MIKE BROWN explains why closing down landfill sites isn’t always the best course environmentally
… Landfill is rubbish - but is some capacity … needed? Mike Brown | 15th August 2018 Comment Landfill Waste And Recycling Rubbish … MIKE BROWN explains why closing down landfill sites isn’t always the best course …
One of the biggest landfill sites in the US is in the process of becoming a nature reserve and a recreation ground. Is this just papering over the cracks, or can our rubbish heaps really turn into something beautiful?
… Can a landfill site ever return to nature? Nick … | 6th July 2010 News Waste And Recycling Landfill Rubbish Freshkills Natural World … freshkillsgasgauge.jpg One of the biggest landfill sites in the US is in the process of …
Nearly a year ago at the height of the UK floods, tragedy struck an ordinary family in Surrey as toxic gas from a nearby landfill site killed a 7-year old boy, Zane. Now the authorities appear determined to exculpate the source of the poison - an old landfill site - even as they prepare for a massive increase in hazardous waste from fracking.
… Toxic landfills, fracking and the lethal threat of … Health Fracking Corporations Politics UK landfill-cut.jpg Nearly a year ago at the … family in Surrey as toxic gas from a nearby landfill site killed a 7-year old boy, Zane. …
Calls to bring forward ban on recyclable material sent to landfill increase, as reports emerge of big increases in the quantity of textile waste being dumped
… 'Primark effect' still clogging up UK landfills The Ecologist | 19th January 2010 News Waste Food And Farming Recycling Landfill Renewable Waste And Recycling … A million tonnes of textile waste is sent to landfill every year Calls to bring forward ban …
Andrew Del Prado argues that society's attitude to recycling electronic gadgets is lagging far behind our desire to create the technology in the first place, and tells the Ecologist how his organisation is trying to combat this trend.....
… electronic waste in the US was thrown away in landfills or sent to incinerators. Only about … of keeping electronic gadgets out of landfills. Why do we try to keep electronic waste out of landfills? Why We Need to e-Recycle The most …
For regions with adequate space and little recycling infrastructure, disposing of bottles in landfill generates a lower carbon footprint than recycling or incineration...
… Landfill could be greener than recycling when … September 2010 Comment PET Plastics Recycling Landfill Carbon Dioxide Incineration Eric … infrastructure, disposing of bottles in landfill generates a lower carbon footprint …
Golf club shaped urinal anyone? Digital fridge magnet? Nominate your contenders for Britain's most useless consumer product before 22nd February...
… The Landfill Prize Top Ten John Naish | 16th … February 2010 Activism Waste And Recycling Landfill Consumerism Enoughism John Naish Landfill Prize landfill-image.jpg Golf club …
Badly thought out waste policy could land the UK with a £0.5 billion fine
… UK likely to miss landfill targets The Ecologist | 28th September 2009 News Waste Landfill Pollution Waste And Recycling landfill.jpg Badly thought out waste policy …
Landfill sites, giant hog farms, incinerators and other 'bad neighbor' industries in the US tend to be situated in African American communities, writes Heather Kathryn Ross. The Environmental Protection Agency is legally obliged to prevent 'environmental racism', but from California to Michigan, low-income communities of color have been waiting years for it to take a stand. Now, backed by Earthjustice, they are forcing the issue - in the courts.
… Society stones-throw_jeronimo-nisa-cut.jpg Landfill sites, giant hog farms, incinerators … decision to open and later expand a massive landfill in the heart of their historically … pollution from decaying waste. Smith says the landfill has gobbled up acreage from black …
Biodegradeable Waste (BDW), ‘plants and animals’, comprises an amazing 59 per cent of your household waste. Do you simply throw yours in the bin? If so you...
… charge increases.… AND IF YOUR BDW ENDS UP IN LANDFILL …it will be costing between £8 -17 per tonne to be landfilled, added to which there is now a landfill tax of £18 per tonne, which is set to …
As Cameron 'cuts the green crap' Paul Mobbs remembers how the decisions of a Conservative government 20 years ago to go easy on the owners of contaminated land and old waste dumps have led to present day blight, ill-health and death. Now brow-beaten regulators and politicians in hock to party funders are doing it all over again.
… Death by landfill - cutting 'green tape' … to the chemical plants of Teeside, to the landfills of South Wales. The point at which I … for the area, denied that the site had been landfilled. If you go to the Environment …
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has been found guilty by a court in Scotland of dumping radioactive nuclear waste into a conventional landfill site and allowing radioactive particles to leak from its Dounreay reprocessing plant.
… Nuclear waste dumped in landfill 7th February 2007 News Nuclear Waste Landfill UKAEA Dounreay Scotland Nuclear Waste Landfills Industrial Energy Pollution News web …
Belém in Brazil will host the COP30 international climate summit. But the city is struggling to deal with basic environmental and health issues.
… challenges surrounding the Marituba and Aurá landfills, which serve as disposal sites for … us ingrained in this cycle of degradation.” Landfill The Marituba landfill was created in 2015 and now receives …
The apparent conspiracy by the UK government and its agencies to conceal the real cause of death of 7-year old Zane Gbangbola may go right up to Prime Minister David Cameron, writes Paul Mobbs. He was chair of the COBRA emergency committee at the time when it appears to have held back the truth that he was killed by cyanide from the toxic landfill site his home was built over.
… Zane: did Cameron order cover-up on landfill cyanide death of 7-year old? Paul … Pollution Cities Politics Law UK selly-oak-landfill-cut.jpg The apparent conspiracy by … that he was killed by cyanide from the toxic landfill site his home was built over. Almost …
Why do we dispose of organic waste in landfill sites? Shouldn’t we – individuals, councils and businesses – all be using worms to compost it? By Janis Crawford.
… Ethical Living Composting Worms Gardening LandfillLandfills Community Recycling Green Living … Why do we dispose of organic waste in landfill sites? Shouldn’t we – individuals, …
Inspiring businesses to reuse food that would have otherwise be sent to landfill, the pioneering group FareShare collects and distributes it to homeless shelters: feeding the needy, saving CO2 and diverting waste from landfill
… & Gardening Fareshare Food Waste Homeless Landfill Climate Change … food that would have otherwise be sent to landfill, the pioneering group FareShare … needy, saving CO2 and diverting waste from landfill What has been your most successful …
A report from Friends of the Earth reveals the huge extent of the pollution and financial losses caused by our love of landfill and incineration
… 2009 News Waste And Recycling Incineration Landfill Resources truckbin.jpg A report from … and financial losses caused by our love of landfill and incineration By sending resources that could be recycled to landfill or incinerators, the UK is wasting …
Powerful storms and rising sea levels mean once-hidden waste could be exposed to pollute oceans and beaches.
… bomb' Rod Minchin | 17th February 2020 News Landfill Plastics Pollution 23069463-1.jpg … oceans and beaches. More than 1,200 coastal landfill sites are in danger of spilling their … will fail and you'll potentially have former landfill either eroding out onto the foreshore …
The blockade of a Russian landfill site inspired a nationwide movement against plans to export garbage to poorer and less populated areas in the Russian hinterlands.
… & Systems Shies The blockade of a Russian landfill site inspired a nationwide movement … areas in the Russian hinterlands. The landfill site in Russia’s Northwestern … interests behind the construction of the landfills had much to gain. The days that our …
UK Government decides to scrap plans for a tax on bins, saying it would have 'fuelled fly-tipping', and says reward schemes will be more effective
… | 8th June 2010 News Waste And Recycling Landfill seasonal-recycling.jpg Reward schemes … and reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill. Welsh officials also confirmed that … collection of household waste being sent to landfill. Reward scheme A loyalty card style …
Government urged to improve recycling facilities after review of waste options finds it has the smallest environmental footprint
… the impact on the environment of recycling, landfilling and incineration. It also … materials, and concluded: Paper and Cardboard Landfill least preferable. Recycling … office paper. Plastics Recycling best option. Landfill worst option. Energy recovery forms …
Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption…
… 2008 News Consumption Waste Sustainability Landfill Consumerism Landfills Recycling Green Living Politics And … Pollution Science And Technology Society Landfill-Main-NS.jpg Our economy demands that …
When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill buried 300 acres of waterfront property in a white, middle class suburb, the waste was treated as a toxic hazard. But by the time it reached Uniontown, a black community in Alabama, that was all forgotten. Now they are fighting back.
… to move it 350 miles south to the Arrowhead landfill in Uniontown, Alabama - where 88.2% … of the population is African American. The landfill was originally approved as a small local landfill for domestic and construction waste. …