Tag: Waste management
Tax ineffective – McDonalds owner gets right
Tübingen packaging tax Environmental activists demonstrated in front of the building, but the Baden-Württemberg Administrative Court agreed with the plaintiff. (Photo: dpa) Mannheim, Tubingen The city of Tübingen has received…
Renovation should become more environmentally friendly
thermal insulation The materials for energy-efficient building refurbishment can also be harmful to the environment. (Photo: dpa) Brussels The EU Commission wants to reduce the environmentally harmful effects of construction.…
Japan is fighting plastic waste with innovations
Asia Technonomics In the weekly column we take turns writing about innovation and economic trends in Asia. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) Tokyo When Japan develops robots to solve a problem, the…
Mining group starts recycling electric car batteries
Glencore headquarters in Baar The Swiss commodity giant is getting into the recycling of e-car batteries. (Photo: Reuters) Zurich The Glencore mining group is getting into the recycling of old…
Handelsblatt Green: What to do with electronic waste?
San Francisco Year after year, the tech industry presents the latest models of smartphones, tablets and computers at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Sustainability is becoming more…
How Javier Goyeneche pioneered recycled fashion
Madrid Javier Goyeneche talks about his project with a mixture of humility and enthusiasm. He produces sustainable fashion and for this purpose collects rubbish from the sea. To do this,…
Henkel, Beiersdorf, L’Oréal and Co. have a plastic problem
Packaging from Henkel The Düsseldorf-based consumer goods manufacturer is also looking for ways to avoid and reduce plastic. When it comes to climate issues, we already know: it takes revenge…
A lack of plastic will act as a brake on the switch to the circular economy
PET recycling plant in Rostock (Photo: picture alliance / dpa) Dusseldorf The consumer goods companies have set themselves high goals for the new year: They want to drastically increase the…
How investors can get a return on rubbish
Mountains of rubbish Investors can benefit from waste too. (Photo: Bloomberg) Frankfurt So far, waste has only been an annoying evil for many. More and more, however, a holistic economic…
Why it is so difficult to get plastic out of packaging
Dusseldorf At first glance, the cardboard displays on which Procter & Gamble will be presenting Gillette razors at Lidl and Kaufland from this week look inconspicuous. But a year of…
Amazon wants to do without plastic packaging when shipping
Amazon in the Indian city of Bangalore In recent years, environmental organizations have accused Amazon of producing too much plastic waste with its packaging. (Photo: Reuters) Munich The online retailer…
How useful are climate summits really?
Dusseldorf The 26th UN Climate Change Conference is over. The promises made before the two-week negotiations were high: “It is our opportunity to make history,” said EU Commission President Ursula…
This is how the car companies want to become sustainable
Düsseldorf, Munich Even if there is a lack of chips in vehicle production everywhere, the triumph of electric cars seems unstoppable. In October, their share of new car registrations in…
Is a full circular economy possible?
Dusseldorf Humans extract more than 100 billion tons of raw materials such as oil, gas and metals from the earth every year – but only around nine percent of them…
Circular Economy: Economy without waste: What Germany can learn from the trendsetter Netherlands
Holland wants to create a waste-free economy by 2050. Whether it’s leftover bread or recycled cement: businesses and municipalities start one project after the other. .source site
Why Lidl and Aldi collect their packaging waste themselves
Plastic waste at Prezero The subsidiary of the Schwarz Group collects 10 million tons of recyclable materials this year. (Photo: PreZero) Dusseldorf Anyone who thinks that Lidl’s mother Schwarz Group…
Why recycling will be the next revolution in industry
Dusseldorf The car is sparkling and sleek, like many other car models. But in the small electric car that BMW presented at this year’s IAA motor show, the concentrated future…
Why recycling will be the next revolution in industry
Dusseldorf The car is sparkling and sleek, like many other car models. But in the small electric car that BMW presented at this year’s IAA motor show, the concentrated future…
Soda makers from Mitte Home, Philips and Brita: New competition for Sodastream
Dusseldorf After five years of development, the time had come on Tuesday: The Berlin start-up Mitte started selling a device that can be used to personalize water. Mitte Home first…
Why mineral water is becoming obsolete
Vittel mineral water bottles As of November, Nestlé will no longer supply the German discounter Lidl with Vittel mineral water. (Photo: picture alliance / Rolf Haid) Dusseldorf The customers of…