Waste & Recycling E-Zine
October 2009

This Month´s Featured Articles, Papers & Reports
Plastic Bags – What options do we really have?
Much is being written and said about plastic bags and the harm it causes our environment. I think we can all agree that the number of plastic bags used by our society and plastic products that are part of our daily lives, is staggering and can seem overwhelming to get a grip on or to find a solution to our dependence on plastic. Let’s face it; it would take a revolution and true commitment and effort on an entire nation – not to mention the world – to stop using plastic. Plastic is a bi-product ...
Long-term leachate emissions from municipal solid waste landfills sre unknown
The Swiss have always been highly environmentally aware, and for a long while have looked after their environment in an exemplary fashion. The `Guidelines to waste management in Switzerland` ( EKA, 1986 ) were set in 1986, well ahead of many states. One necessary objective of this as a code of good practice has been that all waste management procedures have to provide materials which either are re-usable or can be disposed of in a landfill without any negative or damaging environmental impact for ...
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  • Improving bioremediation
    Sustainability is becoming a benchmark for the quality of companies who offer remediation solutions, the technologies that they develop and offer commercially, ...
  • Amendment dangerous goods safety marks
    This proposed amendment will correct some of the dangerous goods safety mark issues that Amendment 6 brought us. This amendment has been published on ...
  • Shredding of highly flammable hazardous waste
    Satrind S.p.A. has a consolidated experience in engineering plants with nitrogen blanketing protection system for shredding of highly explosive hazardous ...
  • Batteries included
    Leading entrepreneur Shai Agassi’s company Better Place has teamed up with Renault Nissan to develop a unique business model for rolling out the electric ...
  • RDF for cement kilns
    The use of the cement has significantly contributed to the worldwide economies. In fact cement is considered to be the second most consumed substance ...
  • Stealth tax or real relief?
    With the closure of yet another consultation into the amendments to the land remediation tax relief legislation (LRR), David McCreadie of Davis Langdon ...
  • Lessons learnt and opportunities in alternative European economies
    Recent headlines highlighting the return of Polish migrants indicate the comparative strength of the zloty against the pound. Peter Reich, of URS Deutschland ...
  • Ohio supermarket composting
    State and grocery chain commitment lead to successful food waste diversion pilot that could motivate others to replicate program. IN JULY 2008, the ...

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