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“The world’s population increased last year by 78 million, and is expected to reach six billion by October 1999, according to the annual report of the Washington, US-based Population Institute. Family -Planning programmes around the World have helped cut birth rates in many countries , but a dozen of the …

Tyre Recycling Advance Research into the feasibility of using powerful, short electric pulses to separate metal and rubber components found in tyres has been carried out at Shevehenko University in Kyiv, Austria. Scrap Tyre News Online reports that new techniques are set to reduce energy consumption in the recycling process …

ELV Plastics Separation Systems Planned Recycling plastics from scrap cars will become ever more important in Europe, as the recent legislation on end of life vehicles (ELVs) is implemented. The law prescribes that by 2015 at least 95 per cent (by weight) of an ELV must be recoverable. Multinational car …

Incineration: health and environmental consequences. Gochfeld M UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, USA. Incineration is considered one of the four primary ways to manage solid wastes, in conjunction with source reduction and reuse, recycling-composting, and landfilling. Incineration is currently used to destroy household and institutional solid waste, hazardous chemical …

People on the garbage dumps of Cairo: a toxicological in vivo model? Marth E, Sixl W, Bencko V, Medwed M, Lapajne S, Voncina E, Brumen S Institute of Hygiene of the Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria. In the outskirts of Cairo, some 40,000 people live on garbage dumps. These people …

New legislation in England and Wales now entitles local authorities to take action to prevent waste arisings, a task previously outside their powers. The Waste Minimisation Act allows local authorities to incorporate waste minimisation into their waste plans, promote waste prevention services, adopt waste reduction targets in waste contracts and …

The US National Soft Drink Association have reported that the recycling rate for soft drink containers reached 58.7 per em cent in 1997. Americans recycled 51.9 billion soft drink containers in 1997, a new record (up by 3.5 billion containers since 1996). the 51.9 billion units recycled last year included …

The US State of Oregon´s 1997 recycling rate reached 35.7 per cent, according to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality´s annual survey. this is the highest rate recorded in the six years since the survey was introduced, as a requirement of 1991 legislation. Oregon set a state-wide recovery rate goal …

Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has decided to establish a new standard for ‘eco-cement’, containing ash from incinerated municipal solid waste (MSW). The new standard would aim to come into effect in the year 2002. Eco-cement is a recycled product consisting of more than 50 per cent …

A new residential, office and commercial development in Los Angeles is being built from more than 90 per cent recycled construction and demolition waste. Some 75,000 tons of used concrete from old runways, steel and wood have been used in the development so far. More recycled materials are in store, …