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The Australian Government appears determined to force the pace on plastic bags At a meeting of industry and environment groups at Parliament House, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage Senator Ian Campbell welcomed a set of draft principles to phase out plastic bag use by the end of 2008. …

London‘‘s Ecological Footprint is more than twice the size of Great Britain, which is a huge drain on the natural environment. If everyone lived as Londoner‘‘s do, it would require more than three planet Earths to support them. This disturbing statistic is highlighted in London Remade‘‘s new report Making London …

New waste policy and the landfill directive report Uncertainty and lack of information are putting targets for reducing landfill in doubt, say the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in a report out on March 17. The all party group of MPs received evidence that nearly 700,000 tonnes of hazardous …

Expenses only – but a useful and interesting role RAY is a new £2m recycling market development programme for Yorkshire and the Humber. Funded through Yorkshire Forward and part-financed by the European Union; RAY will stimulate economic activity within the recycling supply chain. This in turn will lead to a …

50 million US homes own a working but disused mobile phone A new phone recycling programme by GRC Wireless Recycling pays companies for their unwanted inventory of retired cellular phones. The company‘‘s Wireless Industry Recycling programme pays companies at least US$1 per pound for phones shipped to GRC‘‘s facility in …

Hong Kong‘‘s Housing Department is committed to launching a "Domestic Waste Separation at Source Scheme" in 30 public rental housing (PRH) estates this year to encourage tenants to separate recyclables at source, Deputy Director of Housing, Lau Kai-hung, said recently (Xinhua News Agency). Lau said the scheme would facilitate the …

A eficiência de transformação de carbono total e nutrientes no processo de compostagem depende da natureza das matérias-primas utilizadas, indicando a rapidez de degradação dos resíduos sólidos orgânicos, já que a mesma permite avaliar o processo, com vistas à obtenção da rápida e eficiente estabilização dos resíduos. Este trabalho teve …

São apresentadas neste artigo as informações relativas ao diagnóstico da situação atual da produção e disposição final de resíduos sólidos produzidos pelas empresas, localizadas na Zona Industrial Portuária (ZIP) de SUAPE, bem como um prognóstico e o plano de gerenciamento. Este trabalho teve como base o "Termo de Referência para …

Neste trabalho foi realizada a caracterização física e físico-química da massa "in natura" compreendendo: fração orgânica dos resíduos sólidos urbanos, lodo de esgoto sanitário e substrato ; da massa acumulada e da massa efluente em suas frações líquidas e gasosas. Os resultados da pesquisa, demonstram a viabilidade de se utilizar …