The UN food agency FAO is joing forces with Unilever to help developing countries tackle food loss, waste and climate change, in the context of the ...
Hubbub draws attention to disproportionate water use
Environmental charity Hubbub has started the #TapChat campaign, a project with the goal of reducing water use in the UK. People are quizzed on a website ...
Deutscher Nachbarschaftspreis 2017: Landessieger Bayern
Die Sieger des Nachbarschaftspreises 2017 wurden vor kurzem verkündet und SmartCityNews.global stellt nun im Rahmen einer Reihe von Artikeln den ...
Europe recycling about half their drinks cartons, trend rising
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) trade body has published data that shows that about 430,000 tonnes of cardboard drinks cartons ...
MIT’s Solve competition fights food & water challenges
The Solve competition, a contest organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), wants to promote cost-efficient food production closer to ...
Touchscreen plastic utilized to make bacteria useful
Researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have found a new way to use the conducting plastic of touchscreens on smartphones, namely ...
Mars fights emissions with $1 billion initiative
Mars, owner of brands such as Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, and Skittles, is going to invest $1 billion in a campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ...
Sustainable aquaculture could help meet rising food demand
As most of the world’s wild fisheries are fished at their maximum yield, aquaculture as the fastest growing food sector in the world, will have to step ...
Queensland gets serious with war on waste
The government of Queensland passed a bill in parliament on Tuesday that will prevent the distribution of single-use plastic bags and give refunds to ...
Package-free shops & and the movement against plastic
As a response to concerns about plastic pollution and food waste, package-free shops have opened across the world from Copenhagen to Montreal. Unsatisfied ...
