hygiene

Italy

What’s behind the chronic lack of toilet paper in Italian schools?

From toilet paper to soap, Italian schools often fail to provide basic supplies to their students. Instead, parents are often asked for significant contributions to help with funding.

30/10/2023

Destinations

Inside the Paris Metro: How they keep millions of people on the move

The Paris Metro has a system that can wash a train in 90 seconds and a whole network of maintenance workshops and storage to keep the city on the move day and night.

22/10/2022

Health news

How unsafe toilets are impacting the health of 3.6 billion people

Clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene should be normal for everyone. Yet, almost half of the world’s population don’t have access to it.

19/11/2021

Living

How to have an eco-friendly period every month

What can you do to greenify your menstrual cycle?

17/11/2021

Living

The NGO saving lives by recycling soap from luxury hotels

Meet the Swiss NGO redistributing toiletries from hotels in Europe to deliver to those in need.

30/03/2021

No Comment

Egypt reopens pyramids after coronavirus shutdown

They were reopened for the first time in more than three months.

03/07/2020

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Creating a “Hygiene Society” can get life back on track and stave off future epidemics ǀ View

Having worked alongside the NHS in numerous sectors for more than two decades, I feel a very human obligation to protect NHS staff and the wider public from the toll that both the virus and the shutdown are taking. The latter is almost as damaging as the former.

23/04/2020

Australia

Toilet paper scarce as Australia stockpiles during COVID-19 outbreak

An Australian newspaper offered eight blank pages in its daily issue to use if readers are "out of loo roll" after supermarkets run out of stock due to the coronavirus outbreak.

05/03/2020

No Comment

North Korea imposes 'extraordinary' measures against COVID-19

North Korea is pulling out all the stops to try to protect itself from the coronavirus that first emerged in neighbouring China.

27/02/2020

Green News

Hilton pledges to cut waste and provide soap to those in need

The hospitality giant has partnered with social justice scheme Clean the World.

05/12/2019

Italy

There's a reason why the pope doesn't want you to kiss his hand

It has to do with germs...

28/03/2019

Europe News

EU Parliament urges UK to come up with Brexit solution

Lawmakers see the ball squarely in the British camp

16/01/2019

Europe News

EU Parliament calls on member states to tax-exempt tampons

Victory for women - but the resolution is non-binding

16/01/2019

France

New toothbrush cleans all your teeth in just 10 seconds

Y-Brush, invented by Lyon-based startup FasTeesH, is a Y-shaped electric toothbrush that is able to reach and clean all the teeth due to its shape and sonic vibrations.

26/07/2018