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The discard of “fast fashion” ends up in Latin America

Fast fashion has turned the Atacama Desert into a highly polluting "clothing graveyard." Low-quality clothing discarded in the global north ends up in Chile, where it is not resold and is illegally incinerated, causing serious environmental and health damage. Chile imports...

Cleaning Day: Volunteers removed two truckloads of waste from a hill.

During the weekend, an exemplary clean-up day took place on a hill in San Juan, with pure voluntary work. Among 50 people, with bags in hand, they removed an amount of waste that filled two trucks. Under the slogan, "Let's...

5 tips to not discard old electronic devices

The disposal of **old electronic devices** has significantly increased in recent decades, generating more than 50 million tons of **electronic waste** in just one year, according to the **Global E-waste Monitor**. This figure is expected to rise to 82...

Neuquén imposes fines for littering on the streets.

Since October, the city of **Neuquén** has implemented surveillance cameras to **monitor critical areas** where companies and residents illegally dump **garbage** on the streets. These measures have resulted in 17 **photo fines**, carried out by identifying the license plate and...

They manufacture espadrilles with recycled marine waste

Payote espadrilles collaborates with Seaqual to produce a line of espadrilles made with recycled marine waste. In this collaboration, Seaqual directly collects tons of marine litter brought by fishing boats from various ports of the Spanish Mediterranean committed to protecting...

Electronic waste: estimated to “increase uncontrollably” due to AI computers

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related advances are essential for many aspects of daily and work life, they have also begun to show a "dark side". A recent study showed that this would also lead to an increase in...

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More than 70 organizations rejected Argentina’s withdrawal from COP29.

More than **70 environmental organizations** and civil society rejected the withdrawal of Argentina from COP29. They warned, through a...