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Lush Bath Bombs Make a Fizz About Going Plastic Free

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The brand is opening an entirely plastic free shop in Manchester this Friday.

This Robot Is Delivering Coral Babies to the Great Barrier Reef

The climate is changing faster than many species can adapt, so scientists are trying to speed up evolution by fostering the spread of creatures who can take the heat. Think of it as natural selection with a little boost from humans—or, in some cases, robots.

To that end, Australian scientists Peter Harrison and Matthew Dunbabin recently teamed up for a world-first field experiment. A robot Dunbabin designed carried coral larvae that Harrison had gathered and dispersed them on part of the Great Barrier Reef. What makes these larvae unique and the groundbreaking experiment especially promising is that the they are heat-tolerant, meaning they not only can survive, but flourish, in warmer waters.

Harrison had collected the larvae from corals that had survived deadly marine heat waves in 2016, 2017 and 2018. “These surviving larvae are likely to have greater ability to withstand heat stress as they survive and grow,” Harrison said, meaning they could thrive in a warmer world.

Pollution from fossil fuels is heating up the planet, rendering ocean waters inhospitable for coral. Even in the more optimistic scenarios, virtually all of the world’s reefs could be eradicated by mid-century. Ensuring the survival of these natural treasures will depend on cultivating more heat-tolerant corals. That’s where the robot, called “LarvalBot,” comes in.

“I first thought about the larval restoration concept some decades ago when I was part of the team that discovered the mass coral spawning phenomenon on the Great Barrier Reef in the early 1980s,” said Harrison, director of the Marine Ecology Research Centre at Southern Cross University. “Literally billions of coral larvae are produced during mass spawning events from healthy corals, but as coral cover and health have declined to the point where too few larvae are produced from remaining remnant coral populations, we now need to intervene to give nature a helping hand.”

Harrison had already developed techniques for mass spawn capture and larval rearing, but “one aspect that I still wanted to develop further was a more efficient larval delivery process onto the damaged reef areas, and so the LarvalBot concept developed from discussions with Matt.”

The robot has the capacity to carry around 100,000 microscopic coral larvae per mission, and Dunbabin expects to scale up to millions. The robot gently releases the larvae onto damaged reef areas allowing them to settle and, over time, develop into full-grown corals.

“We call this the ‘Swiss-army-knife’ of underwater robots, as it was designed to do multiple tasks with customizable payloads, such as photo surveys, water quality monitoring, marine pest surveillance and control, and now coral larvae dispersal,” said Dunbabin, a robotics professor at the Queensland University of Technology.

“Using an iPad to program the mission, a signal is sent to deliver the larvae and it is gently pushed out by LarvalBot,” said Dunbabin. ” It’s like spreading fertilizer on your lawn. The robot is very smart, and as it glides along, we target where the larvae need to be distributed so new colonies can form and new coral communities can develop.” The robot has an onboard vision system that allows it to “see” its way through reef environments, he explained.

“We will be monitoring the survival and growth of juvenile corals as they appear on the reef,” Harrison said. “We should start to see juvenile corals after about 9 months when they grow large enough to become visible on the reef.”

Later this spring, the researchers plan to send the robot with more larvae to degraded reefs in the Philippines, then will aim for an even larger project on the Great Barrier Reef in late 2019.

One of the advantages of the robot is that it can also monitor the growth of coral reefs, which will help scientists understand how they respond to the larval delivery. This will be critical to scaling up the process. “We need to learn how to restore corals and reefs at larger scales very quickly,” Harrison said. “During my lifetime I’ve witnessed continual degradation of reefs around the world, including parts of the Great Barrier Reef. This is incredibly sad and frustrating.”

Dunbabin agreed. “Coral reefs are spectacular! Even now when I jump in the water and see all the fish and colors, I still am in awe of these eco-cities of connected life,” he said. “I can’t help but feel I need to do something to help restore them to what they were.”

Source: Eco Watch

The Smoke Clears from Household Fuels with New Clean Air Strategy

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The government has announced only the cleanest wood-burning stoves will be available for sale from 2022.

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Source: Energy News

‘Millions of People Could Miss out on Benefits of EVs’

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A new report suggests a poorly handled deployment risks exacerbating social divides across the UK

Undercover Investigations Will Be Legal Again at Iowa Animal Farms

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On Thursday the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa struck down the Iowa Ag-Gag law, holding that the ban on undercover investigations at factory farms and slaughterhouses violates the First Amendment. In 2017, a coalition of animal, environmental and community advocacy groups, including Center for Food Safety, challenged the law’s constitutionality. Federal courts have similarly struck down Ag-Gag laws in Idaho and Utah as unconstitutional.

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Iowa’s Ag-Gag law criminalizes undercover investigations at a broad range of animal facilities including factory farms, puppy mills and slaughterhouses; preventing advocates from exposing animal cruelty, environmental harm, workers’ rights infractions and food safety violations. The law achieved its goal of suppressing undercover investigations—no investigations have taken place since the law’s passage in 2012.

“Ag-Gag laws unconstitutionally allow Industrial Ag to hide in the darkness, and today’s decision is another important pulling back of that curtain,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of Center for Food Safety. “This decision is a victory for all those who support humane treatment of farm animals and safe food.”

For more than a century, the public has relied on undercover investigations to expose illegal and cruel practices on factory farms and slaughterhouses. No federal laws govern the conditions in which farmed animals are raised, and laws addressing slaughter and transport are laxly enforced. Undercover investigations are the primary avenue through which the public receives information about animal agriculture operations. Iowa is the biggest producer of pigs raised for meat and hens raised for eggs in the U.S., making it critically important that investigations there are not suppressed.

“Ag-Gag laws are a pernicious attempt by animal exploitation industries to hide some of the worst forms of animal abuse in the United States,” said Animal Legal Defense Fund Executive Director Stephen Wells. “Today’s victory makes it clear that the government cannot protect these industries at the expense of our constitutional rights.”

Center for Food Safety is also co-counsel and co-plaintiff in another case successfully striking down Idaho’s Ag-Gag law in 2017, and part of ongoing cases in North Carolina and Kansas.

A copy of the decision is available upon request (please email us at pr@centerforfoodsafety.org).

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Bailing Out Benji, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Center for Food Safety. They are represented by the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Iowa, Public Justice, the Law Office of Matthew Strugar and Center for Food Safety.

Source: Eco Watch

Joshua Tree National Park Announces Closure After Trees Destroyed Amid Shutdown

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Maintenance and sanitation problems also reported 18 days after government shutdown furloughed the vast majority of park staff.

Volunteers helping tourists at the Joshua Tree National Park in California.
A day after this story was published, National Park Service announced that it had averted the closure by tapping revenues from recreation fees, and that campgrounds and entrance stations would be reopened on Thursday. In a press release, the NPS thanked volunteers “who provided basic sanitation in campgrounds and other closed areas during the lapse in appropriations”.

For 17 days, a host of volunteers and a skeleton staff kept the trash cans and toilets from overflowing at Joshua Tree national park.

But on Tuesday, 18 days after the federal government shutdown furloughed the vast majority of national park staff, officials announced that vandalism of the park’s distinctive namesake plants and other maintenance and sanitation problems will require closure starting Thursday.

“While the vast majority of those who visit Joshua Tree do so in a responsible manner, there have been incidents of new roads being created by motorists and the destruction of Joshua trees in recent days that have precipitated the closure,” spokesman George Land said in a news release.

Land told the Los Angeles Times that, with only eight rangers currently overseeing the nearly 800,000 acre park, the gates would likely remain closed until the shutdown ends.

But a different spokesman for the National Parks Service, Mike Litterst, subsequently told the Times that the park may not close after all if staff are able to complete cleanup work before Thursday.

National Park Service officials did not immediately respond to requests for clarification.

The potential closure of Joshua Tree was met with mixed emotions by those whose livelihoods depend on the more than 2.8 million visitors the park attracts annually.

“I have 11 employees who are effectively going to be laid off as of Thursday,” said Seth Zaharias, co-owner of a company that leads rock climbing trips in the park. “They are not going to work for the remainder of the shutdown.”

Still, Zaharias said that reports of vandalism to the park made him support the closure. “Economically, that’s disastrous for our community,” he said of the prospect of serious environmental damage to the park. “It’s really bad.”

His company was beginning to send out cancellation notices for customers who had booked trips after Thursday, he said.

David Lamfrom, director of the California desert and national wildlife programs for the National Parks Conservation Association, warned that the damage to Joshua Tree’s desert landscape could be catastrophic.

Source: The Guardian

Hydrogen Train on Track for 2022 Arrival in UK

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Alstom and Eversholt Rail have unveiled the design of their new gas-powered train, which has been codenamed ‘Breeze’

Waste-To-Energy Test Plant Takes out the Trash in Rio

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The test facility produces enough biogas each month to power a fleet of 1,000 cars.

600+ Environmental Groups Urge Congress to Phase Out Fossil Fuels

On Thursday more than 600 environmental groups called on the U.S. House of Representatives to pursue ambitious climate legislation that matches the scale and urgency of the climate crisis.

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The groups’ letter calls for a thoughtful phaseout of fossil fuel production, a transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2035, complete decarbonization of the transportation system, use of the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, a just transition to a new green economy and the adherence to treaties upholding Indigenous rights when pursuing these actions.

“To effectively tackle climate change, policymakers need to commit to transforming the global economy to serve the interests of people and planet, and not the profits of the one percent,” said Angela Adrar, executive director of Climate Justice Alliance. “Such a new, green economy needs to be guided by the leadership and knowledge of those most burdened by pollution, poverty and other forms of institutional violence waged by the corporations causing this global ecological crisis.”

“As the world teeters on the brink of climate catastrophe, we’re calling on Congress to take large-scale action,” said Bill Snape, senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Americans want a livable future for their children, and that requires keeping fossil fuels in the ground while greening the economy on a wartime footing.”

“The disproportionate impacts of climate change and dirty energy development in the traditional territories and lands of American Indian and Alaska Natives must be taken into account to ensure the inherent rights of Indigenous peoples are fully recognized in the just transition to a new green economy,” said Tom BK Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. “Indigenous and other frontline communities are ready to take the lead with real solutions to move away from a fossil fuel economy.”

Months before the 116th Congress opened, a series of scientific reports warned of the dire consequences of inaction on climate change.

In October the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that policymakers must take “unprecedented action” to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. In November the Fourth National Climate Assessment reported that the health and economic costs of climate change are already being felt in the U.S., and that those harms will intensify without “immediate and substantial” cuts to greenhouse gas pollution.

“At precisely the time that we need our energy policy to swiftly move us into a managed decline of fossil fuel production, the Trump administration is working with the fossil fuel industry to tear down policies and dangerously expand our fossil fuel extraction,” said David Turnbull, strategic communications director at Oil Change USA. “We need real climate leaders willing to stand up to this onslaught and work to phase out fossil fuel production, rather than digging the hole deeper.”

“We cannot stop climate change and rising inequality with the half-solutions of the past,” said Nicole Ghio, senior fossil fuels manager at Friends of the Earth. “We need action on climate that ends our dependence on dirty energy, puts power in the hands of communities and provides good jobs. If candidates and elected officials say they are committed to climate solutions, this is the litmus test.”

Thursday’s letter also notes that the groups will oppose legislation that rolls back existing climate policies, shields the fossil fuel industry from liability or promotes market-based approaches like pollution trading and offsets.

“The excitement around the Green New Deal should energize Congress to take bold, transformative action on climate change,” said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. “This means a halt to all new fossil fuel development now, and it means a rejection of dangerous false solutions like market-based emissions trading programs.”

Source:Eco Watch

Dubai Is Busy Embracing Solar Energy

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If there’s one resource that Dubai has in abundance, it’s sunshine. Not surprisingly, the city, set in a sun-drenched desert, has set out to exploit that inexhaustible resource for clean energy generation.

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The United Arab Emirates, to which Dubai belongs, wants to meet 7% of its energy needs from solar by 2020 and then gradually increase the share of solar power in subsequent years. As part of that plan, Dubai is busy constructing the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, a mega solar project that, when fully completed, is expected to boast a total solar power capacity of 5,000 megawatts by 2030.

The current fourth phase of the $13.6 billion project, which is the largest solar park of its kind in the world, will rely on a combination of three technologies to produce 950MW of clean energy: a parabolic basin complex to provide 600MW, photovoltaic panels to generate 250MW, and a solar tower to provide another 100MW.

The project, with three of its phases already completed, has already “achieved the lowest electricity generation cost in the world, of 2.4 US cents per kilowatt hour for the 250MW panels and 7.3 cents per kW/h for the 700MW CSP technology,” The National notes. “The total capacity of the fourth phase of the solar park rose from 700MW to 950MW.”

Another record-setting feature of the solar park will be a solar tower. Standing at 260 meters as the world’s tallest such tower, the 100MW construction will boast round-the-clock thermal energy storage capacity. The technology involved will rely on heated molten salt stored at the top of the tower with residual heat of the salt capable of generating power for another 15 hours after sunset.

“Our focus on renewable energy generation has led to a drop in prices worldwide and has lowered the price of solar power bids in Europe and the Middle East,” stressed Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, managing director and CEO of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA).

Source: Suistanability Times

World’s Largest Solar + Battery Plant Unveiled in Hawaii

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Hawaii has a new, game-changing tool in its renewable energy arsenal. Power producer AES Corporation and the not-for-profit Kaua’i island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) unveiled what’s claimed to be the world’s largest solar-plus-storage peaker on the island of Kauai on Tuesday, the Lāwa’i Solar and Energy Storage Project.

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This is a significant step to help the Aloha State reach its 100 percent renewable energy goal by 2045, one of the most aggressive decarbonization targets in the nation.

So what exactly does this thing do? The battery-based energy storage system—consisting of a 28-megawatts of solar PV and 20-megawatt lithium-ion battery—is designed to supply the grid with peak power output for up to five hours while simultaneously charging the batteries, according to the member-owned energy cooperative.

Essentially, the new facility solves a big hiccup with standalone solar plants, which traditionally turn to peaker plants that run on fossil fuels to meet peak demand on the grid.

Once it’s fully integrated, the Lāwa’i plant will offset the use of 3.7 million gallons of diesel each year, the developers touted in a press release.

“Now that the Lāwa’i project is on line, as much as 40 percent of our evening peak power will be supplied by stored solar energy,” KIUC’s president and CEO David Bissell said at the unveiling on Tuesday. “I think it’s safe to say this is a unique achievement in the nation and possibly the world.”

All told, the plant will be able to meet an estimated 11 percent of Kauai’s energy needs, making the island more than 50 percent powered by renewable energy, the developers said.

Power from the facility will be purchased by KIUC at 11 cents per kilowatt hour via a 25-year power purchase agreement—that’s “roughly 1/3 lower than the current cost of diesel,” the cooperative commented Tuesday on Facebook. “So it will save our members money.”

AES president and CEO Andrés Gluski said that the Lāwa’i project will help Kauai reduce its reliance on fossil fuels all while generating clean, reliable and affordable energy.

“As a supplier of power to Hawaii for more than 25 years, we are honored to have been chosen by KIUC to help demonstrate its commitment to the state’s vision of a cleaner energy future,” Gluski said in a press release. “We believe this project is a significant step toward ushering in the wider era of firm renewables.”

Source: Eco Watch

Uganda Celebrates Completion of 24MW Solar Farm

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The $25 million Kabulasoke Solar Power Park has completed vital critical commissioning tests.

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Uganda is celebrating the completion of a new 24MW solar farm in the south of the sub-Saharan nation.

The $25 million (£19.6m) Kabulasoke Solar Power Park, which has been developed by a consortium made up of of Great Lakes Africa Energy (GLAE), Xsabo Power Limited and Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited, has completed vital critical commissioning tests.

It is expected to be officially commissioned on the Ugandan power grid in the next few days, after which power will be able to be distributed to consumers – many of the people that will receive the electricity have previously relied on polluting kerosene generators and other expensive and unreliable sources of power.

The project will serve a population of more than five million in rural Uganda and facilitate carbon savings of more than 21,000 tonnes.

The UK Government recently announced £100 million of new funding for renewable energy access across Africa.

Source: Energy News

U.S. Carbon Emissions Spiked 3.4% in 2018, Second-Largest Increase Since 1996

Carbon emissions in the U.S. experienced a sharp upswing in 2018, despite a record number of coal-fired power plant closings, according to new data. An analysis released by the research firm Rhodium Group Tuesday shows that emissions rose by 3.4 percent last year—the second-largest gain in more than twenty years.

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The analysis also found that emissions from industrial manufacturing rose 5.7 percent, while transportation emissions rose 1 percent. The analysis describes these as industries “most often ignored in clean energy and climate policymaking” and significant drivers in the increase. “The big takeaway for me is that we haven’t yet successfully decoupled U.S. emissions growth from economic growth,” Rhodium analyst Trevor Houser told The New York Times.

“The U.S. has led the world in emissions reductions in the last decade thanks in large part to cheap gas displacing coal,” Jason Bordoff, director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, who was not involved in the analysis, told The New York Times. “But that has its limits, and markets alone will not deliver anywhere close to the pace of decarbonization needed without much stronger climate policy efforts that are unfortunately stalled if not reversed under the Trump administration.”

Source: Eco Watch

Pellet Breaks New Paths!

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The limitation and harmfulness of fossil fuels in energy production lead humanity towards finding and exploiting alternatives to these dirty energy sources at higher level. Windmills are springing up across our planet, solar energy is generated through solar panels, and hydropower plants are built on river flows. However, the most popular energy source remains underused. We are talking about biomass.

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Biomass includes biodegradable parts of by products of wood industry, scraps and residues of biological origin from agriculture, and it also includes plants and animal substances as well as industrial and municipal waste. Biomass combustion produces heat energy, and in recent decades it has been used for the production of electricity. For energy purposes, it can also be used as biogas obtained by decomposing different biological waste into a gaseous state, and as a biofuel obtained by converting biomass into a liquid state.

Biomass makes up to 61 per cent of the total potential of renewable resources in Serbia, which is unfortunately wasted on extremely inefficient energy generation. In cooperation with the Centre for Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development (CEEFOR ENERGY EFFICIENT SOLUTION ) from Belgrade, the municipal assembly of Lapovo has decided to put an end to the senseless use of biomass and to replace the inefficient heating system based on heaters, radiators and air conditioners with boiler room on the pellet. The core business of CEEFOR ENERGY EFFICIENT SOLUTION except two obvious – energy efficiency and sustainable development – is precisely renewable energy sources.

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Heating on wood pellet has become popular in the last few years, primarily because of its environmental and financial advantages. The use of biomass is continuously increasing in households and also in business and public facilities. Pellet is a high-efficient energy fuel that is obtained by particular technological process of grinding, drying and pressing of various biomaterials.

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This article was published in the eleventh issue of the Energy Portal Magazine CIRCULAR ECONOMY, September-November 2018

 

Your Christmas Tree Could Be Recycled Into Paint or Sweeteners

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Gifts have been opened, cookies have been eaten, Christmas has come and gone. Still, the last vestige of holiday festivities remains: the slowly decaying Christmas tree husk in your living room.

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Even as fake tree sales rise, as many as 30 million real Christmas trees are sold in the United States each year. After serving as Yuletide decorations, many of these trees will head to landfills.

But now, in a flourish of environmental Christmas magic, researchers from the UK’s University of Sheffield have found a way to break down a component in pine needles called lignocellulose and use it to create paints and sweeteners — a heartening seasonal example of how biotech discoveries can reduce waste at unexpected points on the global supply chain.

Lignocellulose Jam

Lignocellulose is ugly. No, really. Its chemical structure makes it difficult to use for biomass energy, and it serves little industrial purpose. Sheffield PhD student Cynthia Kartey’s work has focused on examining ways to make use of this material, and now she may be on to something.

Using heat and glycerol Kartey was able to break down the pine needles into two components, one of which was made mostly of materials like glucose, acetic acid and phenol. All three have uses in other industries — glucose is used to make food sweeteners, phenol is used in products like mouthwash, and acetic acid for making adhesives, vinegar, and even paint.

“In the future, the tree that decorated your house over the festive period could be turned into paint to decorate your house once again,” Kartey said in a press release.

Green Again

Recycling and repurposing waste products is almost certain to become an increasingly important aspect of the future economy.

We’re already beginning to see the process in action, from recycling space junk to reusable beer bottles and even bricks made from literal human urine. Soon, perhaps even Christmas trees will keep our future green and fresh-pine scented.

Source: Futurism

Making Surroundings Cleaner and more Pleasant for all the Citizens of Vrsac

Fotografija: Dragan Ninković

Dragan Ninkovic, a traffic engineer, had worked at “Autocentar Petrovic” before he got a position of a director of “Parking – Sabac”, the Public Utility Company. He was a member of the Managing Board of the Serbian Parking Association, a team member for “Development, finance, construction, maintenance and management of the public parking garage in Sabac” through a model of public-private partnership, and also a member of granting concession team for public transportation on territory of the city of Sabac. Having hold the position of the manager at “Stari grad“, the Public utility company in Sabac, from 2012 to 2016, he made a tremendous effort to deliver better business results, and this attempt brought a business success in 2015, which stands for the best result in the last 30 years ever since the company was founded. Currently, he is a member of the Managing Board of the Serbian Public Utility Companies Business Association – KOMDEL, also an assistant to the director for public utilities at Public Utility Company “Drugi oktobar” and the director of “Angrokom” company from Vrsac.

Photography: Dragan Ninković a traffic engineer (private archive)

We talked with Dragan Ninkovic about the removal of dumpsites which are dispersed across the territory of Vrsac municipality, about repairing the rainstorm damage in the City park, increasing the level of recycling and waste sorting as well as about organising the “Recycling day” and activities which are designed to educate the youngest.

EP: By doing your regular work and running special campaigns, the public utility company removes dumpsites which are located on the territory of the Vrsac municipality. Could you tell us what you have accomplished this year?

Dragan Ninkovic: Our regular work consists of many things such are pocket parks’ design, mounting flower baskets on street light pole, maintenance of the access to the city, removal of wild dumps, planting flowers in circular flower beds, landscaping of green spaces and waste transportation from public institutions, complete washing and sweeping of streets, promenades and sidewalks, road verges, canals, transportation of bulky waste, reconstruction of green areas on the Square of St. Sava. Our employees are engaged for cleaning, waste collection, mowing, clearing weeds and redundant vegetation. The campaign such as “April – the month of cleanness” serves well to intensify the works on the restoration of children’s playgrounds and street furniture at public spaces, as well as on removal of dumpsites. This year, just before the Easter holidays, we have cleaned the garbage container areas using the heavy machines. We set about mounting the street furniture at Balkanska street, the one that has been said it never looked better. Also, we have cleaned the huge dumpsite at Pavlis, along with garbage dumps scattered on the way from Veliko Srediste to the city, and even at Mali Rit and Streliste Kamenolom locations. We talk about the protected natural areas, and it is the duty of each one of us to prevent further emersions of dumps which destroy flora and fauna which the Vrsac mountains are famous for. In a joint operation with the Vrsac City administration, on the eve of May Day celebration, we also organised the cleaning up of Vrsac hill from Helvecija to Mountain Lodge. The road verges have been cleaned as well as the paths through woods and the park furnishings have been placed. I would like to point out our great cooperation with many city institutions particularly. Starting from this year, we have been carrying out all the campaigns side by side and with an obligatory citizens’ contribution. The citizens suggest what should be done, but they also have an active role in performing chosen activities.

EP: Recently you have organised “The Recycling Day”. Are you satisfied with its effect and the response you got from citizens and companies?

Dragan Ninkovic: On the occasion of the World Environment Day, the public company “Drugi oktobar” and the “Angrokom” company organised “The Recycling Day”. At the Saint Sava square, there was an “origami” container for glass, and red boxes for collecting glass were placed at the Youth square, Andrija Lukic square, Hemograd and Military square. Citizens who brought three kilograms of glass packaging or more got a prize of a symbolic value which can be used indefinitely and serve as a reminder to them to take care of our planet. At the event we have collected more than two tons of glass which will be processed and recycled by the “Sekopak” company. Glass and aluminium are the only recyclable materials that can be recycled a million times, and from the aspect of the circular economy, they are significant. Previously, we distributed special boxes to all catering establishment in Vrsac for glass packaging disposal, because we want to improve the primary waste collection of this recyclable material.

Read the whole interview in the new issue of the Energy portal Magazine on CIRCULAR ECONOMY, September-November 2018

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