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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 to require about 100 of the city‘‘s largest grocery stores and pharmacies to use only biodegradable plastic bags or recyclable paper bags. That means San Francisco is likely to become the first major city in the USA to ban the conventional plastic …

Esta tese aborda o processo de inovação tecnológica como elemento destacado no desenvolvimento industrial e seus impactos ambientais. Recorre-se a teoria evolucionista para melhor compreensão das transformações nos setores produtivos e a identificação de paradigmas tecnológicos adequados, ou não, à preservação ambiental

Neither the Guyana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) nor the municipalities have a programme in place for recycling plastic waste, and the impediment to finding workable solutions may lie in the lack of financial viability for everything proposed so far. Stabroeknews.com reports that plastic bottles (PET), Styrofoam food boxes and plastic …

Here is an interesting editorial from South Africa‘‘s Cape Times. THE short answer is: not much. As my colleague Melanie Gosling revealed last November, despite the fact that more than R100 million has been raised from the 3c levy on every "thick" plastic bag we‘‘ve bought from supermarkets since 2003, …

"We are telling people to start collecting their organic wastes for collection the week of April 2," Peel Region director of waste Andrew Pollock said as the Region launched its green bin organic composting program, a key plank of its waste reduction strategy. The Region has delivered green bins on …

San Francisco‘‘s Board of Supervisors were due to consider passing an ordinance that would require large supermarkets and pharmacies in the city to replace non-biodegradable plastic bags with reusable or recyclable bags, a move that would make San Francisco the first city in the US to introduce such a ban. …

A good example from the Star Tribune of the problems when good motives clash with poor systems design. Every day at lunchtime in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District, students diligently separate food waste from other garbage. Leftover pizza goes in one bin, plastic forks and foam plates in another, empty …

San Francisco‘‘s city council has voted to become the first US city to ban plastic bags from large supermarkets to help promote recycling. Reuters reports that under the legislation approved by the city‘‘s Board of Supervisors, large supermarkets and drugstores will not be allowed to offer plastic bags made from …

O presente estudo analisa a incineração de Resíduos Sólidos Municipais (RSM) com reaproveitamento energético como oportunidade de criação de valor para empreendedores e contribuição para a solução dos problemas da gestão de resíduos sólidos no Brasil e a proteção do clima. O estudo é baseado na instalação protótipo Centro Tecnológico …