FRANCE: THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY BILL AND THE FIGHT AGAINST WASTE, NOW IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
The draft Law on the circular economy and the fight against waste has entered the National Assembly after a controversial debate in the Senate. The text of the circular economy law (LEC, for the acronym in Spanish) promulgated by Brune Poirson, Secretary of State of the French Ministry of Ecological Transition, came out considerably strengthened from [...]
PROGRESS IS OBSERVED IN THE REDUCTION OF PLASTIC POLLUTION
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the United Nations Environment Program publish the first annual progress report of the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment (in English, New Plastics Economy Global Commitment). According to the report, companies establish actions to reduce problematic plastic packaging and increase the use of plastic [...]
COLLABORATION BETWEEN ALL THE AGENTS IN THE PLASTIC VALUE CHAIN AND INNOVATION TO END PLASTIC WASTE THAT END UP POLLUTING THE ENVIRONMENT
According to the latest studies carried out by various sources, about 80 percent of the plastic in the oceans comes from land-based garbage, much of which ends up in the sea through one of the world's ten most important rivers. Also, 60 percent of the oceanic plastics go to five countries in [...]
