"In our country, approximately one person in two owns a car, i.e. 666 cars for every 1,000 inhabitants, a figure that puts Italy in second place in Europe for the highest motorisation rate, after Luxembourg," explains Roberta Roberto, ENEA...
We produce too much electronic waste, and its volume increases year by year. The Global E-waste Monitor 2020, the report published annually by the United Nations, confirms what was already in plain sight. 53.6 million tons of electronic waste...
Organic farming, which does not use synthetic chemicals but relies on farming techniques that respect natural life cycles, helps improve the health and fertility of the earth, increase biological diversity and mitigate the increasingly extreme and frequent effects of...
Textiles are fundamental to our society, providing us with
clothing, shoes, carpets, curtains, furniture, etc. for homes, offices and
public buildings. The textiles industry employs millions of people worldwide,
making it among the largest in the world and an important part of...
With the lockdown, many Italians have seized the opportunity to reorganize their lives and review their priorities, starting with the spaces in the house, lived as never before. An opportunity to put aside the objects that were no longer...
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...
Water is a precious asset and must not be wasted, especially
in times of drought such as those we are about to experience. The scarcity of
the winter rains and the less than abundant snowfalls put us in front of a
period...
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...
The growth of cities is causing the consumption and loss of a fundamental environmental resource: the soil. However, the phenomenon can be countered by investing in redevelopment and regeneration works capable of transforming abandoned urban areas into active neighborhoods...
A few days ago, the European consultation "Deforestation and forest degradation - reducing the impact of products placed on the EU market" ended a few days ago, which thanks to the numerous accessions received will be remembered as the...
