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Norway to make renewable aviation fuel
A newly-established industry consortium today unveiled plans for the construction in Norway of Europe’s first commercial plant for hydrogen-based renewable aviation fuel. Norsk e-Fuel will…
Rising hunger threatens famines as coronavirus crashes economies, leaves crops to rot in fields
Recessions caused by the coronavirus pandemic are leaving people hungry and raising the specter of famines this year. Unless the world acts immediately, a UN…
EU chemicals and waste laws must be harmonised, chemical recycling trade body says
European definitions for when recycled waste is considered a product again must be harmonised, because there is a “lack of alignment” between EU chemicals and…
Cementos Cosmos to use waste tyres as alternative fuel
Cementos Cosmos has been granted an Integrated Environmental Authorisation, allowing the company’s Toral de los Vados plant to use waste tyres as an alternative fuel…
Fresh wave of coronavirus food waste funding awarded
The first wave of funding under the government’s COVID-19 Emergency Surplus Food Grant has been confirmed today, with nearly 90 not-for-profit organisations across England set…
Singapore is checking waste water with people’s poo for coronavirus
From mass testing tens of thousands of its migrant workers to using serological tests to uncover links between its virus clusters, Singapore has deployed varying…
Unesco urged to declare Great Barrier Reef ‘in danger’
Environmental law groups in the US and Australia are pushing Unesco to place the world heritage status of the Great Barrier Reef on an “in…
Cannabis Water Report moves forward; will be published in late 2020
As cannabis and hemp regulation expands globally, its impact on water resources is relatively unknown. However, a partnership between Resource Innovation Institute (RII), the Berkeley…
Small islands may not disappear under rising seas, researchers find
In recent years, the leaders and inhabitants of many small-island nations like Kiribati and Tuvalu have warned that climate change is an existential threat to…
WWF: Major consumer goods giants only sourcing 8% recycled plastics
McDonald’s, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Keurig Dr Pepper and Procter & Gamble (P&G) collectively source 4.3 million metric tonnes of plastic annually, of which just 8% comes…
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