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UAE bans non-biodegradable plastic products

The ban comes into effect from early next year and also covers biodegradable plastic products.   Abu Dhabi: The Ministry of Environment and Water on Sunday has announced  a ban on the circulation and marketing of non-biodegradable plastic products by the beginning of next year. The ban also covers biodegradable plastic products which are not registered [...]

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By admin
Thursday, March 14th, 2013

Christmas … your gift will just be junk

Every year we splurge on pointless, planet-trashing products, most of which are not wanted. Why not just bake them a cake?   There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly-button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub-holder; a “hilarious” inflatable Zimmer [...]

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By Tatiana Antonelli Abella
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

UN warns of worldwide food crisis in 2013

  World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the US or other food-exporting countries could trigger a hunger crisis next year.     Failing harvests in the US, Ukraine and other countries this year have eroded reserves to their lowest level since 1974. The US, which has experienced record heatwaves and [...]

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By administrator
Friday, November 9th, 2012

Study finds Abu Dhabi is too cold for comfort

A study under way in Abu Dhabi suggests buildings in the capital may be cooled down to unnecessarily low levels. The British economist Tia Kansara has spent the past three years studying 20 buildings, measuring indoor temperatures and interviewing more than 1,000 occupants. “Quite a lot of people were saying it was too cold in [...]

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By developer
Saturday, August 25th, 2012

Green drive at The Galleries cuts chiller water consumption by 11 million litres

Limitless saved 11 million litres of water – enough to fill nearly four Olympic-sized swimming pools – in the first five months of 2012 as part of a new recycling and waste management drive at its flagship development, The Galleries. Water consumption from January to May 2012 was down by 33% compared to the same [...]

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By developer
Thursday, June 21st, 2012