The team at Pollutec 2018 met with Patrick Deixonne, founder of the ‘Expédition 7ème Continent’ (7th Continent Expedition) Initiative. The navigator and explorer alerted us on ocean plastic pollution.
Read articleThe International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been assessing the overall conservation status of plant and animal species worldwide for more than 50 years. The IUCN Red List shows that one in four species of mammal, more than one in three amphibians and more than one in eight birds are now threatened with extinction on a global scale.
Read articleA year after its launch, the ministry has produced a progress report on the road map for a circular economy (aka ‘FREC’). How do things stand exactly? And how might we expect this to translate in the bill still being drawn up?
Read articleIn October 2018, France published the very first experimental standard on the management of circular economy projects. This voluntary standard (XP X30-901) enables companies and organisations to take on the subject and roll out projects that include it in all its dimensions.
Read article2,150 companies represent the textile industry in France and, in 2017, it generated a turnover of 13.4 billion euros. But like all industries, the textile industry has a number of impacts: climate change, freshwater eutrophication, depletion of mineral and fossil resources, respiratory effects, energy consumption.
Read articleLast November, Christian Brabant, CEO of Éco-systèmes, presented for the first time at Pollutec the “Telephony Village”, a hotspot at the show to discover the best of French know-how in mobile device recycling.
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