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From dump to botanical garden - An example of sustainability.

In Morelia, a Mexican city, there is a waste museum dedicated to creating social awareness of waste management.

On the campus of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Pirmasens, a pavilion has been built in the beginning of 2021, using almost exclusively reclaimed building materials. The important innovation is that the reprocessed building materials are used in the same way as the original building material, as in precast concrete elements, for example, and no longer as inferior fillers. One can therefore speak of reuse - as opposed to recycling.

Nowadays everyone is aware of this fact: fossil fuels are limited and must be replaced by regenerative alternatives. This is also the reason for the lighthouse project Gündelbach district heating supply. The district was converted into a bioenergy village in which a large proportion of the inhabitants heat with district heating instead of oil.

Five steps to produce reliable Alternative Fuels

A new system for waste collection and separation was implemented in Istanbul which should support people in need, clean the streets and gain value out of recyclable materials.

Raising awareness for waste separation and environment among the population is the goal of our aesthetic and sheltered mini-recycling centers

Collection and Recycling of Domestic Used Cooking Oil (UCO) through a Social, Reverse Logistics System. InnovOleum which is developed by the Cypriot SME Isotech Ltd and run by the non-governmental organisation, AKTI Project and Research Centre, is a solution to the management of UCO that propagates knowledge, raises awareness on renewable energy from advanced and sustainable biofuel production, and provides an alternative route for UCO that benefits schools and the environment. UCO produced in households is collected and recycled through schools via the InnovOleum social reverse logistic system. InnovOleum began as a pilot in five schools in the Aglantzia area of the capital of Cyprus, Nicosia, in the school year 2012–2013.

The group from Amberg, Germany, called “Technik ohne Grenzen” (“Engineering without borders”) has the main goal of improving living conditions in developing countries. Technical expertise is used to help people in difficult situations. Through education and training courses affected persons shall be equipped with tools to help themselves. Hereby the team follows the motto “as technical as necessary, as easy as possible”. Among a lot of projects in Africa the “TeoG” (Technik ohne Grenzen) is now constructing an incinerator for a hospital in Nepal.