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Prevention of Food Waste Act passed at plenary session of Catalan Parliament
The new legislation will help achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 on zero hunger, and a target of reducing food waste by 50% has been...
Valdemingómez Technology Park to have new organic matter treatment and composting plant
This new infrastructure will guarantee treatment of all organic matter from selective collection, which began on November 1, 2017 in the municipality of Madrid....
How to give new life to poultry and wine industry waste
Food industry waste management is a critical issue, considering the environmental and health hazards involved with production and processing. For example, the poultry industry...
CENER is developing technology for future urban biorefineries, to move towards a circular bioeconomy
The Biomass Department of CENER (National Renewable Energy Centre of Spain) is convinced of the need to move towards a circular bioeconomy, in which the...
DECISIVE demonstration sites are shaping up as the new methodology defines their characteristics
This report is meant to give a preliminary characterization of the two demonstration sites (in Catalonia and Lyon) decided “a priori” to implement the...
The optimization of the anaerobic digestion will reduce costs and improve the generated biogas
PercoMeta is a project of industrial research to optimize the digestion of cereal straw and other residues of difficult treatment in conventional digesters. With...
FCC celebrates the 25th anniversary of the LIFE programme with a practical demonstration of the MethaMorphosis project at Ecoparc2 in Barcelona
MethaMorphosis, which was selected by the prestigious European LIFE programme in support of actions to mitigate climate change, seeks to increase the production of...
Five innovators awarded for ideas that help create a waste-free fashion industry
To speed up the shift to a circular waste-free fashion industry, the non-profit H&M Foundation initiated Global Change Award in 2015, calling for game-changing...
MariMatic AB’s Automated Waste Collection Solution Monitors the Weight of Waste in Vallastaden, Sweden
MariMatic AB delivers MetroTaifun® automatic solid waste collection system (AWCS) to the new Vallastaden residential area in Sweden. The solution is equipped with new...
Biowaste in the framework of the circular economy
The best data available, which does not always coincide with the official figures, shows that around 37.5% of municipal waste is biowaste. In simple...
