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UK – intermodal transport for waste and recyclables in England and Wales
A project is underway to demonstrate the environmental and economic benefits to England and Wales of a multi-modal mass balance approach to the transport of waste and recyclable material. The Strategic Vision is of an Integrated National Network of Strategic Resource Recovery Facilities, incorporating: Regional Nodes Environmental Clusters Industrial Ecology …
Mais »Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City approves solid waste management plan
The Vietnamese News Agency reports that Ho Chi Minh City has approved a master plan for solid waste management in the city. The master plan will help deal with problems involving solid waste management and is designed to call for public participation in environmental protection, said Nguyen Van Chien, deputy …
Mais »UK – Recycling at home more popular than at work
A new survey shows a big difference in people’s support for the environment while at home – compared to the time they spend at work. 80 per cent of those questioned in a YouGov poll for KPMG said they regularly recycle waste and other items at home. But when they …
Mais »Canada – gasification of waste plastics as source of clean, alternative energy
Recent field trials undertaken by North American plastics industry association EPIC show that the use of municipal plastic residues as a feedstock in gasification may provide an alternative source of clean energy to help meet the increasing global demand for electricity. Gasification has been in use for more than half …
Mais »Canada – plastics in appliances “help reduce greenhouse gas emissions”
In the mid to late 1960s, manufacturers of refrigerators and freezers began replacing the glass-fibre insulation used on the walls and doors of their products with polyurethane plastic foam. The move not only provided consumers with a larger interior that offered the same insulation properties (i.e. 80 to 90 mm …
Mais »UK – construction partnership tackles building site waste
A new project to cut high levels of waste on construction sites and improve health and safety was announced by UK Government Employment Relations Minister Gerry Sutcliffe. Currently, about 15-20% of all material delivered to construction sites ends up in skips, costing industry hundreds of millions of pounds a year. …
Mais »UK – The State of the Nation 2004: urgent action needed to prevent rubbish mountain: over 2000 new facilities required to cope with waste crisis
A report published by the UK Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) reveals that up to 2,300 new waste treatment facilities must be operational by 2020 to avoid a major crisis involving millions of tonnes of untreated waste. The introduction of these facilities, which could total up to £30 billion pounds, …
Mais »Hong Kong – MSW recycling at 41 per cent, landfilling rates stabilised
The Government of the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong in China recently issued a note summarising progress on environmental topics over the last decade. On waste disposal, the note reported that: Unwanted waste is disposed of at three very large landfills in the New Territories through a network of …
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