The pot of yogurt, the tube of toothpaste, the empty packet of crisps or even the plastic tray of cherry tomatoes or ham. Since the beginning of the year, all this waste has changed destination. The inhabitants of Toulouse metropolis are now invited to put all this packaging in their sorting bin, in the same way as shampoo bottles, milk cartons, aluminum cans or paper.This small revolution in terms of household waste management is a regulatory obligation which should make...
The Greens faction in the district council is committed to ensuring that the district of Munich makes the greatest possible effort to avoid waste. To this end, the district is to become a "zero waste community". "The zero-waste approach corresponds to the action plan of the European Green Deal, with which the EU Commission defined the circular economy for a cleaner and competitive Europe," says district councilor Helga Keller-Zenth from Oberschleißheim, co-author of the application. "Municipalities and counties play a...
Do meetings really make sense? More and more companies are asking themselves the question - and rightly so, says expert Dirk Schmachtenberg. By Victoria Robertz Dirk Schmachtenberg is Managing Director of the management and technology consultancy Plan D. His areas of expertise are innovation, strategy development and digitization. Mr. Schmachtenberg, why do we have so many meetings when they often don't work? The mistake is usually that you don't think about the goal of the meeting. Many are performed in...
The ministers Cem Özdemir and Marco Buschmann want to make containerization unpunished. And also see this as a building block against food waste. Is this really the right approach? The facts. Be honest, how much food ends up in your trash? I can tell you: a lot. 11 million tons of food are thrown away in Germany every year, most of it in private households (about 60 percent). That is about 78 kilograms per capita. For comparison: trade only contributes...
Some see them as "saviors", others as misguided thieves. In Germany, people who uninvitedly open trash cans in supermarkets to fish out discarded groceries have long been considered whimsical eco-lovers. In times of inflation and calls for austerity, however, the "container" is now finding favor with those in government for the first time. The collection of discarded food should be decriminalized, at least if no doors are broken open or hard obstacles are overcome. Criminal proceedings against containers should be...
Status: 01/10/2023 09:11 a.m In addition to the Greens, the FDP is now also campaigning to no longer criminalize "containers" - at least in most cases. Ministers Buschmann and Özdemir are campaigning together for a change in criminal law. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann from the FDP and Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir from the Greens are jointly campaigning for a change in the criminal and fine procedures for the "container". The aim is to generally no longer punish people if they...
corona pandemic Report sees possible waste of billions in PCR tests Currently, 32.39 euros have to be paid for a PCR test. photo © Marijan Murat/dpa Anyone who had to know exactly what Corona had in the past three years needed a PCR test. The state and health insurance companies have spent a lot of money on the "gold standard" test - much more than necessary? According to a media report, the state and health insurance companies may have spent...
Arno Geiger, award-winning author, collected books from dumpsters for a long time. In an autobiographical essay, he tells how the treasures from Vienna's waste paper changed his life.from Marie SchmidtArno Geiger writes that what he did is not forbidden. Rather taboo, that is, something to be ashamed of, disgusted by. Even if it's something mundane, like "eating snot in public." Digging in the trash is also not a socially acceptable behavior. Society turns away, "Someone who is looking for something...
Status: 09.01.2023 4:23 p.m After the report about a possible waste of billions in the financing of PCR tests in the pandemic, the FDP called for a committee of inquiry to investigate. The Union, on the other hand, defended the funding. FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai wants to have billions of euros wasted in financing PCR tests in the corona pandemic in the Bundestag. "In addition to the mask deals from politicians from the CDU and CSU, the far too...
So far, the state and health insurers have spent more than six billion euros on PCR tests. According to research by SZ, NDR and WDR, a very large part of it could have been saved. But apparently nobody was interested in the true costs - not even the responsible minister. source site
