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The Waster’s Waste Management and Landfill Blog carries regular postings on News and Technical Developments in UK, and International waste management.
The Problem with Recycling It’s Ineffective to Fight Climate Change
The Problem with Recycling, as presently practised throughout the EU, is it’s ineffective to fight climate change. It’s not just the WastersBlog saying this. The UK Environment Agency has been saying it! Nothing has changed since we first posted the following article on this subject back in 2007, except the problems are now more acute! […]
Recycling Problems – Is Recycling A Waste Of Time, Money And Energy?
Guest Author: Davis Green I am going to be very politically incorrect and discuss the recycling problems, and whether recycling might actually be a waste of time, money and energy. There are many problems with recycling. Why is nobody talking about them? Most of us feel guilty if we do not take the trouble to […]
Anaerobic Digestion “Big Opportunity” for Municipal Waste
Urban-based local authorities should consider the anaerobic digestion big opportunity, as an alternative to in-vessel composting for the recycling of municipal biodegradable food waste, according to researchers at WRAP. Speaking today (23 April 2007) at the annual Recycling and Waste Forum in Birmingham on Thursday, WRAP’s organics supply programme manager Louise Hollingworth said: “In-vessel composting […]
PAS100 Accredited Quality Protocol Published for Composting Industry
Back in March 2007, the News we published was the announcement of the PAS100 Accredited Quality Protocol, which had just been published for the UK Composting Industry, with the aim of making high quality commercially produced compost from municipally collected green waste a valuable marketable product. Today we look back on the PAS100 publicly available specification, […]
UK Waste Management Top 20 Companies
The UK Waste Management Top 20 companies are listed below for 2015/2016 (with their revenues in millions GBP). Summary company background information for the top 5 UK waste management companies is also provided below. Veolia Environmental Services is clearly the largest UK Waste Management Top 20 company in terms of revenue by a considerable margin. Veolia […]
Anaerobic Digestion is Now Economically Viable in Europe
Anaerobic Digestion is both a waste treatment technology and a highly sustainable energy technology. Recent rises in energy costs, coupled with EU member state incentives, and waste management policy, now mean that economic viability has been attained. Our article explains how this technology can also provide a politically secure energy supply, and argues that there […]
Floating Rubbish Dump – Huge Scale Highlighted by Greenpeace
A ‘floating rubbish dump’ has been reported by Greenpeace. They describe a floating plastic trash vortex which swells to cover an area the size of Texas, and it is threatening wildlife in the Pacific. Due to prevailing currents and wind, huge masses of waste dumped in the seas accumulate in the North Pacific. As most […]
Web site subscribers: Welcome!
We welcome our first batch of Waste Technology Web Site subscribers to the Wasters Blog. We hope that you will find our new blog interesting and useful. Please do post your comments – we like feedback. It’s easy. Click on the “Comments” or “No comments” wording below any posting and a new page will open […]
What a “Waster”! My new Blog’s First Entry
I have been working in the waste management consultancy for 20 years, and I still am, but I wanted a blog in which I can muse upon the transition from waste (tips, rubbish, dumps etc) to the whole new world of waste as a resource. So here it is! In Europe the parodign shift is […]
