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This report calls for greater efforts to reduce the rate of waste growth and for more re-use and recycling to combat the country’s growing rubbish mountain

This report calls for greater efforts to reduce the rate of waste growth and for more re-use and recycling to combat the country’s growing rubbish mountain

This report calls for greater efforts to reduce the rate of waste growth and for more re-use and recycling to combat the country’s growing rubbish mountain

South Africa’s major retailers had no alternative but to comply with new legislation on plastic bags to be introduced early in May, they said yesterday, although Pick ‘n Pay would introduce its own “green bag” as an alternative. SA Online Business Report notes that the new legislation, which becomes law …

This report calls for greater efforts to reduce the rate of waste growth and for more re-use and recycling to combat the country’s growing rubbish mountain

The Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Terminal 5 at Heathrow, UK are just two examples of major construction projects that are currently utilising large quantities of recycled and secondary aggregates. However, until recently one of the major barriers to the wider use of these materials has been the lack of …

The Environment team at the British Embassy in Berlin, Germany have located a handy briefing note on envrionmental taxes in Germany. Written in January, this is an up-to-date review and is 11 pages long. It describes (in English) the ecological tax reform (ETR): introduction, continuation and further development. Through ETR, …

The EPS (expanded polystyrene) packaging industry is celebrating an unprecedented rise in its recycling figures for 2001-2002. The figures show that 10,800 tonnes of used EPS packaging was recycled – an increase to 40 per cent of EPS packaging produced in the UK. This places EPS packaging ahead of glass …

One of North America’s most comprehensive recycling collection programmes is having trouble getting a smooth city-wide operation underway. Resource Recycling reports that in March, Guelph, Ontario moved to a three-sort, all-bagged system called wet-dry plus Wet compostable materials are kept separate from dry recyclables, and both are bagged. Residents place …

Edmonton Alberta claims to have become North America’s hub for research in solid waste and wastewater treatment with the incorporation of the Edmonton Waste Management Centre of Excellence. Partners in the venture include the City of Edmonton, the University of Alberta (U of A), the Alberta Research Council, AMEC, Olds …