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By Kevin Doyle
Monday November 17 2008
Ireland country is heading for a major landfill crisis.
Within the next two years, almost a third of Ireland’s 35 landfills will be overflowing with [...]
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 conference [...]
Tags: Biodegradable, carbon footprint, consultation package, demolition waste, directive, duty of care, environment, environment agency, environmental engineer, environmental permitting, funding, incineration, infrastructure act, landfill, Municipal, power, recyclable waste, recycling, waste management, waster, welsh assembly governmentDefra, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Environment Agency are reviewing the waste exemptions from environmental permitting.
The aim of the review is to provide a more risk based and proportionate approach to the regulation of waste recovery and disposal operations, complementing the new environmental permitting regime.
The consultation detailing these proposed changes was released on [...]
DEFRA STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP SEMINARS ON THE WASTE CARRIERS/STOP, SEARCH AND SEIZURE CONSULTATION
Defra launched a second consultation on 13 June 08 on Controls on the Handling Transfer and Transport of Waste.
The consultation closes on 8 September 2008. A small number of seminars are being held in August and September aimed at local authorities, the business community [...]
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 [...]
Exeter Crown Court has ordered the seizure of nearly £1.2 million in assets from the operator of an illegal landfill site in Devon.
“The scale of illegal tipping at this site is the worst I have encountered”; said Adrian Evans, Environment Agency.
As sentencing was carried out today, John Craxford and his company John Craxford Plant Hire [...]
Ireland is now in significant danger of missing its 2010 target for diverting biodegradable municipal waste from landfill, according to the National Waste Report 2006 - published by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency.
Overall, the report shows that, although the quantity of waste that was recycled increased between 2005 and 2006, so, too, did the total [...]
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 [...]
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