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What does recycling box mean colors?
On the street, you can think “Do this really correct box?” while wasteing the colorful boxes you see in your shopping center or office. Is the pizza box blue, black? Is milk carton glass, plastic? You don’t just want to have this confusion. Here are codes of recycle box colors used in Turkey. Why have colorful boxes? Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change...
Why did cities begin to limit the number of tourists?
For many years, tourism was considered one of the most important indicators of growth for cities. But today some cities discuss how to manage the number of visitors available, rather than attract more tourists. Because the problem is no longer the number of visitors, the carrying capacity. Tourism has grown, cities were smaller, Venice is one of the most striking examples. Around 500 thousand populations in 1951...
Is the fresh air no exception?
Air quality throughout the world is becoming increasingly worse. The 2025 World Air Quality Report released by the Swiss air quality measurement company IQAir shows that the clean air is now difficult to reach for many countries. According to the report based on the data of more than 143 countries and 9 thousand cities, only 13 countries can meet the limits of safe air quality set by the World Health Organization...
Finland heats its cities with waste heat
Every day we send emails, arrays we track, files we save... All in one place, working on servers running without stopping. This giant digital infrastructure produces much more heat than what we think, and in most places this energy is divorced. But Finland found the way to translate this waste into advantage. I installed old shelters under the ground temperature from data centers, the heat of the cities...
COP30’s nineth day
On the ninth day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), the negotiations pointed to a stage where significant progresses are recorded in the hardest and result decisive titles. New investment initiatives for the reclaiming of lands, the steps to strengthen the integrity standards in the carbon markets, the global South Business Association and...
Waste cotton handle turned into high value biomaterial
Researchers from IYTE and Malaysia have developed high-value bacterial nanocellulose, which can be dissolved in nature from waste cotton stems.
How to clean Swiss rivers?
Switzerland once has the most polluted rivers of Europe, today it shows example with the waterways of our tertemiz, which is referred to as ‘blue gold’. When it is dangerous to swim in these rivers, filled with raw sewage and industrial waste in the 1960s, people are able to enter the water even in the city centers. This conversion is not only with strong environmental laws, investments that last decades and...
A future with nature Home
While global environmental crisis are increasingly deepened, each new report published is often a warning. But this time, the new study, prepared in the leadership of Oxford University and published in Nature magazine, offers a different perspective: a future vision that takes the Umudu center. The research is not only people, but also a new measurement proposal that will allow nature to take its share from development...
Does excessive hots accelerate aging?
With climate change, increased hot air waves have appeared not only instant health problems, but also in the long-term aging process. From the University of Southern California (USC) scientists published a new research that shows that more exposure to extreme hot people are accelerated by the biological aging process. According to the research; high dilution of temperatures...
What plastic is recycled and how does this process work?
Plastic is one of the most threatening materials in the environment while making our lives easier. With the right recycling methods, we can reduce the damage of plastic waste to the environment. So, what plastics can be recycled and how does this process work? Which plastics can be recycled? The recycling process of plastics differ in types. The recycle symbols and numbers on the grounds...
Starting from 2025 ‘Neredesa Zero Powered building’ period
As of the Energy Performance Regulation on Buildings prepared by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, the total structure construction area is 2 thousand square meters and above all buildings are required to be built as ‘Neredesa Zero Powered Building’ (NSEB). In addition, renewable energy usage rate is increased from 5 percent to 10 percent, and also in terms of energy efficiency...
How to prepare cities in climate crisis?
Due to its increased urbanization and heat islands, it is expected to warm up twice according to the world average of cities. Experts emphasize that cities need to be more resistant to climate crisis. Excessive weather events triggered by climate change can offer solutions against these problems while threatening life in urban areas. World Bank 2022 data...