municipal waste News
-
Recycling rates reach 34.5% in England for 2007/08
The recycling rate in England has risen to 34.5% for 2007/08, the Government has revealed. This is an increase of more 3% from 30.9% in 2006/07 and refers to collections of dry recyclates and green waste. Figures show local authorities are closer to achieving Waste Strategy targets to reuse, recycle or compost 40% of household waste by 2010. The data also revealed a decrease in the amount of ...
-
Defra confirms green waste target
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has reconfirmed that green waste will count towards the 50% target for municipal waste set out in the revised European Waste Framework Directive (WFD). Defra’s clarification came in a letter sent in December 2008 to County Surveyors’ Society Waste Panel chair Julia Barrett, who raised concerns expressed at the panel’s meeting on ...
-
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 ...
-
Food waste a priority for Ireland, says EPA
Food waste has been highlighted as a top priority in Ireland to ensure the country doesn’t miss EU diversion targets for biodegradable municipal waste. Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency has published The National Waste Report 2007, stating food waste “is a priority”. Other progress indicators were that overall general waste generation had not increased from 2006. And, recycling rates had ...
-
Wood Waste Shredder Installed in Beijing, China
Wood Waste Shredder Installed in Beijing, ChinaFrom March 16 to March 18, 2013 , which are busy days, as our wood waste shredder SM1000 has installed in Beijing successfully, which is also an ideal machine for processing municipal solid waste. The pictures below are of a recently delivered SM1000 shredder that was installed at a solid waste district in Beijing.Customers also used this machine to ...
-
ABB helps revolutionize waste management
Designed and engineered by Australian company AnaeCo, the first installation of this patented technology known as DiCOM® is currently under construction at a municipal waste transfer station* in Perth, Australia’s fourth largest city. DiCOM is an automated bioconversion process that converts municipal waste into high quality compost which would otherwise be incinerated or transported to a ...
By ABB
-
Characterization of biogenic content of municipal waste: ENVEA takes part in UIOM 14C program
The program “UIOM 14C” has featured a measurement campaign of the fossil and biogenic CO2 emitted by french incinerators. The study, implemented under the sponsorship of ADEME, FNADE and local partner communities, took place in 2018 and 2019, across 11 sites. It represented a population of 10 million inhabitants and 10% of the waste incinerated in France. ...
By ENVEA
-
VT Group opens trial facility for wakefield PFI project
A trial autoclave facility has been opened by VT Group as part of its plans for the Wakefield PFI contract. The company is preferred bidder for the PFI project and is trialling a full-scale waste treatment facility before building the new treatment centre for the area’s municipal waste at South Kirkby. The “first of class” trial facility has been built as a smaller version of the final ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
Commission takes Italy to Court over inadequate treatment of waste landfilled in Lazio
The European Commission is taking Italy to Court for failing to comply with the requirements of EU waste legislation. Due to a narrow interpretation by the Italian authorities of what constitutes sufficient treatment of waste, the Malagrotta landfill in Rome and other landfills in the Lazio region are being filled with waste that has not undergone the treatment required by EU legislation. ...
-
Richer countries produce richer waste
The more affluent a country is, the more waste it produces a report by CyclOpe and Veolia Environmental Services has found. Following up from its 2006 report From Waste to Resource, results show developed countries China, the USA and the EU15 top the list as the biggest producers of municipal waste. According to From Waste to Resource: An abstract of 2009 World Waste Survey, waste from richer ...
-
Legacy Waste in India
Legacy Waste processing as a Bio-mining or Bioremediation is an environmentally friendly technique to separate soil and recyclables like plastic, metal, paper, organic waste as most recyclable waste. More than 3,000 garbage dumps in India need to be restored or permanently closed. Scientifically unsustainable waste disposal causes irreversible damage to the environment: It produces ...
-
Planning permission won for £80m facility in Wakefield
VT Environmental Engineering (VTEE) has secured planning permission for an £80 million facility in Wakefield that will handle up to 240,000 tonnes of waste a year. The company, which is part of the VT Group, won the contract for Wakefield’s £700 million, 25 year private finance initiative contract earlier this year. The facility, planned to open in 2011, will be built at the South Kirkby ...
-
Zero Waste Index proposed for improving city waste management
A new tool to improve the measurement of waste management performance has been presented by a recent study. The researchers applied it to three high consuming cities aspiring to ‘zero waste’, finding San Francisco to be closer to achieving zero waste than Stockholm and Adelaide, due to its emphasis on reusing solid waste. Cities cover 2% of the world’s surface, but generate 70% ...
-
Harden Was a Big Hit at the 2018 IE Expo in Shanghai!
Annual IE expo exhibition was held from May 3-5th in Shanghai- with over 55,000 visitors and 1637 exhibitors, one of the trade shows for environmental protection in China. With 5 band new real shredders machine exhibiting at the fair, showing high shredding performance via videos, performance Harden was on the fire at IE Expo this year! With years of solid waste disposal experiences, Harden now ...
-
Organic Waste Converter - TALLBOY
Organic waste converter TALLBOY® by Riteways, is a unique machine that turns recyclable organic waste into earthy-smelling, nutrient-rich compost. What are the examples of organic waste? Food waste, green leaves grass clippings or leaves, household/hotels/restaurant or industrial kitchen waste, municipal waste composts, agriculture waste & other organic waste. What are the types of ...
-
Choosing Right Municipal Solid Waste Sorting Machine
Sorting of municipal solid waste has emerged as being a big challenge for cities worldwide. Municipal solid waste mostly contains household waste as well as waste generated from some commercial plants. The growing volume of solid waste has presented a tremendous problem for municipalities as simply a restricted amount of solid waste could be disposed of in landfills.One of the most efficient ways ...
-
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 ...
-
Mercury Thermostat Collection Act
Mercury Thermostat Collection Act New waste management requirements are going into effect this year for wall-mounted, mercury-switch thermostats that are replaced or removed from service from buildings in the state. The law is among several in Illinois designed to keep mercury out of the environment. Illinois banned the sale of mercury-switch thermostats after July 1, 2006, but thousands ...
By Connexion
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you