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The Household Waste Recycling Bill has received Royal Assent to become an Act. The Private Member’s Bill, put forward by Joan Ruddock MP, was supported by Government in its passage through Parliament. The Bill provides that where English waste collection authorities have a duty to collect waste they shall ensure, …

The UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has invited local authorities to bid for £135m of funding that has been provided for waste minimisation and recycling work over the next two years. This is the latest tranche of funding being made available on a challenge fund …

The Danish Government has published a new Waste Strategy for the period 2005-2008. The strategy, which outlines the Government’s waste policy for the coming years, is founded on three cornerstones: prevention of the resource loss and environmental load associated with waste decoupling of the increase in the amount of waste …

In a hilltop in Venezuela’s capital Caracas, where hunger and crime are as common as tumbledown homes, Amarilis Chirinos is finding that the garbage strewn on the slum’s slopes has its uses. ENS reports that she and other residents of the western El Resplandor neighbourhood are flocking to exchange recyclable …

Typically, recycling scrap aluminium requires only 5% of the energy needed to produce the same amount of metal from bauxite ore. Clearly, this makes the process very attractive, both in financial and environmental terms. If, however, high levels of throughput, combined with efficient recovery, are to be achieved, sophisticated recycling …

The Scottish Government recycled 58 per cent of its office waste in 2002/03, an increase of 14 per cent over the previous year. Andy Kerr, Minister for Finance and Public Services said: “The Executive is committed to recycling. I welcome this improvement in performance which puts us ahead of schedule …

Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency for Yorkshire and Humber, with European Funders, is seeking a private sector partner to develop and implement a Regional Market Development (or ‘ReMade’) Programme for Recyclable Materials This new programme aims to: support the development and expansion of regional collection and reprocessing capacity and …

Stability and maturity are recognised as important parameters when assessing the quality of composted products and a report published by WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) will assist in refining the existing standards and ensure that composted products can meet end market requirements. Entitled Assessment of options and requirements …

Are your discarded cereal boxes and banana peels renewable fuel? Newsday.com reports that the question has become relevant as New York state crafts rules that will mandate a heavier reliance on cleaner, sustainable energy sources. Windmills, solar panels and fuel cells are considered likely to be on a list of …

The Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks presents estimates by the United States government of U.S. anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals for the years 1990 through 2000. The estimates are presented on both a full molecular mass basis and on a Global Warming Potential (GWP) weighted basis …