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Those who have never visited Mărginimea Sibiului have no idea what they have missed. 2010. End of June, beginning of July. Crisis, The crisis is suffocating, vuvuzelas are deafening, the world seems to be going mad. The car goes patiently along the Olt Valley. The Olt River is wide, black, angry and very dirty. It carries down from the mountains thousands and thousands of plastic bottles. Transhumance has an ugly step sister – the transhumance of plastic bottles coming from the...

Created in 2005 as an initiative developed by 30 electrical and electronic equipment producers and importers, the non-profit EcoLogic Association from France is also supported by the International Federation of Mechanics and Electronics Companies (FICIME), as well as the IT&C Industrial Alliance. The board is made up of the representatives of 12 companies and associations with equal voting rights, regardless of the turnover (Aisin, Brother, Daewoo, Epson, FICIME, Fuji Film, Kodak, Lexmark,...

The Portuguese Association for the Management of Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Amb3e (Associação Portuguesa de Gestão de Resíduos de Equipamentos Eléctricos e Electrónicos) is a private, non-profit association whose mission is the management of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). At the moment, Amb3E has 60 local branches, almost 1,000 members and 480 WEEE drop-off centres, in a country with less than 11 million...

As an individual, it may be difficult to measure your own actions’ effects on nature. This is why we use comparisons in order to get at least an approximate view of your direct impact on the environment. Once we have learned how to use the microwave oven, we can make a simple calculation in order to assess the energy consumed in our homes without any concrete purpose. A computer monitor that is not switched off during the night uses as much energy as a microwave oven uses to heat a...

Last month, Minister László Borbély announced that the Ministry for the Environment has issued a draft law regarding the obligation of local public administration authorities to recycle at least 15% of the collected municipal and assimilable waste as of 1st July. ‘Those authorities who fail to reach this annual objective will pay 100 lei per metric ton. This payment shall be made for the difference between the annual reduction target and the quantity recycled in...

A new volunteer has recently joined out team: actor Catalin Paraschiv. He told us that he had heard about our activities from his friend Horatiu, and he would like to give us a helping hand. We had no hesitation in taking him on board.   His first meeting with ‘recycling’ took place at Brad, where he coordinated the team of volunteer pupils. How was it? We’ll let him tell you.   Morning, 8:30, Brad. The merciless phone wakes me up. I take a quick cold shower...