5000 years ago the English Channel didn't exist - so where are we going to bury our nuclear waste that will be safe for up to one million years...or more?
… Nuclear Power Dossier: Nuclear Waste The Ecologist | 1st June 2006 News Nuclear Nuclear Waste Yucca Mountain Disposal Nuclear Waste Energy Pollution Investigates_44.jpg …
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...
… 2006 Ethical Living Compost Composting Waste BDW Worms Vermicompost Vermicomposting … Green Lifestyle Composting Green Living Waste And Recycling Green_Living_MAIN_1.jpg Biodegradeable Waste (BDW), ‘plants and animals’, comprises …
Historic win as South Australian Aboriginal traditional owners defeat nuclear dump plan.
… Dr Jim Green | 26th July 2023 | News Nuclear Waste Indigenous Peoples Australia Aboriginal … governments to impose a national nuclear waste dump on the land of Barngarla Aboriginal … Voice later this year. READ: Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's …
If you don't want an incinerator near you, you are either going to have to move to a rich neighbourhood or bin your bin...
… your bin Jon Hughes | 1st July 2006 News Bin Waste Incinerator Incineration Incineration … a billion pound contract with Onyx to manage waste disposal in the county for the next 25 … a year, which accounts for half of all the waste currently produced in East Sussex by a …
Npower, owner of the UK's third largest coal-fired power station, says it will have to black out two million customers if it can't fill this lake with poisonous ash. Paul Kingsnorth investigates
… too, was a wildlife-rich lake. Now it is a waste pit, fi lled with hundreds of thousands … the tree line, killed the lake by piping its waste coal ash straight into it. Nine other … of Thrupp Lake and 500,000 of tons of waste ash, in fact, are Jo, Basil, Marjorie …
Decommissioning has a ring of finality to it. But don't be fooled. A nuclear reactor will be standing for another 150 years before it is finally razed to the ground
… Nuclear Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants Waste Energy Decommissioning has a ring of … As with permanently disposing of radioactive waste, the UK nuclear industry has never fully … contains highly radioactive high-level waste that is less easily managed than spent …
We must urgently move from Petropolis and dependence on fossil fuels to Ecopolis supported by regenerative economies.
… and spill out solid, liquid and gaseous wastes somewhere in Nature. These are the … for recycling and remanufacturing urban wastes, and for the growth of new, green … discharge of gaseous, liquid and solid wastes? Can we create resource-efficient urban …
Worm composting is fun and easy. George Pilkington offers some advice and encouragement for those wishing to take it up.
… your BDW uses no energy * Means fewer waste collection journeys = lower CO 2 … = fewer dioxins; less energy used to burn waste = less C0 2 emissions * Less land … As up to 59 per cent of your household waste or BDW passes through your worms’ guts, …
Remote, unregulated and...running out. Why the business of fuelling nuclear power can't give us energy sovereignty
… cent of the uranium, the rest remains in the waste rock, which is known as tailings. … method because it is cheaper. But it is also wasteful, yielding only about a quarter of the … local environment and aquifers. Dumping the waste The uranium mill tailings are normally …
British Government urged to support circular economy as world hits Earth Overshoot Day.
… which are cutting carbon and reducing waste, finding that a lack of understanding … 2022 and diverting a million kilograms of e-waste from landfill, the market is limited by … of view in that you’re fundamentally turning waste into profit.” Convenience Meanwhile, the …
Think nuclear power and you probably thing of small amounts of highly radioactive material, safely encased in vast concrete bunkers, generating an endless and constant supply of clean electricity. Yes it's expensive and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate change then why not?
… Climate Change Uranium Nuclear Power Plants Waste Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate … and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate … emissions and controlled releases Nuclear waste Decommissioning A nuclear future? This …
For the Canadian Aanishnaabek tribe, who live on a reserve surrounded by chemical plants, there seems no escape. Do they leave, and abandon their past, or stay, and perhaps lose their future? Zoe Cormier investigates
… Indigenous Peoples Tribes Canada Toxic Waste Risk Industrial Indigenous Peoples … says Nadarajah. And, three: when toxic waste is dumped on their land it is – believe … reservation where you can move hazardous waste just by crossing a road. Anywhere else, …
The Iraq war, the single farm payment, and finally a very expensive Nuclear new build. Can it get any worse asks Rachel Francis?
… creating environmentally friendly energy from waste. Alongside the development of a clean, … as possible sites for the dumping of nuclear waste. There are seven potential sites in … Willsworthy ranges. I hope that the nuclear waste dumps will not be in my backyard, here …
'Jet zero' is basically just pie in the sky - according to a powerful new report published today by the Royal Society.
… from fossil fuels, with CO2 released as a waste gas—around 830 million tonnes each year. … agricultural crops such as palm oil or from waste products such as used cooking oil. The … and sapling thinnings, municipal and business waste, and industrial offgases. Forestry …
Possible pitfalls of the EU carbon market for road transport and buildings and how to avoid them.
… baled clothes, treated wood and other waste in households has already been … contributor to climate change, as household waste burning emits up to 40 per cent more … about the harmful effects of burning wood and waste. There also most be relatively cheap …
Making fossil fuel firms pay to clean up carbon could help curb climate change.
… which holds producers responsible for the waste generated by the products they sell, … pay for the treatment and disposal of waste water. Recaptured Applying the approach …
Think nuclear power and you probably think of small amounts of highly radioactive material, safely encased in vast concrete bunkers, generating an endless supply of clean electricity. Yes it's expensive and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate change then why not?
… and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate … the then government agency on radioactive waste management, warned that all the UK’s …
The rise of free newspapers means that hundreds of thousands of trees are pulped each week to provide us with disposable pap
… out from other rubbish, such as cans and food waste, etc. These freesheets are designed and … being planned, because burying our burgeoning waste in landfill is no longer an option – the … on the streets of London, and a corresponding waste disposal problem, is a mystery. It won’t …
How pre-industrial societies and cultures mesh together with their host environments.
… ecosystem, with minerals and organic wastes continuously recycled into humus by … crop varieties. Human, animal and crop wastes were systematically recycled to … cannot be eaten or worn is used for fuel. The wastes of the body, of fuel and of fabric worn …
Thinking of brightening up your house for spring? Think again, there’s a lot more to paint than meets the eye. Pat Thomas reports
… every ton of paint produced, the resulting waste can be anything up to 30 tons. Once in the soil or air, this waste can be persistent and toxic. Household …
Matilda Lee, Green Pages editor, was forced to practice what she preaches when faced with her newborn baby and a pile of cloth nappies
… to use cloth nappies – minimise landfill waste, reduce toxic exposure on the newborn, … I’m preventing, literally, one tonne of nappy waste going to landfill, it seems a very small …
Few corporations understand the real mechanics, and implications, of the UN backed SBTi’s framework.
… their business models. More importantly, we waste the most precious resource we have in … because on top of the precious years it wastes, it will also squander the small sliver …