Podčetrtek: how tidy and green! My first thought when arriving at this community in the very east of Slovenia, near the Croatian border. Passing the town’s famous thermal baths, at the monastery/castle we meet Boštjan Misja, the town’s chief tourism developer and marketer.
Source: sustainability-leaders.com
MANILA, Philippines — Starting next year, Quezon City will ban single-use utensils, whether made of plastic or paper, as well as plastic bags—a momentous step for the biggest city in a country that accounts for an outsize share of plastic waste globally.
If the school strikes, Extinction Rebellion movement, Greta Thunberg
and David Attenborough haven’t yet had an impact, then surely the
uncontrollable fires in the Amazon and Australia must have hit home that
the climate crisis needs action from everyone right now.
$62.5bn is lost in 50 million tonnes of electronic waste a year, but tech can help the process of dematerialisation, changing physical assets to electronic.
Researchers in Japan have created a new kind of biodegradable, internet-connected piece of paper that’s just one millimeter thick and which degrades by 95 percent after 40 days.
The second full day of WasteExpo came with plenty of insights and highlights.
In this episode, Max Halliwell from Ecodan talks to Rob Hicks, Innovation Manager at Sovereign Housing Association. They discuss Sovereign’s decision to invest in sustainable heating technology to meet their long-term, ‘affordable warmth’ objectives for residents.