Notícias

WMW’s Malcolm Bates meets the team at Berlin’s waste collection outfit, BSR, to explore the challenges and benefits of taking refuse collection electric…

Link:

https://waste-management-world.com/a/in-depth-electrifying-waste-collection-in-berlin

Faced with images of turtles smothered by plastic bags, beaches carpeted with garbage and islands of trash floating in the oceans, environmentalists say the world is waking up to the need to tackle plastic pollution at the source.

Link:

https://m.news24.com/Green/News/oceans-of-garbage-prompt-war-on-plastics-20181215

MRA Consulting’s Esther Hughes and Mike Ritchie explore the options for increasing the recycling rate for C&I waste in Australia…

Link:

https://waste-management-world.com/a/blog-the-status-of-commercial-industrial-waste-sorting-and-recycling-in-australia

Marquette County Solid Waste Management Authority, a landfill and recycling center that serves residents in rural Michigan, is looking to change the county’s dual-stream recycling program to a single-stream system.

Link:

https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/marquette-landfill-explores-single-stream-recycling/

Carolina Urrutia hablará esta noche en Semana Sostenible en Vivo con Nohora Padilla, Andrés Felipe Padilla y Guillermo Ramírez sobre la urgencia que existe en Colombia de implementar una política nacional de reciclaje.

Link:

https://sostenibilidad.semana.com/impacto/multimedia/que-retos-enfrenta-el-reciclaje-y-como-podemos-ayudar-los-individuos/42399

The war on waste has begun. Last year’s outrage at plastics polluting the ocean was followed this year with anger at the fashion industry.

Link:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-your-portfolio-can-profit-from-the-war-on-waste-q7gsh0lj6

Globally, WEEE is a rapidly growing problem. The adage that there is ‘more gold in a tonne of e-waste than a tonne of ore’ is an old one, but holds true. However, a host of other rare,
valuable and/or toxic materials are also contained. Safely
recovering them is not cheap. A report commissioned by
EERA explores the economic realities of the situation.

Link:

https://waste-management-world.com/epaper/36?format=pdf

Pay-as-you-throw, city-wide composting could be coming to Saskatoon in 2020

Link:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-composting-pay-as-you-throw-1.4941064

Pese a los anuncios de tratamiento y recolección, la ciudad retrocede y el vertedero es tierra de nadie. Hoteleros alientan la separación y reutilización: shampoo y jabones, lo más buscado.

Link:

https://www.rionegro.com.ar/bariloche/que-hacer-con-la-basura-del-turismo-un-dilema-para-bariloche-YI6138133

As the UK’s troubled exit from the European Union looms ever closer on the horizon, the RDF Industry Group has called on both the UK Government and the EU to take action to enable RDF exports to Europe to ‘continue unhindered.

Link:

https://waste-management-world.com/epaper/36?format=pdf