Trash Fills Rio’s Streets as Strike Continues: Daily
As Carnival celebrations continue throughout Rio de Janeiro, trash generated by the massive crowds piles up in city areas due...
March 3, 2014Topic
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Rio Starts Issuing Littering Fines: Daily
Rio’s Zero Trash program went into full swing last Monday, after being postponed in July. The anti-littering campaign fines those...
August 22, 2013
Rock in Rio Opens Anti-Littering Program
Rock in Rio uses its popularity to raise awareness about social and environmental issues. This year they launched a campaign...
August 13, 2013
Rio’s Lixo Zero Littering Law Postponed
The implementation of a new law introducing heavy fines for littering in Rio de Janeiro, which should have come into...
July 2, 2013
Rio Lixo Zero to Impose Fines for Littering
Rio de Janeiro begins to issue fines for those caught littering public spaces this July, city officials announced at the...
April 30, 2013
Rio de Janeiro’s New Litterbug Law (with Teeth)
Opinion, by Alfonso Stefanini RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Rio de Janeiro State is trying to get a facelift by...
April 23, 2013
Thousands of Fish Die in Rio’s Lagoa: Daily
Residents around the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas have had their usually picturesque surroundings spoiled this week as low oxygen levels...
March 15, 2013
The End of Jardim Gramacho Landfill: Daily
Latin America’s largest landfill site, Jardim Gramacho in Duque de Caixas, is set to shut down on May 6th, in...
April 14, 2012
Rio Faces Challenge of Recycling: Daily
The city that will host the Rio+20, the UN conference on sustainable development, in June, recycles only three percent of...
March 25, 2012