Category: Waste

2020 / Plastics, Uncategorized, Waste

Zero waste beaches, a solution against the omnipresence of plastics in the Mediterranean Sea

80% of marine litter in the Mediterranean comes from land-based sources and 80% of it is plastic. An average daily contribution of 250,000 pieces of waste per square kilometre is estimated during the tourist season on the beaches. The Zero Beach project, coordinated by Rezero and Eco-union, has shown that banning smoking on beaches can […]

/ Uncategorized, Waste

Using an item instead of owning it is practical, convenient and cheap

The first Library of Things in Catalunya, a pioneering project in social and environmental economy, is launched. Increasingly, we have become accustomed to accumulating objects at home that we barely use but which take up space, cost money and end up becoming waste. A family today lives surrounded by between 3,000 and 4,000 objects that […]