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RWM DELVES INTO COUNCIL WASTE ISSUES

PRESS RELEASE RWM DELVES INTO COUNCIL WASTE ISSUES Recycling & Waste Management Exhibition, NEC, Birmingham 14 to 16 September 2010 30 June 2010 - MRF quality, public consultations, food waste, collecting from high rise flats and many ...

Jun. 30, 2010

By Emap Ltd

Shredding industrial waste in Brittany, France

"Les Recycleurs Bretons" has been one of France's leading waste disposal companies for the past thirty years. 2013 saw the inauguration of a regionally operating and contemporary waste recycling plant situated on the outskirts of the historical coastal town of Brest, in the heart of proud Brittany. Its main purpose is to produce valuable fuel for nationally and internationally ...

Oct. 6, 2014

Nepal to generate electricity from waste

Nepalis looking at waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies to address its huge energy deficit and also manage growing urban and industrial waste. Half of Nepal's households are off the national grid while supply shortfalls and interrupted power cause industries losses worth 60 billion Nepali rupees (US$ 700 million) annually. ...

May 3, 2013

By SciDev.Net

Portable Waste Water Treatment Plant New for 2010

Wastewater Pilot Test Unit Portable Small Scale Self Contained Wastewater Treatment Plant Integrated Engineers Inc. can provide you with a low risk pilot test system so you can determine maximum ...

May 4, 2010

By Integrated Engineers Inc.

MeWa QZ cleans mixed metal and plastic waste

A feature of medium-sized businesses in Germany is their ability to continually identify new niches and successfully service them. GRUNSKE Metall - Recycling GmbH & Co. KG of Oranienburg recently commissioned a new plant for cleaning metals that have already run through sorting systems for domestic and industrial waste. Using a Querstromzerspaner supplied by MeWa, the company is able to ...

Feb. 1, 2011

By ANDRITZ MeWa - ANDRITZ Group

Special Issue of Waste Management journal on “Biowaste to Fuel”

A Special Issue of Waste Management journal on “Biowaste to Fuel” will shortly be launched, based on a set of selected papers from the Venice Symposium on Energy from Biomass and Waste. The following topics will be dealt with: Bio-Waste characterisations for energy production purposes (material composition analysis and chemical characteristics, temporal variability and potential ...

Apr. 23, 2014

By EuroWaste Srl

Construction starts on innovative GBP15m waste treatment facility

Organic Waste Management has started work on its innovative GBP15 million solid waste treatment facility in Cheshire. The mechanical biological treatment plant will serve Manchester’s industrial commercial market to divert 180,000 tonnes of waste from landfill. The plant is the first in the UK to use the Bedminster technology to recover the hard recyclables and convert the residue to compost. OWM ...

Aug. 19, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

New biodegradable waste management plans proposed and evaluated

Researchers have designed and proposed a new organic waste management plan for Catalonia, Spain, and presented it in a recent study. They say that the plan would reduce a number of environmental impacts that arise from landfilling biodegradable waste, including natural resource depletion, acidification, and eutrophication. To reduce the negative environmental effects of landfilling and to ...

Apr. 23, 2015

By European Commission, Environment DG

Recycling and Waste Management for Hamilton Park Racecourse

About the Project: New regulations to help Scotland become one of the most resource efficient nations in Europe have been passed by the Scottish Parliament. Scotland have set themselves ambitious recycling targets to meet and these regulations aim to support and encourage business help achieve the 70% ...

May 23, 2013

By GPT Waste Management Ltd

Eriez® Announces Eco-Certification Program for Various Magnetic Separation, Feeding and Recycling Equipment

Demonstrating its commitment to a better, cleaner environment, Eriez® has developed an eco-certification designation for a variety of the company's magnetic separation and recycling equipment as well as its line of small feeders. The self-certified program was put in place in ...

May 24, 2011

By Eriez Magnetics Europe Ltd

MeWa QZ cleans mixed metal and plastic waste

A feature of medium-sized businesses in Germany is their ability to continually identify new niches and successfully service them. GRUNSKE Metall - Recycling GmbH & Co. KG of Oranienburg recently commissioned a new plant for cleaning metals that have already run through sorting systems for domestic and industrial waste. Using a Querstromzerspaner supplied by MeWa, the company is able to ...

Feb. 25, 2011

By ANDRITZ MeWa - ANDRITZ Group

NLWA seeks bidders for flagship PFI waste project

The North London Waste Authority (NLWA) will be holding a procurement information day for firms interested in bidding for its 25-30 year private finance initiative waste contract. The announcement follows confirmation last month that the contract is to be supported by a record-breaking £258.4 million in private finance initiative credits from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ...

Apr. 9, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Waste Management and Fulcrum BioEnergy Announce Strategic Investment

Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) today announced that it has closed an equity investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. (Fulcrum). In connection with ...

Nov. 18, 2011

Tests underway to retrieve underground hazardous waste at Dounreay

One of the most demanding clean-up jobs ever undertaken in the history of nuclear energy is gathering pace. It involves the recovery and packaging of more than 1500 tonnes of radioactive waste that has lain submerged for up to 50 years in the ground beneath Britain’s abandoned experiment with fast reactors at Dounreay. Tests are underway in Scotland, Germany and the USA to develop the ...

Sep. 24, 2009

By Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL)

Waste sector speaks out about Copenhagen

The waste industry has expressed mixed views on the implications of Copenhagen for the waste sector. The UN climate summit in Copenhagen aims to strike a deal on major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions (7-13 December). Recycling technology provider TiTech managing director Jonathan Clarke said that any potential carbon ...

Dec. 8, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Multi-use disposable filter for industrial waste

AbTech Holdings, Inc has developed a new disposable filter in its Smart Sponge range, the Smart Sponge 55, which has been designed as a self–contained, disposable 55 gallon drum filter system. The filter will initially be marketed to the chemical shipping, ground water remediation, and energy sectors for the treatment of hazardous contaminated wastewater. Since each ...

Aug. 10, 2011

By Filtration + Separation - Elsevier Ltd

REDWAVE presented Plant Design on Hannover Waste Symposium

More than 200 waste-to-energy (WtE) plants are operating in China nowadays. One of them in the City of Lianyungang, Shandong Province north of Shanghai, will be complemented by a pre-treatment plant for municipal solid waste (MSW). The AustrianGerman technology firm REDWAVE designed the process of the entire plant. Tim van Heeswijk from the sales division of REDWAVE presented the concept and the ...

May 31, 2017

By REDWAVE a division of BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH

MeWa introduces new special shredder for cable waste

Accordingly cable waste promises high output quality, this recycled content is a sought-after commodity. MeWa Recycling Maschinen und Anlagenbau GmbH in Gechingen, Germany, introduces for the first time with the CableCutter CC 1200 a machine that is completely geared towards breaking down cable waste. Especially the plant efficiency of the treatment process can be decisively increased by this new ...

Sep. 23, 2009

By ANDRITZ MeWa - ANDRITZ Group

Environmental performance of construction and demolition waste management

The EU Waste Framework Directive1 aims to recycle or recover materially 70% of non-hazardous construction and demolition waste by 2020. This study evaluated the performance of the Finnish waste management system against this target. The results showed that the system generates environmental benefits and is profitable, but has not reached the 70% target. The researchers suggest ways the tar Europe ...

Jan. 7, 2016

By European Commission

Three men sentenced for waste crime offences

Three men have appeared before Teesside Crown Court after being involved in unauthorised waste operations in the Middlesborough area. Brian Greenwood, 37, of Edendale Terrace, Horden, Ian Fenny, 41, Kingfisher Close, Hartlepool, and Owen Hill, 43, of Bridge Street, Nottingham, all appeared for sentencing on Tuesday (25 June) after they admitted charges relating to illegal waste activities on ...

Jun. 28, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

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