Waste & Recycling E-Zine
June 2009
This Month´s Featured Articles, Papers & Reports
Diverting waste from landfill - effectiveness of EU waste-management policies
With landfill at the bottom of the European waste hierarchy, policies to divert waste from landfill play a very important role within European and national waste policies. This report analyses the effectiveness of implemented policies on the diversion of total municipal waste and biodegradable municipal waste from landfill in the context of the 1999 EU Landfill Directive and other relevant directives. The study is based on an in-depth evaluation of policies in five countries and one region of the ...
Composting generates cash for greenhouse gas benefits
Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) recently finalized an initiative to develop a protocol for issuing offsets to projects that avoid greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through composting or other similar approaches. This article explores the development of the new protocol, reviews its key attributes and describes how an entity can earn tradable credits for its GHG mitigation project. In 1992, the U.S. ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which called for stabilizing ...
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