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The remote island of Tilos has won the prestigious European Business Promotion Awards 2024 (EEPA), surpassing strong initiatives from Austria and the Netherlands, thanks to its groundbreaking “Just Go Zero Tilos” program. The European Commissioner praised the “moving effort of a small, remote island” in achieving this success.

Make more beef-free meals. Compost food scraps. Replace a natural gas stove with an electric one.

These are all fairly simple ways people can help combat climate change in their own kitchens. Still, most Americans don't do it. Why?

Although temperatures remain at unseasonably high levels, the first rains have begun to fall, which means now is the time to get busy with your garden and plants for a new productive, colorful and textured season. We used to say that the beginning is half of everything, and not without reason.

A new law in France has brought the discussion of best practices for waste management in Istanbul to the agenda.

The law, which came into force as of Jan. 1, made it compulsory for citizens to compost food and plant waste.

On the fifth day after the heavy snowfall in Sofia, a little more than a third of the reports about fallen branches and trees submitted to 112 have been processed.

Since the beginning of the situation, 2,354 calls to 112 have been received, of which 860 have been processed. The work of all field teams continues, said Siyana Khlebarova, chief expert in the Green System Directorate.

The amount of daily garbage collected in Türkiye's most populous city Istanbul decreased from 18,000 tons to 17,000 tons, as the daily food waste rate experienced a minor 4-percent reduction compared to the previous year, data by a municipal subsidiary has shown.

A total of 1 million worms at the facility of the Zeytinburnu Municipality in Istanbul that feed on organic waste collected from marketplaces and groceries have produced a ton of fertilizer for use in horticulture.

Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's set to take effect in January.

The effort is designed to keep landfills in the most populous U.S. state clear of food waste that damages the atmosphere as it decays.

Attica Regional Governor Giorgos Patoulis on Monday heralded two public-private partnership waste management projects for the port city of Piraeus and central Athens that will be put to tender in the spring.

The Municipality of Pigadakia in the southern Athenian suburb of Voula is launching a pilot program for Greece's first source-sorting waste management system.

Following an awareness raising campaign carried out over the last few weeks, the program starts on Monday with the municipal authority distributing color-coded bags.