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	Waste & Recycling Newsletter December 18, 2008

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Better approach to reporting hazardous substances from farm animal waste
EPA is announcing a final rule providing an administrative reporting exemption for air releases of hazardous substances from animal waste at farms. This rule will enable response authorities to better focus their attention on hazardous substance releases that require a response, while reducing reporting burdens on America’s farms. Notifications must still be made to response authorities when hazardous substances are released to the air from sources other than animal waste (e.g., ammonia tanks), and when hazardous substances are released to soil and water. Administrative exemptions from particular ...

`Pay As You Throw` waste schemes encourage household recycling
New research has concluded that `Pay As You Throw` waste collection schemes can increase levels of recycling among households, but should be accompanied by effective public information campaigns. Pay As You Throw waste schemes charge households and businesses according to the amount of mixed residual waste they generate. They have been proposed as an effective means of reducing the amount of waste going to landfill, thus helping local authorities meet the requirements of the EU Landfill Directive. The study, conducted under the EU-funded PAYT (Pay As You Throw) project, covered 157 local authority ...

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Councils would opt for waste vacuum system if they had more money
Additional councils would opt for the system that transports waste underground if they had more money, said a Brent Council official. The Envac system, ...
UK construction industry to get US-style reuse centres
American-style construction material reuse centres will be launched in the UK with the opening of ReIY Centres in spring 2009. The first pilot centres, ...
Major supermarket chain invests millions in anaerobic digestion
Sainsbury’s will invest GBP 9m during the next two years to establish five anaerobic digestion (AD) plants as it aims to become the UK’s first retailer ...
Defra takes action on textile recycling
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will launch a “sustainable clothing roadmap” in February 2009 to try to reduce the environmental ...
EA publishes guidance for landfills taking radioactive waste
Guidance for landfill operators that want to accept low-level radioactive waste has been published by the Environment Agency (EA). The guidance follows ...
Danuta Hübner in Poland to launch EUR 28bn infrastructure and environment programme
Danuta Hübner, European Commissioner for Regional Policy, was in Warsaw on Monday 15 December to launch the infrastructure and environment operational ...
Public majority support container deposit schemes return
A return to a bottle deposit system gained “overwhelming public support” in a poll commissioned by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). According ...
Recession forces shoppers to `hate waste`
Retail giant Asda has said that its customers are adopting a new mindset to ‘hate waste’. But it stressed that shoppers still need to do more to reduce ...

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