onto the roads a ...
Plastic, from Brescia a new technology for recycling
Efficiency
in recycling and circular economy are the keywords of NextChem, a plant for
green chemistry by Marie Tecnimont, a group that develops and produces
industrial plants for the production of hydrocarbon...
Microplastics, what they are and why they harm the environment
A walk on the beach often turns into a walk through the garbage. On the shore you find abandoned plastic objects, envelopes, bottles, disposable glasses. All of us should...
7,000 Colleges and Universities declare climate emergency, with a plan to fight it
Networks
representing more than 7,000 higher and further education institutions from six
continents have announced that they are declaring a ‘climate emergency’, and
agreed to undertake a three-point plan to address the...