Today, 18th September, we celebrate World Bamboo Day: an event conceived by the World Bamboo Organization to raise global awareness of the thousands of resources of this extraordinary plant and to sensitise the public on the great current global...
Gruppo CAP, manager of the integrated water service for the Milan metropolitan area, has been at the forefront of Milan Design Week with the avant-garde and innovation of some of its circular economy projects that characterise the public company's...
Consumerism as a socio-economic phenomenon
Consumerism can be considered as the fuel of the modern economic system. Each of us tends to keep savings to buy a good that will have to satisfy our need. If globalization and consumerism are...
On 14th July 2021, the European Commission proposed the package to combat climate change and stimulate the green transition. When the European Green Deal was announced in December 2019, the EU's primary goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050...
To support the development of the circular economy a strong focus on mechanical recycling of plastics is needed. We cannot agree with regulatory incentives for chemical recycling, which is a waste recovery activity that is certainly not good for...
In Italy, we are waiting for the principle of environmental protection and sustainable development to be enshrined in the Constitution; this would strengthen existing and subsequent legislation, which would have to comply with the Constitution and oblige the legislator...
The circular economy for more sustainable growth
The linear economy model (take-make-use-dispose) which doesn’t provide for the recovery, recycling and reuse of waste, is imperfect since it considers the natural resources of our planet to be infinite, but, unfortunately, this...
Pay attention to the energy class - The choice of the air conditioner represents a key requirement to reduce consumption and avoid unpleasant surprises in the bill. Regardless of the technology, models with an energy class higher than A...
There is an increasingly open market for clean and good products, but above all there is growing public awareness of the damage done to the environment and health by decades of unbridled industrialisation of agriculture, an activity that instead...
The integration of animal and environmental protection into the Constitution has sparked off a political debate on sustainable development.
In recent days, the Institutional Affairs Commission has approved the integration of environmental and animal protection into the Constitution. The proposed...