Tag: Waste

News / World - 7 years ago

How to make a waste incinerator popular? Put a ski slope on it

It might be the first waste incinerator the neighbours actually want next door. The shop at the foot of the Amager Bakke waste-to-energy project in Copenhagen is packed with families desperate to be among the first to try its unique selling point: t...

News / World - 8 years ago

Eight months on, is the world's most drastic plastic bag ban working?

Waterways are clearer, the food chain is less contaminated with plastic – and there are fewer “flying toilets”. A year after Kenya announced the world’s toughest ban on plastic bags, and eight months after it was introduced, the authorities are clai...