Web-Resol Tudo sobre Limpeza Urbana e Resíduos Sólidos!
A local rubber manufacturer plans to set up a plant in Shanghai this year to recycle used tyres, which pose a potential threat to the environment if not properly treated. Shanghai Daily reports that while environment experts say the plant will reduce pollution, the firm is worried it won‘‘t have …
Mais »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 …
Mais »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. …
Mais »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 …
Mais »China – Government plans to address resources and recycling
The following is an extract from the full text of the Report on the Work of the Government delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao at the Third Session of the 10th National People‘‘s Congress on March 5, 2005. ………..We will encourage development of energy-efficient, environment-friendly automobiles, and housing and public buildings …
Mais »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 …
Mais »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 …
Mais »Ireland – Government seeks negotiated agreements to tackle chewing gum, atm receipts and fast food litter
I want to see phase out of polystyrene fast food packaging – Minister “While positive progress has been made on litter management – and in changing people‘‘s attitudes to litter – in Ireland in recent years, there is still significant scope for improvement”, so said Mr. Dick Roche, T.D., Ireland‘‘sMinister …
Mais »USA – wireless recycling initiatives announced at CTIA Wireless 2005 show in New Orleans
50 million US homes own a working but disused mobile phone A new phone recycling programme by GRC Wireless Recycling pays companies for their unwanted inventory of retired cellular phones. The company‘‘s Wireless Industry Recycling programme pays companies at least US$1 per pound for phones shipped to GRC‘‘s facility in …
Mais »UK – confusion and lack of funding may hamper proper disposal of dangerous waste, say MPs
New waste policy and the landfill directive report Uncertainty and lack of information are putting targets for reducing landfill in doubt, say the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in a report out on March 17. The all party group of MPs received evidence that nearly 700,000 tonnes of hazardous …
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