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Winter Sale: 70% Off “Introduction to Waste Technologies” eBook – New 2012 Version

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:38:22 +0000

Yes! Until Friday of this week only, I am offering my recently updated “Introduction to Waste Technologies” eBook at this amazing low price! But hurry! This offer is ONLY available to visitors to my Anaerobic Digestion Blog, and to my loyal Anaerobic Digestion News subscribers receiving this in email form. Don’t leave this page without [...]

Waste Will Cease to Exist by 2020! That’s Official!

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:26:02 +0000

EU Roadmap Will Ensure That Waste is Managed as a Resource By 2020, and with residual waste close to zero in 2014

Visit a Landfill in 2012 – A New Year’s Resolution for All Wasters!

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:43:08 +0000

Waste Appreciation: Visit A Landfill in 2012 Hi! Happy New Year Wasters! How about this to add to your list of New Year’s Resolutions? I thought that I would pass on the contents of the email below which came from a subscriber. I think that there must be many people who, like him, have busy lives [...]

Waste Conversion Technology Meet Clients and Peers in San Jose – Book Before 11 November

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:25:41 +0000

Waste Conversion Technology: Here is some information I received about a great deal on a forthcoming US conference which might interest you.

UK Government Conservative Party Pledge to be “Greenest Government Ever” Rings Hollow

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:32:43 +0000

For all the fine words the UK Conservative party's pledges look hollow. Not only are they not doing well at moving things forward. We list 9 points where they are in reverse.

Looking Back on 6 Years of UK Hazardous Waste Disposal Since the Landfill Co-Disposal Ban

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:20:23 +0000

Hazardous Waste is defined by reference to the European Waste Catalogue (EWC). If a waste producer does not know whether hazardous chemicals or properties are present in the waste it produces, each separate component of the waste must be considered. Identification of waste is seldom simple, but it becomes even harder where it does not [...]

Looking Back at UK Landfill Practise and the Landfill Directive’s Ban on Co-disposal of Hazardous Waste with Industrial and Commercial Waste

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:11:30 +0000

Looking back at the effect the Directive’s ban on Co-Disposal has had on Hazardous Waste Disposal in the years since it was introduced in 2005.  The implementation of the Landfill Directive meant that landfill would never again be available in the UK as readily or as cheaply as it had always been. The UK government [...]

Are Students No More Than a Bunch of Irresponsible Wasters?

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:17:43 +0000

Every major city in Britain with a university student housing quarter experiences students who are irresponsible about disposing of their waste, but there is very little within the waste collection industry by the way of planning or systems in place to ensure that the problem is dealt with effectively at each end of college year.

Taxing Plastic Bags Doesn’t Work

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:21:59 +0000

Plastc bag tax failure: The volume of plastic carrier bags might go down when they are taxed, but consumption of alternatives rises. The result's that limited resources are exhausted faster and more material goes to dump.

Waste Technology Summit, October 2011, London – £100 Discount – Coupon Code

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:10:51 +0000

Local Authorities and Waste Management Companies from across the UK and Europe are shifting their focus towards Waste-to-energy and Anaerobic Digestion. In addition, they are now committing large sums of government funding to the emerging technologies such as Gasification, Pyrolysis and MSW to biofuels. Technology providers and local authority officers responsible for procuring these technologies should take care not to miss out on these opportunities.

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