October 15th, 2008 by waster
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Call for Abstracts for the Twelfth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, 5 - 9 October 2009, S. Margherita di Pula (Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy
The organisers of the top Waste and resource management conference are once again seeking papers from [...]
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June 5th, 2008 by waster
The following shows that it can be hard driving a new waste treatment technology forward as an organisation participating in one of Defra’s Demonstrator Projects, and things possibly don’t always go quite as expected.
Nevertheless, this is exactly why public money is being well spent when put into these projects.
Defra Demonstrator Projects are full scale operational [...]
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May 24th, 2008 by waster
Cabbage stalks prompt garbage penalty
NORWICH, England, May 18 (UPI) –
Officials in Norwich, England, have tagged a man as a repeat recycling offender for placing cabbage stalks in his waste bin, the 73-year-old says.
Barry Freezer said after he placed the stalks of his homegrown cabbage into his garden waste bin, trash officials refused to empty the [...]
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January 22nd, 2008 by waster
From waste to resource: an environmentally friendly solution to a worldwide problem
A Welsh company claims that it has developed a process to turn mixed solid waste into a new encapsulated, inert, recycled material with a huge variety of potential applications.
It is clear that what’s needed is an energy efficient process that can be implemented at [...]
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December 10th, 2007 by waster
At present more than 65% of all Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generated in England is disposed of in landfills.
The introduction of the EC landfill directive means that the European Commission has set targets to reduce the levels of biodegradable materials going to landfill.
The most significant challenge facing the management of Municipal Solid Waste is how [...]
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October 12th, 2007 by waster
One Day Conference
25th October 2007 • The Source, Sheffield
There are two great challenges facing land use management over next decade: i) the control of diffuse pollution in order to meet the requirements of both the Water Framework Directive and the water industry; and, ii) the need to address the fall in soil organic levels that [...]
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July 19th, 2007 by waster
A newly established organics company has announced this week that it will be opening a composting facility in Northamptonshire next April which will combine anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting.
The Bio Group, which formed this May as a joint venture between in-vessel specialists Cambridge Recycling Services (CRS), composting machinery providers Global Recycling Solutions as well as [...]
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May 4th, 2007 by waster
BRUSSELS - A spontaneous flame from a green box/compost container has cost the life of an 81-year-old man from the Flemish town of Hamme.
It is possible that explosive gases had built up in the green box/compost container. The flame caught fire on the man’s clothes, which then burned him.
"Next to the vegetables, fruit and [...]
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April 28th, 2007 by waster
Urban-based local authorities should consider anaerobic digestion (AD) as an alternative to in-vessel composting for the recycling of municipal biodegradable food waste, according to researchers at WRAP. Speaking today (23 April 2007) at the annual Recycling and Waste Forum in Birmingham on Thursday, WRAP’s organics supply programme manager Louise Hollingworth said: “In-vessel composting is [...]
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April 5th, 2007 by waster
Cory Environmental recently held public exhibitions as part of the consultation process over plans for a new in-vessel composting plant at Wingmoor Park.The plans are for the development of an in-vessel composting plant that would receive 34,000 tonnes of biodegradable material from gardens and kitchens per year, to produce approximately 28,000 tonnes of compost. The [...]
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