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18 Νοε 2021 · A lack of programmes and services is the top barrier to greater recycling uptake, a global sustainability survey shows. Globally, 64% of people feel personally responsible for acting on climate change. But many said recycling was either inconvenient, or they lacked trust in recycling programmes. People around the world think choosing products ...
Waste and recycling. Managing waste in an environmentally sound manner and making use of the secondary materials they contain are key elements of the EU’s environmental policy. EU waste policy aims to contribute to the circular economy by extracting high-quality resources from waste as much as possible. The European Green Deal aims to promote ...
1 Ιουλ 2021 · We recycle just 20% of the more than 53 million metric tonnes of e-waste generated globally each year, according to the Global E-waste Monitor. This is a challenge and a missed opportunity. Experts estimate that materials in global e-waste are worth $62 billion per year. That value currently sits untapped in landfills.
4 Μαΐ 2021 · India-based Recykal is using cloud-based web and mobile applications to track waste and promote recycling. The initiative wants to reduce the amount of recyclable material that ends up burned, dumped or in landfill. Growing levels of waste are a global problem with damaging environmental consequences, especially for poorer communities.
22 Ιουλ 2021 · Currently, 50% of global plastic production is for single use and only 14% of global plastic packaging is collected for recycling. The report outlines the urgent need to drive a systemic shift towards reuse models as an integral part of the reduce-reuse-recycle agenda.
16 Αυγ 2019 · There are good reasons behind Japan's motivation to tackle its waste. In the bubble economy of the 1980s and early 1990s, production of plastics grew quickly, and so, too, did the country’s waste problem. Between 1993 and 2000, the number of plastic bottles produced tripled to more than 360,000 tonnes, according to Japan's environment ministry.
14 Ιουν 2021 · It focuses on optimization across the value chain, finding efficiencies in production processes and adopting a “reuse, reduce, recycle” approach to make manufacturing more sustainable. The circular economy must be part of the initial product development and design process. The circular economy – and ensuring environmental practices across ...
17 Αυγ 2023 · Furthermore, dying fabrics accounts for 20% of all water pollution. With so much fabric being produced, textile recycling can help give a piece of fabric — clothing or not — another life, and limit new fabrics from being produced. Women search for used clothes amid tons discarded in the Atacama desert, in Alto Hospicio, Iquique, Chile.
11 Ιαν 2022 · Using smartphones for seven years instead of two-and-a-half saves around 100kg of greenhouse gases. Changing the way we consume is at the heart of the solution, according to the World Economic Forum. A circular vision for the e-waste sector will promote the elimination of waste and could yield up to $4.5 trillion in economic benefits by 2030.
27 Σεπ 2021 · The rate of our consumption of plastic - past and present - means recycling alone isn’t going to get us out of the waste crisis. The solutions. It will take a global effort to scale upstream and downstream solutions to combat plastic pollution. Better recycling will play a role, as will reuse and improved waste collection.
