Accumulating trash and pollution in the city of Kirkuk has raised concerns about the impact on local residents’ health. “The smoke from oil refineries and private companies has mixed with Kirkuk’s air,” Shkova Muhammad, member of the high council of the Green Kurdistan Association, told Rudaw on August 20. “You can see trash on every […]
Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre (Tadweer) has successfully delivered a host of vital projects in the first half of 2021, covering a wide range of service sectors, including waste collection and transport, pest control, projects and facilities, and tariff and licensing, WAM reports. The timely completion of these strategic projects and services has helped the […]
Anna Sachs, a 30-year-old New York resident and environmental activist, dumps herself in garbage dumps and shares on social media that citizens and businesses are throwing away many suitable products and other goods, The Guardian reports. She find out that some businesses intentionally damage goods so that other people cannot use them later. Anna started […]
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas, and Gulf Extrusions, a subsidiary of the Al Ghurair Group, signed an agreement for the innovative re-use of an industrial by-product in EGA’s production process, replacing the use of fresh raw material, improving efficiency, and benefiting the environment, Gdnonline reports. […]
There’s a monument to human carelessness in the sea – Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex); this is the largest and most well-known cluster of floating debris drifting between California and Hawaii. According to a study by Lauren Lebreton and his colleagues from the Ocean Cleanup Foundation in 2018, the area of this […]
The Emirates Environmental Group (EEG) shares its recycling success story. From its inception in 1991 until the end of 2020, it has diverted from landfills over 22.8 million tonnes of paper, plastic, and glass, Gulf News states. The figure was, among other statistics, highlighted during EEG’s virtual celebration of World Environment Day (June 5), during […]
The Earth’s orbit is similar to a highway, where more than 3,000 artificial satellites of the Earth rotate at incredible speeds, up to 28 000 km per hour. The number of the latter will increase tenfold by 2030. Already, analysts say the figure is over 100 000. New artificial satellites will benefit humanity. An internet […]
Plastic pollutes the environment for up to 400 years. Plastic and its increasingly drastic effects on people, animals, and the environment and how we deal with this problem is one of the most significant challenges of our time, but above all of the future. Greenpeace and fischerAppelt created the “Plastic Legacy” campaign to emphasize the […]
From July 3, disposable products made of plastic should completely disappear from sale in the European Union. This is provided by the EU directive banning plastic utensils adopted in 2019, the dpa news agency reports. The ban came into force on disposable spoons, forks, knives, plates, drinking straws, cotton swabs, sticks for stirring, and holding […]
The first massive action of removing electric scooters from the bottom of the Rhine river will take place in German city Cologne at the end of June, DW reports. Recently, during the repair and arrangement of embankments, divers, who usually clean the bottom of the river from debris before work, found more than 500 electric […]
