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Two brothers from Eden have created a new business that turns fish waste into compost and solved an ongoing problem facing the community at Bega Valley boat ramps. Link: https://aboutregional.com.au/eden-brothers-turning-fish-waste-into-compost-ocean2earth/

Laws aren’t always enough. It took education and leadership at many levels, but the people of San Fernando, Philippines, cleaned up their city. Link: https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2019/0423/From-trash-in-the-streets-to-model-city-How-to-get-communities-to-zero-waste

The ghosts of the Ruaraka land saga have refused to disappear and have resurfaced to haunt top state officials in an audit that unmasks massive irregularities in the Sh3.3 billion land purchase. Link: https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-04-23-ruaraka-land-ghost-return-to-haunt-top-officials/

Among the latest developments are formation of Green Sports Alliance Japan, and commercialization of a compostable peanut bag. Link: https://www.biocycle.net/2018/06/07/green-sports-alliance-update-2018/

Waste2Tricity Limited, the development partner of PowerHouse Energy Group plc has concluded negotiations and signed a lease agreement for its first waste to hydrogen site with Peel Environmental. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/lease-agreement-for-plastic-waste-to-hydrogen-firms-first-site-in-cheshire

London based PLASTIC ENERGY, which has developed a process to recycle difficult to recycle plastic waste on a commercial scale, has reached an agreement with the province of West Java, Indonesia, to build five chemical recycling plants. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/plastic-energy-to-develop-five-chemical-plastic-recycling-plants-in-indonesia

There’s little doubt that electric vehicles are the future and hydrogen fuel cells offer great advantages. Unfortunately, hydrogen is costly to produce and transport. PowerHouse Energy believes the answer is a distributed waste to hydrogen network. Link: https://waste-management-world.com/a/video-cracking-the-hydrogen-conundrum-with-wastes

Abstract: Twenty years of formal private sector participation in solid waste management in Ghana has failed to deliver an increase in collection coverage and recycling rates. This article shares lessons and experiences from Accra, Ghana, a middle-income city where researchers and municipal solid waste managers have collaborated to modernize the …

Switching to plastic made from plants instead of fossil fuels would require vast amounts of farmland, Huang said. This could could cause environmental problems and deprive humans of food. Link: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/04/15/bioplastics-bad-environment-damage-arthur-huang/

It‘s been more than a year since China banned the import of some recyclable materials like mixed paper and plastics. That‘s affected recycling all over the world, including the U.S. Lower demand has led to lower prices, while processing costs remain the same. Link: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/04/15/high-recycling-costs-china-ban