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Companies wanting to produce ethanol from citrus waste in Florida are scrambling to obtain patents and secure sites for pilot projects, evidence that the national craze for the fuel is branching out from the more traditional grain-based feedstock. Dow Jones reports that the material used in the process is what …

Council leaders are calling for manufacturers to pay towards the cost of the growing "nappy mountain". The Local Government Association, as part of the War on Waste campaign, wants companies to foot the £67 million annual cost of burying used disposable nappies in landfill. Nearly three billion nappies are thrown …

On March 15, 2007, the US EPA issued a new proposal restructuring the 2003 Definition of Solid Waste proposal. The new proposal streamlines regulation of hazardous secondary materials to encourage beneficial recycling and help conserve resources. By removing unnecessary controls, recycling these materials will not only be safe, but also …

World Waste Technologies, Inc has announced it has filed a provisional patent covering an energy self sufficient process for the treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW) into the production of mixed alcohols (including ethanol) through a synthetic gas and catalyst process. The process also includes the co-generation of renewable electricity …

A new UN-led alliance will work out global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from mountains of electronic trash such as computers, phones and televisions, the group said on Tuesday. Reuters reports that three UN agencies, 16 firms including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Philips, several government bodies and universities said they …

Every three months a helicopter flies over Hong Kong‘‘s restricted border region near Shenzhen, the special economic zone in China‘‘s southern Guangdong province. Its purpose is not to survey the dramatic landscape of the closed area – which after five decades of enforced isolation has evolved into one of south …

Each year, in the European Union alone, 1.3 billion tonnes of waste are thrown away, some 40 million tonnes of it being hazardous. Reducing household waste has become an area of prime concern for national governments, policy makers and local communities. Irish researchers have recently used an innovative approach to …