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The Green Purchasing Network (GPN) and other parties over the world launched the International Green Purchasing Network (IGPN) earlier this year, to be chaired by Ryoichi Yamamoto, professor of the University of Tokyo. The IGPN is aiming at promoting Green Purchasing activities and development of environmentally preferable products and services …

CRS has launched the Heathfield composting plant, its fifth facility in the UK. Officially opened by Councillor Des Shadrick, Chairman of Devon County Council, the site is the first to feature CRS‘‘ innovative tunnel technology. The facility is on Viridor Waste Management‘‘s site, it is Viridor who, working in partnership …

On the long space trip from Earth to Mars "the crew won‘‘t be able to get by with a bag lunch and Portapotty," says Arthur Teixeira, a professor of agricultural and biological engineering at the University of Florida. Space Daily reports that Teixeira presented a plan for how NASA could …

A Joint Ministerial Statement on three new policy documents was issued by Ben Bradshaw, the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Local Environment, and Yvette Cooper, the Minister for Housing and Planning, on Sustainable Waste Management. These documents are: · Planning Policy Statement 10 (PPS10): Planning for Sustainable Waste Management · Guidance …