Proper separate collection is good for the environment and the economy. To emphasize the importance of recycling and raise awareness of citizens and institutions in environmental protection, the Global Recycling Foundation has set up the world recycling day which...
IBM's operational CO2 emissions have been reduced by 39.7% since 2005, according to IBM's 30th annual IBM and the Environment Report. The achievement puts IBM well ahead of schedule in reaching its current goal of a 40% reduction in...
Developing a new process for the recovery of high-value materials and metals from end-of-life mobile phones with a view to the circular economy. This is the aim of the PORTENT project, co-financed by the Lazio Region with about 140,000...
What is meant by green claims and greewashing?
A definition of green claim and greenwashing can be found in the working paper entitled "Guidelines for the implementation/application of Directive 2005/29/EC on unfair commercial practices" published by the European Commission on...
Farming 4.0 is a great opportunity for the Italian agro-industrial system because it allows the optimisation and greater efficiency of production processes which, in addition to achieving a significant reduction in waste, increase the sustainability of the whole system....
Biodegradable
toothbrushes are a valid eco-sustainable alternative to plastic toothbrushes.
Dentists advise us to change the toothbrush often, which means that we use, and
then throw in the garbage, around 300, over the course of our lives. This causes
a great damage to...
Lately we often hear terms like Green Finance, financial sustainability, social impact bonds, SRI etc: why so many names? So what is sustainable finance?
Sustainable finance is linked to an ethical vision of long-term investment. These are investments in activities...
For a couple of years now, the acronym ESG (Environmental Social and Governance), synonymous with "sustainable", has become one of the most widely used. But do ESG investments exist in Italy? To answer this question, we need to consider...
The carbon footprint is the parameter that, better than any other variable, makes it possible to determine the environmental impacts of anthropogenic activities on climate change and, therefore, on global warming. The Carbon Footprint is a parameter that expresses...
Climate change and global warming are the most important environmental risk that give rise to a whole series of consequences such as accelerated melting of glacier masses, rising sea levels, changes and interruptions in traditional seasonal climatic trends, destruction...
