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Quantas garrafas PET são necessárias para a confecção de uma camiseta? Como funciona o processo de transformação? Quantas garrafas recicladas viram tecido? Uma garrafa que contenha 50 gramas de PET (embalagem de 2 litros, por exemplo) gerará 50 gramas de fibra de poliéster. Em outras palavras, não há perda de …

A pilot scheme that has been introduced in Vienna and Salzburg, in which the yellow bin and the yellow sack are used to collect plastic bottles only, has proved to be a big success. The scheme is also running in lower Austria and is due to be launched parts of …

The rapid growth of the renovation market has helped to increase the exchange of aluminium windows and façades. Industrial and commercial buildings are being adapted to meet the increasing demand for insulation and comfort. The German Aluminium Recycling Initiative A/U/F has set targets of recycling aluminium windows and façades into …

After November 1, China will ban imports of scrap electronic goods such as refrigerators and television sets. Countries like Japan and the United States have traditionally dumped goods like these in China, where they are broken down for parts and re-built. Xinhuanet reports that the practice is about to stop, …

University Park, Pennsylvania. — After a decade of experimentation into creating fuel nuggets out of unrecycled waste plastics and burning them without creating toxic emissions, a team of researchers in Penn State‘‘s College of Agricultural Sciences recently received an $87,395 grant from the state Department of Agriculture to ramp-up their …

A new record for collection was reached in the first half of 2004 – 32.5 kg per head was diverted to household collection containers. The strongest growth was in the provinces of Vorarlberg, Carinthia and Burgenland. There has been an explosion in the collection of waste paper; ten years after …

The Waste Disposal (Designated Waste Disposal Facility) (Amendment) Regulation 2004 and Waste Disposal (Charges for Disposal of Construction Waste) Regulation will be tabled at the Legislative Council on November 3. The regulations set out the implementation details of the construction waste disposal charging scheme and will be published in the …

Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO), has released his fifth annual report to the Legislature. In his remarks at a press conference held this morning at Queen‘‘s Park, Commissioner Miller said that while he welcomed some of the government‘‘s recent proposals, the province still had a mixed environmental record …