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| 07:18 PM Jun 07 2022

Dorothee

Germany

The German newspaper ‘Reutlinger Nachrichten’ says that as advertisement for waste avoidance and sustainable consumption students at the Karlsruhe University of Education have created decoration made of discarded flower pots. In his free time one of them collected about 1.000 ceramic pots of different sizes, shapes and colors from bulky waste and cleaned them in an environmentally friendly way. The environmental group of the university used the pots to build a colorful sun on the market square. The students then sold the flowerpots to benefit the Karlsruhe cultural kitchen. Otherwise the pots probably would have either ended up on some junkyard in Africa where poor children forced by adults to dig the waste for usefull stuff instead of going to school maybe would have found them. Another scenario would have been the pots on the ocean floor where the chemicals used for the color and the glazing maybe would have harmed the environment.

| 06:05 PM Nov 22 2021

Dorothee

Germany

>According to the newspaper ‘GEA’ the German town of Metzingen now sponsored a very unique competition. Children from 1st grade (primary school) to 7th grade (secondary school) could participate. The task was to make a piece of art from plastic waste and paper waste. They hope that this way people will learn to make some use of their waste products before throwing them away or even dumping them into the sea or other natural places that should be left in piece.
>Also ‘GEA’ published an article about a fair trade shop that sells pieces of art made of used tea bags. And the production of this decoration isn’t even located to the EU, but to a developing country instead. Then after the decoration is finished (cleaned, painted and such) the whole thing gets imported to the EU and sold there.

| 07:40 AM Oct 30 2021

Dorothee

Germany

Good news from ‘Reutlinger Nachrichten’ for the environment: As of 2022 stores that sell electronic devices (TV, computer, microwave, phone, mobile phone, radio…) will have to take back any old electronic device a customer brings to them. This new law is meant to make people stop throwing this waste into natural places or just throw them in the trashcan where it would cause damage due to all the chemicals inside leaking into the soil after a while.

| 06:15 AM Aug 01 2021

Dorothee

Germany

The German newspaper ‘GEA’ says that since July 3rd most one-way products made of plastic – drinking-straws, plastic forks, plastic spoons – now are illegal in the EU.

| 11:00 AM Jun 20 2020

Dorothee

Germany

While many countries don’t practice waste separation in common households others do. Here are some tips from the TV-show ‘Galileo’:
Here are some tips you should know about waste:
>Baking paper, receipts, kitchen paper, napkins and wrapping paper, hankerchiefs all may look like paper or at least have the word ‘paper’ in it, but they aren’t made entirely of paper and thus belong into the residual waste. And so do pizza boxes!
>Also any paper or cardboard that isn’t clean anymore belongs into the residual waste.
>Plastic replicas made of plants shouldn’t be put into the compost heap. Nor are they organic waste. They belong to the residual waste.
>Old DVD’s,CD’s, video tapes and their covers, and corks must be brought to the recycling center.
>Screwtops should be separated from the bottle and thrown into the residual waste. So do drinking glasses – broken or intact!

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