recycling
Ørsted issues blue bonds, vows to recycle solar panels, wind turbines
09 June 2023 - Danish renewable energy giant Ørsted said it would invest EUR 64 billion to achieve 50 GW in installed capacity by 2030
Global Recycling Day: from waste sorting to reducing CO2 emissions
18 March 2023 - Global Recycling Day is marked on March 18 to highlight the importance of reusing items...
New law in Greece to allow installing used wind turbines in isolated islands
03 March 2023 - An extensive new energy law submitted to parliament includes a rule on reusing old wind turbines in non-interconnected islands
EU’s used clothing, footwear exports ending up in landfills in Africa, Asia
28 February 2023 - The European Environment Agency has warned of the issues caused by exporting discarded textiles including used clothing and footwear
Serbia adopts circular economy program as Montenegro unveils draft strategy
08 December 2022 - Serbia adopts a circular economy development program until 2024, and Montenegro unveils its national strategy until 2030
Professor Fath: Scientists should be activists
25 October 2022 - Chemistry Professor Andreas Fath from the HFU university in Furtwangen has swum along the Danube from its source in Germany to the Black Sea
Making recycled paper from empty cigarette packs
31 August 2022 - Naša kuća, which employs persons with developmental disabilities, now has the opportunity to build a factory and modernize the manual production process
Siemens Gamesa installs world’s first offshore wind turbine with recyclable blades
09 August 2022 - RWE started to test a wind turbine from Siemens Gamesa with fully recyclable blades at its offshore project Kaskasi
2021 municipal waste report: Croatia continues progress but targets still unreachable
04 August 2022 - The country continued to make progress in almost all important sectors of waste management, but it was not enough to achieve the set goals
Albania bans single-use plastic bags
01 June 2022 - It is forbidden to produce, import and sell disposable plastic bags in Albania including those that are defined as oxo-degradable or oxo-biodegradable
Slovenia to install three waste incinerators
13 May 2022 - The Government of Slovenia has adopted a decree on granting concessions for waste incineration as an obligatory public service
Global Recycling Day – recycling is seventh resource for planetary conservation
18 March 2022 - Out of 2.1 billion metric tons of solid waste that is generated on Earth every year, only about 16% is recycled
Garbage dumps in Serbia are quietly poisoning its citizens
21 February 2022 - Waste comes back like a boomerang through our water, land and air, enters the food chain and slowly poisons us
EU intends to ban integrated batteries in phones, electronic devices
12 February 2022 - Although batteries are an essential tool in the energy transition, they also have huge hidden costs and environmental impact
Dutch investors could reclaim Nikšić landfill, build methane power plant
27 January 2022 - The landfill would be covered with a special impermeable material, which would cut emissions from the waste and its environmental impact to zero.
Zagreb to roll out municipal waste model that motivates citizens to sort waste
25 January 2022 - Citizens will dispose of waste in "official bags." They will cover the variable part of the waste collection charge by buying them.