Lixo hospitalar: Nem tudo está contaminado

A atividade hospitalar, por si só, gera uma quantidade considerável de resíduos. Em muitos hospitais de grande porte o lixo acumulado no dia-a-dia é maior do que o coletado em cidades inteiras. Essa “montanha” de resíduos hospitalares é comumente chamada de “lixo hospitalar” e se constitui em um sério problema …

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UK – changes to waste licensing to benefit environment and industry

Small scale composters exempt from charges….. New amendments to the licensing regulations for waste management will help protect the environment and human health, as well as save industry money, according to the Government. These regulations primarily amend the list of exemptions to waste management licensing to prevent abuses that have …

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Australia – road map towards zero plastic bag use by 2008

The Australian Government appears determined to force the pace on plastic bags At a meeting of industry and environment groups at Parliament House, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage Senator Ian Campbell welcomed a set of draft principles to phase out plastic bag use by the end of 2008. …

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Japan – new car recycling facility in Japan‘s Seto Inland sea area

Tsuneishi Corporation, a shipbuilder headquartered in Numakuma-cho, Hiroshima, and Sojitz Corporation, a major Japanese trading company, announced late last year that they have jointly launched an auto recycling business. Japan for Sustainability reports that besides end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) from conventional sources, the companies will accept automobiles that have been illegally …

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Colombia – eco-friendly palms for church services

A parrot and a palm pilot With a sprinkling of holy water, a priest blessed thousands of palm seedlings in a ceremony in Bogota‘‘s main park, sealing an unusual Palm Sunday pact between the Roman Catholic Church and environmentalists to save a critically endangered parrot. Thousands of miles away, 22 …

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Switzerland – cars set to run on farm waste

Swiss cars could soon be running on a fuel based on agricultural waste, thanks to a project promoting essEnce5 – a mixture of bio-ethanol and petrol. The government – which favours the use of cleaner fuels – has decided not to tax the bio-ethanol produced in the project, called etha+. …

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