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May 2 — Wastequip, a Cleveland-based company that manufactures equipment and containers for use in the waste handling industry, has announced a restructuring plan that will close several older plants while implementing environmental initiatives.The company hopes the efforts will reduce costs, energy use and carbon dioxide emissions.
Wastequip operates 35 manufacturing facilities nationwide. The company has [...]
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 [...]
The Environment Agency has released a consultation assessing the diversion of biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) from MBT.
The consultation concerns the sampling and testing needed to achieve adequate quantitative monitoring of the reduction in biodegradability in the treated BMW.
The consultation should be available shortly at:
The Environment Agency’s current consultations page.
The Waster would like to take this opportunity to wish you the seasons greetings and a prosperous New Year.
The Wasters Blog subscriber base has grown by about 30% during the year - so clearly this blog (and blogger!) is providing a useful service.
As we have a lot of international subscribers we will continue to search [...]
The UK’s Chartered Institution of Waste Management (CIWM) has announced the launch of two new training courses:
‘Local Environmental Management (Streetscene)’ and
‘Waste Carriers and Related Controls’.
They have also re-launched 3 additional courses,
‘Leachate Monitoring’ (developed and delivered by Howard Robinson),
‘Introduction to Waste Legislation’, and
‘Geology, Hydrology and Hydrogeology for Waste Management Facilities’.
For more [...]
CHECK MATE? WASTE STRATEGY SEMINAR
Monday 25 June 2007 at Hamilton House, London. For further details see http://www.ciwm.co.uk/strategy or e-mail the events department on events@ciwm.co.uk Tel. 01604 620426
ARE WEEE SORTED?
Monday 9 July 2007 at The Crown Plaza Hotel, Birmingham. For further details see http://www.ciwm.co.uk/weee or e-mail the events department on events@ciwm.co.uk. Tel. 01604 620426
THERMAL TREATMENTS- SATISFYING [...]
Cheshire county council yesterday unveiled a list of 13 companies in the running for its largest ever contract, a PFI-backed waste deal worth £1 billion.
The companies will now engage in competitive dialogue with the waste disposal authority with the expectation of appointing a preferred bidder in autumn 2008.
Cheshire’s PFI bidders:
- Amey Ventures Ltd
- Corus UK [...]
New software being pioneered by the Environment Agency will attempt to help waste managers assess the environmental risks posed by the various management methods of household waste.
WRATE (Waste and Resources Assessment Tool for the Environment), is designed to be a user-friendly tool helping to identify the life cycle impact of waste treatment options. It attempts [...]
An initial reading of yesterday’s budget suggests that although in some areas the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Brown has brought forward green taxation, there is nothing which specifically assists the introduction of waste technologies.
The rise in landfill tax is welcome as it will continue to make waste processing options look less expensive than they did [...]
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