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We’ve all seen the mountains of old clothes that end up as giant landfill sites in low income countries. Now, Czechia is leading Europe in tackling rather than contributing to the problem. Around 180,000 tonnes of textiles are discarded in Czechia each year with just 3 to 4 per cent making its way into mixed waste bins. 39,000 tonnes are sorted for recycling whereas non-recyclable contaminated in mixed bins amounts to 75,000 tonnes. The country has a plan, however, to revamp its current waste management practices. In December last year the Ministry of the Environment announced plans to enforce...
Euronews (English)
MEPs have adopted a new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) described as one of the most lobbied files to pass through the assembly in recent years. It has also been among the most contentious, and was nearly scotched during inter-governmental negotiations last month. The new law – backed by 476 lawmakers drawn from across the mainstream parties, with 129 voting against and 24 abstaining – stipulates that the annual average of nearly 190kg of wrappers, boxes, bottles, cartons and cans discarded generated annually by every EU citizen should be cut by 5% to 2030. This target rises to...
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The world is producing more and more e-waste, according to a new UN report, but recycling is not keeping up. In 2022 alone, 62 million tons of electronic waste - defined as any device with a plug or batteries - will have been generated, according to the UN's Global E-Waste Monitor published on Wednesday. This is a record - and an increase of 82% compared to 2010. If things continue at this rate, 82 million tonnes can be expected by 2030. E-waste from 2022 could fill 1.55 million 40-ton lorries, the report said. Bumper to bumper, that lorry convoy would then extend roughly around the equator. R...
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The world is producing more and more e-waste, according to a new UN report, but recycling is not keeping up. In 2022 alone, 62 million tons of electronic waste - defined as any device with a plug or batteries - will have been generated, according to the UN's Global E-Waste Monitor published on Wednesday. This is a record - and an increase of 82% compared to 2010. If things continue at this rate, 82 million tonnes can be expected by 2030. E-waste from 2022 could fill 1.55 million 40-ton lorries, the report said. Bumper to bumper, that lorry convoy would then extend roughly around the equator. R...
DPA International
The world is producing more and more e-waste, according to a new UN report, but recycling is not keeping up. In 2022 alone, 62 million tons of electronic waste - defined as any device with a plug or batteries - will have been generated, according to the UN's Global E-Waste Monitor published on Wednesday. This is a record - and an increase of 82% compared to 2010. If things continue at this rate, 82 million tonnes can be expected by 2030. E-waste from 2022 could fill 1.55 million 40-ton lorries, the report said. Bumper to bumper, that lorry convoy would then extend roughly around the equator. R...
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New York (AFP) - New York has begun rolling out a large-scale organic waste collection program, but the landmark initiative has upset many of the local groups that previously handled composting, who say they now face critical funding cuts. John Surico, a resident of the Queens borough, started separating his food scraps seven years ago. At the time, he carried his organic waste -- which he stored frozen in his refrigerator -- across his neighborhood to a collection site. "It was a commitment," he told AFP recently. "But now, all I have to do is go downstairs." After Queens and Brooklyn, New Yo...
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Yangon (Myanmar) (AFP) - In a working-class neighbourhood of Myanmar's Yangon, plastic waste is piled a metre high, the toxic product of what a recent investigation said is rampant dumping of Western trash. For several years sites across Shwepyithar township have been filling up with trash that chokes fields, blocks the drainage of monsoon rains and causes fire risks. The trash is the runoff of global plastic production, which has more than doubled since the start of the century to reach 460 million tonnes per year. "In the past, during the rainy season I could pick watercress from this field ...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - Toothpaste tabs plunk into a jar. Maple syrup flows viscously from a spout. Dishwasher powder crunches under the tip of a metal scoop. The chorus of consumer goods lacks one familiar sound: the crinkle of plastic wrap. At Mason & Greens in Washington, the lack of packaging is the point -- the small shop selling household goods and groceries is among dozens of zero-waste refill stores sprouting up in US cities from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Customers bring their own containers -- from used jars to Tupperware, to fill with bulk items. The store even has "had people bring in the...
AFP
Paris (AFP) - Pollution caused some 9 million people to die prematurely in 2019, according to a new global report published Wednesday, with experts raising alarm over increasing deaths from breathing outside air and the "horrifying" toll of lead poisoning. Human-created waste in the air, water and soil rarely kills people immediately, but causes instead heart disease, cancer, respiratory problems, diarrhoea and other serious illnesses. The Lancet Commission on pollution and health said the impact from pollution on global health remains "much greater than that of war, terrorism, malaria, ...
AFP
Nairobi (AFP) - The world has a rare opportunity to clean up the planet for future generations by uniting behind an ambitious treaty to tackle plastic trash, the UN environment chief told AFP. Inger Andersen said a global plastics treaty being negotiated in Nairobi "holds the potential and the promise of being the biggest multilateral environmental breakthrough" since the Paris climate accords signed in 2015. "This is a big moment. This is one for the history books," the executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) told AFP in an interview. The framework for a legally binding plas...
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