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Landfills: a lucrative and highly polluting market
Landfills: a lucrative and highly polluting marketReporterre - 22 Sep 2022
What to do with waste? They largely end up buried (and therefore not recovered) in landfills. These overflow, catch fire, pollute, smell bad... In short, they are very poorly managed.
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December 2021, Saint-Chamas, on the edge of the Etang de Berre, north of Marseille. A gigantic metal hangar vomited molten waste in a terrible smell. Toxic fumes saturated the surrounding air. The levels of fine particles measured were "equivalent to those of Beijing", says Dominique Robin, general manager of AtmoSud, the air quality control body in the region. For nearly a month, the fire ravaged this warehouse filled to the roof with ordinary industrial waste, DIB in administrative jargon: cardboard packaging, plastic, scrap metal which companies are trying to get rid of, in return for finance. Recyclage Concept 13, the company that owns the hangar, held an authorization to store 1 cubic meters. On the spot, the firefighters discovered thirty times more…
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Nuclear waste, a scapegoat?
Nuclear waste, a scapegoat?Counterpoints - August 27, 2021
According to this article and its sources, nuclear waste, radioactive, would not be particularly harmful, and certainly less than the drug residues found in tap water. Would a new belief be shattered?
In view of the existence of various naturally radioactive places that do not generate health problems, as well as radioactive disasters without effects on the adjacent populations, it is likely that radioactivity is singled out in an exaggerated way. Who benefits from the crime? And who does it serve?
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Journalist tests Plastic Odyssey machines and makes a chair
Journalist tests Plastic Odyssey machines and makes a chairWe Tomorrow - August 24, 2021
In Marseille, a journalist from WE DEMAIN went to test the low-tech recycling machines of the Plastic Odyssey expedition, whose ship will leave after the summer for a world tour, against plastic pollution. An adventure to follow in each issue of WE DEMAIN.
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9 low tech and open source machines to recycle plastic
We Tomorrow - 20 Jul 2021
Ahead of its ocean-cleaning expedition, the Plastic Odyssey lab ship is sharing all blueprints for its low-tech machines on an open-source platform. Objective: to democratize plastic recycling technologies.
Plastic Odyssey is a large-scale international project, it is made up of a company, an association, a network of partners and a community of volunteers. Its objective is to reduce plastic pollution by reusing this resource.
“Trees are responsible for more air pollution than factories.”
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Ressourceries in France: a second life for abandoned objects
Ressourceries in France: a second life for abandoned objectsResources - March 26, 2020
La Ressourcerie is an ecological solution because abandoned objects find a second life there. Bringing them back to the market does not require new raw materials and avoids the accumulation of waste. Ressourceries are structures where you can find various second-hand objects, the sale of which creates jobs.
Discover the principles and values of resource centers and the national network of these alter-globalization places, but also job offers,
We do not inherit the land from our parents, we borrow it from our children.
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SEAQUAL INITIATIVE: Together for a clean ocean
SEAQUAL INITIATIVE: Together for a clean oceanSeaqual Initiative - Oct 4, 2017
SEAQUAL INITIATIVE is a community of people, organizations and businesses working together to help clean up our oceans, raise awareness of the marine litter problem and highlight those who are helping to fight it.
SEAQUAL INITIATIVE works with the waste management and recycling industries to transform marine litter into recycled marine plastic, so that leading brands and manufacturers can create sustainable products.
“It was a real relief to find this initiative to support us in our project. »
