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Glasgow Unveils Plans to Become Scotland’s First Circular City
Glasgow City Council has announced its ambitious plan become the first circular city in Scotland. Its Circular Economy Route Map will focus on cutting food waste and engage with universities and colleges to embed circular design principles in textile design…
Once You Pop, You Can’t Stop – or Can You?
A green group has called for Pringles packaging to be made fully recyclable. Pringles packaging needs to be redesigned to be fully recyclable and more environmentally friendly. That’s the verdict from the Recycling Association, which says Kellogg’s scheme allowing containers to be…
Pacific Island to Introduce World-First ‘Reef-Toxic’ Sunscreen Ban
From 2020, lotions containing any of 10 chemicals linked to coral bleaching will be outlawed. The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau will ban “reef-toxic” sunscreens from 2020 in what it claims is a world-first initiative to stop chemical pollution killing its…
Five Countries Hold 70% of World’s Last Wildernesses, Map Reveals
Just five countries hold 70% of the world’s remaining untouched wilderness areas and urgent international action is needed to protect them, according to new research. Researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have for…
Siemens Launches Field Test for Driverless Evs in Germany
A highly automated single-seat car and a shuttle bus will be used to research the interplay of intelligent infrastructure and the vehicles. Siemens is to test the interaction between autonomous electric vehicles (EVs), intelligent roadside infrastructure and cloud-based software services in Germany. It has…
Energy-Hungry Bitcoin Would Be a Climate Disaster, Study Finds
When new technologies like electricity or the dishwasher took off in the 20th century, most of the people racing to adapt them had no idea what trading candles for light bulbs would do to the Earth’s climate. Researchers at the…
Fruitful Cooperation between the Local Self-government and the Civil Sector in Paracin
At the end of the 1980s in Paracin, the local Ecological Movement and the Young Researchers division were established thanks to liberal ideas of the youth organisation of that time. These were the first steps towards the initiation of the…