Acervo

South Africa’s major retailers had no alternative but to comply with new legislation on plastic bags to be introduced early in May, they said yesterday, although Pick ‘n Pay would introduce its own “green bag” as an alternative. SA Online Business Report notes that the new legislation, which becomes law …

Here is an article which raises interesting and not unique issues: a country with no energy recovery (EfW) and a five per cent recycling rate is considering a first waste incinerator, while a neighbour already has a significant programme of EfW and a recycling rate of 40 per cent. As …

São José dos Campos

The Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Terminal 5 at Heathrow, UK are just two examples of major construction projects that are currently utilising large quantities of recycled and secondary aggregates. However, until recently one of the major barriers to the wider use of these materials has been the lack of …

The Environment team at the British Embassy in Berlin, Germany have located a handy briefing note on envrionmental taxes in Germany. Written in January, this is an up-to-date review and is 11 pages long. It describes (in English) the ecological tax reform (ETR): introduction, continuation and further development. Through ETR, …

The EPS (expanded polystyrene) packaging industry is celebrating an unprecedented rise in its recycling figures for 2001-2002. The figures show that 10,800 tonnes of used EPS packaging was recycled – an increase to 40 per cent of EPS packaging produced in the UK. This places EPS packaging ahead of glass …

One of North America’s most comprehensive recycling collection programmes is having trouble getting a smooth city-wide operation underway. Resource Recycling reports that in March, Guelph, Ontario moved to a three-sort, all-bagged system called wet-dry plus Wet compostable materials are kept separate from dry recyclables, and both are bagged. Residents place …

Rio de Janeiro

O engenheiro Cláudio José Madureira encontrou uma boa utilização para parte dos milhões de pneus descartados anualmente no país: aproveitá-los na construção de aterros. Após um ano de pesquisa e ensaios práticos, ele constatou que pneus amarrados com fitas de poliéster apresentam resistência semelhante aos produtos geossintéticos amplamente empregados em …