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Last month, the Fitur International Tourism Fair in Madrid, Spain saw the launch of the Global Tourism Plastic Initiative (GTPI), which aims to reduce the co...

What Is the Global Tourism Plastic Initiative?

Feb 22 2020

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Planting trees has been hailed as one of the most cost-effective and efficient ways of removing carbon from the atmosphere and combating the onset of climate...

Why Does Tree Planting Have a Pollution Problem?

Feb 12 2020

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Over half a million hermit crabs have been killed by plastic pollution on several remote islands in the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific, according to an a...

Half a Million Crabs Killed by Plastic Pollution

Jan 02 2020

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Governments across the world should introduce an outright ban on cigarette filters, according to an editorial published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ)...

Should Cigarette Filters Be Banned?

Dec 02 2019

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Italian coffee behemoth Lavazza has become the first major manufacturer of one-cup coffee cups to introduce a compostable version of its product. The company...

Lavazza Launches Compostable Coffee Pods

Nov 27 2019

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According to statistics released by the Ibiza Preservation Fund (IPF), the small Spanish island is responsible for half a tonne of waste per person per year....

How Is Ibiza Tackling Pollution?

Nov 22 2019

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The latest Global Brand Audit Report from Break Free From Plastic has revealed the top 10 most polluting companies in the world. Unsurprisingly, the three bi...

10 of the World's Most Polluting Brands

Nov 17 2019

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There are major gaps in how food waste in tourism is understood and calculated, according to researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and the Univers...

Food waste in tourism is a bigger issue than previously thought

Nov 05 2019

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Lincolnshire Energy from Waste (EfW) facility has reached the huge milestone of processing one million tonnes of waste – reducing the amount going to landf...

Energy from Waste celebrates ‘one million milestone’

Nov 04 2019

Waste Management

The city of Rome has taken an innovative step in its bid to clean up its act with regards to waste and plastic pollution throughout the city. Through its +Ri...