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WASTE DIVERSION FROM LANDFILL – A five-year interim residual waste management contract has been won by New Earth Solutions for the West of England Partnership. Of the 120,000 tonnes fed in to the plant, more than 50% will be reduced through losses in mass.
Tags: disposal operations, landfill sites, Municipal, recycling, UK, waste management, waste processing, WRAPTwo big Waste Processing Facilities have been halted after UK County Council plans have been derailed well into these projects. The question is asked when our society which produces so much waste will take responsibility for dealing with it in their local area, even when enormous sums are about to be spent on a new generation of vastly improved Waste Treatment Plants.
Tags: efw, environment, landfill, PFI, planning permission, Technology, UK, waste, waste management, waste processingThe National Audit Office has reported that the English local authorities are too slow awarding PFI contracts for England to achieve the ordered 50% organic waste diversion away from landfill by 2013. This article explains this and why the situation may be getting worse due to the credit crunch.
Tags: banking, Biodegradable, biodegradable waste, credit crunch, environment, government, government auditor, greater manchester, landfill, national audit office, NCE, new civil engineer, pfi contracts, public spending, renegotiation, waste diversion from landfill, waste processing, wasterThere 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 [...]
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