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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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
UK – HOUSE OF LORDS TO INVESTIGATE WASTE REDUCTION The House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee has appointed a sub-committee to look at sustainable approaches to waste reduction. The inquiry will focus on the first level of the waste hierarchy, waste reduction, and will look into ways in which products and production processes [...]
Bumpy River: Officials in Prince George’s County, Md., recently deployed a floating trash trap in the Anacostia River to remove litter and debris from the waterway. Based on technology developed in Australia, the Bandalong system collects refuse in nets. It costs $35,000 to $40,000, and if it works as it’s expected to, Prince George’s officials [...]
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