WasteandChemicals will exhibit at first edition of Waste Management Europe 2022, the European exhibition and conference for Waste Management and the Circular Economy which takes place in Bergamo on the 21-23rd June. Come and visit us! We will be at Stand 908 https://wme-expo.com/ At the following link the registration for admission to the fair and [...]
The Ministry of Ecological Transition approved with Directorial Decree n. 47 of 9 August 2021 the "Guidelines on the classification of waste" referred to the resolution of the Council of the National System for Environmental Protection (SNPA) of 18 May 2021. The new SNPA Guidelines follow the previous ones issued in November 2019, introducing [...]
WasteandChemicals participated on the recommendation of Ecopneus in the UNI project "Conforeach-gvg" developed by the UNI working group "Materials from the recovery of end-of-life tires" (ELTs) of the Technical Commission "Environment" of UNI, which involved all the main Italian stakeholders in the management of ELTs and leading companies in the production of infill for synthetic [...]
WasteandChemicals supported the initiative of the "BurkinaKamba" group, which operates within the NGO "Bambini nel deserto", for the purchase of 20 school desks with recycled polyethylene tops that were destined for the school in the Mougeya village in Burkina Faso. The school desks are made by the Yamba-D cooperative, based in Ouagadougou, which collects [...]
In 2019 WasteandChemicals worked on the definition of the Feasibility Study for waste management in the city of Marondera (Zimbabwe) within the project “Marondera Integrated Urban Water Management Master Plan project”. (https://www.marondera-iuwm.org/). One of our suggestions to the local autorithies was to support the local initiativies related to waste collection and recovery like the #cleanmarondera. Few [...]
2020 was certainly a difficult year marked by the global Covid-19 pandemic. Despite this, there have been many innovations introduced in the waste and chemicals sectors. In particular, there were two sectors affected by the main innovations: Circular Economy, Waste classification. We tried to summarize the most important news by selecting one for each month [...]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Research Council of Italy organized the online Workshop “From Offshore Oil & Gas to Deep Seabed Mining: new technologies and emerging issues”, which took place on 18-19 November 2020, with the aim of fostering collaborations and knowledge sharing between the two industry sectors and the academia. Marcello [...]
The Decree of the Italian Ministry of Environment n. 182/2019 has been published today 8th April 2020 on the Official Gazette. The decree is titled “Regulation bringing timing and application modalities about management duties of End-of-Life Tyres in application of art. 228, paragraph 2 of Legislative Decree n. 152/2006”. The new regulation defines the procedures [...]
Year 2019 is ending and there were many events, big and small. We tried to identify the most important facts that let a mark and, probably, will be diriment also during the coming 2020. Waste sector has been characterized by two main topics: 1) End of waste legislation: a new amendment to art. 184-ter of [...]
WasteandChemicals during 2019 worked on the definition of the Feasibility Study for waste management in the city of Marondera (Zimbabwe) within the project "Marondera Integrated Urban Water Management Master Plan project". (https://www.marondera-iuwm.org/) The study showed that the environmental awareness that all citizens shall develop is the one of the most [...]
