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New organic waste guidelines in the pipeline
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 26 Nov 2008
New guidelines are being drawn up to assess the risks of setting up composting sites and organic waste treatment facilities.

Environmental Impacts | Waste Management

Europeans pilot waste reduction scheme
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 26 Nov 2008
Cities and regions across Europe are acting to highlight the problem of waste this week as part of a pilot initiative to reduce rubbish.

Waste Management

Scheme to tackle loan sharks wins Guardian prize
Guardian Unlimited | 26 Nov 2008
An initiative by Glasgow city council to rescue people from doorstep lenders and instead provide access to mainstream financial services was last night named overall winner of the Guardian Public Services Awards 2008. The creation of Scotcash by the council and its partners, a social enterprise, has proved highly successful and is seen as a template for other local authorities in the UK ...

Waste Management

Waste Management sees cut to fourth-quarter profit
Reuters | 26 Nov 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Waste Management Inc warned on Wednesday that fourth-quarter profit would be hurt more than previously expected by falling values of recycled commodities, which have dropped 30 percent to 60 percent from last year.

Waste Management

'Quack foods' that claim to aid weight loss are 'waste of money'
Telegraph | 26 Nov 2008
Consumers are wasting billions of pounds on 'quack' foods that promise to help them lose weight a nutritional expert has warned.

Waste Management

Waste recycling scheme approved
BBC | 21 Nov 2008
Plans to reduce the amount of rubbish being send to landfill sites in Cumbria by 80% are approved.

Recycling | Waste Management

Company submits waste plans
BBC | 21 Nov 2008
Rejected plans to build a waste incinerator in a North Yorkshire town are to be resubmitted with amendments.

Waste Management

Waste changes prompt plan review
BBC | 19 Nov 2008
Guernsey's Urban Area Plan could be revised after a call by environmental officials to allow a wider range of waste treatment.

Waste Management

Electricity plan for waste gases
BBC | 18 Nov 2008
Plans to generate electricity from burning gases at a controversial landfill site are unveiled.

Renewable Energy | Waste Management | Climate Change

Climate Change Capital Plans China Deals
Planet Ark | 18 Nov 2008
HONG KONG - London-based alternative investment manager Climate Change Capital plans to invest 5 billion yuan (US$732 million) in environmental projects in China including industrial waste management and clean technology over the next two to three years.

Waste Management | Climate Change

Australia eyes national approach to waste
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 18 Nov 2008
Environment ministers from across Australia have agreed to develop a national policy to deal with the country's growing mountains of waste.

Waste Management

We must defend our high seas from more than just pirates
The Times | 18 Nov 2008
Sirius Star, and burnt the $100 million of crude oil she is carrying. Now imagine that they managed to hijack 500 supertankers of the same size, and burnt them all. Hard to believe, but this is the damage that is inflicted every year by the world's fishing fleets.

Waste Management

Climber plumps for portable toilets for Everest
Reuters | 18 Nov 2008
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularize a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.

Waste Management

Climber Plumps For Portable Toilets For Everest
Planet Ark | 17 Nov 2008
KATHMANDU - A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularise a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.

Waste Management

Climber plumps for portable toilets for Everest
Yahoo! News | 16 Nov 2008
A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularize a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.

Waste Management

Protesters disrupt European biofuels summit
Guardian Unlimited | 16 Oct 2008
Europe's largest conference on biofuels brought to a halt after environmental activists invade venue

Waste Management

South Africa invests in clean technology
SCIDEV.NET | 16 Oct 2008
[OUDTSHOORN] South Africa launched its first clean technology fund last month (30 September) in Johannesburg with around 400 million South African rand (US$39.3 million) ready for its first investments.

Waste Management

Dublin waste firms will have to bid for contracts
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 15 Oct 2008
Private waste management firms could be forced to bid for contracts to collect waste instead of having the freedom to "cherry pick" routes.

Waste Management

Badge idea to combat fly-tippers
BBC | 15 Oct 2008
Decent rubbish collecting firms need badges so people can distinguish them from fly-tippers, MPs are told.

Waste Management

Could landfills resurrect Britain's mining industry?
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 10 Oct 2008
Imagine an air-tight dome with teams of robots working alongside people in space suits as they sift through the corrosive waste of past generations, looking for scraps of plastic and nuggets of precious metals.

Recycling | Waste Management | Climate Change

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