{"id":24847,"date":"2019-06-14T17:33:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2019\/06\/londra-sempre-piu-vicino-obiettivo-ambasciata-zero-waste-2\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:33:24","slug":"londra-sempre-piu-vicino-obiettivo-ambasciata-zero-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2019\/06\/londra-sempre-piu-vicino-obiettivo-ambasciata-zero-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"London: Getting Closer to the &#8216;Zero-Waste Embassy&#8217; Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian Embassy in London made another step towards &#8220;Zero Waste&#8221;. Thanks to an agreement with Novamont and Green Network, two leading Italian companies in the field of sustainable economy, the amount of non-recyclable waste has been reduced by 20% in two months, while 100% of consumed energy now comes from renewable sources.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/mae\/resource\/img\/2019\/06\/ambasciata_zero.jpg\" width=\"833\" height=\"500\" alt=\"ambasciata zero\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>In presenting this initiative, which is part of the Farnesina Verde action plan, Ambassador Raffaele Trombetta provided the figures related to this effort: &#8220;Our diplomatic representation has been involved for several months in the development of the &#8220;Zero-Waste Embassy&#8221; project, for a more rational management of waste and energy supply. The results are already visible: since April, when this initiative was launched, our periodic measurements have shown a reduction of about 20% in non-recyclable waste. Undifferentiated waste now only accounts for about 20% of the total, compared to about 50% recyclable and about 30% organic waste&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This virtuous choice, whereby the Italian Embassy is the first in the UK to set such a broad environmentally sustainable target, &#8220;has led us to minimize the use of disposable products, introduce compostable products when necessary and ensure that organic waste is collected and processed into quality humus,&#8221; Novamont CEO Catia Bastioli added.<\/p>\n<p>On the energy front, the Embassy has signed an agreement with Green Network for the supply of electricity and gas that comes from 100% renewable sources. This supplements the energy that is already being generated by the photovoltaic panels installed in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;Green Network Energy is the first independent Italian supplier in the UK,&#8221; said Sabrina Corbo, co-founder and executive vice president of Green Network, adding that &#8220;the market trends of our customers, both in Italy and the UK, point to a strong growth in the demand for 100% green energy, which shows how motivated we all are to play a more active and proactive role to protect and respect the environment.\u200b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ItalianEmbassyLondon\/videos\/326692247897453\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ItalianEmbassyLondon\/videos\/326692247897453\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian Embassy in London made another step towards &#8220;Zero Waste&#8221;. Thanks to an agreement with Novamont and Green Network, two leading Italian companies in the field of sustainable economy, the amount of non-recyclable waste has been reduced by 20% in two months, while 100% of consumed energy now comes from renewable sources. In presenting [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-24847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}