Veolia Environnement agreed to sell Suez’s waste activities in Britain to Macquarie Group for 2.4 billion euros (£2.01 billion) after the country’s antitrust authority raised competition concerns.
Italian technology and engineering conglomerate Maire Tecnimont has announced plans for a circular economy model using rubbish and landfill gas. This could help alleviate Italy, and Europe’s, dependence on Russian natural gas.
Chemicals innovation could help recover metals from electronic waste, a cleaner approach to their extraction. New technologies could replace the highly pollutive methods used in traditional mining and accelerate circular approaches to electronics.
Veolia Environnement agreed to sell Suez’s waste activities in Britain to Macquarie Group for 2.4 billion euros (£2.01 billion) after the country’s antitrust authority raised competition concerns.
Italian technology and engineering conglomerate Maire Tecnimont has announced plans for a circular economy model using rubbish and landfill gas. This could help alleviate Italy, and Europe’s, dependence on Russian natural gas.
Chemicals innovation could help recover metals from electronic waste, a cleaner approach to their extraction. New technologies could replace the highly pollutive methods used in traditional mining and accelerate circular approaches to electronics.
Each year, an estimated 11 million metric tons of plastic leak into our oceans. Substantially more ends up in dumping grounds, landfills, rivers, and other natural ecosystems around the world.
One of the environmental issues which has caught the public imagination is the problem with plastic. There are two underlying challenges associated with plastic – the pollution that it causes and its dependence on fossil fuel use through the petrochemical industry, with most plastics consisting of 99% oil. Now 175 countries have endorsed a UN resolution to end plastic pollution.