Curiosidades

A project to encourage shoppers to re-use their plastic supermarket bags is to receive funding from the Welsh Assembly Government. The three-month pilot project will be launched later this year by the Wales Environment Trust and Asda at its 14 superstores across Wales. It will be the first of its …

A plan in Australia to pay cash for returning old cans and bottles for recycling has been binned because a carton of beer could go up by as much as A$5. The Australian Northern Territory Government is afraid beer and weekly shopping bills will go up if it introduced container …

Brian Wilson MP, Minister for Construction and Energy, today visited Greenwich, London to open the first Construction and Demolition Waste Eco Site of its kind in the UK. Britain’s building industry is a major extractor of raw materials and annually produces over 14 million tonnes of waste in London alone. …

Public administrations can save greenhouse gas emissions to the tune of 18% of the EU’s obligations under the Kyoto Protocol just by switching away from conventional power supplies to using electricity generated from renewable forms of energy. This is one of the early conclusions to emerge from a research project …

Letsrecycle.com (http://www.letsrecycle.com) reports that a two-year project, entitled “PROVE”, has established a set of industry-wide generic standards for recycled plastics across a range of engineering applications. Led by the British Plastics Federation (BPF) and the Consortium for Automotive Recycling (CARE Group), the study claims that it will give manufacturers – …

Folsom, California plans to close its city-run prison in which nearly 400 minimum-security inmates sort recyclables from trash and launch a kerbside recycling collection programme instead. City officials say the plant was losing US$1.5 million annually

South Africa’s major retailers had no alternative but to comply with new legislation on plastic bags to be introduced early in May, they said yesterday, although Pick ‘n Pay would introduce its own “green bag” as an alternative. SA Online Business Report notes that the new legislation, which becomes law …

Here is an article which raises interesting and not unique issues: a country with no energy recovery (EfW) and a five per cent recycling rate is considering a first waste incinerator, while a neighbour already has a significant programme of EfW and a recycling rate of 40 per cent. As …

In Waterford, Ireland women are better at recycling waste than men – except when it comes to disposing drink cans! That was one of the insightful findings of the survey on Waterford People’s Attitudes, Knowledge and Use of recycling facilities conducted by the Transition Year students of St. Angela’s Secondary …

Automotive and construction industries are set to benefit from a commercially viable route towards sustainable manufacture. New technology based on pyrolysis and physical separation could tackle a growing problem for automotive, construction and other major industries – how to recycle composite plastics. Forthcoming legislation sets increasingly stringent targets for recovery …