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EU Roadmap Will Ensure That Waste is Managed as a Resource By 2020, and with residual waste close to zero in 2014
Tags: no more waste, waste managed as resource, Waste Will Cease to Exist, zero residual wasteWaste Appreciation: Visit A Landfill in 2012 Hi! Happy New Year Wasters! How about this to add to your list of New Year’s Resolutions? I thought that I would pass on the contents of the email below which came from a subscriber. I think that there must be many people who, like him, have busy lives [...]
Tags: appreciate waste, visit your local dump, vist a landfill, wasters new year resolutionWaste Conversion Technology: Here is some information I received about a great deal on a forthcoming US conference which might interest you.
For all the fine words the UK Conservative party’s pledges look hollow. Not only are they not doing well at moving things forward. We list 9 points where they are in reverse.
Hazardous Waste is defined by reference to the European Waste Catalogue (EWC). If a waste producer does not know whether hazardous chemicals or properties are present in the waste it produces, each separate component of the waste must be considered. Identification of waste is seldom simple, but it becomes even harder where it does not [...]
Looking back at the effect the Directive’s ban on Co-Disposal has had on Hazardous Waste Disposal in the years since it was introduced in 2005. The implementation of the Landfill Directive meant that landfill would never again be available in the UK as readily or as cheaply as it had always been. The UK government [...]
Every major city in Britain with a university student housing quarter experiences students who are irresponsible about disposing of their waste, but there is very little within the waste collection industry by the way of planning or systems in place to ensure that the problem is dealt with effectively at each end of college year.
Plastc bag tax failure: The volume of plastic carrier bags might go down when they are taxed, but consumption of alternatives rises. The result’s that limited resources are exhausted faster and more material goes to dump.
Local Authorities and Waste Management Companies from across the UK and Europe are shifting their focus towards Waste-to-energy and Anaerobic Digestion. In addition, they are now committing large sums of government funding to the emerging technologies such as Gasification, Pyrolysis and MSW to biofuels. Technology providers and local authority officers responsible for procuring these technologies should take care not to miss out on these opportunities.
Grimsby’s energy from waste plant takes about 80,000 tonnes of the area’s waste, and has done since 2005.
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