The July contract price of propylene in Europe was agreed at EUR 80 per ton cheaper than a month earlier. Against this background, all European manufacturers announced a proportional reduction in the export prices of polypropylene (PP) for deliveries to the markets of the CIS countries in July, according to the ICIS-MRС Price Review. Negotiations […]
Cabinet proposes to create a separate department for waste management
A significant increase in fines for waste management offenses is also proposed. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine proposes the Verkhovna Rada to create a separate department for waste management. This is evidenced by the government bill number 10411 “On waste management”, registered in parliament on July 2. The explanatory note emphasizes that the lack […]
How to make money on a smartphone? In Germany, teenagers for this pass recyclables
Trash reform old Europe took 15 years. But we now have an advantage: we can not only remember our own, Soviet, recycling experience, but also take advantage of the modern alien. Before Germany, according to Sergey Roginko, a leading researcher at the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Europe, RAS, waste disposal problems […]
Ukraine is the only one in Europe that does not have mandatory environmental monitoring.
Ukraine is not the only country in Europe that has not yet introduced mandatory environmental monitoring. About this OBOZREVATEL told Tatyana Lampik, the head of the Public Formation for the Protection of the Grmada Order “Environmental Patrol of the Dnipropetrovsk Region”, which is now at the international scientific conference “Environment and Safety” in Bulgaria. “The […]
A bacterium processing plastic to carbon dioxide and simple polymers has been created
Two young scientists Miranda Wang (Miranda Wang) and Jeanne Yao (Jeanny Yao) specially created a bacterium that can decompose plastic into simpler polymers and carbon dioxide. They were already able to raise several hundred thousand dollars for the commercialization of their development, and also became the youngest winners of the Perlman Prize. According to stillunfold, […]
The price of propylene in Europe fell by EUR80 per tonne in July
The contract price of propylene in Europe for July deliveries was finally agreed at EUR910 per tonne, which is EUR80 per tonne lower than June, ICIS reported. The contract price was approved under the terms of FD NWE (with delivery to North-West Europe). The decline was expected due to a fall in naphtha quotations and […]
Launched the biggest project for cleaning the world’s oceans
Launched the biggest project for cleaning the world’s oceans Despite the opinions of many skeptics (for example, Artemy Lebedev), the Great Pacific Trash Bin really exists. It can not be seen from space and it is difficult to discern with the human eye. This is not a floating island of garbage that can be poked […]
Garbage “adapted” for making tofu
East Java is littered with waste that is smuggled illegally from many countries around the world. Residents of Malaysian villages began to use plastic trash as fuel in the manufacture of tofu bean curd. Such an illegal method of “recycling” arose against the background of the garbage crisis in Southeast Asia and Australia. In 2018, […]
Ukrainian imports of polyethylene increased by 11% in January
According to the results of the first five months of the year, the total volume of imports of polyethylene (PE) to the Ukrainian market grew by 11% compared with the same indicator of 2018 and amounted to 111.3 thousand tons. The increase in external supplies was mainly attributable to low-pressure polyethylene (HDPE), according to a […]
In Zhytomyr, the heat prevents extinguish the fire at the dump
Dry hot weather and wind contribute to burning and prevent to extinguish the fire. In the Zhytomyr region rescuers for the sixth day extinguish a fire at a dump in the tract Rzhatkovka near Novograd-Volynsky. According to the press service of the Department of Emergencies and Emergencies in Zhytomyr region, currently firefighters continue to extinguish […]