Cheshire Diverts Waste Away from Landfill and Saves £2.1M

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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 [...]

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DEFRA UK Publishes New Waste Design Guide

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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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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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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Construction Waste Standard Launched in Wales

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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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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