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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.
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, […]
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 […]
