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European Circular Economy Project Kicks off in Wales
A new Europe-wide project intended to help smaller businesses enter the circular economy and operate in a more sustainable and profitable way has kicked off in Wales. A recent study by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the Waste and Resources…
Balkan Countries Unite in a War on Waste
Under the rubric of the Let’s Do It campaign, Albanian and Kosovar activists jointly cleared their border area and the polluted Lake Vermica last April, in a Wombles-style campaign that has involved more than 5% of Albania’s population, and 7%…
Commission Refers the Czech Republic to Court over a Shipment of Toxic Waste to Poland
The European Commission is referring the Czech Republic to the Court of Justice of the EU for its failure to take back 20,000 tonnes of hazardous waste, which was shipped to Katowice, Poland, by a Czech operator in late 2010…
Côte d’Ivoire: 10 years on, survivors of toxic waste dumping ‘remain in the dark,’ say UN rights experts
Speaking ahead of the 10th anniversary of the illegal dumping of toxic waste in Côte d’Ivoire, a group of United Nations experts today urged the Ivorian Government, all responsible States and the international community to use the opportunity to address…
France passes ‘pioneering’ food waste bill to ban supermarkets from binning unused food
France passes new food waste bill obliging supermarkets to hand over unused food to charity and not destroy leftover products, claiming the law will be “unique in Europe”. France is to enact a law to reduce the estimated 7 million…
First-Ever Global Standard to Measure Food Loss and Waste
A partnership of leading international organizations is launching the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard at the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) 2016 Summit in Copenhagen. The FLW Standard is the first-ever set of global definitions and reporting…
Chemists Find New Way to Recycle Plastic Waste into Fuel
A new way of recycling millions of tons of plastic garbage into liquid fuel has been devised by researchers from the University of California, Irvine and the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in China. “Synthetic plastics are a fundamental…