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Rinnovabili • Global Plastic Pollution Treaty: INC-5, Decision in 2025
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Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution: The Meeting is Set for 2025

In Busan, South Korea, the latest round of negotiations decided to go into "extra time." The treaty was initially set to be finalized this year, but delegations…

Rinnovabili • Global Plastic Treaty: Negotiations are Failing in Korea
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The “Plastic COP” is about to…

On Sunday, December 1st, the INC-5, the 5th and final round of…

Rinnovabili • Supramolecular plastic, it biodegrades in the sea in 10 days.
Pollution
Here is the biodegradable supramolecular plastic…

Japanese researchers have developed a new durable plastic that will not pollute…


Rinnovabili • Plastics in the sea
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Plastics in the sea: the results of the COMMON project for Mediterranean

Presented the final budget of COMMON, the plastic monitoring project in the Mediterranean Sea. 90 thousand…

Rinnovabili • PHEV
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PHEV: Emissions of plug-in hybrid cars in the city pollute like an…

The emission values reported by BMW, Peugeot and Renault beat around 27-36 g CO2/km. While those…

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Plastic in the ocean found in the Arctic comes from all over…

A citizen science study coordinated by the AWI analyzed the origin of plastic in the ocean…

Rinnovabili • pollution in the Mediterranean sea
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Pollution in the Mediterranean sea: 65% are plastic waste

The results of Floating Litter, the project conducted by the Italian institute ISPRA and Mediterranea to…

Rinnovabili • microplastics on the seabed
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60 years and not feel them: the microplastics on the seabed of…

A study by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona sampled the sediments of the seabed between Barcelona…

Rinnovabili • oil spills
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The oil spills that wrote the history of environmental justice

It closes with an agreement between the Dutch major and the NGO Friends of the Earth…

Rinnovabili • Christmas
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At Christmas we are all more… pollutants: +133% pollution freight transport

The transport of goods to Christmas generates an increase of 133% of pollution due to the…

Rinnovabili • oil leak
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Kansas has the biggest onshore oil leak in the last 10 years

The oil leak is almost equal to all of the previous 22 leaks of the Keystone…

Rinnovabili • direct-air-capture co2
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US$3.7 billion plan for direct air capture CO2

Almost all the investment -3.5 billion $- will finance 4 major regional hubs to develop commercial-scale…

Rinnovabili • Plastic at sea
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Plastic at sea: “Every week we eat the equivalent of a plastic…

During the Polieco International Forum on the Waste Economy, the alarm of the world of science…

Rinnovabili • air quality
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The neighborhood with the best air quality? Tell you the grass and…

A study by the University of California Riverside uses the amount of radiocarbon in roadside grasses…

Rinnovabili • Abolishing plastic
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Abolish plastics: global treaty forgets chemicals

In an open letter published in the journal Science, 13 of the world’s leading plastic scientists…