It is the largest island of the Manu'a group, with its 44,31 km² and 600 inhabitants, it is the easternmost of Samoa, in the Pacific Ocean. The island, in 2016, built a micro-grid based on the best available technology, which allowed it to achieve energy self-sufficiency. It is made up of 5.328 SolarCity photovoltaic modules that produce 1,4 ...
The territory of the Republic of Mauritius, off the Indian Ocean, extends 2040 km², for 1.331.155 inhabitants. Solid waste treatment is organized in a composting plant in the La Chaumiére area; the process and technology were provided by an Indian company, Excel Industries (India) Ltd. Thus, the plant receives approximately ...
In the Pacific Ocean, we find another island that has reached the 100% renewable goal: the island of Kodiak, located in the Gulf of Alaska, which with its 8.975 km² and 15.000 inhabitants represents the 80th largest island in the world and the second largest in the United States. Since 2008, the Kodiak Electric Association, the managing body of the electricity grid, has chosen ...
In the North Sea, belonging to the archipelago of the West Frisian Islands, is the island of Ameland which extends for 268,50 km² and is home to 3503 inhabitants. Thanks to the “Cradle-to-Cradle Island” project, launched in 2009, mobility on the island has been redesigned. The main problem to be solved was tourism: in fact, most people (especially ...
The mayor of Ustica also signed the trade union ordinance which prohibits both the use and sale of disposable plastic containers and tableware. "Dishes, cutlery, glasses, trays, straws, coffee or ice cream poles - reads the text of the ordinance - have environmental consequences with a harmful impact both as regards ...
In June 2019, the Mayor of Lipari issued an ordinance for the minimization of waste and the reduction of the environmental impact, prohibiting the use and marketing of polyethylene shopping bags (bags for take-away goods), containers, disposable tableware and other non-material materials. biodegradable, including the Municipality of Lipari among the cities that undertake to reduce ...
Vulcano and Lipari will finally be able to use the desalination and purification plants. The regional council has in fact approved the proposal of the councilor for energy to allocate 2,6 million euros to allow the commissioning of strategic works for the smaller islands. In this way, a long story that began in 2013 with the award of the ...
In Favignana, on the occasion of the Greening the Islands Observatory meeting which was held on the island on 28 and 29 May 2019, the priorities of the analysis that will be the basis of the sustainable development plan of the Egadi islands were identified. Thanks to the comparison between the participants, starting from the Municipal Administration, the electricity companies, the Region ...
Even Pantelleria, from 2019 January XNUMX, has become plastic free. With a special ordinance, the Mayor ordered the merchants on the island of commercial, craft, and food and drink administration activities to distribute to buyers exclusively cutlery, plates, glasses, disposable bags in biodegradable and compostable material. Even citizens residing on the island must equip themselves and ...
From September 2018 Lampedusa has become plastic free. All resident and non-resident citizens of the municipality of Lampedusa and Linosa and commercial businesses operating in the municipal area, both permanent and traveling, are prohibited from using and / or providing non-biodegradable plastic bags (shoppers). Bags must be used instead ...
