municipal waste News
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First Steps Taken in Road to an Urban Bioeconomy
Following adoption of the revised waste package by the European Council in May. a one-day workshop was held to debate how bio-waste could successfully be collected and treated as part of Europe's Circular Economy Package. The workshop was organised by the City of Oslo in collaboration with EUROCITIES, the European Compost Network. Municipal Waste Europe, and the EU Urban Agenda Partnership on ...
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Highest recycling rates in Austria and Germany – but UK and Ireland show fastest increase
Austria, Germany and Belgium recycled the largest proportion of municipal waste in Europe in 2010. Although some countries have rapidly increased recycling rates, Europe is still wasting vast quantities of valuable resources by sending them to landfill, and many countries risk falling short of legally binding recycling targets. Overall 35 % of municipal waste was recycled in Europe in 2010, a ...
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Call for waste industry to keep a close eye on revised WFD and redefinition of municipal waste
The waste industry needs to keep a close eye on the Government’s plans to redefine municipal waste and its interpretation of Article 11 of the revised Waste Framework Directive, according to an industry expert. Speaking to MRW, Veolia Environmental Services environmental and regulatory affairs director Gill Weeks said that the UK is doing well in increasing its recycling rates and diverting ...
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EC refers Germany to Court of Justice over award of waste disposal contract without competitive tender procedure
The European Commission has decided to refer Germany to the European Court of Justice over a public service contract for the disposal of biodegradable and green wastes that the municipality of Bonn had awarded to a private waste disposal undertaking without a competitive tender procedure.Under a combined waste disposal arrangement concluded in 1997 and running until 2016, the municipality has to ...
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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 ...
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Commissioning of food waste digestion plant Benet in France, 1 MW elec
The first food waste digestion plant in France was completed in April 2010. entec biogas gmbh had got the commission for the design, as well as general contractor for mechanical and electrical engineering and commissioning of the biogas plant. Right now, the biogas plant is under commissioning and is expected to be on full capacity in September 2010. The biogas plant in Benet treats waste from ...
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MEPs give green light for new EU waste legislation with binding 2020 targets
The EU will have new waste legislation which includes targets for re-use and recycling of waste to be attained by 2020 after MEPs adopted amendments. The directive sets out rules on recycling and requires Member States to draw up binding national programmes for waste prevention. Waste prevention targets will be considered by the Commission in the future. Incineration of waste will be categorised ...
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AeroThermal’s twin thermal hydrolysis units to process 90,000 tonnes of waste per year
AeroThermal Ltd has revealed its twin Thermo-Pressure Hydrolysis vessels developed for an Irish power distributor are now onstream and on target to process 90,000 tonnes of household and municipal waste per year. The 65m3 TPH vessels which were designed, developed and engineered by AeroThermal Ltd in Poole, Dorset, utilise technology which pre-treats food waste and other bio-waste organics ...
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Biowaste challenges and opportunities in the coming decade
Facing up to the challenges of dealing with biowastes over the next decade will need the right balance of controls and incentives to encourage the reuse of waste while protecting the environment and human health, according to the UK Environment Agency. The United Kingdom produces over 100 million tonnes of biodegradable waste every year, enough to fill approximately 25 Wembley stadiums, and most ...
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Organic waste heavyweights collaborate in sophisticated aerobic digestion projects
An engineering company specialising in the scientific bio-degradation of waste has formed a partnership with UNTHA shredding technology, to roll out a sophisticated aerobic digestion solution for a selection of mixed waste streams.Bath-headquartered Advetec has treated a variety of waste and effluent, since it was established in 2000. But keen to develop a more homogenous product for optimal ...
By Untha UK Ltd
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EC launches debate on the management of bio-waste
This week the European Commission presented a discussion paper on the management of bio-waste in the European Union. Bio-waste – biodegradable garden, kitchen and food waste – accounts for around one third of municipal waste and has major potential impacts on the environment. When disposed of in landfill sites, it emits methane – a powerful greenhouse gas which is 23 times more potent than carbon ...
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Recycling sector asked whether EU biowaste law is needed
The recycling sector has been asked whether a European Union (EU) biowaste law is required to reduce the amount of organic material that is landfilled in Europe. In a new green paper, the European Commission notes that biowaste usually comprises 30-40% of the 41% of municipal solid waste that is on average landfilled in the EU. The big problem here is that such dumped waste emits methane, “a ...
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International experts gather for final SEPARATE conference
SEPARATE has hosted its final event in Gescher, Germany, sharing the project’s successes and future perspectives with waste experts from across Europe. Participants from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey descended on the Entsorgungsgesellschaft Westmünsterland (EGW) waste treatment site to learn more about the project and see the SEPARATE Waste ...
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Healthcare Facilities flouting bio medical waste management rules in Gujarat
Government, private hospitals and clinics in Gujarat are flouting the biomedical waste rules and increasing the risk of infection for the common public, says a new study by Toxics Link, a Delhi-based environmental group. The findings from the report titled ‘DON’T DUMP THAT’, assesses the current status of hospital waste management in four major districts of Gujarat- Ahmedabad, ...
By Toxics Link
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From rubbish to resource
Environment Agency unveils new strategy for tackling tomorrow’s waste Helping businesses use resources more efficiently and divert more waste from landfill were today unveiled as top targets for the Environment Agency over the next five years. Launched on day two of the Agency’s annual conference, the new corporate strategy Creating A Better Place 2010-2015 also outlines the key waste-related ...
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Call for defra to `urgently` tackle commercial and industrial waste
The Government’s Waste Strategy 2007 has been slammed for focusing “disproportionately on domestic waste” and having “vague ambitions” in tackling commercial and industrial waste, according to a new report by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. EFRA is a cross-party select committee that tracks and assesses the work of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. ...
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European Parliament Adopts Strict Waste Reduction Law
STRASBOURG, France (ENS) - The European Parliament today tackled Europe's growing waste mountain when it strengthened the new framework legislation on waste proposed by the European Commission, the EU's executive branch. Despite existing legislation, Europeans are producing more waste every year. Currently, in some member states, up to 90 percent of municipal waste goes to landfill sites. ...
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Support renewable gas mobility and circularity in your municipality: Sign the petition!
The circular city concept is essential to make sure European municipalities become more sustainable, developing the local economy, creating jobs, protecting the environment and the wellbeing of European citizens. Biomethane is a true enabler of a circular economy: cities can produce biogas by treating local organic waste and municipal wastewater and this renewable gas can be upgraded to ...
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NGOs welcome European Parliament vote on recycling and waste prevention
The European Environmental Bureau and Friends of the Earth Europe strongly welcomed vote in the European Parliament’s Environment Committee reasserting the need for EU-level targets on waste prevention and recycling. Voting on the Waste Framework Directive, an overwhelming majority favoured targets for Member States to stabilise waste generation by 2012 and to establish EU-wide recycling targets ...
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Kitsault Energy (KE) Announces Plan to Turn Waste into Energy in India and Canada
Kitsault Energy (KE) recently announced plans to turn waste into energy in India and Canada using a Proprietary and Patented process. The waste includes legacy waste wood from pulp and paper plants, municipal solid waste, road waste, food waste, animal manure, and invasive species such as Gando Baval in India. The process produces high-energy water-repellent solid biofuel that burns with no ...
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