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International Day of Action for Rivers 4 March 2021
The International Day of Action for Rivers is a day dedicated to solidarity – when diverse communities around the world come together with one voice to say that rivers matter.- agriculture
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World Wildlife Day 3rd March 2021: "Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet"
World Wildlife Day will be celebrated this 3rd March 2021 under the theme "Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet", as a way to highlight the central role of forests, forest species and ecosystems services in sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people globally, and particularly of Indigenous and local communities with historic ties to forested and forest-adjacent areas.- agriculture
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Plastic waste in Europe is a far from recycling targets
Every year, EU citizens generate 26 million tonnes of plastic waste: 39% ends up in the incinerator, 31% in landfills and only 30% is collected for recycling. It is unlikely that the EU will be able to recycle 50% of plastic packaging by 2025 and 55% by 2030, as envisaged in the Commission’s 2018 strategy.- awareness
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A Kenyan engineer and entrepreneur turns plastic waste into strong building material
A young Kenyan engineer and entrepreneur has founded a company in Nairobi to turn plastic destined for the landfill into sustainable, strong building material, using the plastic waste of commercial facilities to create bricks that can withstand twice the weight threshold of concrete. The factory is only in its beginning stages, but it has already recycled 20 tons of plastic since 2017 and created 120 jobs in Nairobi. In addition, the bricks are also one of the more affordable options on the market.
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FAO declared 2021 the International Year of Fruit and Vegetables.
The aim is to raise public awareness of the health benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption, promote healthy diet and lifestyle, reduce food waste and food losses, improving food production by making it more sustainable through innovation and technology in line with UN development objectives.
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Disposable plastic is a huge threat to the health of the planet
A problem that not only concerns the health of the fauna, but also ours. Plastic, which ends up in the food chain, puts commercial fishing and aquaculture at risk. A significant risk for 1.4 billion people for which fish is one of the main sources of protein. 80% of the waste consists of plastic.- animal welfare
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Annual human production of objects exceeds 30 billion tonnes
Since a century the anthropogenic mass doubles on average every 20 years. Since the '50s of the last century there has been a strong acceleration, which has become dizzying since the beginning of the third millennium. For each living human being, the mass of objects produced is more than its own body weight.- agriculture
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How can we restore the primordial link between environment and people?
Urban development has compromised that primordial link that united the environment and people. How is it possible to restore it?
By a conscious and responsible lifestyle. Every daily gesture directly affects our well-being and our surroundings.
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Reuse food containers to reduce plastic pollution
Sadly, it’s almost impossible to avoid plastic when shopping for groceries. Almost everything comes wrapped in it, and most of this packaging is unnecessary.
We can change that. Take the reusable container challenge and join the movement that is already transforming the way we shop for groceries! This could be the new normal!
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Plastic in the Arctic comes largely from polyester clothes
Analyses indicate that homes and water treatment stations release microfibres that end up polluting the Arctic. There’s plastic all over our lives.- Arctic Ocean
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Say No to plastic wraps, ditch plastics!
There are many things to do against single-use plastic pollution, but the most important measure is reduction. The first step is to get rid of the delusion that any plastic consumed will simply disappear. Even when you throw it away, it doesn’t degrade. Not in our lifetime.- awareness
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- food storage
- garbage
- garbage patch
- green deal
- health
- landfill
- litter
- microplastic
- nanoplastics
- nature
- no plastic
- organic
- organic cotton
- plant trees
- plastic
- plastic free
- plastic pollution
- pollution
- protect the forests
- protect the ocean
- recycle
- reduce
- renewables
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- reuse
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Exotic paradise of plastics
In recent days, monsoon rains and winds blowing from west to east have brought huge amounts of marine plastic waste to Indonesia's main beaches.- animal welfare
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- garbage patch
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- litter
- marine life
- marine protected area
- microplastic
- nanoplastics
- nature
- no plastic
- ocean
- organic
- plastic
- plastic free
- plastic pollution
- pollution
- protect the ocean
- recycle
- reduce
- renewables
- reusable
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- rubbish
- save water
- seas
- single use plastic ban
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