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Brexit - journey into the unknown...
4th of October 2016
For better or for worse – or, more pertinently perhaps, for richer or poorer – the Brits have defied their leaders’ dire warnings and given the EU the ‘big E’, writes Hartley Milner.
The Brexit vote, though not wholly unexpected, sent a shockwave through the world’s financial markets. But the doomsayers warn
Paris’ elite cleaning unit
29th of September 2016
French ECJ correspondent Christian Bouzols reports on a special cleaning team that takes care of exceptional operations in Paris.
It is 6.30 on a Thursday morning in Paris. Four police coaches are keeping watch on the Place de la République in Paris. Another event, called Nuit Debout, bringing hundreds of Parisians together to discuss the
Litterbugs and litter heroes
10th of August 2016
ECJ correspondent Lotte Printz takes a look at waste management and litter attitudes at music festivals in Denmark.
Plastic cups, food wrappers, cigarette butts. The music festival season is upon us. Where 50,000 people (festival-goers, volunteers and artists) are gathered every day of a festival, which is the case at the second-largest festival
Tasteful cleaning in Italy
1st of August 2016
News of a recent conference on food hygiene in Sorrento from Italian reporter Anna Garbagna.
There will certainly be a follow-up to the initiative in which Afidamp organised a seminar in Sorrento on the sanitisation processes within kitchens. At the end of the event, the association received a diploma of merit awarded by the heads of APCI
Cleaning Moscow’s metro
29th of July 2016
Oleg Popov of Cristanval in Russia explains how the Moscow underground is cleaned every day.
The Moscow subway was opened in 1935. Today, its 12 lines extend over 333 kilometres between 200 stations covering over one million square meters with 10,000 trains in operation. The capital’s underground is used by seven million passengers per day,
Town cleanliness label new in France
29th of July 2016
News of a new municipal scheme recognising cleanliness, from ECJ reporter Christian Bouzols.
The municipality of Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris was one of the first to be awarded the Top Star of the new Éco-propre label rewarding those French cities are committed to achieving lasting improvements in the cleanliness of their public
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