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 ...
On the Tremiti islands, since May 2018, disposable cutlery, plates, glasses and shopping bags have been obligatorily replaced by biodegradable ones. For offenders, whether they are tourists, residents or traders, there is a fine of between 50 and 500 euros. The next step will be to ban the plastic bottles and polystyrene containers that fishermen use to ...
The island of Ischia has banned plastic and banned the use of disposable glasses, plates, cutlery and containers. This was decided in March 2019 by the assembly of the Ischia Intercommunal Services Consortium (CISI), made up of the mayors of the six island municipalities, which unanimously approved an ordinance that was adopted by all local authorities in which ...
The MAESTRALE international research project, coordinated by the University of Siena and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union as part of the Interreg MED program, aims to broaden knowledge and awareness among citizens and institutions on the potential of "Blue energy", the sources of marine energy deriving from wave motion, tides, ...
Thanks to the collaboration between Whirlpool Emea, LifeGate and the technical partner Poralu Marine, as part of the LifeGate PlasticLess® project and with the aim of concretely contributing to the reduction of plastic pollution in our seas, 13 Seabin LifeGates were positioned in as many Italian ports and nautical clubs, ideally covering the peninsula from north to south. Also…
In June 2019, a trade union order was published by the mayor of Ventotene and Santo Stefano to reduce the abandonment and dispersion of plastic waste, reduce polluting emissions and environmental risks. In force since June 15, the ordinance provides that disposable take-away bags in non-biodegradable and / or compostable material will no longer be distributed; that are distributed / sold ...