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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 [...]
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 new document is expected to become a key reference document for waste professionals in the UK [...]
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 [...]
Tags: council of the european union, demolition waste, environment, environmental objective, eu member states, framework directive, greenhouse gases, landfill, landfill disposal, landfill sites, prevention programs, recycling, resort option, secondary resource, waste incineration, waste legislation, waste management, waste management operations, waste oils, waste policiesThe New Civil engineer Magazine, which is the weekly news magazine of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineers, provides through eMapInform an annual contractor listing and ranking report across all civil engineering construction disciplines.
This years edition provides the following list of the top twenty waste contractors, which in this context means a ranking of the [...]
Tags: amalgamated construction, ascot environmental, balfour beatty, civil engineering construction, construction cycle, construction disciplines, dean and dyball, edmund nuttall, household names, institution of civil engineers, integrated waste management, interserve, landfill development, List of Waste Contractors, management contracts, new civil engineer, new civil engineer magazine, raymond brown, restoration works, top waste contractors, weekly news magazineLondon’s First Biogas Fueling Station Installed at London Borough of Camden’s York Way Depot
LONDON, October 20 /PRNewswire/ —
Gasrec Commercial Trial With Veolia and Iveco Enters Next Phase
In August, Gasrec, the UK’s first commercial producer of liquid biomethane fuel, Veolia Environmental Services, the UK’s largest waste management company, and full range commercial vehicle manufacturer [...]
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 governmentCouncils write off “worthless” landfill allowances
28-07-2008
A new LATS market place is to be launched later this year, but both levels of trading and prices remain low, forcing many waste disposal authorities to write off their ever-growing amounts of surplus allowances.
The government-funded Regional Improvement & Efficiency Partnerships, led by Improvement Efficiency South East, is to set [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Global Landfill Mining
Conference and Exhibition
London Wednesday 17 September 2008
‘Treasure from Trash’
Register your interest in attending now - click on the link below.
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From its origins in the 1950s, Landfill Mining is an idea whose time has come. Even aside from their valuable methane resources, landfills should now be seen as valuable repositories for a wealth of [...]
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