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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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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, …

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 …