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Stop trashing the climate
In June, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) joined with Eco-Cycle and the Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance (GAIA) to release Stop Trashing the Climate, a report documenting the link between climate change and unsustainable patterns of consumption and wasting. Authored by Brenda Platt of ILSR, with coauthors Eric Lombardi of Eco-Cycle (Boulder, Colorado) and Dave Ciplet of GAIA, the report concludes that preventing waste and expanding reuse, recycling and composting programs - that is, ... |
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CO2 impacts of transporting UK’s recovered paper and plastic bottles to China
Exports of recovered materials for recycling overseas have grown at a rapid pace over the past decade. In 2007, 4.7 million tonnes of recovered paper and half a million tonnes of recovered plastics were exported. The principal destination for these exports was China. The environmental benefits of domestic recycling are well understood. However, one question often asked in respect of exports is whether the benefits of recycling are outweighed by the emissions associated with transporting the material ... |
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- Curbside vs. return-to-retail for plastic bags
Some materials are a natural fit for Ontario`s blue box system, with its ever-increasing mechanization, and some are not. A study of plastic film recycling ...
- Food composting infrastructure
From 1995 to 2000, BioCycle published an annual national survey of food waste composting projects in the United States. Since then, we have continued ...
- GTA waste-to-energy?
While the City of Toronto will utilize its GreenLane Landfill Facility near London, Ontario to manage residual waste in the years to come, neighboring ...
- The myth of `residual waste`
Recently, I was asked by my good friend John Nicholson (a consultant and contributing editor to this magazine) to address a meeting of the Air and Waste ...
- `Train`-ing the waste management industry
For the past 15 years, the waste management industry has done a commendable job in responding to public concern over environmental issues, especially ...
- Pilot-scale compost media biofilter treatment of volatile organic compounds
The compost media biofilter is one of the most important biological processes applied to treat waste gases. Research on a pilot-scale compost media biofilter ...
- PEI`s new beverage container deposit system
It`s said that change is inevitable in everything, except vending machines.
Change has come to Prince Edward Island`s long-standing ban on the sale of ...
- Development of time-temperature probes for tracking inactivation during composting
Performing compost quality assessment such as compost stability is quite necessary for rating the quality of horse manure and biowaste composts and meeting ...
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