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Why is Compost Important, and How to Make Compost?
Disseminating environmental awareness has made popular numerous activities and habits that we as a society once might have been ashamed of or thought should not occupy a place in our lives. Although concepts such as recycling have not appeared only…
Education for Safer Management of Electrical and Electronic Waste
Refrigeration devices are the type of technology we need every day, especially during warmer periods. However, as much as devices make our lives easier, they can negatively impact the environment and, thus, indirectly affect our health if they are not…
2024 Olympic Games – Sustainability in Every Organizational Segment
This year, Paris will host over 10,000 athletes and numerous visitors for the 2024 Olympic Games. An event of this scale requires large resources and energy. Still, the organizers have ensured that its ecological footprint will be as small as…
New Materials for a New Age
Within technological engineering, one of the narrower disciplines is called materials engineering – an area whose focus is understanding the various characteristics of materials to create new materials with improved properties to make them more resistant, stronger, more durable, more…
Sharp Declines in Critical Mineral Prices Mask Risks of Future Supply Strains as Energy Transitions Advance
Pressure eased in 2023 on the market for minerals that go into electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels and other clean energy technologies, as supply outpaced surging demand. But a new report from the International Energy Agency finds that major…
First Regional E-waste Project in Latin America Comes to a Xlose
Representatives from across Latin America will gather this week to share their experiences of participating in UNIDO’s first-ever regional project on e-waste management. Since its launch in Quito in March 2018, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded project has assisted…
Sustainable Architecture Principles Throughout History and Today
Back in 2017, the United Nations Global Status Report revealed the fact that large-scale pollution came from buildings and the construction sector, supporting it with concrete data. As stated, 36 per cent of global energy use and 39 per cent…