November 18th, 2008 by waster
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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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November 10th, 2008 by waster
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 [...]
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November 2nd, 2008 by waster
CIWM’s Great Waste Survey 2008 gives you the chance to have your say on the industry’s hottest topics.
For example, are you one of the 78% so far that see energy from waste as a no-brainer? Or are you in the minority that thinks the new Department for Energy and Climate Change will help clarify [...]
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October 30th, 2008 by waster
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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October 30th, 2008 by waster
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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October 28th, 2008 by waster
The 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 [...]
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October 15th, 2008 by waster
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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October 12th, 2008 by waster
02-10-2008 from LetsRecycle News
Companies handling construction waste in Wales can now sign up to a standard recognising that they are disposing of it correctly and in line with their Duty of Care.
Launched by Constructing Excellence in Wales (CEW) and Jane Davidson, Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing, the ‘Green Compass’ standard is the first of [...]
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October 11th, 2008 by waster
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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October 11th, 2008 by waster
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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