Shifting Waste

EU legislation is fuelling a multibillion-dollar market.

READER SUBMITTED: CRRA To Transform Hartford Landfill From Eyesore To ...
Hartford Courant
The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority has awarded an $11.6 million contract for the final phase of capping the 96-acre landfill.

NPR When You Waste Food, You're Wasting Tons Of Water, Too NPR Tossing out food is clearly a waste of money — and maybe even immoral, according to Pope Francis, who on Wednesday likened food waste to "stealing from the table of those who are poor...

New technology poised to remove Hanford N-waste more efficiently The Seattle Times A new technology has been developed for removing radioactive waste from tanks at Hanford, but first workers must dig down to the tanks and drill a 55-inch hole...

Turning Waste to Wealth Will Save Environment
AllAfrica.com
While the Uganda Government tries to woo more investors in a bid to increase the country's revenue, there is a lot of waste in our backyard that is undermining the economy.

'We are a nation that grows things to waste' Good Food Aside from collecting food waste from restaurants and markets, Smith also struck up a deal with SecondBite to take what he calls “the waste waste food” – food that the food rescue organisation...

Finland to bury nuclear waste underground
Aljazeera.com
Finland has struggled with disposal of radioactive waste for decades, with temporary storage sites requiring constant monitoring.

FRANCE 24
British landfill transformed into nature reserve
FRANCE 24
AFP - A sprawling landfill site containing 50 years of rubbish from six London boroughs has been transformed into a 120-acre nature reserve for rare birds, bees and reptiles.

Treehugger (blog)
Former landfill transformed into a nature reserve in the UK
Treehugger (blog)
For longer than most people can remember, Mucking Marshes Landfill in England festered as an ugly reminder of just how messy we humans can be.

In 2009/2010 nearly 50% of the municipal waste generated was sent to landfill with roughly 40% recovered through recycling/composting. An innovative idea for recovering resource from waste has been...

11 mind blowing facts about the largest Landfill in the U.S., the Puente Hills Landfill.

Landfill manager to request higher fees, Canadian trash
Port Huron Times Herald
Tipping fees, the fee charged per ton of waste brought into the landfill, have been held at $22.55 per ton at Smiths Creek since 1999.

A Green Economy - Reconciling Man With His Environment
AllAfrica.com
The promotion of green growth and the construction of a green economy in Africa aim to assure the well-being of humans, in the face of climate change.

Economics of reduce, reuse and recycle
Aspen Times
Aspen was the place to be this past weekend for Eco Fest, a gathering of food, festivities, new products and ideas.

Hurriyet Daily News Waste materials become artworks Hurriyet Daily News Sculptors from around the world who have gathered in İzmir for the International Waste Material Mask Workshop are creating sculptures using waste materials such as children's...

Daily Mail
World's biggest tyre graveyard: Incredible images of Kuwaiti landfill site so ...

Green bin a waste of money for collectors Irish Times In the sometimes murky world of waste disposal there is one service that has always been held out as a success story – the provision of dry mixed recycling, more commonly known as the green bin...

Shale fracking proves $30 billion-a-year boon to waste disposal industry NOLA.com Panelists at a Waste Expo/Wunderlich Securities seminar on investment in the waste industry discuss the dramatic increase in business caused by oil and gas drilling...

Recycling is not architecture
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Recycling, it is true, will become a deeply ingrained practice in architecture and construction.

The smell and rodents are gone from the old Sackville landfill and the facility is now generating an income for HRM. (Halifax makes $60K a year selling old landfill methane: The smell and rodents are gone from the old Sackville...

A landfill site that was one of the biggest in Europe has been turned into a nature reserve with rare species now finding refuge on top of nearly 50 years of rubbish.

Hazmat officials and the San Diego Bomb Squad were called to the Miramar Landfill Saturday after a man dropped off dangerous chemicals.

George Monbiot: We have offshored the problem of escalating consumption, and our perceptions of it, by considering only territorial emissions (RT @GreensJamieP: Absolute must read!