Curiosidades

Calma. O planeta ainda não chegou ao ponto de lhe pedir para mobiliar a casa com madeira plástica. Mas está ficando difícil explicar por que ainda é preciso derrubar árvores para fazer banco de jardim, mesa de varanda, mourão de cerca, caibro de telhado, estaca de píer ou deque de …

É inerente à Gestão Corretiva a existência de áreas de deposição irregular como solução para o descarte de pequenos volumes de RCD, e o esgotamento dos bota-foras em função da disposição incessante dos grandes volumes. Inevitáveis, também como conseqüência desse processo sempre emergencial, são os impactos significativos em todo território …

Oil recyclers and the environment will continue to benefit under an amendment to the Product Stewardship (Oil) Regulations 2000, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Dr David Kemp has announced. In response to a review of all excise regulations, changes to the Excise Tariff Act 1921 – scheduled to …

Japanese Japan’s Fuji Xerox Co. has developed a new digital copy machine model, the “DocuCentre 507-MD,” and a digital complex machine equipped with scanning and printing functions, the “DocuCentre 507 CP-MD,” which will have much less environmental impact than conventional models because they are made of 70 per cent recycled …

A new mail-in programme by Metech International allows consumers to easily recycle old mobile phones for just the cost of postage, reducing waste and keeping environmentally harmful materials such as heavy metals from entering landfills. “ Now, just for the price of postage, every consumer can recycle their old phones, …

A BASF inovou um dos principais componentes de suas tintas e vernizes. Considerada a matéria-prima mais importante na composição desses produtos, a empresa vem obtendo a resina a partir da reciclagem de garrafas PET. O potencial de produção para o ano de 2002 foi de 18 mil toneladas de resinas, …

In mid-December, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced publication of a proposed rule to implement the Federal Procurement of Biobased Products program. The provision requires Federal agencies to purchase biobased products that meet price, availability and performance standards; provides for a voluntary labeling of certified “Biobased Products;” and provides financial …

The Portland Airport has 10,000 employees, 17 passenger airlines, 14 cargo carriers and over one million passengers “zipping through it each year,” writes Tanya Baker in the Association of Oregon Recyclers (AOR) newsletter. Following a decision to emphasize waste reduction as part of its environmental management system, in 2002 the …

It is generally agreed that there are two main sources of national data on how solid waste is managed in the United States. The first is BioCycle’s “State of Garbage in America” survey, started in 1989 and done annually since then, with the exception of 2002. The other is an …

After many years of compost marketing and market development, we have come to recognize a number of “truisms.” A leading one is that although compost is a great product and created from a “recycled” feedstock – and therefore is considered an environmentally “correct” product – most people who purchase compost …