June 9th, 2010 by waster
Final storage quality is used to imply an “environmentally sound flux/load for short, medium and long term periods” but what will govern the final decision, and what can we do to limit greenhouse gas emissions actively and passively.
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September 11th, 2009 by waster
SITA UK has, on September 2 revealed that it plans to lodge an appeal later this month against Cornwall county council’s March 2009 decision to refuse its planning application to build a £100 million, 240,000 tonne-a-year capacity energy-from-waste facility near St Dennis. The company said that it had received written consent from the council to [...]
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September 2nd, 2009 by waster
Waste management firm Viridor has expressed its disappointment at East Lothian council’s decision to reject planning permission for its Dunbar combined heat and power plant despite “strong recommendation” for approval from the council’s planning officers.
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October 15th, 2008 by waster
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 experts in their fields. To write a good quality paper and present it at the [...]
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November 26th, 2007 by waster
ACR+ international conference on waste and climate change, is hosted by London Remade Venue: Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD Description: Explore the role that waste management has to play in climate change in this topical international conference. High profile expert speakers from Europe and beyond will [...]
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October 19th, 2007 by waster
The US is getting greener? – The Waster. A landfill gas-to-energy project in Baltimore County is receiving the first tax credit available through the Maryland Clean Energy Production Tax Credit Program. The project developed by Pepco Energy Services, at Baltimore County´s Eastern landfill, was awarded a $770,661 tax credit under the program that began last [...]
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July 26th, 2007 by waster
ENERGY FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT Policy, Economy & Technology CONFERENCE STREAMS Energy for Sustainable Development Technology Options Markets & Policy Issues Actors & Stakeholders SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES NOW AVAILABLE For more information, please click here or contact the Official Congress Secretariat. ONLINE REGISTRATION Register quick and easy online! Secure online Registration [...]
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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 [...]
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June 1st, 2007 by waster
We are told (New Civil Engineer 24 may 2007) that Peterborough City Council has plans to announce a new approach to financing which it has devised with the Collaborative Working Centre. This will include financing models for a new £56 million energy from waste (EfW) incinerator. It appears that two facilities are to be built [...]
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May 25th, 2007 by waster
We have added just one post about the New Waste Strategy which has just been published: To find out more about the Waste Strategy 2007 we recommend a visit to the Letsrecycle web site here. STRATEGY: Specific material type landfill bans on agenda The first three chapters of Waste Strategy 2007 contain a number of key [...]
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