Amsterdam bans creation of new hotels
Another piece in the overall strategy to reduce tourist flows to the city
In September, bins for textiles will be placed in Riga, Mārupe, Babīte and Tukums
Starting this Autumn, 20 textile recycling bins will be placed in Riga, Mārupe, Babīte and Tukums, provided by the waste management company Eco Baltia Movement. Everything collected in these bins will be transported to the Movement’s facilities near the city of Tukums. The company will also be collecting data on what materials citizens are discarding and how frequently they do it.
According to the CEO of Eco Baltia Movement, the plan for these containers is to expand the service in the coming years. They want to have 1000 containers available in the whole of Latvia by 2025, so that all citizens have the opportunity to sort their textiles.
Currently textiles collected in Latvia are not being recycled, rather they are simply being incinerated. That’s not because of a lack of textile recycling plants, however. Many companies are importing textiles from abroad in order to recycle them, rather than collecting waste generated in the country.
So far pretty much the only path towards textile sustainability was donations. But according to the Latvian Red Cross, Latvian donation culture is not great. Around 40-50% of donated clothes need to be disposed of upon being received because they are unusable. As a result, around 40,000 tons of textile waste goes to the landfill each year. Hopefully the addition of the recycling containers will remedy the situation.
The building will then serve as the site for a new museum dedicated to Finnish-Russian relations
Another piece in the overall strategy to reduce tourist flows to the city
The previous mayor was forced out of office following a no-confidence vote in the city council
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The facility will replace the need to have water supplied by tankers from Valencia
Modern traffic lights do more than regulate the flow of vehicles at crossroads, they also collect enormous amounts of data
Italian cities and regions continue experimenting with creative proposals to curb overtourism effects
In addition, the federal government has launched the National Week of Action against Bicycle Theft to raise awareness of the issue and the new solution
The initial legislation didn’t include these public areas as restricted places for smoking pot
Italian cities and regions continue experimenting with creative proposals to curb overtourism effects
The building will then serve as the site for a new museum dedicated to Finnish-Russian relations
You can see it in a church in the city’s northern districts and it’s larger than a basketball court
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