Polyvinyl chloride

Forever chemicals" used in daily items like nonstick pans have long been linked to serious health issues, a result of their toxicity and extreme resistance to being broken down as waste products.

Bulgaria is at the bottom of the statistics on reused waste in the European Union. With an indicator of 2.9%, it is quite far from the EU average of 49.4%. Even Romania is ahead of us, albeit by a minimum of 3.5%, BGNES reported.

Bucharest, March 10 /Agerpres/ - The prime minister's Control Corps has identified several factors favoring the production and spread of the fire that occurred on January 29 at the "Matei Bals" Hospital, among them being the old infrastructure, the undersized electrical installation and "poor patient supervision".

A factory close to southeastern Tulcea municipality produces industrial oil from plastic and rubber waste and it is the only private ecological investment operational as of this year in the county, with a total budget of 1 million Euro, financed from European funds.

The agenda of the meeting of the EU environment council held in Luxembourg on Wednesday, included a discussion on the management of chemicals, according to a press statement released by the Romanian Ministry of the Environment. The meeting was the last organised under the aegis of the Romanian presidency of the EU Council.

The sixth floor of the Tophane Clock Tower in the western province of Bursa has been covered with PVC, a type of synthetic plastic, as part of its restoration.

Greece is among the 14 EU member-states that are at risk of missing the 2020 target of 50 percent recycling of municipal waste, the European Commission said in a report on the implementation of EU legislation published on Monday.

Besides Greece, the other countries are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Spain.

910 liters of illegal ethyl alcohol was seized by customs officers from a garage in a private property on the territory of the municipality of Nesebar. This was announced today by the Customs Agency.

The Syrian girl with prosthetic legs made by her father out of tin cans and PVC has been brought to Istanbul for treatment by the Turkish Red Crescent.

A Syrian girl living near the Turkish border has prosthetic legs made by her father out of tin cans and PVC. Click through for her story in photos...