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City Trash Plan Forgoes Trucks, Favoring Barges

Three years after the closing of the mammoth Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, the Bloomberg administration has drawn up a 20-year plan to deal with the city’s residential waste by shipping the bulk of it elsewhere by barge, officials who have been briefed on the plan said yesterday. Link:

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Fuel-Gas Production from Waste Plastics

The Research Institute for Environmental Management Technology (RIEMT) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, has developed direct gasification technology to obtain fuel gas derived from waste plastics. Link:

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Isopor agora também já pode ser reciclado

Ao ouvir falar sobre os danos causados ao ambiente pelo descarte incorreto do poliestireno expandido (EPS), popularmente conhecido como isopor, muita gente até percebe que contribui com a degradação, mas não sabe como evitá-la. Afinal, o isopor está hoje associado a um número cada vez maior de hábitos de consumo: …

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