Tag Archives: Curiosidades

The London Evening reports that that pay-as-you-throw is on the Government‘‘s agenda. A tax on household waste which will make families pay for every bag of rubbish they leave out is on the cards, a Downing Street report reveals today. The Prime Minister‘‘s policy officials are studying schemes for pay-asy-ou-dump …

DHL is one of the first UK businesses to gain Environment Agency (EA) approval for its WEEE (Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment) compliance scheme. Having met the EA‘‘s comprehensive range of criteria to gain approval – including meeting strict standards for reporting systems, quality assurance, logistics infrastructure and financial stability …

Studies assessing the recycling of waste plasterboard from commercial refurbishment projects have shown that it is economically viable, according to a report published and funded by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme). Key findings of the report indicate that: recovering and recycling plasterboard waste from commercial refurbishment sites is economically …

A stream of protests has hit India‘‘s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) for sanctioning municipal waste-to-energy (MWTE) projects that are collapsing under an avalanche of incombustible effluent, according to IPS-Inter Press Service, cited in Power Engineering International. “The technology of converting waste to energy from purely organic wastes …

Researchers at the Kansas City-based University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) and Midwest Research Institute (MRI) are testing an innovative alternative fuel technology in a pickup truck owned and operated by the Kansas City Office of Environmental Quality. This technology may revolutionize the capacity of natural gas to power vehicles. Current natural …

Western Australia faces an environmental crisis with hundreds of thousands of litres of waste oil accumulating in garages and workshops each month because a fall in demand for recycled oil has left licensed storage and processing facilities full. Thewest.com.au reports that the Motor Trade Association warned yesterday of illegal dumping …

PONTO DE VISTA Oito mitos sobre a reciclagem informal na América Latina O tema lixo parece gerar mitos e exageros que se baseiam mais em ansiedades populares do que em fatos concretos. O mesmo se aplica ao fenômeno dos recicladores informais, ou seja, as pessoas que ganham a vida catando …

Alguma coisa estranha acontecia dentro de uma casa, em uma rua movimentada de um bairro nobre de São Paulo. “A gente passava e não agüentava o mau cheiro”, diz a vizinha Mercedes Rezende. “Todo mundo brigava, chamava a prefeitura, mas ninguém vinha”, comentou a vizinha Bárbara Juliana. Os vizinhos não …

Mesmo quem não tem dom para corte e costura pode ajudar na produção das fantasias da escola de samba Vai-Vai, que faz parte do Grupo Especial do Carnaval de São Paulo e este ano tem a reciclagem como tema do desfile. A agremiação vai usar garrafas de plástico tipo ‘‘pet‘‘, …

O lixo dos Estados Unidos transformou Zhang Yin na pessoa mais rica da China. Em 1990, Zhang começou a coletar papel usado em Los Angeles e a enviá-lo para a China, onde seria utilizado na confecção do papelão necessário para os setores exportadores do país em expansão. Sua empresa, a …