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Pepsi quietly announces plan to use 10% recycled plastic by 2005 (Feb. 22) — Pepsi-Cola Co. now plans to use 10 percent recycled content in its PET bottles by 2005, a significant step that comes after its archrival, Coca-Cola Co., announced similar plans last year. The plan, announced quietly to …

Manual de técnica de operação de aterros

The UK Resource Recovery Forum has agreed to support two new studies to help provide data on aspects of sustainable waste management. Protocols for measuring recycling of WEEE The Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) Directive requires end-of-life equipment to be collected for recovery, recycling and re-use. The proposal has …

Survey of wastes spread on land Hot air blowing hand driers produce half the global warming burden of paper towels, although the use of paper towels results in lower resource depletion, a report commissioned by the air drier manufacturer Airdri has revealed. The streamlined life-cycle assessment study, carried out by …

Manual de planejamento estratégico paro o gerenciamento municipal de resíduos sólidos em CD-ROM

São Paulo

La historia de la basura en Cali va ligada a la historia misma de la ciudad y de muchas de sus instituciones como Emsirva y Emcali y la Universidade del Valle en donde por ejemplo, la fundación de la faculdad de Ingeniería Sanitaria – la primeira del país fue la …

SEATTLE — Worn out, obsolete, fried or just plain dead. Yesterday’s computers, cell phones, VCRs and television sets are headed for the nation’s 2,200 landfills by the ton. Cities and states are scrambling to cope with electronic waste. “Local governments all over the country are trying to deal with this,” …

This report is the second produced during Cardiff University’s waste classification project examining the different waste streams entering a typical small landfill site in the South Wales valleys. Its purpose is to provide an understanding of the characteristics of waste arisings in a typical South Wales valley community