Environment | 27 September, 2023 at 9:20 AM
Cluj County Council wants to extract green energy from garbage
The County of Cluj is going to acquire a treatment facility through molecular disintegration, for the energy recovery of waste.
The County of Cluj is going to acquire a treatment facility through molecular disintegration, for the energy recovery of waste.
TechBolide launched the Eco Ville application, a solution for efficient waste management.
Aquila's total carbon footprint decreased by 6.5%, amounting to 36,837 metric tons of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e), on location-based calculation, according to the sustainability report.
The European Commission calls on Czechia and Slovakia to update their national law to limit air pollution from medium combustion plants.
The European Commission is proposing rules to make producers responsible for the full lifecycle of textile products and to support the sustainable management of textile waste across the EU.
Stericycle is investing $1.6 million in the company's most modern medical waste processing facility in Oradea, Romania. The technology implemented in the new facility increases speed, efficiency and sustainability in the medical waste treatment process.
AROBS Engineering represents Romania in the ClearSpace-1 consortium for a pioneering mission to remove debris from Earth's orbit.
Retailer Auchan contributed to the recycling of 14,000 tons of waste at the store level in Romania in 2021. Also, through the collection of used cooking oil, initiated in October 2019, more than 220,000 liters of oil were collected until the end of 2021.
The Braşov County Council has established the locations for the investments of the Integral Waste Management System (SMID) project in Braşov County. For this project, the county public administration provided RON 9.09 million in this year's budget (€ 1.8 million). Brasov remained among the last counties in the country that do not have a functional SMID integrated waste management system.
The Sibiu County Council will invest RON 84 million without VAT (€16.8 million) in an integrated waste management system in the cities of Avrig, Agnita, Sibiu, Mediaș and Cisnădie. The works must be ready by December 15, 2023.
51% of Romanian entrepreneurs see sustainability as a way to reduce operational costs, yet the same proportion say implementation is too expensive, according to a new study by BRD Groupe Société Générale. Conducted among micro and small-to-medium enterprises, the research outlines how Romanian entrepreneurs perceive the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to sustainable business models.
The Annual Water Report, based on over 13.5 billion liters of monitored water usage across 5,370 properties in 36 countries, reveals that 67% of properties experience water leakage yearly. With rising water scarcity, increasing tariffs, aging infrastructure, and stricter regulations, property owners are under growing pressure to better understand their water consumption.
Romanian developer Iulius has launched Europe's largest private bioremediation project, investing €29 million to clean 38 hectares of contaminated land in downtown Constanța. The project will transform the former Oil Terminal platform into an integrated urban regeneration complex worth over €800 million.
The European Union is at risk of missing a key United Nations deadline for submitting updated climate targets, as internal disagreements among member states delay a final decision on emissions goals for 2040.
Solar power has rapidly risen to become Hungary's second-largest source of electricity, overtaking gas for the first time in 2024.
