May 2008
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Waste & Recycling E-Zine May 2008 |
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| This Month´s Featured Articles, Papers & Reports |
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The carbon impact of bottling Australian wine in the UK
An increasingly hot issue in the UK is the design of bottles and their recycled content, to the point where researchers have begun analysing how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is emitted from bulk-imported wine from Australia compared to its bottling in the UK. The study considers a comparison between using Amcor-designed PET bottles versus typical glass bottles used by UK-based bottlers. One challenge in this study was determining the conditions for comparing PET and glass. Several variables were ... |
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The pulse of the composting industry in Canada
The Composting Council of Canada (CCC) reflects upon the passion, frustration and determination of its organics recovery advocates, who have made composting visions real. Collectively, these visions are now responsible for diverting about 4 million metric tons of organic residuals or 12 percent of Canada`s annual waste stream from landfill - a gigantic leap since the early 1990s when the annual national organics diversion totals were about 275,000 metric tons. While each vision has had ... |
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