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Recycling Householders are urged to recycle to stop waste going to landfill sites Councils are investigating what happens to their recycled rubbish after the BBC revealed 500 tonnes had been shipped unsorted to Indonesia. Customs at Jakarta impounded containers holding mixed up paper, cardboard, plastics and cans from UK households. …

According to the Israeli Environment Ministry‘‘s Solid Waste Division, each person in Israel generated 1.6 kilograms of waste per day in 2004 or some 584 kilograms per year. The total quantity of waste generated in Israel each year is some 5.8 million tons (including municipal and industrial waste). The goal …

Farmers are urged to stop burning and burying their rubbish in preparation for new waste regulations, as part of new guidance issued by the Environment Agency. Rebecca Favager, Waste Policy Advisor at Environment Agency Wales said: "We want to help farmers get to grips with how to deal with waste …

This piece from The Arizona Republic elaborates a reference we made a few months ago to the interesting work of Professor Jones from the University of Arizona. By pawing through people‘‘s garbage, professional dumpster diver Timothy W. Jones has concluded that Americans have no respect for the food they eat. …

The Commission‘‘s Biomass Action Plan should reduce oil imports by 8%, prevent greenhouse gas emissions of 209 million tons CO2-equivalent per year and create up to 300,000 new job. Too good to be true? This note from Euractiv. The Commission adopted the Biomass Action Plan on 7 December 2005. The …

O Programa é desenvolvido pela Prefeitura em parceria com 26 ONGs, responsáveis pela coleta, triagem e comercialização do material reciclável. Além da inclusão social e da geração de renda, os principais objetivos da experiência são a ampliação da taxa de reciclagem e o desenvolvimento de uma estratégia que possibilite a …