https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed With the new year just days away, Geneva is readying itself for the prohibition of free plastic bags at all supermarket checkouts, as well as other single use plastics. https://www.thelocal.ch/20191226/geneva-100-franc-fines-for-single-use-plastics-from-january-1st Thu, 26 Dec 2019 15:05:33 +0100 geneva-100-franc-fines-for-single-use-plastics-from-january-1st Switzerland may have a reputation for being one of the cleanest countries in the world but the numbers reveal a very different reality. https://www.thelocal.ch/20190125/swiss-among-europes-biggest-waste-producers Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:38:57 +0100 swiss-among-europes-biggest-waste-producers In the latest skirmish in Switzerland’s (admittedly low-key) garbage war with its neighbours, waste management authorities in southern Germany have teamed up with the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment (FOEN) to stop Swiss residents dumping rubbish in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180418/german-state-cracks-down-on-switzerlands-rubbish-tourists Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:47:35 +0200 german-state-cracks-down-on-switzerlands-rubbish-tourists The Swiss create mountains of rubbish annually and are second only to the Danes in the amount they throw away. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160323/swiss-produce-more-waste-than-most-in-europe Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:01:58 +0100 swiss-produce-more-waste-than-most-in-europe A worker at a refuse disposal plant near Zurich had a shock when she opened a plastic bag to find it contained five living snakes. https://www.thelocal.ch/20131230/snakes-found-dumped-in-garbage-pile Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:17:00 +0100 snakes-found-dumped-in-garbage-pile