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In recent years, the export and import of waste has grown considerably. We even have the term ""waste shipment". A large amount of non-recyclable or hazardous waste is exported to underdeveloped or developing countries. There are regulations that mainly apply to...
The gravity of the climate emergency can no longer be ignored. For many years people thought that we could not afford to change the whole business system. What every single study on climatechange over the last few years has shown us is that what we really cannot...
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered another pandemic, but of sanitary waste. Because of this, the WHO has produced a report in which it refers to this problem. Both the healthcare and household sectors use a large number of single-use medical devices. Therefore, this...
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...
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...
The throw-away culture is reaching its peak since the latest IPPC report issued a “last call” for humanity to take urgent measures against climate change in the following years. Some of these measures need to entail a shift in our production and consumption patterns...
Recycling plastic bottles and transform them into valuable alternative products is one of the biggest challenges nowadays. According to a 2016 report by the World Economic Forum, plastics lose 95% of their material value after a single-use. Besides that, plastic...
Plastic pollution in Senegal has become a major crisis. In 2010 the country ranked 21st among the world’s top ocean polluters - 254,700 tonnes. Hence, in 2015 Senegal passed a law to ban single-use plastic bags prohibiting the production, import, distribution, or use...
Spain ranked seventeenth this year in the Energy Transition Index report by the World Economic Forum. In addition, it overcame countries such as Germany, EEUU, Belgium, or Canada. On the other hand, the first positions in the ranking were occupied by the Nordic...
Cameroon has been struggling against plastic pollution for years. The country produces around 600,000 tonnes of plastic waste per year according to estimations. Thus, in 2014 the government banned the import, production, and distribution of single-use plastics....
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