Sydney Morning Herald reports that rubbish from Europe‘‘s recycling bins is being transported halfway across the world to blight China‘‘s booming coastal cities, usually in plumes of acrid black smoke. Its fate is said to be very different from that imagined by conscientious householders when they sift through the detritus …
Mais »Italy – decree includes compost in green procurement targets
Given the potential strategic implications on compost markets and related possibilities to propose similar provisions in other Member States, you may be interested to know, that after a technical inquiry Italy has finally listed – by means of a specific Decree – compost from separate collection among materials able to …
Mais »Ireland – recycling to double under proposed Dublin waste plan
The Draft Dublin Waste Management Plan 2005-2010 will double the recycling infrastructure in the region. It continues the policy of achieving 59% recycling, with landfill reducing to 16% and the remaining 25% of waste being incinerated, generating energy for electricity and potentially district heating. Already, 26% recycling for household and …
Mais »UK – farm plastics recycling scheme starts up in Yorkshire
A new project that collects plastic bottles collected from farms for recycling has begun in Yorkshire. Letsrecycle.com reports that the Recovered Agricultural Plastics Scheme (RAPS) has been developed by Wrexham-based plastics reprocessor Recovered Plastic, working with East Yorkshire group JSR Farms and agricultural chemicals supplier Agrovista. Under the scheme, which …
Mais »Europe – thinking twice about the garbage
The International Herald Tribune has run an interesting and quite extensive piece on variable rate charging (pay-as-you-throw). The most notable thing about garbage in the picture-perfect medieval city [of Zurich] is that it‘‘s nearly impossible to find any. On Untere Zaune, a winding cobbled street in Zurich‘‘s historic old town, …
Mais »A sua cozinha e o clima do Planeta
Tudo que chega à mão do consumidor, de um sofá a uma laranja, necessita de embalagem, sejam elas aqueles plásticos-bolha que todos adoram ficar estourando ou as ultrapassadas caixas de madeira, que tanto danificam as frutas. Em 2002, o Brasil consolidou-se como o 11o maior consumidor mundial de embalagens, superando …
Mais »Reciclagem de lixo em casa
Na verdade, não dá para “reciclarmos”, propriamente, resíduos em casa ou no trabalho (exceto papel). A reciclagem é um processo industrial que demanda equipamentos e técnicas especiais. Podemos, sim, separar diversos materiais e encaminhá-los alternativamente. Algumas dicas Separe os recicláveis, como papéis, plásticos, vidros e metais. Os materiais devem estar …
Mais »Carvão feito de lixo é realidade na Europa
Desde julho de 1997, já está em funcionamento, na Alemanha, uma usina que processa 140.000 toneladas de lixo por ano e produz, concomitantemente, combustível, a partir da biomassa. Trata-se da Tecnologia de Reprocessamento de Combustível que, além da Alemanha e Itália (Veneza), já em pleno funcionamento, tem outras usinas sendo …
Mais »China fired up over recycling
Sydney Morning Herald reports that rubbish from Europe‘‘s recycling bins is being transported halfway across the world to blight China‘‘s booming coastal cities, usually in plumes of acrid black smoke. Its fate is said to be very different from that imagined by conscientious householders when they sift through the detritus …
Mais »Italy – decree includes compost in green procurement targets
Given the potential strategic implications on compost markets and related possibilities to propose similar provisions in other Member States, you may be interested to know, that after a technical inquiry Italy has finally listed – by means of a specific Decree – compost from separate collection among materials able to …
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