Curiosidades

Um pneu usado pode voltar a ter inúmeros usos ao ser reciclado. O processo, que envolve várias etapas, começa com a picotagem, lavagem e moagem da borracha até atingir a granulação desejada. Hoje, a maior parte é utilizada como combustível alternativo para fornos de indústrias de cimento e caldeiras, em …

The Waste and Emissions Trading Act has been granted Royal Assent. The aim of the new Act is to enable the UK to face two of the biggest environmental challenges – climate change and the need to move towards a more sustainable management of our waste. The UK already has …

It seemd to me that RRF could usefully build a resource of copyright-free clip-art and images associated with waste. Here is one resource, if you have or know of others please let me know – we will of course share the results. Our colleagues in New South Wales, Australia – …

Fifteen years ago, 90 per cent of the solid waste generated in Maryland went into landfills. The state’s recycling rate was an unimpressive 10 per cent. During 2002, however, Maryland’s waste diversion rate was almost 40 per cent, and the state is approaching an important recycling goal nearly three years …

Hechos con polietileno tereftalato, una resina muy reciclable y, por ende, muy económica, pueden almacenar hasta 20 GB de datos. Ya se están fabricando, pero empezarán a producirse en serie en 2007. Por Alessio Balbi. Hasta ahora, la batalla de los soportes digitales de archivo de datos (CDs, DVDs, discos …

thought you might be interested in this item from the Japan for Sustainability organisation. It contains within it the seeds of an excuse when anything is late, but might also be of real interest in the cause of sustainability. “Do you feel restless when you’re not busy? Do you feel …

Steel packaging is being recycled in ever increasing volumes: the 2 million tonnes mark for recycled steel packaging was exceeded in 2002, representing an 8% growth in collected and recycled tonnage in Europe compared with the previous year. This means that the steel packaging industry has now reached its voluntary …

Farmers, horticulturalists, waste contractors and suppliers should start preparing now for new waste management controls for agriculture due in 2004. A comprehensive leaflet summarising the changes and opportunities along with other new information is released by the Agricultural Waste Stakeholders’ Forum. The new information includes: a summary document which highlights …

The town council of Kamikatsu, located in Tokushima Prefecture in Japan’s southwestern island of Shikoku, adopted the “Kamikatsu Township Zero Waste Declaration” on September 19, 2003. Japan for Sustainability (JfS)reports that the declaration states that the town has resolved to achieve zero waste by 2020 in order to bequeath clean …

Japanese RCS is an incorporated nonprofit organization located in Kyoto, Japan, that aims to promote a resource-circulating society. It collects used cooking oil from restaurants and households in Kyoto City and recycles it into clean and environmentally friendly bio-diesel fuel Japan for sustainability (JfS) reports that at present households and …