organic waste collection News
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Province Announces Initiative to Strengthen TomorrowNow - Manitoba`s Green Plan
Manitoba Aims to Increase Community Composting by 300 Per Cent; Many Other Green Initiatives Underway: Minister Mackintosh The province has released a stronger green plan based on feedback and developing opportunities including the launch of a new $1-million annual fund designed to triple the amount of organics that Manitoba diverts from landfills by 2020, Conservation and Water Stewardship ...
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Soil, Not Waste – Converting Organic Waste With The Help Of Worms In India
Vermigold Ecotech has won the 2013 Energy Globe award from India. The Energy Globe Award is today the world’s most prominent environmental award given annually to outstanding projects focusing on energy efficiency, renewable energies and the conservation of resources. The organic waste management system of the Indian company Vermigold offers solutions to the growing problem of organic ...
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A productive collaboration begins with a dominant goal: to became Crete zero-emission island in 2030
Crete, one of Greece’s top holiday destinations and battered by flooding last week, has identified key actions become a zero-emissions island by 2030 by boosting use of renewable energy and electric cars, optimising its water resources and recycling waste as a way to protect its local environment and make the island more resilient to climate change. The priorities emerged from the first in ...
By Siemens AG
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Growing e-waste, an alarm to wake up. Mass Nationwide Collection Drive, to begin from Mumbai
India is home to a mammoth magnitude of e-waste arising mainly from the abandoned, obsolete or broken electrical or electronic devices. Thanks to India’s fast increasing load of e-waste originating from household consumption, enterprises and imports. All these put together, India’s E-waste is expected to grow to 20 million MT by 2020 from 3.2 million MT in 2015 consisting of monetary ...
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Italian exhibition group is ´´GREEN CORE´
Rimini, 20th March 2023 – Italian Exhibition Group (IEG) - listed on Borsa Italiana´s Euronext, leader in Italy in the organisation of trade shows and congresses with its facilities in Rimini and Vicenza and one of the main players in the exhibition and events sector on a global level, has been pursuing a policy of environmental sustainability for over 20 years under the ´green ...
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Waste management in Denmark - Renè Møller Rosendal
Renè Møller Rosenda, RenoSam - Danish association of intermunicipal waste management companies; Denmark Mr Rosendal is a speaker at the Waste Management Conference, 28/30 March 2012, http://www.eco.viaexpo.com What is the way of determining the garbage (municipality waste) fees and the way of payment. In Denmark the municipality decides the price, but it ...
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Close to 69,000 Buyers Visit Twin Lighting Fairs and Eco Expo, Up 7% Business Outlook Positive, Smart Products Tipped to be Top-sellers
Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the 19th Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition), the second Hong Kong International Outdoor and Tech Light Expo and the 12th Eco Expo Asia concluded with close to 69,000 buyers from 151 countries and regions visiting the three events. The figure is 7 per cent higher than last year’s attendance. The number of ...
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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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Emterra Environmental Investing $50 Million in Cleaner Air and More Jobs in Peel
Waste diversion leader Emterra Environmental and its partners are set to invest nearly $50 million in cleaner air, more jobs and a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fleet as well as a fueling and maintenance facility in the heart of the Region of Peel. Located in Mississauga, the facility will be the largest CNG fuelling station in Ontario. The investment stems from Emterra’s successful bid ...
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A Fortune in the Rubbish Bin
Paper, plastic, glass, metals and organic waste are waste materials that, if correctly collected and selected, allow nowadays for a saving of 6.5 billion in terms of raw material importation from abroad. Not only that, using what the technicians refer to as SRM, or rather, secondary raw materials, Italy already currently saves 2 billion Euros of energy, equalling approximately 10% of ...
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Microbes fully metabolize biodegradable plastics
Berlin, 16 August 2018 – Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) succeeded in an interdisciplinary study to demonstrate that soil microorganisms metabolically utilised the carbon in the PBAT polymer both for energy production and also to build up microbial biomass. The researchers used the biodegradable polymer PBAT ...
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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 ...
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EUBP welcomes world’s first Plastics Strategy in Europe
But European Commission misses chance to fully embrace circular benefits of bio-based plastics and biodegradable plastics Berlin, 17 January 2018 – The European Strategy for Plastics, published on Tuesday by the European Commission, sets clear goals to curb plastic waste, increase resource efficiency, and to create value and job growth in Europe, but falls short on presenting a ...
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Bioplastic materials’ value propositions well reflected in European Parliament’s report on Plastics Strategy
EP report ties in with provisions for feedstock differentiation and use of biodegradable and compostable plastics recently adopted in Waste Directive and Packaging Directive Berlin, 13 September 2018 – The European Parliament’s report on the European Strategy for Plastics adopted today by the plenary testifies to the increasing acknowledgement and endorsement of the value ...
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Recycling waste packages in Japan. Construction waste recovery - Mariusz Grabda
Dr. Eng. Mariusz Grabda is an Assistant Professor at Institute of Environmental Engineering of Polish Academy of Sciences, and currently a post-doc fellow in the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials of Tohoku University in Japan. His primary research concerned on utilization of geothermal heat and natural utilization of sewage sludge. In recent years, his ...
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WIH Resource Group: CNG fuel use in garbage trucks
WIH Resource Group (WIH) was retained by the City of Boise Idaho to conduct a study on converting the City's 25 refuse collection vehicles (garbage trucks) from diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG). The Study was developed by WIH Resource Group (WIH) and was created from industry research and analysis of the current use of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in refuse (municipal solid waste – MSW) ...
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At the highest international level: A top performance from the waste and waste-water industry
The task of dealing with waste is changing rapidly, with the focus moving away from simple disposal and towards exploiting all recoverable substances. Europe, and Germany in particular, has taken on a leading role in this regard. This is demonstrated firstly by the high levels of expenditure on environmental protection, and secondly by the wealth of highly innovative technological developments. ...
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