TEXTILES: THE FOURTH CAUSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURE IN THE EU AFTER FOOD, HOUSING AND TRANSPORT
According to a report published this week by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the consumption of clothing, footwear and home textiles in the European Union (EU) annually amounts to around 1.3 tons of raw materials and more of 100 cubic meters of water per person. A large-scale shift to the economy [...]
SPAIN: JOINT SOLUTIONS TO ACT AGAINST MARINE GARBAGE ON BEACHES
It is estimated that the 26% of marine litter found on Spanish beaches predates tourist uses. The General Directorate of Sustainability of the Coast and the Sea of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MITECO) has put together, with the tourism sector and local administrations, joint solutions to address the problem [...]
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 […]
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. [...]
