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Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) has been taken to court over claims that a £650m contract it awarded for an energy-from-waste (EfW) plant could result in the incineration of recyclable material, counter to the government’s waste and resources strategy.

Link:

https://www.endsreport.com/article/1587316/council-court-plans-650m-incinerator-discourage-recycling

“By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken for dust you are and to dust you will return,” the Book of Genesis says.

Link:

https://www.gazettenet.com/body-composting-funerals-26050923

Fifteen fast food chains are being ordered by France’s Ecological Transition ministry to sort their waste in at least 70 of their restaurants by the end of 2019. This has been a legal obligation since 1 July 2016. EURACTIV’s partner le Journal de l’Environnement reports.

Link:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/france-orders-fast-food-chains-to-quickly-sort-their-waste/

WASHINGTON: Scientists have found a novel way to turn daily plastic waste products like water bottles and plastic bags into jet fuel.

Link:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/environment/pollution/new-way-to-turn-plastic-waste-into-jet-fuel/articleshow/69648292.cms?from=mdr

An innovative project will see electricity from non-recyclable waste power a £65m plastic recycling plant in Bristol.

Link:

https://environmentjournal.online/articles/65m-recycling-plant-to-be-powered-by-landfill-waste-in-uk-first/

Despite some promising efforts to address the growing problem of plastic waste like banning plastic shopping bagsstraws, specific prevention targets for different plastic waste are still not widespread in Europe, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment published today.

Link:

https://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/what-are-european-countries-doing

The global trash trade has reached a turning point wealthier nations have long shipped their plastic waste to the developing world to be processed, but in recent months, some nations in Southeast Asia have begun sending the exports — much of it contaminated plastic and trash that is unrecyclable — back to where it came from.

Link:

http://time.com/5598032/southeast-asia-plastic-waste-malaysia-philippines/

Addressing two of Mumbai‘s biggest problems – wet waste management and lack of green cover – two city organisations have come together to make a huge change this World Environment Day.

Link:

https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/world-environment-day-a-novel-idea-to-address-wet-waste-management-and-lack-of-greenery-in-mumbai/articleshow/69660620.cms

Roman Yudakov points in the distance to a stinking mountain of trash looming over the Russian capital and sighs: "Take a look at our pyramid!"

Link:

https://www.france24.com/en/20190603-drowning-waste-russians-fume-over-lack-recycling

Bristol, UK based waste and recycling firm ASL Environmental Ltd is investing in new refuse collection vehicles and driver training including taking them out on bicycles.

Link:

https://waste-management-world.com/a/new-mercedesdennis-refuse-collection-vehicles-for-asl-environmental