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In Ontario, Canada the state government has announced a strategy to better manage Ontario’s waste and reduce the province’s reliance on landfills, focusing on achieving 60 per cent waste diversion from landfill. The continued export of Ontario waste, particularly from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), to the United States is …

The Ghana Minister of Trade, Industry and President’s Special Initiatives, Mr. Alan Kyeremanten has inaugurated a private sector-led Plastic Waste Management Task Force, which is to contribute to the proper management of the plastic waste problem in Ghana. The Task Force comprises representatives of: National Association of Sachet Water Producers …

A new report has been published which explores the viability of advanced thermal treatment of MSW in the UK. The UK needs to make a step change in waste management to meet challenging EU law, and improve the resource efficiency of the UK economy. This report examines how great a …

Full recycling of glass, plastic, metal and paper in New York City will resume this morning after a disruption of almost two years, and if that comes as a surprise, do not be alarmed. Plenty of New Yorkers are unprepared. The NY Times reports that although the Department of Sanitation …

Five companies, including general contractor Taisei Corp and trading house Marubeni Corp, will join in a new business to extract car fuel from wood materials discarded in construction. Asia Online reports that the firms will jointly establish a company in April with a capitalisation of 100 million yen (US$960,836), with …

The State Government of New South Wales, Australia has issue a consultation paper on resource conservation, which paints a vision about what each of us would be doing in a world that more actively conserved resources and avoided waste. The document from the Department of Environment & Conservation (DEC, formerly …

The UK National Health Service (NHS) maternity services are promoting disposable nappies by default, undermining the Government’s waste strategy and denying parents a fair choice, according to the pressure group the Womens Environmental network (WEN). Defra (The Department of the Environment) has a target of converting 155,000 households to real …