This paper reviews past composting experiences and provides an outline for municipal managers to use when evaluating composting programs within an integrated municipal waste management system
Mais »Composting and Its Applicability in Developing Countries
This paper reviews past composting experiences and provides an outline for municipal managers to use when evaluating composting programs within an integrated municipal waste management system
Mais »Composting and Its Applicability in Developing Countries
This paper reviews past composting experiences and provides an outline for municipal managers to use when evaluating composting programs within an integrated municipal waste management system
Mais »New technique transforming residual material into base material
A Thermal Conversion Installation (TCI) has been opened at AVR-AVIRA in Duiven, the Netherlands. This installation transforms residual material from the paper industry into a base material for the building trade, Topcrete. This technique is claimed to be the first of its type in the world. The TCI is an …
Mais »Composting and Its Applicability in Developing Countries
This paper reviews past composting experiences and provides an outline for municipal managers to use when evaluating composting programs within an integrated municipal waste management system
Mais »Composting and Its Applicability in Developing Countries
This paper reviews past composting experiences and provides an outline for municipal managers to use when evaluating composting programs within an integrated municipal waste management system
Mais »UK consultation on landfill gas management
The EU Landfill Directive requires landfill gas to be collected and used where possible. It is important that emissions to air from landfill sites are managed and monitored to control gases and combustion products that potentially impact on health, the environment or amenity. A series of guidance documents have been …
Mais »Court reinstates Illinois incinerator subsidy
Illinois, USA can no longer deny subsidies for a trio of bond-financed waste-to-energy incinerators in the state, a judge said this week in a ruling that may allow the incinerators to seek monetary damages against the state and an electric utility. Reuters reports that Cook County Circuit Court Judge Robert …
Mais »UK Finance Minister acts on waste
UK Chancellor Gordon Brown has announced further important steps in the Government’s strategy to protect the environment, including action to tackle the problem of waste, and expand on the Government’s strategy for using economic measures for delivering environmental benefits. Building on its recent Budgets, the Government today announced a series …
Mais »UK Cabinet Office strategy unit report calls for a focus on waste reduction and more recycling
A new report from the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit 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 report Waste Not, Want Not sets out a series of practical and cost-effective measures for …
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