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USA – proposed waste incinerator regulations would cut 2,800 tons of air pollution annually

The US EPA is proposing new rules to reduce emissions of air pollutants from the last remaining category of waste incinerators requiring Clean Air Act regulation. This final category is called other solid waste incinerators (OSWI). OSWI consist of institutional waste incinerators and very small municipal waste combustors. Institutional waste …

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Ireland – Government encourages Cork developers to increase recycling of construction and demolition waste

"The continued and unfettered growth in waste across all sectors in our society is no longer sustainable and must be reversed in the longer term to better protect our environment for the generations to come!" announced Mr. Batt O‘‘Keeffe, T.D., Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage …

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