Have you ever felt the urge to buy a new pair of jeans just because the one you had was no longer ‘fashionable’? If yes, you have experienced first-hand the effects of the culture of waste. In a context of economic development and infinte purchasing options, we often find ourselves trapped in a mechanism that induces us to satisfy every new and diverse need.
Plastic pollution of water is one of the most pressing environmental problems, as it poses a danger to both ecosystems and our health.
The European Week for Waste Reduction (SERR) has reached its 16th edition this year!
Overshoot day is the time when human demand for resources exceeds the Earth's capacity to generate them over the course of a year. The parameters used by the Global Footprint Network to calculate Earth Overshoot Day are the Earth's biocapacity and the human ecological footprint. In a market logic, the former would correspond to the supply while the latter to the demand.
The Paris 2024 edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Games aspires to be remembered as the most sustainable ever. The Organizing Committee has set a goal of halving CO2 emissions compared to London 2012 and Rio 2016, thus continuing the path taken by Tokyo in 2020, which had also experienced a substantial decrease in its carbon footprint because of Covid (Read also: Zero-emissions Games-Paris 2024).
E-commerce is a growing phenomenon, therefore, it should be monitored with the aim to better manage the impact that it has on the environment. In 2023, in Italy, online purchases recorded a +13% compared to 2022, while at a global level the increase stood at just under 9%
The European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) has reached its 16th edition this year! The theme of the EWWR 2024 is food waste, a thematic focus already used in 2014, and was chosen to address the issue of increasing food waste.
According to data from the European Commission, in fact, every year more than 58 million tons of organic waste are generated (about 131 kg/ab).
