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MRW - Claire Churchard, 08 Jan 2009
Cheshire County Council has saved £2.1 million by reducing the waste it sends to landfill.
The council has been able to free-up the cash due to a forecast 20 per [...]
A summary of the year in blogging at the Wastersblog. The Waster says what he thinks about EU Legislation, the recession in recycling which has produced the recycling cost scandal, and the wisdom of the UK in signing up as it did to the Landfill Directive reluctantly and only in exchange for a deal with the Spanish on fishing quotas!
Tags: ambitious plans, city contracts, contract negotiations, GMWDA, greater manchester, incineration, landfill, landfill directive, Maastricht, massive investment, pfi contracts, recycling, secondary resource, stories of success, target, waste disposal authority, waste diversion, waste management companies, wastersBritain’s paper recycling strategy is under increasing strain after a collapse in waste prices in recent weeks, according to a leading industry organisation. The worst-case scenario is that some material collected for recycling could go to incineration or landfill.
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 [...]
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 policiesThere 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 government02-10-2008 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 [...]
Tags: british standards institution, carbon, carbon footprint, cew, constructing excellence, construction industry, construction sector, construction waste, demolition waste, duty of care, environment, funding, jane davidson, landfill, pilot scheme, public consultation, schem, waste, waste managementRecycling 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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