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%

Turin is among the three Italian cities involved in the “TakeBack: ReMed” pilot project, a new initiative for the collection and recycling of pre-filled medical devices for injections.
This initiative, introduced for the first time in Italy by Novo Nordisk, a leading company in the production of drugs for chronic non-communicable diseases and rare diseases, aims to transform single-use devices into reusable resources.