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UK Chancellor Gordon Brown has announced further important steps in the Government’s strategy to protect the environment, including action to tackle the problem of waste, and expand on the Government’s strategy for using economic measures for delivering environmental benefits. Building on its recent Budgets, the Government today announced a series …

Illinois, USA can no longer deny subsidies for a trio of bond-financed waste-to-energy incinerators in the state, a judge said this week in a ruling that may allow the incinerators to seek monetary damages against the state and an electric utility. Reuters reports that Cook County Circuit Court Judge Robert …

The EU Landfill Directive requires landfill gas to be collected and used where possible. It is important that emissions to air from landfill sites are managed and monitored to control gases and combustion products that potentially impact on health, the environment or amenity. A series of guidance documents have been …

TERESA MENEGHEL/GP (MARINGÁ) Um comerciante de Maringá inventou a versão ecológica da máquina caça-níquel. É a caça-latas, uma máquina de aposta que, no lugar de moedas, aceita latinha de cerveja ou refrigerante vazia e sorteia prêmios que variam entre R$ 0,10 e R$ 5. Dois protótipos, instalados para testes num …

Comunidade carente da cidade de Navarrese, na Colômbia, divide o lixo com os urubus. Autoridades pretendem desativar o lixão no fim de dezembro, o que está gerando protesto entre as pessoas que se alimentam ali

Con mucha lástima les envío una fotografía que tome del derrumbe de aproximadamente 350.000 toneladas de material compacto compuesto por 250.000 metros cúbicos de basura y el resto de tierra, fue un movimiento mixto de rotación y de traslación con un desplazamiento aproximado de 30 metros, taponando el canal de …

Partnerships are crucial if eco-efficiency is to be a real business opportunity, combat increased waste and emissions and contribute towards sustainable development. That was a main message of Aiming for Eco-Efficiency in Resource Use, the third international conference of ASSURRE. “Eco-efficiency can only be achieved by diverse sectors working together …

The US EPA will soon publish its proposed rule on Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incinerators: Emission Guidelines: Federal Plan, in the Federal Register. The proposed rule, signed by Administrator Whitman on November 6, 2002, proposes a federal plan for existing commercial and industrial solid waste incinerators (CISWI) that were …

A one-year WRAP funded project aims to help increase glass recycling. BRE-led research will assess the recycling opportunities for non-contaminated, high-grade flat glass and non-contaminated timber and plastic profiles from the demolition and replacement window industries. In case you are not familiar with WRAP, the Waste & Resources Action Programme …

The European Commission will next year make initial proposals towards establishing EU-wide waste prevention targets, a senior environment directorate official announced at an ASSURRE conference in Brussels recently. ENDS Daily reports that a policy paper on prevention targets would be published separately from three other proposals also due next year: …