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Oganic waste from some of Perth’s most affluent suburbs could be broken down and turned into electricity in a world-class facility by the end of 2004. WA-based company Organic Resource Technology has been collaborating with Murdoch University’s Environmental Biotechnology Co-operative Research Centre to develop a closed waste treatment system to …

A catação na China tem aumentado muito ultimamente, especialmente de garrafas de PET, cujo mercado naquele país é grande. O grande volume deste material exige soluçoes criativas

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research team led by Tateo Usui, professor of chemical reaction engineering at Osaka University, announced on October 24, 2003, that it had developed simple dioxin-removal equipment in collaboration with Sumikin Kansai Industries Ltd. Japan for Sustainability reports that the team has succeeded in removing dioxins, contained in exhaust fumes generated …

Eight of Japan’s 12 automakers declared they have formed a joint organisation to recycle automobile shredder residue (ASR). The move is aimed at meeting a car-recycling law that will take effect in January 2005. The Japan Times reports that ASR is one of the products carmakers will be required to …

Apresentação em Power Point de um panorama sobre a gestão de resíduos perigosos no Brasil, com foco no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul

Britain’s only working salt mine is to be partly turned into a giant toxic waste tip to avert a predicted crisis later this year when most existing overground sites will be forced to close. The Guardian reports that the 170 metres (550ft) deep mine, near Winsford in Cheshire, currently used …

A programme of support measures for new and emerging waste management technologies is to be implemented this year by a new Defra (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) committee, set up specifically to fund R&D and demonstration projects in support of technology and processes to reduce and divert biological …

Desde julho de 1997, a Alemanha dispõe de uma usina que processa 140 mil toneladas de lixo por ano e produz, concomitantemente, combustível a partir da biomassa. Trata-se da tecnologia de reprocessamento de combustível, que está em pleno funcionamento também na Itália (Veneza). Primeiro, o lixo é secado por processo …

Os supermercados de Xangai, maior cidade da China, começarão a cobrar dos consumidores os saquinhos plásticos usados como embalagens, numa tentativa de reduzir o desperdício. Segundo o Serviço de Proteção Ambiental de Xangai, a idéia ajudará a preservar recursos e proteger o meio ambiente, mas o efeito prático depende da …