Little appetite for idea of collecting food waste and textiles from households
THE IDEA of introducing compulsory food and textile waste collection from households has not been met too well…
10 New Poetry Books About Our Relationship With Nature • The Revelator
“I cannot keep you safe.” This recurring line in Primeval, Mai Der Vang’s powerful new poetry collection, doesn’t…
Europe’s big trash-burning experiment has become a dirty headache – POLITICO
In Rome, for example, tens of thousands of people signed a petition to stop the mayor from greenlighting…
Japan’s beam tech transforms forever plastics into reusable feedstock
Researchers in Japan have developed a method that reduces the energy needed to recycle Teflon by 50%, using…
EU sues France for telling people how to recycle – POLITICO
Under French law, producers of goods like packaging, textiles, phones or even gardening equipment must include a sorting…
Common Bacteria Can Turn Plastic Bottles into the Painkiller Acetaminophen/Paracetamol
Biologist Stephen Wallace – credit Edinburgh Innovations Scientists in Scotland recently engineered bacteria to be able to turn…
Germany rejects von der Leyen’s €1.8 trillion EU budget plan – POLITICO
The Commission, among other items, presented three new taxes targeting electric waste, tobacco products and high-turnover companies to…