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“La gestione dei rifiuti può attrarre investimenti e creare occupazione”
Parlamento europeo: «La gestione dei rifiuti può attrarre investimenti e creare occupazione» Secondo una risoluzione approvata dal Parlamento europeo con 632 voti a favore, 18 contrari e 22 astensioni, «La gestione dei rifiuti, se fatta in maniera efficiente, può attrarre investimenti e creare lavoro» e come tale dunque dovrebbe essere stimolata, anche con strumenti incentivanti ...
Accumulating ‘microplastic’ threat to shores
Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study has warned. Researchers traced the “microplastic” back to synthetic clothes, which released up to 1,900 tiny fibres per garment every time they were washed. Earlier research showed plastic smaller than 1mm were being eaten ...
Rosh Hashanah
Florence is a multicultural City hosting people of many diverse races and religions. Whilst its long Christian history is evidenced in the dozens of churches to be found in every part of the City, those of the Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist faiths can also find their places of worship. The Congress coincides with Rosh Hashanah, the ...
New date notification acceptance/rejection
Due to the overwhelming response to the Call for Abstracts the organizers are forced to put back the date of the notification acceptance/rejection. More time is needed to review all 608 abstracts and even more important, to give space to as much speakers as possible. Therefore it is needed to widen the programme and enlarge ...
Finding Leonardo da Vinci’s Florence
(CNN) — Known as the cradle of the Renaissance, Florence is a culture-rich city in the heart of Tuscany, Italy. Over the centuries, it has been home to Renaissance masters Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto, Michelangelo, Dante and Brunelleschi, who have left their legacy in a trove of art and architecture that is world renowned. It ...
New climate study deals blow to skeptics
London (CNN) — An independent study of global temperature records has reaffirmed previous conclusions by climate scientists that global warming is real. The new analysis by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project examined 1.6 billion temperature reports from 15 data archives stretching back over 200 years in an effort to address scientific concerns raised by ...
USA: uno tsunami di rifiuti verso Hawaii e West Coast
(ANSA) – NEW YORK, 25 OTT – Divani, frigoriferi, pezzi di abitazioni, relitti di barche da pesca: le inondazioni seguite al terremoto che ha colpito il Giappone il marzo scorso hanno causato un vero e proprio tsunami di rifiuti. Oltre venti milioni di tonnellate di detriti di ogni genere sono stati risucchiati dalle correnti oceaniche ...
WELCOME UNEP
We are pleased to announce that this Congress is organized with the participation of UNEP and therefore we would like to welcome UNEP at our Congress. We are very honored by their participation. We also like to welcome Dr. Khalida Bouzar, Deputy Director, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics of UNEP (UNEP DTIE) as a keynote speaker at ...
PEOPLE YOU WILL MEET IN FLORENCE
Who are you going to meet in Florence? Normally you will discover that at the Congress itself, but we wanted to give you already a sneak peak of some important persons you can run into at the World Solid Waste Congress. From now on we will publish every week an interview with a different person ...
Waste problem for green cars: what to do with the batteries
“With fleets of electric cars starting to hit the roads, the next big mother lode for salvage companies is expected to be the expensive, newfangled batteries powering them. Yet even as automakers vaunt the ways these cars can benefit the environment, they are divided over how best to handle the refuse: recycle or repurpose. That ...
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