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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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 incite debate on a [...]
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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 year. The [...]
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July 26th, 2007 by waster
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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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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 in [...]
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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 areas of [...]
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February 13th, 2007 by waster
Here is a News item from Canada:-
‘Proven technology turns waste into valuable resource for electricity production’.
TORONTO, Jan. 31 /CNW/ - A leading operator of Energy From Waste (EFW) facilities says Canada is missing out on the untapped value of EFW technologies, which uses residential and commercial waste to generate electricity and reduces the [...]
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January 22nd, 2007 by waster
Pollution from Waste-to-Energy Incinerator:
The environmental impact of waste-to-energy technology outweighs the benefits when it comes to a proposed garbage incinerator in Greater Vancouver, according to a leading pollution researcher. The new trash incinerator would be 80 per cent larger than the existing garbage burning facility in Burnaby.
The primary concern is the contaminants in the ash [...]
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January 9th, 2007 by waster
Hull City Council approves Salt End waste plans
Hull City Council has approved Waste Recycling Group’s planning application for a new Energy from Waste facility at Salt End, Hull.
WRG’s plans needed the approval of both Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council because the Salt End site sits on the border between the [...]
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