If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A new Waste Design Guide titled; “Designing Waste Facilities, a key guide to modern design in waste”, has been produced by Enviros Consulting for Defra, in partnership with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). This [...]
Technology industry “very pleased” over WFD revisions
09-07-2008
The Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) - the trade association for the environmental technology industry - has welcomed revisions to the Waste Framework Directive which were approved by the European Parliament last month.
The group’s aim is to maximise opportunities for effective materials recovery without jeopardising environmental standards.
The EIC’s Waste Resources [...]
The Waster always likes to hear good news about landfill. So he was delighted to be able to pass this on…
Global Warming Solution: Landfill Forests?
Study: Growing, Then Burying, Trees To Stop Carbon Buildup
The whole problem with global warming starts with digging up and burning the carbon from plants and animals, in the form of coal [...]
Protestor gives Churchillian speech
More than 150 angry residents filled a public meeting to protest against controversial plans for a new waste tip on the outskirts of Chorley.
A planning application has been submitted to Lancashire County Council by disposal giants Biffa for a new landfill site close to its existing site in Abbey Village.
The move has [...]
Now more than ever, legislative and regulatory environmental issues are of vital importance and top-of-mind with today’s business leaders.The Capitol Hill Summit, a new conference to be held February 12-13, 2008 in Washington, D.C., will bring together environmental and waste executives from corporations both large and small, as well as companies that provide environmental services [...]
Casella Waste Systems, Inc., the only solid waste and recycling services company in the American nation who is a member of Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Climate Leaders Program, announced today it has received EPA approval for its greenhouse gas reduction goal.
Casella set an aggressive companywide greenhouse gas emissions reduction target at ten percent over seven years, [...]
Britain is still topping Europe in use of landfills.
Britain still sends more household waste to landfill than any other European country, council heads warned today.
Following new figures issued by Defra last week showing that English councils are now averaging a 30% recycling rate for household waste, the Local Government Association published research today showing the [...]
Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to get its policies on waste sorted to boost recycling and composting and avoid building any new incinerators. This follows a fortnight of confusion over whether the Government will allow councils to give financial incentives to those who recycle more.
Friends of the Earth’s senior waste campaigner, [...]
It’s coming soon - it is a major event and it is on 14th and 15th November, in Telford, UK, and the keynote address will be given by Ben Bradshaw MP, Environment Minister, Defra.
Tailor-made to provide solutions to the UK’s biggest waste problems, the LARAC Conference 2007 offers practical and strategic guidance to transform your [...]
October 31st 2007, London.
The CIWEM-CMS Environmental Management Conference will be upon us very soon!
Here is so more information about it for all Wasters!
Delivery of the current environmental and sustainability agenda is fast changing and complex.
This timely and cost effective briefing by leaders from Government and the industry will cover key elements of the current agenda, [...]
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