impatto ambientale

The European Parliament, with 584 votes in favour, 3 against and 14 abstentions, gave the definitive green light to the rule on the right to repair products.Repair which, in fact, will replace the most impactful replacement.There directive, on the one hand, aims to encourage repairs within the two years of legal guarantee with "easier and cheaper" options and, on the other, to protect consumers even beyond the constraint period "for any defect that may occur".In particular, repair will be promoted during and beyond the two-year legal guarantee period.Sellers will be required to offer free repair within the legal warranty period (except when this is more expensive than replacement), while consumers should be given incentives not to choose replacement within the liability period.For household appliances, electronic displays, welding equipment, vacuum cleaners, servers and data storage, manufacturers will be obliged to take action for up to 10 years after purchase, whi...

In the Metropolitan City of Bologna the committee's battle is going on "Another Apennines is possible” aimed at stop the construction of a new chairlift in the Corno alle Scale ski area.So far, thanks to a popular subscription campaign, over 12 thousand euros have already been raised to cover the expenses necessary to present the appeal to the Council of State against the Emilia-Romagna Region.A new legal attempt, therefore, after the Administrative Court of Bologna had rejected an initial appeal presented by the associations.The project you want to block has a value of 6.7 million euros and involves the construction of "a new four-seater chairlift" in place of a previous facility and the "Cupolino" ski lift which had already been unused for some time.«What we contest is the fact that we are faced with a large infrastructure that will be built in a very delicate area from an environmental point of view – they explained the activists of the com...

Work has begun on laying the pipes to pump water from Lake Bianco in the Brescia area turn it into artificial snow.The ski resorts of Santa Caterina Valfurva and surrounding areas will benefit from the controversial work and, like many others, are suffering the impacts of global warming.However, in the current climate and environmental context, resorting to artificial snow appears absurd, and it is no coincidence that it was soon denounced by environmentalist associations.Lake Bianco, among other things, it is located in a state nature reserve where there is the only example of arctic tundra in Italy.The associations active in the area have thus sent a warning to the institutions contesting various offenses in the works, such as excavation methods that could contaminate the water that flows downstream.However, the risk of defacing a body of water located within a National Park should be enough to stop the interventions.Indeed, this circumstance should not even have made them leave. L...