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What is waste and where does it all come from? Learn about pre-consumer waste in raw materials and natural resources, post-consumer waste including: consumable products vs. durable goods, along with exploring the impact of product packaging. Understand about our Landfills and how we deal with solid and toxic waste. Take your students from the background [...]
SEPA has announced that plasterboard that meets BSI PAS109:2008 won’t count as waste. This is very encouraging to the recycling companies invloved.
Tags: BSI, cement, compliance, disposal, gypsum, industry, paperwork, PAS, plasterboard, processing, Processors, production, receipt, recovery, regulation, Scottish, traceability, transfer, waste, ZeroDon’t miss out on your chance to register for the forthcoming SORP event – only 1 week left to book your place! Final programme now available.
Tags: benefit, Commercial, Efficiency, environment, Operators, Processes, recyclate, Register, Scottish, sorp, sorp event, SORP Producer to User, Source, Vessels, wasteThe ISWA White Paper on Waste and Climate Change puts forth the technologies and mechanisms which can transform the waste sector into a net global reducer of GHG emissions, and making the necessary commitments to assist this change.
Tags: accounting, carbon, Clean, complexity, Development, emission, energy, gas, GHG, greenhouse, IPCC, ISWA, Kyoto, management, Mechanism, NGOs, quantification, reduction, Technology, waste, waste technology, worldwideSardinia Symposium Training Course News and Newsletter August 2009
Tags: bioenergy, Environmental, enviros consulting, generation, landfill, landfill gas, landfill mining, landfill site, landfill sites, landfills, leachate, leachate treatment, legislation, Municipal, SARDINIA 2009, Sardinia Symposium, Technology, Treatment, types of landfills, waste, waste management, waste management strategies, wasterConference sessions will cover composting, woody biomass, food waste composting, anaerobic digestion of animal waste, food waste recycling in resorts and parks, and much more.
Tags: food waste, infrastructure, integrated waste management, recycling, UK, waste, waste diversion, waste management, waste recyclingTwo 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 processingBritain’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.
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 and [...]
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 [...]
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