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🧴♻️One empty detergent bottle can have a bigger impact than you think! Many household products, including detergents, paint, motor oil, antifreeze, pesticides, and unused medicines, contain substances that require special handling to help protect soil, groundwater, and public health. Instead of placing them in your regular trash, take them to an approved household hazardous waste collection site or a participating retailer/pharmacy when available. Once collected, these materials can be safely treated, recycled, recovered, or disposed of in specialized facilities. As a global leader in hazardous waste management, Veolia continues to expand its treatment capacity to support safer waste management and resource recovery. Small actions at home can make a real difference for the environment. 🌍💚 Did you already know that some everyday household products are classified as hazardous waste? Let us know below! 👇 #veolia #hazardouswaste
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🧶💡What if the clothes we throw away could become part of the solution? ♻️ Meet Emilee Shield (@ourshieldmaiden), who is proving that creativity, craftsmanship, and conscious choices can help tackle one of fashion’s biggest challenges: textile waste. The scale of the issue is staggering. Around 92 million tonnes of textile waste are generated globally every year, and roughly 85% of discarded textiles end up in landfills or incinerators. Meanwhile, less than 1% of textiles are recycled back into new fibers. Her initiative is refreshing: disassemble thrifted yarn sweaters to make new ones! Emilee is helping extend the life of materials, reduce waste, and inspire a more circular approach to fashion. Send this to someone who knits to share the idea!
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Pickleball is a growing opportunity to play for the planet. At Veolia, we support the ecological transformation of this fast-rising sport by promoting sustainable solutions and raising awareness among players about environmental challenges. Beyond France, as Veolia serves as the Official Sustainability Partner of the PPA Tour in the United States, pickleball continues to be the fastest-growing sport for the fourth consecutive year. By helping eliminate over 15,000 single-use plastic bottles at recent tournaments, international expertise is now being leveraged to support the sustainable development of pickleball in France and beyond. Because the future of sport should be as sustainable as it is dynamic. 🌱
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🌪️♻️Tornadoes leave destruction, but the cleanup can be a game-changer! Debris are carefully sorted into wood, metal, hazardous waste, and processed on-site using mobile industrial shredders. These machines break everything into smaller, uniform pieces, so trucks can carry up to twice as much per trip 🚛 The result? Fewer journeys, lower fuel use, and faster recovery. What’s left is sent to specialized facilities like the ones run by Veolia for proper treatment. It’s not just cleanup, it’s smart recovery! Before this, how did you imagine tornado debris was handled, and does this change your perspective?👇 #tornado #recovery #wastemanagment #veolia
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🇪🇸In a small spanish town in Andalucía, where summer temperatures can soar past 104°F, one of the most creative climate solutions came from an unexpected source: a group of local grandmothers. After plastic street covers made the heat worse, the town called on crochet instructor Eva Pacheco. She gathered around 40 “granny students” to rethink the idea of shade. Since 2019, they’ve hand-crocheted more than 500 square meters of colorful synthetic wool panels, forming a giant canopy above the shopping streets! Each year, about 30 new panels are added, turning the district into a constantly evolving artwork. And beyond aesthetics, the impact is real: temperatures beneath the canopy have dropped by over 10°F while also providing UV protection! For many widowed and isolated women involved, it’s also become a social lifeline and a tight-knit community project. What started in one small town is now inspiring similar projects across southern Spain. Would you like to have a crochet-canopy in your town?
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🍄Mushrooms can clean rivers! 🟢A team of scientists and designers created a floating board covered in mushrooms that can absorb pollutants. 🟢Mushrooms can do so much for the planet. They can notably be used to create alternatives to polluting materials like plastic or leather. 🚯 📢What else can mushrooms and mycelium do to fight pollution? #savetheplanet #mycelium #fightpollution
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Oysters are saving the lives of Bangladesh’s climate refugees. How? #bangladesh #indonesia #oysters #oysterbarriers #science #marinelife #marineengineering #climatechange #climatecrisis #floods #climaterefugees
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What happens to healthcare services during hurricanes like Melissa? Or when your doctor’s office loses power in a heat wave or is flooded in a storm? According to a new study from Harvard, almost half of the U.S. clinics and hospitals surveyed don’t know how to protect patients in their care when extreme weather events affect their facilities. And 84% said climate change is already hurting patient health! So Harvard developed a guide: the Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit. This toolkit is made for both clinic administrators and medical staff, but also volunteers and patients. Its goal: teach smart practices to successfully bring help to those who need it. That’s why the guide is free, online, in both English and Spanish. The Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit is available on the @americares website. #healthcare #health #climatecrisis #disasterrelief #climateresilience
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💡Sustainable living advice! Imagine borrowing a drill, camping gear, or even a sewing machine—just like you would a book! 🟢These Libraries of Things are popping up worldwide, allowing us to borrow items we only need once in a while, instead of buying and storing them. By sharing one item among many people, we’re cutting down on waste and slashing the CO2 emissions linked to overproduction.✨ Could this be a key to a more sustainable, less cluttered life? #ClimateAction #SustainableLiving #LibrariesOfThings #EcoFriendly #borrowdontbuy
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🐾🇵🇱Poland just made history! In a powerful step for animal welfare, Poland has announced a ban on fur farming, signaling a major shift in how we think about fashion, ethics, and the lives of animals raised for luxury. For years, millions of foxes, mink, and raccoon dogs were bred solely for their fur. Now, that chapter is closing. This decision reflects a growing global movement: compassion over cruelty, progress over tradition. Change doesn’t happen overnight, but moments like this prove it does happen. A win for animals. A win for ethics. A win for the future. Would you support a global ban on fur farming? 🌍💬
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🏔️ Everest: from “world’s highest dumpster” to a cleaner summit? For decades, climbers left behind oxygen bottles, gear, plastic at the base camp, turning the mountain into a giant trash magnet. But this season, heavy-lift drones from Nepal’s startup Airlift Technology have been real game-changers! They’ve hauled garbage off the slopes, delivering gear to high camps, and cutting hours of dangerous climbing down to minutes. These drones can carry roughly 66 lb per trip, even above 6,000 m, making cleanup faster and safer than ever! Nepal is now going further: the government has approved a five-year mountain cleanup strategy (2025–2029) to systematically tackle Everest’s waste problem with tech, fees, and stronger rules. Did you ever imagine drones would be cleaning the top of the world? 😲 #everest #climbing #trash #highestdumpster #drones
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What happens to healthcare services during hurricanes like Melissa? Or when your doctor’s office loses power in a heat wave or is flooded in a storm? According to a new study from Harvard, almost half of the U.S. clinics and hospitals surveyed don’t know how to protect patients in their care when extreme weather events affect their facilities. And 84% said climate change is already hurting patient health! So Harvard developed a guide: the Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit. This toolkit is made for both clinic administrators and medical staff, but also volunteers and patients. Its goal: teach smart practices to successfully bring help to those who need it. That’s why the guide is free, online, in both English and Spanish. The Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit is available on the @americares website. #healthcare #health #climatecrisis #disasterrelief #climateresilience
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