This publication identifies and explains the key laws relating to environmental regulation in Europe affecting packaging and packaged goods. A comprehensive listing of applicable laws is given in Appendix 1. The mandate and requirements of the principal European packaging waste recovery organisations is described in the sections on each country
Mais »VDI 3460 Emission Control -Thermal Treatment of Waste
This draft edition represents the entirely revised Guideline VDI 3460 dealing with stationary waste incinerator units, in which domestic refuse, hazardous waste and sewage sludge are incinerated. Also covered is the thermal treatment of solid waste by coincineration within power plants, cement works and steelworks. It describes measures taken for …
Mais »Analysis of Waste Entering a Typical Small Landfill Site in the South Wales Valleys: Phase 2 Report on Further Composition and Weight
This report is the second produced during Cardiff University’s waste classification project examining the different waste streams entering a typical small landfill site in the South Wales valleys. Its purpose is to provide an understanding of the characteristics of waste arisings in a typical South Wales valley community
Mais »Manual de Gerenciamneto Integrado de Resíduos Sólidos
O Manual de Gerenciamento Integrado de Resíduos Sólidos será utilizado como instrumento didático nos programas de treinamento e capacitação em Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos promovidos pela Secretaria Especial de Desenvolvimento Urbano da Presidência da República – SEDU/PR e pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Administração Municipal – IBAM, podendo servir de referência …
Mais »Manual of Environment Policy: The EU and Britain
This manual provides an up-to-date and complete account of EU environmental policy and legislation and its impact in Britain. It is a practical reference for everyone from individual consultants to companies and governmental organisa-tions who need to know how EU environmental policy continues to drive change in Britain
Mais »Handbook of recycling techniques
Recycling techniques are at least 50 centuries old but literature on the subject is scarce. Over the last ten years recovery techniques have developed, stimulated by political and economic factors. Knowledge of existing recycling tech-niques is important to recyclers and also manufacturers of consumer goods. Following an introduction and a …
Mais »Fit for re-use
This guide to good practice has been compiled (in loose leaf format) to assist managers of workshops to reach standards that will result in accreditation, efficiency and assurance of quality. Currently there are more than 300 community organisations across the UK supplying household effects to people in need. Many customers …
Mais »International Conference: Local and Regional Authorities Waste Management and Recycling Policies
Proceedings of the last ACRR international conference held in Barcelona on 17-18 May 2001. Contains all papers presented at this conference
Mais »Domestically Prohibited Goods, Trade in Toxic Waste and Technology Transfer: Issues and Developments
This discussion paper highlights the threat to the environment and health of people in many developing countries posed by growth in uncontrolled transboundary movements of domestically prohibited goods, hazardous waste and dirty technologies. It raised concerns about the rich industrialised countries exporting such substances and technologies to the poor, developing …
Mais »Planning for Sustainable and Integrated Solid Waste Management
A Workshop Report – held 18 to 21 September 2000. A collaborative working group on solid waste management in low and middle income countries. Contains all papers which were presented during the workshop and comes with a CD-ROM
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