Waste

ISSUES

Waste

A kilo a day
In France, each person produces almost a kilo of waste a day: 353 kg/inhabitant per year. That is the equivalent of 28 million tons a year in 2004. (1) As well as this household waste, there are 104 million tons of waste from local authorities and companies and farming and mining waste. In all, 849 million tons of waste are produced in France every year.
At the moment, 49% of council waste in the European Union is dumped, 18% is incinerated and 33% is recycled or used for compost (2) [Débat]

NEWS

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Le district de Mexico vient de bannir définitivement les sacs plastiques de la ville

CHINA - PEKIN - La Chine va dépenser plusieurs milliards d'euros pour replanter des arbres et dépolluer le bassin de retenue en...

FRANCE - LA GARDE - La secrétaire d'Etat à l'Ecologie Chantal Jouanno, en déplacement lundi dans le Var, s'est dite préoccupée...

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DEBATES

What Makes Europe Greener than the U.S.?

Elisabeth Rosenthal

It was late and raining this summer when I approached the information desk at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport to inquire about how...

Total recycling' aims to make landfill history

Total recycling' aims to make landfill historyBY 2011 all...

Redesigning the Materials Economy

Redesigning the materials economy In nature, one-way linear...

INITIATIVE

Une blanchisserie de couches lavables bio : un pari culotté

De sa naissance jusqu’à l’âge de la propreté, chaque enfant génère près d’une tonne de couches culotte jetables. Un volume de déchets colossal qui mettra 500 ans à se dégrader ou sera incinéré, générant alors de nombreux polluants atmosphériques. Environ 4 arbres et...

VIDEOS

12/07/2010	Soutenue par la Surfrider Foundation et par des personnalités comme...	06/04/2010	Le Guide du tri d'EcoEmballages est une application qui permet de savoir...
24/03/2010	The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day)...	11/03/2010	There's some scary creatures in the ocean... none more scary than plastic....

GREEN TIPS

An incentive to recycle

How can 450 000 drinks cans, that is to say the equivalent of 6 tons of aluminium, be collected and recycled...

INDICATORS

Population
Urban population
Ecological footprint

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