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11,100 sensors will monitor waste levels in bins in the capital of Spain.
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International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) commemorates International Waste Pickers Day in Nairobi
The Kenyan National Waste Pickers Association and the IAWP will host a march to raise the visibility of thousands of waste picker families around the world.
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Shortlisted finalists in the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2023 were announced today in a livestream event.
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European textile reuse & recycling industry urges caution on EU interpretation of used textiles exports
The European Environment Agency (EEA) recently published a briefing on EU trends on exports of used textiles.
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ZWE regrets that FEAD has misunderstood the key messages in its recent report on mixed waste sorting.
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Discarded textiles in Europe, including used clothing and footwear, are an increasing waste and export problem.
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A new PNNL-developed process produces fuel quickly at mild temperature, with few by-products.
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The REMEDIES project, funded by the European Union with almost eight million euros, seeks to create a new sustainable model to curb the impact of microplastics in 8 Mediterranean areas, through the design of advanced systems to monitor, collect, recycle and transform the extracted waste into new products.
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BASF has entered into a long-term collaboration agreement with Tenova Advanced Technologies for its battery recycling prototype plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. Both companies agreed to jointly optimize the hydrometallurgical recycling process, leveraging TAT’s novel process for the recovery and production of lithium, which includes lithium solvent extraction and lithium electrolysis.
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The ÑCostas Project will make it possible to reuse plastic material recovered from the sea and waste from the aquaculture industry to make walkways and platforms for fish farms, port protection products, flotation tubes, and nets and mesh for reinforcement, among other products.
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After achieving candidate status in the spring of 2021, Kiel has become the first Zero Waste Certified municipality in Germany.
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Scaling up good practices can boost sustainability of plastics
Plastics have many useful applications, but the global production and consumption trends of these materials are currently unsustainable.
