municipal waste News
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Public participation `key` to UK waste challenge
Winning over the public and tackling non-municipal waste are the key challenges facing the UK as it battles to reduce the amount of waste it produces. Regulating businesses can only work to a certain extent, but creating a real step change will require a significant change in consumer behaviour, according to Liz Parkes, head of waste at the Environment Agency. Speaking at the RWM conference in ...
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More clarity needed from Mayor on his waste strategy
London Mayor Boris Johnson needs to provide greater clarity on how he plans to reduce London’s municipal waste, according to the London Assembly Environment Committee. The request comes as part of a response from the committee to the Mayor’s draft Municipal Waste Strategy, London’s Wasted Resource, published in January. The strategy focuses on reducing the amount of waste produced as well as ...
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Municipal waste recycling up to 44% in EU
Municipal waste generation in the EU was down to 475kg per capita in 2014, 10% less than 2002 levels, with 44% being either recycled, composted or anaerobically digested. New data from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, shows that Municipal waste generation has been falling every year since 2007, with a peak in 2002 of 527kg per person. The amount of municipal waste generated varies ...
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Boris Johnson announces plans to cut London`s recycling rates
Improving recycling facilities for people living in flats is one of the proposals outlined by Boris Johnson as he attempts to cut the amount of waste London sends to landfill. The Mayor of London’s draft municipal waste strategy, London’s Wasted Resource, aims to save up to £90 million per year through a variety of measures including boosting the capital’s recycling rates and embracing less ...
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London councils notice dip in household waste levels
London councils have noticed a slight drop in their household waste collections due to a combination waste minimisation campaigns and the recession. Speaking to MRW, Westminster City Council waste strategy manager Mark Banks said: “I attended a recent Association of London Cleansing Officers meeting last week and councils have reported that they have noticed a slight decline in household waste ...
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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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EU statistics show the UK landfilling rate is above average
The United Kingdom landfills more municipal waste than the European Union’s average rate according to figures published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Results showed that the UK still heavily relies on landfill to deal with its waste, using this method for 55% of its waste in 2008. The average rate for landfilling in the EU27 is 40%. Germany and the Netherlands ...
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London Councils vision calls for less prescriptive approach
Regional collaboration and a less prescriptive approach are key to the waste management vision for London recently launched by lobby group London Councils. The organisation developed its position in anticipation of London Mayor Boris Johnson’s revisions to the existing Municipal Waste Management Strategy, ‘Rethinking Rubbish’. London Councils said the Mayor should keep the energy from waste ...
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Scotland continues to win the waste battle
Scotland is producing less municipal waste than in previous years, and recycling more of what we do produce. Figures released today (Thursday 20 August), by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), show that Scotland's recycling and composting rate for the last quarter of the 2008/09 financial year (January to March) increased to 33.2%, an improvement on 30.1% for the same quarter of ...
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Call for a clearer direction on landfill tax beyond 2010/11
Local authorities and businesses need a clearer indication of what the landfill tax will be beyond 2010/11, a leading environmental consultant has warned. Eunomia Research & Consulting director Dr Dominic Hogg told MRW that “the current position of HM Treasury is to ‘keep secret’ the level of tax beyond 2010/11.” Dr Hogg added: “Although the Chancellor keeps hinting in the Budget statements ...
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Eight bidders announced for Huge Welsh PPP
Huge Welsh public private partnership (PPP) proposal Prosiect Gwyrdd has drawn up the long-list of companies in the running for the contract to manage waste from six local authorities in the country, including Cardiff. The chosen companies are: Covanta MVV Umwelt Shanks Group Sita UK Urbaser Veolia ES Aurora Viridor Waste Management Waste Recycling Group (WRG) Each company will be ...
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A Thailand customer purchased a set of 15TPD municipal solid waste pyrolysis machine from DOING
Good news! On August 22, 2023, a Thailand customer purchased a set of 15TPD municipal solid waste pyrolysis machine from DOING. The Thai customer engaged business is partly related to renewable resources. While in Thailand, a large amount of municipal solid waste was produced, and the local government also made some encouragement policies to realize waste reduction and resource utilization, ...
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EU needs waste prevention and recycling targets to help the climate, says Friends of the Earth
A new study shows that the proposed binding minimum EU recycling targets of 50% for municipal waste by 2020, currently discussed by the European Parliament, could save emissions equivalent to more than 89 million tonnes (mt) of CO2 equivalent per year. This is equivalent to taking 31 million cars off the road. The study builds on a UK report which found that most studies showed that recycling was ...
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Huge Welsh PPP out to tender
Five local authorities in south east Wales have joined forces to find a solution to treat reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill, which is “set to be the biggest collaboration between the public and private sector in Welsh history”. Prosiect Gwyrdd - made up from local authorities in south east Wales, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Monmouthshire, Newport and the Vale of Glamorgan – has put the waste ...
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WasteInProgress puts the focus on the “pay-as-you-throw” system in cities
WasteInProgress, the international forum on municipal waste management, will focus its third edition on the “pay-as-you-throw” model and present successful case studies with waste collection models from cities all over the world with recycling results greater than 60%. Leipzig (Germany), Bern (Switzerland), Veneto (Italy) and Le Grand Besançon (France) will be among those ...
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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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`Waste man` of Europe tag challenged by figures
The UK’s colloquial title as the waste man of Europe has been challenged by figures for 2007 released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of European Communities. In a league table of the 27 European Union countries, Denmark produced the most municipal waste per person (801kg), while Bulgaria sent the most waste to landfill (100 per cent). In comparison the UK ranked ninth for waste generated ...
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Higher recycling targets backed by Environment Committee
Her draft law tightens the Commission’s limit on municipal waste to landfill by 2030 from 10% to 5% and a higher packaging target of 80% recycling by 2030. Bonafe said: “The environment committee has showed that it believes in the transition towards a circular economy. We decided to restore the ambitious recycling and landfill targets in line with what the Commission had originally ...
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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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Defra launches consultation on draft guidance on the legal definition of waste
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has launched a consultation on the definition of waste and its application. The aim of the draft guidance is to help businesses and other organisations to take day-to-day decisions about whether substances or objects they are dealing with are likely or unlikely to be waste. The consultation ends on 12 April. It states that in most cases ...
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