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The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) announced that last Autumn it had provided a loan of 25 billion yen (about U.S.$22.5 million) to Recycle Peer Co., a newly established company specializing in construction waste recycling. Japan for Sustainability reports that the project is designated as one of the “Super Eco-Town …

London Remade claims that despite local authority recycling results released by DEFRA recently, which show that only 21% of London Boroughs met their 2003/4 targets, London is still making good progress towards its recycling target for 2005/6. The recently released local authority performance figures are based on waste recycled or …

Generators are individuals that produce hazardous waste, usually as a result of an industrial process. Transporters are individuals or entities that move hazardous waste from the generator off-site to a facility that can recycle, treat, store, or dispose of the waste. Hazardous waste may be transported to another location to …

Everyone knows that reducing waste is good for the environment. What most people don’t know is that solid waste reduction and recycling help address global climate change. How? By decreasing the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that are linked to everyday trash. The manufacture, distribution, and use of products – …

WWF-UK has started work on a major research programme to perform the first comprehensive assessment of the environmental impact of the UK nation‘‘s activities, expressed as a so-called environmental footprint. The Faraday Partnerhip‘‘s Mini-Waste reports that the study, made possible by £520,000 of support from Biffaward, will be carried out …

Oil recycling in the UK is likely to be extinguished by spiralling collection costs for waste oil. According to Letsrecycle.com, instead of being recycled for use as a fuel by power generators and roadstone plants, as a consequence of the Waste Incineration Directive these will no longer be able use …

Japanese Mos Food Services, Inc., a major Japanese burger chain with 1,467 stores across the country and 120 stores overseas is actively promoting the recycling of food waste. Japan for Sustainability reports that the company announced on September 14, 2004 that it has started recycling food waste and warehouse waste …

England is recycling more household waste than ever before, Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, confirmed. Mrs Beckett confirmed that England is poised to meet its national recycling and composting target of 17 per cent in 2003/04. Mrs Beckett‘‘s comments today come as Defra release …

The Board of Education of Masuda City, Shimane Prefecture in western Japan, has launched a project to recycle milk cartons from school lunches at elementary and junior high schools in the city. Japan for Sustainability reports that the project, started in September 2004, aims to raise schoolchildren‘‘s awareness about the …

The European Court of Justice has found against the German packaging legislation in two cases. The first decision helps clarify Article 5 of the Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste concerning reusable packaging. The second case concerns a complaint brought by an Austrian company selling beverages in Germany, which …