energy
The year 2018 was a positive year for Italian renewable sources of electricity. In fact, according to the analyses of ANIE Rinnovabili’s Osservatorio FER from January to November last year, new photovoltaic, wind and hydroelectric installations reached a total production…
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Christmas has just gone by and Epiphany (Twelfth Night) has brought all the festivities to an end as it does every year. Christmas decorations have been put away until next year, while many real Christmas trees have been taken to…
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Agreement has been reached, not without difficulty, between the European Commission, the European Parliament and EU Member States to ban a number of single-use plastic products most frequently found littering the sea. It must be remembered that over 80% of…
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Recycling plastic, besides being sustainable, also becomes useful in emergencies, thanks to cooperation between Corepla and the Waste Free Oceans (WFO) association. In fact, waste collected from the River Po during the ‘Il Po d’AMare’ pilot project, which employs innovative…
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The twelfth report on “Mobilità sostenibile in Italia: indagine sulle principali 50 città” (Sustainable mobility in Italy: investigation on the 50 major cities) drawn up by Euromobility, with the Patronage of the Minister of the Environment and Protection of the…
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The first bike path in the world to be built with plastic recycled from bottles, plastic cups and various packaging materials has been created in Zwolle, Holland. The 30-metre long plastic bike path contains recycled plastic equivalent to over 218,000…
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Waste frying oil can be turned into a raw material to produce a 100% biodegradable bioplastic with the same thermo-mechanical properties as conventional plastics. This is an entirely Italian research project developed at the laboratories of Bio-on, a Bologna company…
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Have you ever asked yourself how much hotter your hometown is now than when you were born? This is the idea that prompted the New York Time to create an on-line simulator (How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When…
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From 1 September 2018, halogen light bulbs are being switched off and LED lighting are becoming mandatory throughout Europe. As from 1 September 2018, halogen light bulbs will be banned on European scale, in implementation of Directive 244/2009. Halogen lamps,…