A tour unlike the others will carry the bus that carries the message of recycling and proper waste management. Launched in Nea Smyrna, the 1st Europe-wide Mobile Environmental Education and Recycling Center, it aims to “instill” young and old students into environmental awareness, sustainable development
THESSALONIKI. Over 100 football pitches are estimated to be filled – and even at a height of two meters from the ground – Excavation, Construction and Demolition Waste (AEKK) waste in Northern Greece, which, instead of being delivered to licensed recycling units, has accumulated by
A plan to reduce plastics in the EU by 2030, which aims to create new investment opportunities and jobs alongside environmental protection, has been presented by the European Commission. According to Commission figures, Europeans produce 25 million tonnes of plastic waste each year and less
Significant increase in tanker recycling rate is projected by Alphatanker for the next two years. Specifically, Alphatanker noted that 74 tankers were sent for recycling last year. Alphatanker’s latest report predicts that a total of 94 tankers will be shipped for recycling in 2018, noting
Coca Cola announced on Friday, January 19 that it is substantially reformulating its overall approach to packaging its products, setting a global goal of contributing to the collection and recycling by 2030 of 100% of its packaging. This goal is at the core of the
Responding to customer demand, McDonald’s has announced that it has become more environmentally friendly, offering recycling opportunities in all of its restaurants. “We have a responsibility (…) to make changes that will have a significant impact across the globe,” said Francesca DeBaya, a company executive.
‘ Urban mining ‘ is the new term that will slowly come into our lives as 17 European organizations work together to create the world’s first integrated database of all kinds of useful materials, which can be made available again through recycling from electronic waste
Once again students from schools across the country responded to the call of the National Collective System Recycling and recycled million plastic, metal and glass from 1/10 to 20/12/2017. The active participation of these young people in the PANHELLENIC RECYCLING EDUCATION COMPETITION is the most
How many of us know that our old worn clothes as our jeans for example, could be the raw material for insulation material in house building? And yet, many objects that are useless to us, instead of ending up in landfills, could recycled, reused or
The impact of waste on the environment is an important problem to need to be solved from developed countries worldwide. Waste management is now a needed process on protecting the environment. Disposal of waste into the environment, hazardous or not, leads to a gradual destruction