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According to the Israeli Environment Ministry‘‘s Solid Waste Division, each person in Israel generated 1.6 kilograms of waste per day in 2004 or some 584 kilograms per year. The total quantity of waste generated in Israel each year is some 5.8 million tons (including municipal and industrial waste). The goal …

Farmers are urged to stop burning and burying their rubbish in preparation for new waste regulations, as part of new guidance issued by the Environment Agency. Rebecca Favager, Waste Policy Advisor at Environment Agency Wales said: "We want to help farmers get to grips with how to deal with waste …

This piece from The Arizona Republic elaborates a reference we made a few months ago to the interesting work of Professor Jones from the University of Arizona. By pawing through people‘‘s garbage, professional dumpster diver Timothy W. Jones has concluded that Americans have no respect for the food they eat. …

The Environment Agency has issued guidance which sets out how wastes produced at authorised waste treatment sites should be classified and coded according to the European Waste Catalogue (EWC). Where hazardous wastes are being mixed with other wastes then generally, unless all of the hazardous waste components have been fully …

What to do with a tower block that no one wants to live in? The solution: pull it down, slice it up, turn it into pleasant, green family homes. The Guardian reports that it looks like many other desirable new homes: a light, spacious two-storey villa with a cool, geometric …