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Waikato Times reports that cutting rubbish dumping by 60 per cent was a factor behind a hat trick of industry awards for Fonterra‘‘s Hautapu factory. At the annual Dairy Industry Quality Performance Awards in Wellington on June 20. Fonterra Hautapu collected the Ecolab Eco-Efficiency Award for its environmental and waste …

Australian federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has revived plans to slug consumers with charges to cover the cost of recycling computers, government officials have revealed. recycling levy An advance disposal fee would be among a range of measures Australian IT reports that the Department of Environment and Water has confirmed …

Together with Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobelco Eco-Solutions Co. in Japan has developed a high-efficiency thermal storage and transport system called "ThermoWay". Japan for Sustainability reports that successful middle-distance transport experiments were recently conducted on public roads, and the system has entered the final demonstration phase before moving toward commercial scale …

Resident pushes stroller past pile of rubbish in Naples. The city‘‘s landfill sites are full and rubbish is overflowing in the streets The US embassy in Rome has warned American tourists that they may face health risks if they travel to Naples, because of the city‘‘s rubbish crisis. The streets …

The European Commission has welcomed the adoption by the European Parliament of the proposal to phase out the use of toxic mercury in measuring devices, where it can be substituted by safer alternatives, in order to protect health and environment. The agreement will phase out the use of mercury in …