Looking Back on 6 Years of UK Hazardous Waste Disposal Since the Landfill Co-Disposal Ban

Hazardous Waste is defined by reference to the European Waste Catalogue (EWC). If a waste producer does not know whether hazardous chemicals or properties are present in the waste it produces, each separate component of the waste must be considered. Identification of waste is seldom simple, but it becomes even harder where it does not [...]

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State to Investigate Birth Defects in Kettleman City Landfill Suspected

The Waster has picked up the following news item about a new landfill birth defects scare. This is getting quite a lot of publicity, and of course it is always possible that the proximity of the landfill to these elevated birth defect rates might in some way be caused by the landfill. However, this has [...]

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