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Attention San Francisco shoppers: Plastic grocery store bags are going, going, gone. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that large grocery stores in the city can no longer use the traditional plastic bags that are a staple of the supermarket checkout line, as a city ordinance passed earlier this year to …
Mais »UK – Prime Minister considers action on plastic bags
The UK Government is considering further reducing Britain‘‘s carbon emissions‘‘ target and cutting the use of disposable plastic bags. Sky News reports that in his first major speech on the environment as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown said Britain must lead the world and commit to becoming a low carbon economy. …
Mais »Malaysia – draft legislation to make households recycle
Soon, every Malaysian household will have to separate its waste to help in the recycling process or the garbage man will not collect the rubbish. The Star reports that Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said it would be compulsory for the households to separate their …
Mais »India – wastes can yield 2,500 MW energy, says study
Setting up of waste energy projects have to be speeded up as there is potential for generating 2,500 Mega Watts of power from urban, municipal, and industrial wastes in large cities, besides metros, in the next 2-3 years, according to a joint study brought out by ASSOCHAM. The Hindu reports …
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