11 December 2014
L’ITALIA DEL RICICLO (RECYCLING IN ITALY) 2014
In Italy, the green economy sector has grown in the last 5 years: the number of workers employed in the industry has increased (+13%), as has the number of companies...
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11 December 2014
PARIS: MAKING ART BY ALUMINIUM
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has created an installation in Paris’ Jardins des Tuileries composed of suspended metal cubes and plants, for the FIAC art fair. Commissioned by Parisian art gallery...
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21 November 2014
CONSORTIUM CIAL TWITTER CONTEST
The “Comune Partecipativo” [Participative Municipality] contest is promoted by Salone della CSR e dell’Innovazione Sociale di Milano and the CIAL Consortium. The goal of the initiative is to reward collaborative or participative...
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RECYCLE OF ALUMINIUM COFFEE CAPSULES: RENEWED THE AGREEMENT
Ecomondo, Rimini. A 3 year agreement was signed today in the presence of the Undersecretary for the Environment, Barbara Degani, stipulating the following: Nespresso, CIAL (Aluminium Packaging Consortium), Federambiente and...
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29 May 2014
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) provides the best framework for assessing the potential environmental impacts of products. LCA deals with product systems which comprise the full life cycle of a product,...
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3 April 2014
RECYCLE OF ALUMINIUM COFFEE CAPSULES: ITALIAN RESULTS
Almost three years after the start of the Ecolaboration project, the results of the collection, recovery and recycling of aluminium Nespresso coffee capsules in Italy are very good. Currently in...
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20 March 2014
EUROPEAN CLEAN UP DAY 2014
Italy’s Environment Ministry is coordinating the country’s participation in the first ECUD (European Clean Up Day) and in the Let’s Clean up Europe campaign launched by the European Commission. The...
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19 March 2014
CIAL ALUMINIUM RECYCLING TEAM FOR THE DYNAMO CAMP
After the more than positive experience of 2013, CIAL will be back again at this year’s Dynamo Bike Challenge, a cycling competition held to raise funds for Dynamo Camp, Italy’s...
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25 February 2014
THE CHAMPIONS OF THE ASTANA PRO TEAM PROMOTE ALUMINIUM RECYCLING
The CIAL Consortium and the Astana Pro Team will continue to work together in 2014 with a series of initiatives promoting the environmental message of proper separate collection of aluminium...
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25 February 2014
RHOME, A HOME FOR ROME – SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2014
Students, researchers and instructors in three different departments at Roma TRE University (Architecture, Economics and Engineering) make up an all-Italian team which has already been active for a number of...
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16 February 2014
ITALY 2013: BEST ALUMINIUM PACKAGING COLLECTION PERFORMANCE
After looking at the results of aluminium packaging recycling and waste collection in Italy, CIAL (Italian Consortium for the Recovery and Recycling of Aluminium Packaging) drafted a special performance chart,...
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