A few years ago the stylist Marine Serre said "being sustainable now is no longer a choice but survival". Perhaps not everyone knows that the fashion industry is the second most polluting on the planet, after the oil industry. For example, jeans are one of the most polluting garments in history. Today fashion has had to adapt, trying to shorten the supply chain and reduce the collections. Until before the pandemic, we were faced with [...]

One of the biggest challenges of the circular economy is to reduce waste. In Italy, about 30 million tons of municipal waste and 120 million of special waste are produced each year. The estimate we make is not very precise, but at European level we can assume a ratio of 1:7, i.e. 1 kg of municipal waste for every 7 kg of special waste. Fortunately, there are many Italian companies that are making an effort [...]

Our houses are real mines of materials that can be reused. You can create artistic objects that express the creativity of those who make them, perhaps making them with children. Working with them is always exciting because they have a creativity and open-mindedness that we adults have often lost. Making any kind of new objects come into being from their hands is an ever-changing and content-rich challenge. What was achieved in the "Recycling is an [...]

The Municipality of Tivoli, located on the outskirts of Rome in the Rome East quadrant, has about 60,000 inhabitants. It is the Municipality of Villa d'Este, Villa Gregoriana, Villa Adriana and other archaeological, historical-artistic and UNESCO heritage sites of global importance. In 2014 the city started a small sweet revolution called "separate collection". Tivoli in those years was still besieged by a truly worrying waste emergency, with a very low percentage of separate collection, which [...]

Among the various results in which Tivoli particularly distinguished itself, the collection of “WEEE”, i.e. waste from electrical and electronic equipment, stands out among all. Unfortunately, in many cities this waste is often abandoned in the countryside or in the suburbs, becoming the prerogative of a gray economy by groups that manage the illicit traffic. In Tivoli, since 2015, a project has begun which has brought the collection of WEEE from a few tens of [...]

It is possible to reduce the production of organic waste by paying attention to food waste. Do you think that the collection of this type of waste, which in Tivoli takes place three times a week for domestic users, and every day for restaurants and pizzerias, can be reduced by half if you are careful to optimize what we have in the pantry? using it for cooking and, in the case of catering users, proposing [...]

How do you write successful articles? The important thing is to understand who the recipient is and modulate the language. Then, always remember the fundamental rules of the five W's: What, Who, Where, Why, When, or rather what, who, where, when and why.  Normally, these five W's are found at the beginning of a text. Inside the piece you will find other outline information, up to the details, usually in conclusion, following an inverted pyramid [...]

In recent times we often hear about Greenwashing, a very common practice in companies that claim to be sustainable but which in reality are not. Let's take for example some fashion brands that have Conscious lines. All of this is absolutely not Green, because in fact they have a fast production that drives them to consume, throw away and repurchase, and this is the least sustainable there is. However, environmental communication also passes through a [...]

Proposing new design solutions in an artisan key, with total respect for the environment and with constant attention to the concept of recovery, is what is deeply close to my heart.  For this reason, the goal is to organize creative workshops designed for you kids in collaboration with schools.  It is extremely important to be able to learn, through the reuse and recycling of objects, their intrinsic value, the potential for transformation that each material [...]

UNIRIMA is a trade association of Italian companies involved in the collection, recovery, recycling and trade of paper. Italy is a leader in this sector, both in Europe and in the world, we have in fact managed to reach and exceed the recycling targets that the European Community has set for 2030 10 years in advance. Paper recycling is a historical activity in Italy, made up of companies also born at the beginning of the [...]

It is interesting to explain how the job done by so many companies and so many insiders works. The first gesture is made by us citizens, by commercial, industrial and artisanal activities, and that is to separate the collection of paper and cardboard.  So paper waste is collected and transported to mechanical recycling plants to be processed. The vehicles then unloads the paper and cardboard waste previously collected in special areas. Then, by conveyor belts, [...]

Supporting the environment at this time is essential, and certainly the recovery of material from what we throw away helps to reduce the so-called human environmental footprint.  Recycling activities have great environmental value because they contribute to reducing CO2 emissions, saving primary raw materials and energy.  Whenever a product comes from the primary material, therefore from extractive activities, or for paper, from the cellulose of trees, the extraction process that determines the final product has [...]