Future Irish Landfill Capacity Inadequate - Herald Newspaper Report

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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 [...]

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Tyre Bales a Revolutionary Use for Old Car Tyres

Advantages of BSI PAS 108 Tyre Bales: A New Sustainable Use for a Problem Waste
A simple act by WRAP should revolutionise the use of tyre bales in civil engineering and landscape applications, sustainably using this material where otherwise resources would be wasted in their disposal.
It will be obvious to our Wastersblog readers that the [...]

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UK Government to Add Landfill Tax on Contaminated Soils

Contaminated soils to be subject to Landfill Tax
The Landfill Tax exemption which applies to waste material arising from the reclamation from contaminated land is to be phased out by 2012, a House of Commons committee agreed on Monday (October 27).
The move, which is expected to generate an additional £40 million in revenues for the [...]

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EU Confirms Landfill is the Last Place You Should Put Waste

Landfill officially a “last resort” option for EU
EU environment ministers have officially approved a new framework for waste management across their 27 member countries, including a five-step hierarchy for waste treatment which classes “energy-efficient waste incineration a recovery operation”. The directive also sets new recycling targets.
By 2020, EU member states must recycle 50% of [...]

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Recent Conferences Feature on Reducing Waste to Landfill

There have been a number of events and conferences that have taken place so far this Autumn in the waste field that have been set up with the key driver of reducing waste sent to landfill.
The UK government’s Defra funded New Technology Demonstrator Programme (NTDP) features in many of the events. The NTDP sets [...]

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Major UK Contractors Sign Up to Halving Their Landfilled Waste by 2012

Published: 17 October 2008 10:19 Author: John McKenna
Government has a 2012 target of halving construction waste to landfill
Several of the industry’s leading contractors yesterday signed up to a Government-backed initiative to halve the amount of construction waste sent to landfill by 2012.
Bovis Lend Lease, Laing O’Rourke and Stanhope were among the clients, contractors and [...]

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Time to Send in Your Abstracts for the Next Sardinia Conference

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 [...]

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Peter Jones’ Vision of Landfill Mining as Raw Materials Scarcity Rises

Could Landfills Resurrect Britain’s Mining Industry?
Source: Edie.Net
Robots: the future of British mining? Imagine an air-tight dome with teams of robots working alongside people in space suits as they sift through the corrosive waste of past generations, looking for scraps of plastic and nuggets of precious metals.
This isn’t the opening scene of the latest Sci-Fi [...]

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Landfill Reduction: New Zealand Should Copy Danes for More Recycling

Recycling Danes show way by laying waste to landfill issue
By Angela Gregory, New Zealand Herald
New Zealand could learn lessons from Denmark, a country with a similar-sized population that has cut its landfills by more than 1000 in the past 30 years, says a visiting waste management expert.
Peter Heydorn, a Danish environmental engineer, said 70 [...]

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Hearing on Meath Landfill Ireland Deferred

College Proteins has applied under the Irish Strategic Infrastructure Act (SIA) to the board for permission for the development on its existing site in Nobber.
On Thursday, the ninth day of the hearing, landowner David Horgan told Oisín Collins for North East Against Incineration that the field was his and he had not been asked to [...]

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