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Icelanders Throw Out 10 Tonnes Of Clothing Per Day
Icelanders discard roughly 10 tonnes of clothing per day, according to the Icelandic Environment and Energy Agency. Only five to ten percent of the textile is recycled domestically, with the vast majority of clothes being exported to waste centres in Europe, RÚV…
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Sorpa Calls For A Recycling Fee On Textiles
According to a new law, all municipalities are required to handle textile collection alongside other waste. Until recently, the Icelandic Red Cross oversaw the export of used textiles, but that responsibility has now shifted to a waste management company Sorpa. RÚV reports…
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A Bakery In A Telephone Booth
In an attempt to reduce food waste, Eiríkur Helgason, owner of the bakery Nesbrauð in Stykkishólmur, decided to expand his business hours with an unusual approach. After the store closes, he puts all leftovers in a telephone booth, where people can then…
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The Precious Plastic Initiative Aims To Change An Unhealthy Relationship
Sometimes we need a reminder that even small actions—and a small number of people—can change the world. Björn Steinar Blumenstein and Brynjólfur Stefánsson are such a reminder. In just a little over two months, they built a container, four different plastic recycling…
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Concerned About Shops Throwing Away Too Much Food
Entirely too much food goes to waste in Iceland, as some intrepid university students recently demonstrated. Vísir reports that design students of the Iceland Academy of the Arts recently paid a visit to dumpsters behind several Reykjavík grocery stores and bakeries. Within…
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Give Trash Another Chance
Everyone wants to recycle. Especially in 2016. It was your New Year’s resolution, remember? Sure you do. But, it can get confusing. “Where do the jam jars go?” “Is there a special thing for cork?” “What do I do with all these…
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Compostable Bags Pollute, Too
Compostable shopping bags made from corn are not entirely green, an engineer from the waste management company Sorpa says, explaining that there are better ways to reduce our environmental impact. Shopping bags made from corn, RÚV reports, have been billed as a…
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Reykjavík Shop Gives Away Food To Stop Waste
Small supermarket, Kjöt and Fiskur, on Bergstaðastræti in central Reykjavík, has taken to giving away food products for free on their sell-by-date, reports RÚV. The reason? Owner, Pavel Ermolinski, said that it made his soul feel better, knowing he wasn’t throwing away…
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Schoolkids Sprayed With Sewage
A group of elementary school children in Garðskagaviti were the victims of an unfortunate accident yesterday when they were showered with sewage during their lunch break, reports Vísir. A man pumping a nearby septic tank lost control of the hose, spraying the children with…