Shifting Waste

Volunteers pour into Fort McHenry wetlands to clean up Baltimore Sun (blog) More than 100 gloved volunteers, some in boots and others in waist-high waders, streamed along narrow paths and historic sea walls Saturday in a secluded nook of wetlands...

Residents in a Northamptonshire village pledge to fight plans to turn a fishing lake into a landfill site. (Northamptonshire fishing lake to become landfill site: Residents in a Northamptonshire village are meeting to ...

Packaging World Degradable additives hinder recycling, says plastic recyclers association Packaging World John Standish, APR's technical director, explains, “The real concern is the impact of a degradable additive once the plastic is recycled and...

Finnish recycler Lassila & Tikanoja plc and ZenRobotics Ltd. announced L&T is acquiring the ZenRobotics Recycler recycling system. The system safely sorts raw materials like metal, wood, and stone fractions from ...

P&G has achieved double whammy of zero waste status and increasing revenues with innovative technology and re-use (How #Procter&Gamble achieved zero waste to landfill in 45 factories http://t.co/hasXNBnu6z...

With landfill tax on the rise North London Waste Authority is urging people in Barnet to recycle more and save money.

ENDS Europe (subscription) Environment MEPs call for recycling levy to pay for the safe dismantling of ships European Parliament (press release) Environment MEPS have called for a recycling levy to pay for EU ships being taken apart at EU-approved...

Telegraph.co.uk
Nuclear waste a growing headache for SKorea
Washington Examiner
In this Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 photo, nuclear power plants, Shin Kori 3, right, and Shin Kori 4 are under construction in Ulsan, South Korea.

Watchdog groups oppose sending Hanford waste to New Mexico
TheNewsTribune.com
T Tank Farm on the Hanford nuclear reservation is where three of the six tanks believed to be leaking are located.

Lebanon Landfill Methane Project Called Off Valley News The project — which was being handled by Vermont-based Carbon Harvest Energy — would have turned methane gas produced by decomposition at the landfill into electricity, and sold that...

Washington: Energy from Waste: Modern Plants and Increased Revenues to ...

Landmark project producing biogas from garbage changes reputation of notorious Manila district.

RT @Lifewisenews: How to Send Less Trash to the Landfill – LifeWise: http://t.co/IB8FIx6HCf

A new chemical process can transform waste sulfur into a lightweight plastic that may improve batteries for electric cars, reports a University of Arizona-led team. The new plastic has other potential uses, including optical uses.

Landfill near St. Louis gets 40 new gas wells to help control odor problems Waste & Recycling News "We promised we would install the 40 additional wells by April 15thand we delivered on that promise in spite of the more than 12 inches of snow that...

The Guardian
London's cooking waste to fuel power station
The Guardian
Photograph: Antonio Olmos for the Guardian.

Debating the carbon tax - what we can learn from those who decided an environmental tax can actually help solve a problem? Such as the UK Landfill Tax.

Pilot project is first in UK to produce domestic gas from sewage (Human waste turned into renewable gas to power homes http://t.co/IZcOAkye63 via @guardian)...

PolicyMic
Laney Supermarket Massive Grocery Waste Exposes Global Problems Of Food ...
PolicyMic
This tragedy-of-the-commons has manifested itself under the radar.

Brazil attempts to cut down on food waste
Aljazeera.com
Send Feedback. The world produces around four billions tons of food each year, but incredibly almost half of it gets thrown away or goes rotten.

ABC30.com Toxic waste site near Kettleman City to pay $311000 in fines Los Angeles Times A toxic waste dump near the San Joaquin Valley farming community of Kettleman City has agreed to pay $311,000 in fines for failing to report 72 hazardous...

Green Alliance report highlights benefit of extending restrictions on cars and mobile phones to food, clothes, wood, and plastic (Landfill bans could save £2.5bn a year, says @GreenAllianceUK http://t.co/vZvERTrkCL...