Waste disposal trends
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Nou Atles
A University of Bristol team has found a way to convert nuclear waste into man-made diamond batteries that can generate a small electric current for longer than the entire history of human civilization.
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El Independent
Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has to import rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. What lessons can we learn, asks Hazel Sheffield
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Alerta científica
The Chinese city of Shenzhen plans to tackle its serious waste problem by burning 5,000 tonnes of it a day in what will become the largest waste-to-energy plant in the world.
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Scrap Monster
Under the plan, New Yorkers will no longer need to sort their recyclables, “dramatically increasing the city’s recycling rate,” de Blasio said. United States Waste & Recycling News
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Telègraf
Iceland has become the first major retailer to commit to eliminate plastic packaging for all own brand products within five years to help end the "scourge" of plastic pollution.
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The Guardian
Brussels targets single-use plastics in an urgent clean-up plan that aims to make all packaging reusable or recyclable by 2030
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L'Atlàntic
Could waxworms—or something inside them—help degrade the planet’s mountains of plastic waste?
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Saló
L.A.'s ambitious plan to divert 90 percent of waste by 2025 isn't just about recycling. It's about remaking a city
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Saló
Altres països converteixen els residus incinerats en electricitat i calor. Això podria ajudar a la nostra crisi de les escombraries?
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Fast Company
Feed the hungry bugs an old plastic bottle, and get CO2 and water back–and it’s from two kids who are still in college.
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The Guardian
Amount of electronic waste up 63% in five years, with Chinas more than doubling, United Nations University report finds
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Notícies del Golf
“World’s largest waste-to-energy plant” to supply 185MW of electricity daily by 2020
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Canal d'informació Àsia
TAIPEI: Taiwan està planejant una prohibició general dels articles de plàstic d'un sol ús, com ara palletes, tasses i bosses de la compra per al 2030, van dir dijous els funcionaris...
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Futuritat
The power that a new anaerobic digester generates helps keep it running, which makes it totally self-sustaining.
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Vox
La majoria de les llars d'Amèrica tenen un dipòsit de netejadors químics sota l'aigüera que es converteixen en residus perillosos tan bon punt els acabeu d'utilitzar. I alguns dels ho...
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CBC
Què fer amb totes aquelles forquilles de plàstic no reciclables, joguines i cadires de pati trencades a les nostres escombraries? Canadà i els seus socis del G7 diuen que cremar aquests plàstics per obtenir energia podria ser part de la solució. Però és controvertit. Aquí teniu una ullada als avantatges i els contres, i cap a on va la tecnologia.
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BBC
Els articles de plàstic com els coberts i les palletes estarien prohibits a la UE segons els plans aprovats pels eurodiputats.
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PART BONA
How to solve the plastic pollution problem? Bacteria that munch on plastic: could this be the answer to the humanity’s environmental crisis? After all, we’re...
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Scientific American
Trillions of tiny particles generated by our plastic-reliant society are polluting environments worldwide
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The Guardian
European NGO says firms are likely to be at centre of global boom in plastic production
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Placa mare
"The material value of e-waste alone is worth $62.5 billion, three times more than the annual output of the world’s silver mines and more than the GDP of most countries."
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The Guardian
Stranded porpoises, dolphins and seals had average of 5.5 particles in their guts
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CNN
Dozens of laborers and factory operators sit hand-cuffed in rows on the pavement at an industrial park in Malaysia.
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ApNews
GENEVA (AP) — Almost every country in the world has agreed on a legally binding framework for reducing polluting plastic waste, with the United States a notable exception, United Nations...
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CBC
The Trudeau government will ban single-use plastics as early as 2021, CBC News has learned. Plastic straws, cotton swabs, drink stirrers, plates, cutlery and balloon sticks are just some of the single-use plastics that will be banned in Canada.
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Bloomberg
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Xarxa Bones Notícies
A renewable energy startup is using a new technology that can vaporize non-recyclable trash into energy—all without generating any emissions.
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Swissinfo
Finding international studies on recycling may be easy, but crowning a champion is not.
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Chalmers
El fet que els plàstics no es trenquin i, per tant, s'acumulin als nostres ecosistemes, és un dels nostres principals problemes ambientals. Però a Chalmers, un grup de recerca dirigit per Henrik Thunman, professor de tecnologia energètica, veu la resiliència del plàstic com un actiu. El fet que no es degrade mak
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Eurekalert
A research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed an efficient process for breaking down any plastic waste to a molecular level. The resulting gases can then be transformed back into new plastics - of the same quality as the original. The new process could transform today's plastic factories into recycling refineries, within the framework of their existing infrastructure
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La Colina
A pair of Australian scientists believe they have invented the technology that can recycle any type of plastic.
