Tag: garbage and disposal
Nominations for the German Non-Fiction Prize: Understanding the Present – Culture
On Tuesday, the jury announced which eight titles would be in the running for the German Non-Fiction Prize 2024. To make their selection, the seven-member group looked at 225 books…
Packaging waste: Better yellow bin than yellow bag – Munich
The pilot test with the yellow bin is a “success” – Klaus Thielmann from the waste disposal company Remondis is already confident enough to say that. “After the first two…
Initiative wants to force Munich to use the yellow bin – Munich
The beginning has been made, “the first hundred signatures have already been collected,” reports Ulrich Grasberger, the chairman of the “Müllwende” association, which was founded last summer. He wants to…
United Nations: Mountain of electronic waste is growing rapidly – knowledge
Imagine: 40-ton trucks lined up one after the other, the line stretching all the way around the equator. And all vehicles are loaded to the brim with laptops, refrigerators, smartphones…
EU law: Device repairs should become cheaper – economy
Cell phones, vacuum cleaners, coffee machines, washing machines and dishwashers: These and many other devices will have to be repaired in the EU in the future if it is technically…
Packaging regulations: The mountains of garbage should shrink – the industry is raging
The EU wants to radically change what packaging can look like. Lobbying rarely produces such bizarre results. source site
How Munich wants to become a center for circular economy – Munich
Almost exactly a year ago, the city council decided that Munich would embark on the “path to becoming a circular city”. Since such a conversion to a circular economy is…
Plastic waste: EU agrees to ban plastic waste exports – Economy
Plastic waste from the EU will no longer be allowed to end up anywhere in the world in the future. Representatives of the EU states agreed with negotiators from the…
Interview with the waste researcher Roman Köster – Culture
Normally, the historian likes to spend time in his closet and study sources, he says, but at the moment he often gives interviews because his book hits the nerve of…
Munich wants to become a circular city: a pioneer of the circular economy – Munich
Manufacture, sell, throw away – this is how the journey of many products can be described. People have known for a long time that this model is unsustainable. Munich therefore…