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Plastics Recycling Update reports that ringing a long, hard legislative session to an end, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a number of plastics-related bills that reached his desk, yet signed others. Plastics Recycling Update reports that Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation, for the third year in a row, which would have required …

Food waste levels are shocking but no-one is doing more to reduce them than the packaging industry, reports packaging industry body Incpen. Supermarkets and their suppliers are reducing packaging but, more importantly they are making sure they use enough packaging to help stop food waste which is a much bigger …

MRW reports that out of all the waste initiatives food waste prevention has the potential to make the single biggest contribution to reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, according to the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP). Speaking at WRAP’s annual review, WRAP chief executive Liz Goodwin said that out of …

With Canadians disposing of over 25 million tonnes of waste to landfills each year, many municipalities are handing over money to companies that specialize in turning municipal solid waste (MSW) into energy. Globe-Net reports that through ingenuity, many waste-to-energy technologies have been developed for this waste and it has become …

A new brochure from the European Environment Agency (EEA) presents the EEA‘‘s new country factsheets on waste policies and trends across the EU-25, and summarises some patterns in approaches to waste management that are highlighted by the factsheets. Achieving effective policy outcomes: the importance of tailoring waste management policies to …

A luta pela sobrevivência em diferentes épocas: les glaneuses (catadoras de restos de colheita na França do século XIX) e as catadoras de lixo. Sobre as primeiras, a diretora francesa Agnès Varda fez um ótimo filme, Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, uma crítica à sociedade de consumo

Methods used to recycle electronic waste exported to China “significantly” increase the amount of the toxin dioxin in women of child-bearing age and in breast-fed babies, According to EarthTimes, Chinese scientists estimated that the intake of dioxin in breast-fed babies in Taizhou in eastern China, where more than 2.2 million …

EPS é a sigla internacional do Poliestireno Expandido, de acordo com a Norma DIN ISSO-1043/78. No Brasil, é mais conhecido como “Isopor®”, marca registrada da Knauf Isopor Ltda., e designa, comercialmente, os produtos de poliestireno expandido, comercializados por essa empresa. O EPS foi descoberto em 1949 pelos químicos Fritz Stastny …

Nas indústrias, o isopor é muito utilizado para embalar desde alimentos a equipamentos eletro-eletrônicos, mas também é largamente empregado na fabricação de utilitários, na construção civil e na indústria automobilística. Gradualmente, porém, se está substituindo o produto por alternativas que impactam menos o meio ambiente, como o a bioespuma. “No …

Tesco and the Carbon Trust are to measure the carbon footprint of 30 Tesco own-brand products in the next stage of the journey towards a clear, universal system of carbon labelling for the weekly shop. Ranging from orange juice to light bulbs, the products will be assessed using the draft …