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System cuts leachate trucking and treatment costs by $11,000 per month

System cuts leachate trucking and treatment costs by $11,000 per month

System cuts leachate trucking and treatment costs by $11,000 per month

System cuts leachate trucking and treatment costs by $11,000 per month

London‘‘s Ecological Footprint is more than twice the size of Great Britain, which is a huge drain on the natural environment. If everyone lived as Londoner‘‘s do, it would require more than three planet Earths to support them. This disturbing statistic is highlighted in London Remade‘‘s new report Making London …

New waste policy and the landfill directive report Uncertainty and lack of information are putting targets for reducing landfill in doubt, say the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in a report out on March 17. The all party group of MPs received evidence that nearly 700,000 tonnes of hazardous …

Expenses only – but a useful and interesting role RAY is a new £2m recycling market development programme for Yorkshire and the Humber. Funded through Yorkshire Forward and part-financed by the European Union; RAY will stimulate economic activity within the recycling supply chain. This in turn will lead to a …

50 million US homes own a working but disused mobile phone A new phone recycling programme by GRC Wireless Recycling pays companies for their unwanted inventory of retired cellular phones. The company‘‘s Wireless Industry Recycling programme pays companies at least US$1 per pound for phones shipped to GRC‘‘s facility in …

Hong Kong‘‘s Housing Department is committed to launching a "Domestic Waste Separation at Source Scheme" in 30 public rental housing (PRH) estates this year to encourage tenants to separate recyclables at source, Deputy Director of Housing, Lau Kai-hung, said recently (Xinhua News Agency). Lau said the scheme would facilitate the …