NOVA YORK – Aço reciclado do World Trade Center (WTC) será usado para construir parte de um navio de guerra americano, de acordo com a construtora Northrop Grumman. O navio será batizado de “New York”, em homenagem aos quase 2.800 mortos no ataque terrorista de 11 de setembro do ano …
Mais »Moradores de rua constroem presépio de recicláveis
Cerca de 1.000 garrafa PET, 100kg de papel e 3.000 lacres de latinhas de refrigerantes e dois meses de trabalho intenso resultaram em um presépio maravilhoso. A obra de arte está ocupando um espaço de aproximadamente 20m2 do interior da Paróquia São João Maria Vianney, Zona Oeste de São Paulo, …
Mais »EU mandates CEN for solid recovered fuels standards
The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) Technical committee on Solid Recovered Fuels (CEN/TEC343) has recently been instructed by the European Commission to draw up technical specifications for the use of solid recovered fuels (SRFs) in waste incineration facilities and in industrial co-combustion plants. EUWID reports that the Commission is interested …
Mais »Following the fate of waste – but should paper be recycled or burnt?
Paper should be incinerated rather than recycled, say Danish researchers, where burning paper would benefit the Danish economy. Across Europe, a new waste regulation requires EU countries to collect, analyse and report on waste data. EDIE reports that although Danish politicians have set targets to recycle 60% of household paper …
Mais »SEPA commissions WEEE study
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) has been identified as a priority waste stream at both European Community and UK level. Priority Waste Stream Projects are being developed by the Scottish EPA (SEPA) as part of the National Waste Strategy: Scotland and the Waste Data Strategy to gather a wide …
Mais »Big shift needed to avoid hazardous waste disposal gap
Publishing new data on hazardous waste, the Anglo-Welsh Environment Agency welcomed the announcement by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) of the setting up of an Advisory Forum on Hazardous Waste. With growing hazardous waste streams and landfill capacity set to reduce dramatically, the Agency said the …
Mais »New recycling measures to be introduced at Scottish EfW plant
A new treatment process that will remove glass and metal from waste products is to be introduced at Dundee’s Baldovie energy from waste plant. The Evening Telegraph reports that plant operators Dundee Energy Recycling Limited (DERL) said that the new system will improve the efficiency of the plant’s boilers while …
Mais »Statoil looks for drilling waste solutions – composting could work
Statoil is pursuing new approaches – including earthworm composting and asphalt production – in its search for ways to treat drilling waste. Statoil’s total fluid management project is working to develop environmental strategies and methods to reduce problems posed by various types of waste from drilling and downhole operations. OilOnline …
Mais »MSW management in EU Accession Countries
Ever pondered over how much they recycle in Romania, how much landfilling is liked in Latvia, whether Cypriots covet compost and so on through all the EU members-in-waiting? Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta Eurostat have just produced a comprehensive overview of waste …
Mais »Wood waste management – WRAP publishes two reports
Wood Market Study – Municipal Wood Waste Arisings Civic amenity sites hold the key to improving local authority wood recycling, according to one report published by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP). The first report, Wood Market Study – Municipal Wood Waste Arisings, written for WRAP by Excelar Ltd, …
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