Rome, free metro tickets for passengers who recycle plastic bottles

Circular economy: plastic bottles in exchange for free bus or metro tickets. In Rome all this is reality thanks to the initiative launched by Atac for...

Environment, EU steps up action to protect and restore the world’s forests

Today the European Commission adopted a comprehensive Communication setting out a new framework of actions to protect and restore the world's forests, which host...

Volkswagen WeShare launched in Berlin as full-electric service

Volkswagen is entering the growing car sharing sector. With 1,500 e-Golf vehicles, the Volkswagen brand is bringing onto the...

Plastic, from Brescia a new technology for recycling

Efficiency in recycling and circular economy are the keywords of NextChem, a plant for green chemistry by Marie Tecnimont, a group that develops and produces industrial plants...

Microplastics, what they are and why they harm the environment

A walk on the beach often turns into a walk through the garbage. On the shore you find abandoned plastic objects, envelopes, bottles, disposable...

7,000 Colleges and Universities declare climate emergency, with a plan to fight it

Networks representing more than 7,000 higher and further education institutions from six continents have announced that they are declaring a ‘climate emergency’, and agreed to undertake a...