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The Association of Cities & Regions for Recycling (ACRR) has published a study comparing the organisation of selective collection schemes, waste management costs and how these costs are allocated in several European national policies. The report is a helpful tool for policy-makers to identify key factors for waste management costs …

The UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has invited local authorities to bid for £135m of funding that has been provided for waste minimisation and recycling work over the next two years. This is the latest tranche of funding being made available on a challenge fund …

The Danish Government has published a new Waste Strategy for the period 2005-2008. The strategy, which outlines the Government’s waste policy for the coming years, is founded on three cornerstones: prevention of the resource loss and environmental load associated with waste decoupling of the increase in the amount of waste …

Uma inovação na limpeza urbana na China

Este estudo objetiva apresentar alternativas, na utilização dos resíduos de poda na cidade do Recife. Foram realizados levantamentos em relação ao índice de geração de resíduos, sua caracterização qualitativa e quantitativa, indicando alternativas de opções de uso desse material

Os resíduos depositados em aterros de resíduos sólidos procedem, na mai- oria das vezes, de fontes domiciliares, industriais e comerciais, tendo uma composição bastante diversificada, ali- mentos, podas de árvores, jardim, fral- das descartáveis: rejeitos industriais, pilhas etc. e esses produtos são cons- tituídos por diferentes macromolécu- las, as quais …

In a hilltop in Venezuela’s capital Caracas, where hunger and crime are as common as tumbledown homes, Amarilis Chirinos is finding that the garbage strewn on the slum’s slopes has its uses. ENS reports that she and other residents of the western El Resplandor neighbourhood are flocking to exchange recyclable …

Typically, recycling scrap aluminium requires only 5% of the energy needed to produce the same amount of metal from bauxite ore. Clearly, this makes the process very attractive, both in financial and environmental terms. If, however, high levels of throughput, combined with efficient recovery, are to be achieved, sophisticated recycling …