Curiosidades

For more than 20 years, Michigan residents have collected their empty pop and beer cans and bottles. They know a 10-cent deposit return awaits them at the grocery store. Left behind, however, are many empty bottles that held water, juice, tea and sports drinks — in addition to the newspapers, …

Here is some news from the UK newspaper the Leicester Mercury. It looks like a giant washing machine – but it’s the answer to Leicester’s waste problems. A team from Leicester has visited Germany to see the kind of technology that will revolutionise recycling in this city from 2005. Residents …

Daventry District Council (DDC) is currently the UK’s leading recycling authority, diverting 43% of all household waste from landfill through doorstep collections of recyclables (paper, steel and aluminium cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles and textiles) and organic wastes (garden and kitchen wastes). Consultants (and RRF members) Environmental Resources …

More people protested in Taipei over the planned Taiwanese plastic bag tax than took to the streets recently in many cities to object to a war in Iraq. The China Post reports that more than 10,000 protesters took to the streets of Taipei yesterday to demonstrate against a ban on …

The waste-to-energy industry is finding itself confronted with growing opposition from environmental pressure groups and objections raised by Nimbys – those campaigners who proclaim Not In My Back Yard against the siting and development of major waste facilities, especially thermal treatment plants. Consultants Frost & Sullivan report that in addition …

For more than 20 years, Michigan residents have collected their empty pop and beer cans and bottles. They know a 10-cent deposit return awaits them at the grocery store. Left behind, however, are many empty bottles that held water, juice, tea and sports drinks — in addition to the newspapers, …

New Yorkers are creatures of habit, when it comes to trash. To prove this, one need only leave a small pile of garbage out on some street corner. It will grow exponentially, all of a sudden a designated trash site. The problem of what to do with what they throw …

De um universo de 295 empresas industriais e comerciais de pequeno, médio e grande portes analisadas pela Agência Ambiental, somente 135 devolveram os formulários preenchidos à agência. Os formulários deveriam conter informações sobre os tipos de resíduos gerados em 2001, bem como sua quantidade, armazenamento, tratamento e destino final. Destas, …

Sem definir como a população vai declarar o volume de resíduos que produz por dia nem como a veracidade desses dados será verificada, a Prefeitura de São Paulo quer, até o fim do ano, aprovar na Câmara Municipal o projeto de lei que institui a taxa do lixo. Pela proposta, …