July 2012 - Page 5 of 8 - Plastic Waste Solutions
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New group forms to encourage recovery of food-service packaging
Posted on July 20, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics News - New group forms to encourage recovery of food-service packaging. It is good to see manufacturers stepping up to address a problem that has become huge. The manufacturers themselves had had a...
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Advocacy group says US needs mandated producer responsibility program
Posted on July 19, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsPlastics News - Advocacy group says US needs mandated producer responsibility program. This is long overdue. Were it to be implemented, it would drastically reduce the plastic waste we generate and accumulate every year.
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Appeal over SITA’s Cornish Waste to Energy Plans Denied
Posted on July 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalAppeal over SITA's Cornish Waste to Energy Plans Denied - Waste Mangagement World. Cornwall produces around 300,000 tonnes of waste each year and is set to run out of landfill space by 2014, according to the council. According...
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78 MW Waste to Energy Incineration Plant Under Way in Finland – Waste Mangagement World
Posted on July 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and Disposal78 MW Waste to Energy Incineration Plant Under Way in Finland - Waste Mangagement World. The agency added that the plant's heat production will correspond to about half of Vantaa region's annual heat requirement. It was also claimed that once...
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WTE in China
Posted on July 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWTE in China - Waste Mangagement World. Of the estimated one billion tons (907 million tonnes) of global ‘post-recycling’ MSW, close to 200 million tons (181 million tonnes) are processed in Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plants that recover the energy content of...
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Waste to Energy – The Boom Continues Led by Europe and China
Posted on July 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalWaste to Energy - The Boom Continues Led by Europe and China - Waste Mangagement World. Across the world there are some 2150 thermal waste treatment plants are currently operational, and, according to ecoprog those facilities have the capacity to...
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TransForce Creates Partnership to Recoup Methane and Use to Produce Electricity on Hydro-Québec Grid
Posted on July 13, 2012 by DrRossH in Landfills and DisposalTransForce Creates Partnership to Recoup Methane and Use to Produce Electricity on Hydro-Québec Grid | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine. TransForce Inc. (TSX: TFI), a North American leader in the transportation and logistics industry, today announced that its Environmental...
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Media Advisory – EPR Canada (Extended Producer Responsibility)
Posted on July 13, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsMedia Advisory - EPR Canada (Extended Producer Responsibility) | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine. Are the federal, provincial and territorial governments any closer to their common goal of developing extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies and programs to make brandowners (producers)...
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Rising plastic menace choking sealife
Posted on July 12, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic & Wildlifehttp://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/09/3540635.htm#artBookmarks Is the value we get from a plastic straw or a plastic bag or similar worth this price? "It's very sad and disturbing to see so much plastic being ingested by these birds," says Avery-Gomm. "The birds usually have dozens of...
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B.C. birds eating plastic pollution
Posted on July 12, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeB.C. birds eating plastic pollution | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine. The study, published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin, notes that 93 per cent of the birds studied had bellyfuls of plastic pollution from the Pacific Ocean – everything from...
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