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Environment Canada (a major Government agency) has released the Canadian Consumer Battery Baseline Study, which reveals that the annual number of consumer batteries discarded is increasing dramatically, releasing a growing amount of dangerous substances into land and water. The Study provides the first national estimates of the amount of heavy …

The City of Toronto is preparing to introduce a new garbage tax that would apply equally to every property in the city, regardless of its assessed value. The Toronto The Globe and Mail reports that although not designed to raise new revenue, the waste-disposal levy will radically alter the way …

Scottish local authorities have made significant progress in increasing recycling rates, and achieving the 25% by 2006 target. However one important factor to achieve 40% and beyond, will be the need to improve the recovery rates from kerbside recycling collections. Remade Scotland have published the results of an investigation into …

FST‘‘s SMaRT (Socially Minded and Responsible Trading) has been granted planning permission from Salford City Council to develop the UK‘‘s first Approved Treatment Centre for End-of-Life-Vehicles (ELV) run by a not-for-profit organisation. The facility will be in Salford and will not only dispose of ELV in an environmentally safe way, …

Accelerated building in Israel in recent years has brought in its wake a significant increase in C&D waste. Out of some 7.5 tons of C&D waste that are generated in Israel each year (140% more than the total quantity of household waste generated each year), only about one million tons, …

Italian inventor Alberto Volcan has created a type of paper made from apples and through regional funding has expanded to other office products as well. While the engineer from northern Italy has already supplied regional offices with 60,000 envelopes and 7,000 notepads made out of his apple-paper, the Italian news …

O lobby pela regulamentação da importação de resíduos sólidos vem também de fora do país. A União Européia tem interesse em se desfazer de seus pneus usados, já que uma lei proíbe que eles sejam depositados em aterros sanitários. E está usando a Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC) para pressionar …

Com patente junto ao INPI, o Redgestor utiliza resíduos orgânicos encontrados no lixo Clique para ler a notícia na fonte original!    

O dono de restaurante aposentado Guo Zhanqi resolveu dar sua colaboração com a limpeza de Pequim para os Jogos Olímpicos de 2008. O chinês paga dois yuans (aproximadamente 50 centavos de reais), de suas próprias economias, para qualquer um que conseguir capturar moscas, que, segundo ele, infestam a cidade Clique …

O trabalho teve como objetivo estudar os resíduos sólidos industriais, por meio de ampla discussão sobre sua caracterização, a legislação pertinente, os riscos ambientais decorrentes e as práticas da gestão e gerenciamento a serem adotadas, visando à sua minimização, re-utilização, tratamento e disposição final ambientalmente adequada. O trabalho deu ênfase …