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Reduce carbon footprint with your digital preferences Home
Every activity performed in digital environment, from monitoring series and movies on online platforms to sending email, leads to varying quantities of carbon emissions. Every passing day, many research is carried out about the environmental damage of digital applications increasing the usage area. Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA (MIT), Purdue University, Yale University and Cumberlands Universalit...
'Iklim TEMA Training Portal'
MEB and TEMA Foundation introduced "Ilim TEMA Training Portal" prepared with cooperation
Plastic pollution with numbers
In the world, 300 million tons of plastics are produced in the world, a rapidly growing plastic production, which can not be stopped since 1907, has reached two of the total mass of mankind worldwide. We started to produce about 300 million tons of plastic every year due to our use of unconscious plastic. 60 percent of these products are combined in natural environment and garbage...
Rentla, onar, get the second hand and sell!
Visa’s latest market research, built with 8000 consumer and 2000 SMEs (small and medium-sized business) participation across Europe, reveals that people reevaluate existing shopping habits due to the effects of life-efficient and climate change, and more sustainable methods to sell products and services. Visa...
United Nations celebrates 30 March International Zero Waste Day First Time
waste while producing in life, consuming and serving. We must live awareness with the best waste management in our home, business, road, field, forests and business world, Istanbul Technical University Teaching Member and Chairman of Sustainable Production and Consumer Association Prof. Dr. Filiz Karaosmanoğlu, “Stire Waste” goal is to bring green and...
Bottlecam signed UN Global Compact
Bottlecam signed the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.
Alternative product solution to environmental pollution
Bartın University (BARÜ) academicians will contribute to the protection of the environment by developing alternative products to plastic. The project was born in 7 years in the fight against global climate change and environmental pollution, was worth noting in December last year under the 1002-Fast Support Program of TÜBİTAK (Turkey Scientific and Technological Research Institute). Bartın Forest Facul...
How do we protect biodiversity with circular economy?
We witness the disappearance of biodiversity in an unprecedented speed throughout the world. We have lost 69 percent of the known species from 1970 to 2022. What happens if there are no species, we do not know with the full man because it is a complex topic to predict what types are critical functions as in terms of ecosystem integrity. If we know indefinitely, the ecosystems...
Disposable plastic bans in the UK
After long negotiations with the Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), sector representatives and Civil Society Organizations (STK). It is not yet known when the law will enter into force. The latest prohibited supermarkets or disposable plastic packaging in products sold in stores are covered. The government is able to find solutions in different ways of waste problem related to these plastics...
550 thousand ton plastic waste blocked
According to the knowledge that the AA correspondent has introduced, in 1900s, in 1977, in the shopping points, everyone can find easily, the average life of life is 15 minutes, but the dissolving in nature has been given plastic bags for 1000 years. From the beginning of the 20th century, the placenta is 1.5 million tons of bolts in the 1950s worldwide...
The most beautiful developments in the environment of 2022 Home
January • He found untouched coral reefs in Tahiti, and ochinographs welcomed this discovery with great joy. Untouched reefs are a great hope for the continuity of ocean species. • Students in the UK designed floating houses where flood disasters can live for 6 weeks. The reason for innovation is successful, although the results will hope to the world. • Aviation industry...
Plastic wastes in Nigeria turn into parquet stone
In Nigeria, which has increased plastic waste problem for the past few years, only 45 percent of waste is collected. 80 percent of plastic wastes in the country is recycled only 10 percent when going to the garbage area. In Nigeria, produced more than 32 million tons per year, it can only plan 20-30 percent. Health professionals, abuse of plastic from most of the health problems in the country...