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Landfill mining consists of excavating active or closed landfills to reduce the environmental impact. According to the European project, New-Mine, there are between 150,000 and 500,000 landfills in Europe. Moreover, 90% of these landfills are not sanitary. In other...
Greenwashing defines those marketing practices that use sustainability as an instrument to improve brand reputation. As the number of consumers who care more about the environment is increasing, more brands are including the terms “bio” or “eco-friendly” among their...
REVALUO is a low-carbon waste-to-energy system (WTE system). Our system uses non-burning thermochemical treatment for municipal solid waste as well as waste from different industries based on THERMOLYSIS. REVALUO manages to recycle and recover value from 85 to 90% of...
In some countries, end-of-life tires (ELTs) are recycled and converted into roads, infill for sports grass, artificial turf, or children's playgrounds. In other cases, used tires are reused as second-hand tires or repaired as retread tires; and in the worst cases,...
Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are likely to rise to record levels in 2023 and the following years as investments in green technology drop due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to forecasts released by the International Energy Agency. The COVID-19 crisis in...
Microplastics in the Antarctic marine system were found in samples from three different species of penguins: the Gentoo, the Chinstrap, and the Adélie penguin. The study was conducted by scientists from the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid and has...
The circular economy is an attractive solution to the current linear model of consumption. The climate crisis, the depletion of resources, and the loss of biodiversity are some of the reasons that led us to reconsider the current throwaway model. The survival of the...
Societies generally produce large amounts of municipal solid waste (food wastes, packaged goods, disposable goods, used electronics). They also generate commercial and industrial wastes (demolition debris, incineration residues, refinery sludges). Only in the EU, 2.5...
According to an article by the "University of California", the answer to this question would be like to be: "In many places - it's complicated," which is a perfectly reasonable answer. It is understandable as most people don't have this information at their...
The 5 R's: "Refuse what you do not need; reduce what you do need; reuse what you consume; recycle what you cannot refuse, reduce and reuse; or transform the rest." - Bea Johnson. Bea Johnson is the author of Zero Waste Home, a book launched in 2013 telling the story...
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