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The Plastics Recycling Council have just launched a project to generate a range of standards for the plastics recycling industry. The BPF Recycling Council Ltd is the not-for-profit company that represents the UK plastics recycling industry. This industry converts over 400,000 tonnes of waste plastic into new products every year. …

Reuters reports that German Environment Minister Juergen Trittin was quoted on Friday as saying the country aimed to widen a deposit system to encourage recycling of drinks cans from January 1, 2003. “I have proposed to the chancellery that we introduce the obligatory deposits on January 1, 2003. We want …

Árvores e frutos se desenvolvem em antigo lixão da Folha de S.Paulo Na divisa entre São Bernardo do Campo e Diadema, na Grande São Paulo, a natureza se regenera sozinha sobre aquele que já foi o maior depósito de lixo clandestino de São Paulo: o lixão do Alvarenga. Pés de …

Waste made work for more than 30,500 people across Canada in 2000 OTTAWA (CP) – Waste made work for more than 30,500 people across the country in the year 2000, says Statistics Canada. More than 23,400 were employed by waste management industries disposing of municipal, construction and demolition waste. Those …

Natureza pode retornar a aterros de lixo desativados, afirma estudo da Folha de S.Paulo, no Rio Um aterro sanitário pode, sim, virar uma área de lazer e esportes ou um parque com árvores de grande porte. Tudo isso sem trazer riscos ao ambiente ou à saúde humana. Também é possível …

Veja um interessante vídeo sobre as diversas fases da industrialização de produtos recicláveis. Este vídeo foi elaborado pela RESOL Engenharia Ltda. em 1.990 para o SEBRAE

Hewlett-Packard recycles 70% of inkjet material with mail-in program DETROIT (Feb. 22) — About 70 percent of the material in used inkjet cartridges returned to Hewlett-Packard Co. in the United States ends up being recycled into new products. The waste generated by consumers — the used cartridges — is returned …

Antarctic waste disposal exercise succeeds A project to help clear Antarctica of junk has overcome a final hurdle, with the unloading of a shipment of 1,000 tonnes of scrap metal. Three years after it began, the British-based Mission Antarctica project has cleared the scrap from Russia’s Bellingshausen base. It also …

Recycling used items not a waste of time and saves money – China Daily The Chinese Government recently hatched a plan to recycle industrial and family waste and, in the process, yield 55 billion yuan (US$6.62 billion) a year within five years. The State Economic and Trade Commission’s plan would …