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Hunting for Hidden Treasure - The International Trade Fair for Waste Management and Environmental Technology shows how waste can be turned into valuable resources
Urban mining — the recovery of raw materials from waste — is the vision of the future for the global waste-management industry. This aims to conserve natural resources and protect the environment, but that's not all. For today, there are also increasingly good business reasons to recycle and reuse materials from the waste generated in advanced economies. This is because of a growing demand — and ...
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GPT Waste partners with Landmarc to manage waste streams
GPT Waste has been appointed by Landmarc Support Services (Landmarc) in a long-term contract to manage waste streams arising from around 120 sites across the nationwide Defence training estate, and to share its objectives of achieving the best possible environmental outcomes and most efficient delivery of service. Landmarc works in partnership with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) ...
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Waste Separation Equipment - Green Way to Recycle Urban Solid Waste
Poor disposal of domestic and also hazardous wastes has actually resulted in the enhancing rate of ecological pollution due to the reality that these wastes wind up in water bodies, in the roads and also around homes leading to harmful health and wellness effects. Consequently, there has actually been the development of a garbage splitting up equipments that are able to sort the various sorts of ...
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Waste industry says suitable infrastructure will help implement landfill bans
The creation of suitable infrastructure will help the Government to enforce potential landfill bans on various waste streams, say waste industry stakeholders. Speaking to MRW, Packaging Federation chief executive Dick Searle said: “Anything that can be sensibly recycled should be banned from landfill ban. But for a landfill ban to work, the proper infrastructure will need to be in place to deal ...
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Carlsberg Consolidates Its Position as the Most Efficient Global Brewer and Sharpens Its Focus on Sustainable Packaging
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - 2012 environmental highlights: Energy consumption decreased to 29.1 kW/hl Water consumption maintained at 3.3 hl water per hl beer produced 13 Group breweries now capture biogas from wastewater treatment operations 60 out of 76 sites ISO 14001-certified EUR 25m ring-fenced for investment in Russian environmental projects New strategy for sustainable packaging agreed ...
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Glass remelting has dropped to its worst performance in five years
The rate of remelting glass has dropped to its worst performance since 2004 even though the UK has exceeded glass recycling expectations, hitting the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive targets. Out of the 1,613,000 tonnes of glass recycled in the UK just 665,561 tonnes was returned to UK glass manufacturers for remelting to be made into fresh glass packaging. However, according to ...
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On 21 June 2018, che ceremonial opening of the sorting plant took place in the presence of Mayor Siegfried Nagl. It included a blessing from the parish priest, Christian Leibnitz. This expansion will make the Graz plant the largest plastic sorting plant in Austria. Saubermacher sorts the material on behalf of AltstofT Recycling Austria (ARA). Most of the packaging waste comes from households and ...
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Selby AD plant appoints technology provider
The “UK’s biggest” anaerobic digestion (AD) plant has appointed Entec Biogas to supply its digestion technology. The Austrian firm has recently completed detailed designs for the Selby Renewable Energy Park, allowing the first stages of construction to begin in the coming months, with a view to opening the facility in 2011. Selby business development manager Shaun Flynn told MRW: “The reason ...
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Extreme recycling in rural Japan little goes to waste in this environmentally conscious county
Imagine a community where residents voluntarily separate their household wastes into 24 discrete categories for recycling, where recycling centers are located in almost every neighborhood, and where local coordinators actively promote recycling and waste minimization. It’s happening now in Oizumi, a small rural community about 75 miles (120 km) northwest of Tokyo, Japan. Oizumi, like many ...
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Zero Waste Europe – Moving towards a circular economy
The European Commission has presented a policy package that aims to start Europe moving towards a ‘circular economy’. The circular economy centres on an economy that produces almost no waste and where products, materials, and other forms of value are reused or recycled. The legislative proposal: Increased waste targets Waste policies and targets are a key driver for shifting to a ...
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New Organics Processing Machines
High-end organics material prepping is gaining in importance - given the strict requirements of natural fertilizer laws and other quality guidelines, going forward only high-quality compost or fermented products will be marketable. One major factor is the removal of contraries and foreign matter, which will unfortunately continue to find their way into the organic waste stream in higher amounts. ...
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