Curiosidades

Sem definir como a população vai declarar o volume de resíduos que produz por dia nem como a veracidade desses dados será verificada, a Prefeitura de São Paulo quer, até o fim do ano, aprovar na Câmara Municipal o projeto de lei que institui a taxa do lixo. Pela proposta, …

NOVA YORK – Aço reciclado do World Trade Center (WTC) será usado para construir parte de um navio de guerra americano, de acordo com a construtora Northrop Grumman. O navio será batizado de “New York”, em homenagem aos quase 2.800 mortos no ataque terrorista de 11 de setembro do ano …

Cerca de 1.000 garrafa PET, 100kg de papel e 3.000 lacres de latinhas de refrigerantes e dois meses de trabalho intenso resultaram em um presépio maravilhoso. A obra de arte está ocupando um espaço de aproximadamente 20m2 do interior da Paróquia São João Maria Vianney, Zona Oeste de São Paulo, …

Major mobile phone manufacturers have signed a declaration expressing their interest in cooperating with the Basel Convention and with other stakeholders in the mobile-phone sector on the environmentally sound management of end-of-life mobile phones. The Initiative for a Sustainable Partnership on Environmentally Sound Management of End-of-life Mobile Phones addresses the …

The UK Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with some 25 industrial partners, have funded the University’s Centre for Cement and Concrete to carry out two major investigations – with a total value of around £1.2m – into the potential for using waste …

The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) Technical committee on Solid Recovered Fuels (CEN/TEC343) has recently been instructed by the European Commission to draw up technical specifications for the use of solid recovered fuels (SRFs) in waste incineration facilities and in industrial co-combustion plants. EUWID reports that the Commission is interested …

In the US town of Northampton, residents and business owners in the habit of using the city’s trash receptacles for their own garbage must beware. The City Council has stepped up the penalty for dumping trash into public bins. The measure also increases oversight and enforcement of the law. The …

Wood Market Study – Municipal Wood Waste Arisings Civic amenity sites hold the key to improving local authority wood recycling, according to one report published by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP). The first report, Wood Market Study – Municipal Wood Waste Arisings, written for WRAP by Excelar Ltd, …

A new treatment process that will remove glass and metal from waste products is to be introduced at Dundee’s Baldovie energy from waste plant. The Evening Telegraph reports that plant operators Dundee Energy Recycling Limited (DERL) said that the new system will improve the efficiency of the plant’s boilers while …

Paper should be incinerated rather than recycled, say Danish researchers, where burning paper would benefit the Danish economy. Across Europe, a new waste regulation requires EU countries to collect, analyse and report on waste data. EDIE reports that although Danish politicians have set targets to recycle 60% of household paper …