Kamis, 30 September 2010

Example of a Zero Waste company - Interface

Ray Anderson, CEO of the biggest carpet producing company in the world Interface, explains how shifiting a billion-dollar petroleum-based industry into sustainability is not only possible but it is economically and morally rewarding.  Since the...
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Jumat, 24 September 2010

Europe and organic waste - EU biowaste law needed!

Organic waste –the substance that come from living organisms- represents the biggest fraction of our municipal waste in Europe; between 30 and 50% depending on local conditions. As such, we would expect it to be taken good care of; the carbon present...
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Kamis, 16 September 2010

Zero Waste and separate collection

No Zero Waste policy is possible without waste separation.Waste doesn’t exist “per-se”, we create it when mixing our discards. If our discards are separated they are not waste but a resource. This is why the second step in waste management (after having...
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Selasa, 07 September 2010

Beverage packaging and Zero Waste

Throwing bottles and other beverage packaging in the bin? What a waste of resources and money! In a Zero Waste society all beverage container would be refilled many times before it would be recycled into a new container.Not many decades ago beverages...
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Sabtu, 04 September 2010

New Zero Waste Group in Sicily

On August 31st it was constituted a new Zero Waste local group in Sicily.The Zero Waste Association in Sicily declared its commitment to work for a responsible waste management system in Sicily aiming at increasing waste reduction, reuse and recycling...
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Kamis, 02 September 2010

Phasing out single-use plastic-bags

Plastic bags, especially the single-use ones, are slowly leaving us. The good news is that this is happening, the bad news is that the process is too slow and they continue to harm our economies, health and environment.Since their introduction in the...
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