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This paper reviews past composting experiences and provides an outline for municipal managers to use when evaluating composting programs within an integrated municipal waste management system
Mais »Composting and Its Applicability in Developing Countries
This paper reviews past composting experiences and provides an outline for municipal managers to use when evaluating composting programs within an integrated municipal waste management system
Mais »Further action needed to reach EU climate change target, projections show
EEA study suggests that EU GHG emissions from the waste sector are projected to decrease by about 60 per cent between 1990 and 2010 on the basis of both existing and additional measures. This cut would be mainly due to implementation of the EU directive on landfilling of waste. Policy …
Mais »US state environmental agency ordered to pay lawyers more than US$300,000 over waste plan
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) has been ordered to pay US$338,618 to two lawyers who sued the agency over its failure to adopt a statewide solid waste management plan. Tuscaloosa News reports that Doyle Fuller and Susan Copeland, both of Montgomery, sued ADEM in 2000 on behalf of …
Mais »New technique transforming residual material into base material
A Thermal Conversion Installation (TCI) has been opened at AVR-AVIRA in Duiven, the Netherlands. This installation transforms residual material from the paper industry into a base material for the building trade, Topcrete. This technique is claimed to be the first of its type in the world. The TCI is an …
Mais »New technique transforming residual material into base material
A Thermal Conversion Installation (TCI) has been opened at AVR-AVIRA in Duiven, the Netherlands. This installation transforms residual material from the paper industry into a base material for the building trade, Topcrete. This technique is claimed to be the first of its type in the world. The TCI is an …
Mais »World share of renewables to shrink until 2030, predicts IEA
Not waste per se, but interesting still as this gives a good global picture of the renewable energy scene with projections. The share of renewable energy in the world’s primary energy supply will continue to decline over the next 30 years, according to the International Energy Agency. Renewables contributed 13.8 …
Mais »Al Ain Municipality (UAE) waste management website & project
Al Ain Municipality in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has set up a dedicated website to project its unique environment-friendly waste management programme, Source Classified Waste Project. The project was launched earlier year on an experimental basis for two years in Al Ain’s Al Khubaisi district that has some 2,000 …
Mais »Electronics stewardship appears more likely in US
Delicate negotiations between government, industry and environmental interests in electronics recycling soon may lead to an agreement on a nationwide recovery system for obsolete computers, monitors and televisions. Resource Recycling reports that a group of about a dozen officials hopes to deliver a recommendation in February to a larger alliance …
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Green tax of £70 a flight
know this is not mainstream solid waste, but it is relevant to environmental economic instruments, waste & resources, sustainable tourism, food miles etc etc… Airline passengers should pay a green tax of at least £70 per return ticket to reduce the amount of global warming caused by flights, the UK …
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