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Laura CIOBANU, Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability, EY Romania
13 January 2020

Environmental taxes can be an incentive to reduce pollution

The negative influence of economic development on the environment has been recognized for a long time. Against the background of the multiple challenges generated by the need to protect the environment, governments are now facing increasing pressure to identify new ways to reduce the impact of human activities on the environment, without affecting economic growth. It goes without saying that the influence of these measures will be reflected on the activity of producers, says Laura CIOBANU, Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability, EY Romania. Plastic materials have

8 January 2020

The waste management strategy is an obsolete act!

Some regulatory gaps that negatively influence the effective implementation of Law no. 209/2016 on waste The first legislative concerns in order to regulate the management of production and household waste in order to reduce them and their maximum reintroduction into the economic circuit, as well as, in order to prevent environmental pollution , were fixed by the adoption by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova of Law no. 1347-XIII of 09.10.1997, the basic foundation constituting Law no. 1519/1993 on the protection of the environment [1]. The regulatory field of Law no. 1347/1997, relates to the relationships that appear at

26 December 2019

Over 50 tons of e-Waste were collected in 2019

Now at the end of the year, we can say with certainty that beautiful things have been achieved that have been necessary for a long time both for the environment and for the health of each of us. For one morning, the inhabitants of the country got rid of over 50 tons of e-waste (waste of electrical and electronic equipment), an imposing amount historically accumulated through houses, offices, warehouses, fences, etc. Once the Regulation on electrical and electronic equipment waste was approved by GD no. 212 of 2018, with the support of the GEF SGP Small Grants Program

Over 1,000 students from Technical Vocational Education Institutions were trained how to selectively collect waste
20 December 2019

The students of 14 IÎPT now know how to sort waste correctly

More than 1,000 students from Technical Vocational Education Institutions were trained how to selectively collect waste In the current November-December period, AO "Association for Waste Recovery" within the project "Promotion of Technical Vocational Education for a Green Economy" implemented by the Agency for German International Cooperation (GIZ), conducted a series of trainings in the field of selective waste collection for students and teachers from 14 technical vocational education institutions, which during the project will be

16 December 2019

From 2020, expired medicines will be handed over to pharmacies

Starting next year, pharmacies in our country will be provided by the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency with special bins for collecting expired medicines, including mercury thermometers. Finally, they will be destroyed by environmentally friendly methods. The authorities resorted to this method to put an end to the practice of haphazardly throwing away old dishes. According to the director of the Medicines Agency, Zinaida Bezverhni, this harms both the environment and people's health, because antibiotics or cytostatic drugs contaminate the soil and water. "There will be special boxes or crates, in which

9 December 2019

Interview with Eugeniu Butucea, Director of "Salubris Grup" SRL

Garbage dump source of raw material Global warming, the shortage of natural resources, the increase in pollution indices, are just some of the most urgent problems facing humanity. Unfortunately, the worst thing is the speed with which these things happen, so that most of the time we don't even manage to intervene or change the destructive linear vector. For many years there has been talk about environmental problems generated by a non-functional waste management system. Unauthorized pits for

27 November 2019

The SME greening program has been approved!

On November 27, the Government meeting approved the greening program for small and medium enterprises. It will be implemented by the Organization for the Development of the Small and Medium Enterprise Sector and will run until 2021, with the possibility of extension. The budget of the program is 60 million lei, money allocated from the state budget. The purpose of this Program is to promote, support and develop the capacities of SMEs to adopt greening practices in the production and service delivery processes. In this

25 November 2019

Kaufland has installed packaging recycling machines!

With the opening of the two Kaufland stores in Chisinau, automatic packaging recycling machines were installed, a first for the Republic of Moldova, in the parking lots of the stores on Decebal Street 99/2 and Mircea cel Bătrân Street 25/1. Through this program, Kaufland Moldova contributes to efforts to reduce pollution and encourages its customers to adopt a responsible attitude towards the environment. "The program is initiated and carried out 100% by Kaufland and brings to the public utility, the latest generation technology in terms of protecting the environment.