Plastics, a topical issue taking up its place at Pollutec Today the plastics economy is huge and its application sectors are making it even more vast. The need to accompany the transition of this economy towards one that is more responsible and sustainable is therefore key in reducing the health and environmental impacts of the […]
Read articleAct to protect and promote biodiversity Created in 2012 during the COP11 in Hyderabad in India, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has 129 State members. At its 6th plenary session held in Medellín (Colombia) at the end of March, IPBES published a number of major reports, four of which assess […]
Read articleNine EU Member States on the verge of dispute The Air Quality in Europe – 2017 report by the European Environment Agency notes that air quality in Europe is improving slowly. However, high concentrations of atmospheric pollution are still having significant repercussions on the health of Europeans, in particular those linked with fine particulate matter […]
Read articleAgriculture: a market that is expanding at Pollutec With the development of new agro-ecological methods, agriculture represents an increasingly attractive application sector for environment professionals and specialists in all sectors: water, waste, energy recovery(biogas and methanization), renewable energies, soil management, ecological engineering expertise for the preservation of natural habitats, risk management and new cutting-edge technologies […]
Read articleThe Netherlands, ever more committed to protecting the environment For a number of decades, the Netherlands is a country where the ecology issue has been particularly important. Driven by its very high population density, sizeable industries and logistics activities from, in particular, the ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam and Schiphol airport, the country is increasingly […]
Read articleIn June 2016, Chile took a step forward in terms of the environment by becoming the first country in Latin America to adopt a law relative to recycling and the extended responsibility of producers, the EPR law. The aim of this law is that users hand over used products to an intermediary who then returns […]
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