Tag: Waste

Hilton führt in seinen Flaggschiffhotels in Großbritannien ein 40-Pfund-Menü mit dem Motto „Zero Waste“ ein – mit Kabeljauenzungen, Kartoffelschalenchips und Melassetarte aus übriggebliebenem Sauerteig

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Es sind nicht nur kleine unabhängige Restaurants, die versuchen, ihre Umweltfreundlichkeit zu verbessern.

Der internationale Hotelriese Hilton hat im Rahmen eines Versuchs in vier seiner Flaggschiffhotels in Großbritannien ein „Zero-Waste-Menü“ eingeführt.

Das 40-Pfund-Menü stellt „innovative Techniken“ zur Bekämpfung von Lebensmittelverschwendung und nicht ausreichend genutzten Fleischstücken vor, die normalerweise weggeworfen würden.

Zu den ungewöhnlichen Köstlichkeiten zählen Ochsenherzen, Lachsbäckchen, Kabeljau-Zungen, Kartoffelschalenchips und Sirup-Tarte aus übriggebliebenem Sauerteig.

Hilton gibt an, dass es sich langfristig zum Ziel gesetzt hat, die Zahl der auf Mülldeponien

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Quartz, cobalt, and the waste we leave behind

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Some time before the first dinosaurs, two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana, collided, forcing molten rock out from the depths of the Earth. As eons passed, the liquid rock cooled and geological forces carved this rocky fault line into Pico Sacro, a strange conical peak that sits like a wizard’s hat near the northwestern corner of Spain.

Today, Pico Sacro is venerated as a holy site and rumored, in the local mythology, to be a portal to hell. But this magic … Read more

Anti-green backlash hovers over COP climate talks – POLITICO

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This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.

LONDON — World leaders will touch down in Dubai next week for a climate change conference they’re billing yet again as the final off-ramp before catastrophe. But war, money squabbles and political headaches back home are already crowding the fate of the planet from the agenda.

The breakdown of the Earth’s climate has for decades been the most important yet somehow least urgent of global crises,

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Why your cold and flu tablets may be a waste of time for treating a blocked nose

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We spend a lot on over-the-counter cold and flu remedies — more than £250 million a year in the UK alone — to tackle the misery of blocked noses, tickly coughs and sore throats.

But could we be wasting our money?

A ruling earlier this month by a panel of special advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — which oversees the use of medicines in the U.S. — has sent shockwaves through the multi-million-pound cold and flu product

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Ein Seeigel: Sie sind Methodenschauspieler, die „The Waste Land“ aufführen | Helen Sullivan

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SSeeigel sind so unheimlich, wie sie erscheinen. Vor zehn Jahren begannen Seeigel im riesigen, welligen Seetang Kaliforniens zu fressen und zu brüten, zu fressen und zu brüten, und über sieben Jahre hinweg zerstörten sie die meisten Unterwasserwälder. Dann ließen sie sich auf dem Boden ihres Ödlandes nieder, bildeten stachelige, violette Teppiche und klickten öde Bengel entlang der 150 Kilometer langen Küstenlinie an. Eine große Hitzewelle im Meer hatte den Seetang geschädigt und ein „Seestern-Verschwendungssyndrom“ tötete den Hauptfeind der Seeigel,

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Beached Syringes and the Invention of Medical Waste

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The first tide of syringes washed ashore on Thursday, August 13, 1987. Hundreds of unmarked hypodermic needles spilled out of the surf that afternoon, accompanied by vials and prescription bottles, along a 50-mile stretch of New Jersey beaches during peak tourist season. By the next morning, New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, an environmentalist Republican with national ambitions, was aloft in a helicopter surveying the floating slick of medical waste and other garbage that now stretched from Manasquan to Atlantic

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9 ways Dutch political paralysis hits the EU – POLITICO

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In Brussels, the Netherlands is known for its assertive positioning in EU legislation in a wide range of policy files. Despite its relatively small size, the Netherlands has a tendency to get involved, even on files that are not at the core of the Dutch domestic debate.

Its prime minister, Mark Rutte, is the second-longest serving European Union leader

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Discovery of waste at bottom of Belize’s Great Blue Hole shows ‘people are terrible’ | Science | News

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“People are terrible”, we have been reminded this week, as social media has revisited the discovery of plastic bottles at the bottom of the crystal-clear waters of a Caribbean sinkhole.

The aptly-named “Great Blue Hole” — which lies some 43 miles from Belize City — was formed during a series of glaciations 153,000–15,000 years ago when sea levels were lower.

Its mysterious fathoms have made it an iconic diving destination, one first made famous in the early seventies by the

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Illegal Chinese-linked biolab filled with mice, medical waste discovered in California

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Authorities have discovered an illegal Chinese-linked biomedical lab in Central California filled with unlicensed mice, medical waste, refrigerators, and other infectious agents. 

The discovery came after months of investigation into the lab in Reedley, California, that was suspected to be running an illegal operation. 

An illegal facility run in California.  (KMPH)

Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba confirmed to Fox News Digital that the facility was being leased by Prestige Biotech, a Chinese-linked company registered in Nevada. 

Joe Prado, Assistant Director

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Poland files EU complaint over illegal waste imports from Germany – EURACTIV.com

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Warsaw is filing a complaint to the European Commission against Berlin for allegedly failing to remove waste illegally transported from Germany to Poland and stored there, Climate Minister Anna Moskwa said on Wednesday (26 July).

Some 35,000 tonnes of waste was illegally moved to Poland by German companies and stored at seven sites and has not been removed despite several formal requests, she said, without specifying the sites’ locations or when the waste was stored.

Warsaw had appealed “numerous times”

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