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Biofuels from urban waste

Second-generation biofuels from urban waste can help Spain to comply with the new European environmental legislation

This has been assured to EFEverde by the president of the National Association of manufacturers of biofuels and renewable fuels (AFABIOR), Santiago Verda, which is committed to the use of the fraction of waste that is not recycled to generate less polluting fuel. However, as Spanish cement companies today "do not work as before", 90% of this CSR ends up in landfills, he said. Therefore, this association of companies uses a technology "pioneer in Spain" to treat it and obtain from it "a liquid that we use as a fuel". Fulfilling European objectives According to Verda, a liter of this...

Nearly three out of four Atlantic fish present microplastics in their stomachs

These findings are worrisome, since affected fish could spread microplastics throughout the ocean

These fish are also prey to fish that humans consume, which means that microplastics could indirectly contaminate our food supply through the transfer of associated microplastic toxins. Microplastics are small fragments of plastic that have accumulated in the marine environment after decades of contamination. These fragments can cause significant problems for marine organisms that ingest them, including inflammation, reduced feeding and weight loss. Microplastic contamination can also spread from organism to organism when predators eat prey. Since fragments can bind chemical contaminants,...

The war against plastics

Ecological initiatives are multiplying, from the boom in bulk consumption to the network of sources that London prepares to reduce water bottling

Faced with the excesses of the industry, actions to stop the planet Plastic multiply. "There is a new trend that has proposed to flee the madness of overpacking, buying back in bulk and returning to municipal markets, and more and more consumers are going to buy with their own containers," Marta Beltran explains. of Rezero (Fundació Catalana per a la Prevenció de Residus i el Consum Responsable). This week we learned that the Dutch chain Ekoplaza has opened in Amsterdam the first super with a corridor of free products of plastic, packed in compostable biomaterials. "40% of...

New European standards on waste

The ambassadors of the European Union have approved new rules on the management and recycling of waste

What benefits can this new regulation bring?   Greater recycling of waste that will promote the circular economy It will improve the management of waste and generate greater reuse of valuable material that is embedded in the waste. These new standards establish legally binding objectives for the recycling of waste and the reduction of landfills with fixed deadlines. These objectives will increase the proportion of municipal waste of waste and packaging that is recycled, with specific objectives for the recycling of the materials used in the containers. The rules also include...