http://wastersblog.com/577/2009-was-the-year-waste-became-a-resource-optimisation-opportunity/ The Resource and Waste Management Blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:33:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://wastersblog.com/577/2009-was-the-year-waste-became-a-resource-optimisation-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-29559 GIngram Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:39:30 +0000 http://wastersblog.com/?p=577#comment-29559 This is a positive step taken by the UK and one which will need to be replicated on a much wider scale if the effects of landfill are to be reduced. Professor Ian Williams, Head of the Centre for Waste Management at the University of Central Lancashire has written an interesting article into the challenges and options of waste in the next decade (http://www.futureagenda.org/?cat=16); he points out that we have the “option of creating [a] new accredited global standards for management, treatment and disposal of waste, but this needs cooperation between companies and countries”, whether this cooperation happens is yet to be seen. This is a positive step taken by the UK and one which will need to be replicated on a much wider scale if the effects of landfill are to be reduced. Professor Ian Williams, Head of the Centre for Waste Management at the University of Central Lancashire has written an interesting article into the challenges and options of waste in the next decade (http://www.futureagenda.org/?cat=16); he points out that we have the “option of creating [a] new accredited global standards for management, treatment and disposal of waste, but this needs cooperation between companies and countries”, whether this cooperation happens is yet to be seen.

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