municipal waste recycling News
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Scotland`s recycling rates increase
Scotland’s recycling and composting rate has risen to 33.5 per cent for the year January to December 2008, according to new figures published by the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency. The provisional figures show that Scotland has exceeded its recycling target of 30 per cent for 2008. The next target is 40 per cent by the end of 2010. Data submitted to the Scottish Government’s ...
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Scotland`s recycling rates rise
Scotland’s annual recycling and composting rate rose to 35.2 per cent for the year July 2008 to June 2009, according to new figures from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. A total of 1.22 million tonnes of biodegradable municipal waste was sent to landfill in Scotland in the year July 2008 to June 2009. Scotland’s current recycling performance falls behind England’s and Wales’ ...
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European Commission`s plans on waste are welcome but challenging, says CIWM
The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has welcomed the adoption today by the European Commission of the Communication 'Towards a circular economy: a zero waste programme for Europe' to establish a common and coherent EU framework to promote the circular economy, including legislative proposals on EU recycling and other waste-related targets. This ambitious and far-reaching set of ...
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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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Wales cuts household waste
Wales is now producing less household waste and recycling more, according to new figures. Latest figures for the fourth quarter of 2008-2009 show that households produced four per cent less waste (68,221 tonnes) than they did for the same period in 2007-2008. The overall share of municipal waste that was recycled, re-used or composted for the whole of 2008-09 was 36 per cent, an increase of ...
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Labour works towards zero waste society in manifesto
A new Labour Government will move Britain towards a ’zero waste’ society and drive the introduction of on-the-go recycling on streets and in shopping centres, according the party’s 2010 manifesto.The 76-page document mentions the word ‘waste’ a total of five times and the word ‘recyclable’ only three times. Outlining the party’s past achievements, the manifesto explains that “we have made it far ...
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Scottish council plans not `yet adequate` to meet waste targets
Scottish councils do not have adequate plans to meet landfill and recycling targets beyond 2010, according to a critical new report. The report is written by Audit Scotland and is entitled Protecting and improving Scotland’s environment. Audit Scotland provides the Auditor General and the Accounts Commission with the services they need to check that public money is being spent effectively and ...
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WRG receives planning permission to build huge MBT plant in Scotland
Waste Recycling Group (WRG) is to develop a mechanical biological treatment facility in Greengairs, North Lanarkshire which will handle 210,000 tonnes of municipal waste each year. North Lanarkshire Council recently gave planning consent to the plant, which will have a ‘significant’ impact towards meeting Scotland’s zero waste targets according to the council. Scotland is currently working ...
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Meeting Scottish waste reduction targets could cost £1.3bn
Ambitious plans to meet Scotland’s waste reduction targets could cost an additional £1.3bn by 2025, claims a Scottish Government report. The Meeting Scotland’s Zero Waste Targets: Assessing the Costs Associated with New Waste Management Infrastructure report considered the potential costs of meeting EU waste reduction and Scottish Government targets through a number of possible scenarios, which ...
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Higher recycling targets to drive transition to a Circular Economy with new jobs and sustainable growth
Today the Commission adopted proposals to turn Europe into a more circular economy and boost recycling in the Member States. Achieving the new waste targets would create 580 000 new jobs compared to today's performance, while making Europe more competitive and reducing demand for costly scarce resources. The proposals also mean lower environmental impacts and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The ...
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Environment: Higher Recycling Targets to Drive Transition to a Circular Economy with New Jobs and Sustainable Growth
Today (July 2, 2014) the Commission adopted proposals to turn Europe into a more circular economy and boost recycling in the Member States. Achieving the new waste targets would create 580 000 new jobs compared to today's performance, while making Europe more competitive and reducing demand for costly scarce resources. The proposals also mean lower environmental impacts and reduced greenhouse gas ...
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“The growth path we are following is not the right one”
Ladies and Gentlemen, First of all let me congratulate all of you on having been elected to the European Parliament. I am pleased to see there are a number of you in the Environment Committee with whom I have worked closely over the last five years. For those of you who were around five years ago for my hearing, you will remember that as a Commissioner designate for Environment I made a ...
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