GOOGLE ANNOUNCES THE NEW CIRCULAR ECONOMY STRATEGY
Announced earlier last week, the "A Circular Google" initiative includes a new goal to "maximize the reuse of finite resources in its operations, products and supply chains and enable others to do the same." Although it lacks tangible and time-based overall objectives, the new strategy has established […]
Europe towards the Circular Economy
Robert Schuman, already 69 years ago, said that "Europe will not be made all at once or in a joint work: it will be made thanks to concrete realizations, which create in the first place a solidarity in fact", Europe continues to be made every day , and their future depends on these concrete actions. Like the European Union [...]
Ice cream wrapped in flavor only
Summer is approaching and, as every year, thousands of plastic wrappers will accompany our ice creams, powders and "flashes", of which a large percentage of them will end up totally or partially outside the recycling circuits and predictably in rivers , seas and oceans. Spain is currently the third country in the world in ice cream consumption, with more than 40 […]
AEICE, produces a new guide in the framework of the Circular Economy
AEICE in collaboration with its partners RECSO and CITOPIC, alongside CEMOSA, present the "Guide for the use of recycled aggregate and recommendations for its purchase" in the framework of the Circular Economy. Guide for the use of recycled aggregate and recommendations for its purchase. In November, it was presented, [...]
FEAD: "There will be a decrease in the recycling of plastic waste"
On 10 May, after two weeks of meetings between the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions in Geneva, 180 governments accepted the Norwegian proposal to amend the Basel Convention. Mixed plastic waste has moved from the "green list" to the "amber list" regime. [...]
Clean energy for all
The EU has completed the review of its energy policy regulatory framework, which sets the regulatory preconditions for the clean energy transition and puts the EU on track to meet its commitments under the Agreement from Paris The Council approved this week the four […]
Essity invests in sustainable fiber technology
Essity, a leading global hygiene and health company committed to a circular society, will invest approximately SEK 400 million (a little over €37 million at today's exchange rate) in the installation of sustainable alternative fiber at its plant tissue paper production in Mannheim, Germany. This investment will allow the company to produce [...]
The Catalan Waste Agency has published the basis for the 2019 call for grants for projects promoting the circular economy to companies
Companies can receive up to €40,000 per project in lost funding. Beneficiaries can be companies, private companies, groups of companies and business or trade union organizations. The Waste Agency of Catalonia has already published the bases for the 2019 call for subsidies to business projects promoting the circular economy. During [...]
The first # SinPlástico patrol is organized on Barceloneta beach
The Caixa d'Enginyers Foundation collaborated this weekend with the first # SinPlástico patrol on Barceloneta beach to raise awareness of the pollution generated by marine litter. What does this initiative consist of? The # SinPlástico patrols, which are part of the Ocean Initiatives volunteer program of Surfrider Spain, consist [...]
The Sphere Group will develop biodegradable films and bags made from recycled plastics
The Aragonese group Esfera will develop a modern factory of different types of bags with polyethylene, biodegradable biopolymers or materials with a high recycled content in the El Pradillo industrial estate, in Pedrola, where you will get 37.8 million euros, which will create 35 jobs of direct work, mainly of a technical profile. These are announced to the 150 workers […]
