Growing crops to solve the planet’s energy needs doesn’t work. Recycling the energy in our waste just might have a significant part to play. By Jeremy Smith & Jon Hughes
… Less waste, more speed Jeremy Smith Jon Hughes | … doesn’t work. Recycling the energy in our waste just might have a significant part to … for space with food crops, they are using the waste products of their society – anything …
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 …
Each year, UK livestock produce some 60 million tonnes of collectable faeces. If left to run into water-courses or even spread on fields, this waste can lead to the same problems associated with excessive fertiliser use – algal blooms and aquatic life starved of oxygen.
… Power On - Energy from Waste Jon Hughes Mark Anslow | 1st November 2007 News Waste Energy Carbon Dioxide Biodigesters … water-courses or even spread on fields, this waste can lead to the same problems associated …
The Environment Agency (EA) is within weeks of letting Monsanto escape its liability for dumping thousands of tonnes of cancer-causing chemicals – including all the ingredients of the DDT defoliant Agent Orange – in two quarries in Wales.
… nearby Newport, where significant amounts of waste were being hauled daily to a nearby … for dumping thousands of tonnes of chemical wastes into the River Severn and public … and sewerage system, was now dumping its wastes in Brofiscin Quarry, and Maendy Quarry, …
Following last month's Ecologist story, Burying the truth, the Douglas Gowan story continues.
… cause back to the dumping of uncontained PCB wastes by the Monsanto chemical plant in … Gowan’s assiduous work led Monsanto and its waste contractors Purle to accept the … it is clear that the dumping of Monsanto PCB wastes also took place in at least 10 landfill …
Following last month's exclusive Ecologist investigation, Burying the truth, the Douglas Gowan story continues...
… cause back to the dumping of uncontained PCB wastes by the Monsanto chemical plant in … Gowan’s assiduous work led Monsanto and its waste contractors Purle to accept the … it is clear that the dumping of Monsanto PCB wastes also took place in at least 10 landfill …
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed...
… Farming Health Politics And Economics Waste And Recycling Investigates_21.jpg What … dumping thousands of tonnes of highly toxic wastes when they knew that this material posed … a landfill site primarily taking chemical wastes from the nearby Monsanto chemical plant …
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed...
… Farming Health Politics And Economics Waste And Recycling may cover 2007 … dumping thousands of tonnes of highly toxic wastes when they knew that this material posed … a landfill site primarily taking chemical wastes from the nearby Monsanto chemical plant …
Even among green campaigners, nuclear energy is quietly gaining ground as a potential solution to the impending energy crisis. However several issues – particularly those of raw materials, cost and waste – remain unaddressed within the mainstream of opinion.
… particularly those of raw materials, cost and waste – remain unaddressed within the … taxpayer’s money to deal with legacy nuclear waste, and has financially guaranteed the … assistance will be available to deal with waste that will last for hundreds of thousands …
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 …
A ruling in the US courts at a meeting which the Environment Agency claims never took place has dashed all hopes of making Monsanto pay up for polluting Brofiscin quarry in Wales. Is the Agency guilty of obstructing the course of justice? Jon Hughes investigates
… dumped thousands of tonnes of chemical wastes. Rather than confront the truth, the … the course of justice. Gowan saw Monsanto’s waste contractors dumping at Brofiscin over … its contents – 80,000 tonnes of chemical wastes mainly from Monsanto’s nearby Newport …
A ruling in the US courts at a meeting which the Environment Agency claims never took place has dashed all hopes of making Monsanto pay up for polluting Brofiscin quarry in Wales. Is the Agency guilty of obstructing the course of justice? Jon Hughes investigates
… dumped thousands of tonnes of chemical wastes. Rather than confront the truth, the … Between 1967-74, Gowan saw Monsanto’s waste contractors dumping at Brofiscin over … its contents – 80,000 tonnes of chemical wastes mainly from Monsanto’s nearby Newport …
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 …
The answer to the ongoing Brofiscin saga lies not in the South Wales Quarry but in Doncaster. Jon Hughes explains the complex legal judgement that has paralysed the Environment Agency and undermined its raison d’etre; to make the polluter pay
… gather such evidence by fingerprinting the wastes and identifying who manufactured them … legacy issues caused by Monsanto’s past waste disposal practices. Gowan alerted the … although it was known they had dumped the wastes from PCB manufacture, including …
The answer to the ongoing Brofiscin saga lies not in the South Wales Quarry but in Doncaster. Jon Hughes explains the complex legal judgement that has paralysed the Environment Agency and undermined its raison d’etre; to make the polluter pay
… gather such evidence by fingerprinting the wastes and identifying who manufactured them … legacy issues caused by Monsanto’s past waste disposal practices. Gowan alerted the … although it was known they had dumped the wastes from PCB manufacture, including …
Mining group Rio Tinto has pulled back from sensitive environmental zone in Madagascar and admits there was no tailings dam.
… for how QMM is containing potentially toxic waste-water from its mining basin from seeping … of this structure - to stop the flow of waste from the mining basins into the estuary, … the mining basin and its potentially toxic waste from the local estuary. No dam, no …
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 …
Just over one week ago, the Ecologist posted a story on its website detailing the Environment Agency's failure to sue Monsanto for dumping tonnes of highly toxic chemicals in a Welsh landfill site.
… Fresh Water Health Politics And Economics Waste And Recycling News web pic 2_113.jpg …
Rio Tinto's QMM ilmenite mine in Madagascar has breached a legal buffer zone, exposing local people to “unacceptably high” environmental risks, a new study by the Andrew Lees Trust has found. YVONNE ORENGO and STEVEN EMERMAN report
Rural people living on the frontline of Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in southern Madagascar are seeing their rights ignored, their lives and livelihoods devastated.
… Pollution The company’s assertions that QMM’s waste water management is successfully … water to affected communities, manage waste waters, improve transparency and …
This day 20 years ago one of Britain's most committed and effective environmental campaigners died trying to save a coastal forest in southern Madagascar from mining, writes Yvonne Orengo. The world has been a poorer place without Andrew Lees - and his fears for the Petriky forest and local indigenous communities have been proved all too close to the mark.
… many high profile campaigns, including toxic waste dumping in Africa, and famously took the …
Is it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys...
… it enhances colour and texture and reduces waste by killing bacteria, mainly botulism. … (see Ecologist , July/August 2006). Waste from ‘food on the go’ such as sandwiches …
Prominent critics of the failure of Environment Agency Wales (EAW) to pursue the UK’s interests against Monsanto in the US Bankruptcy Court have come under extraordinary attack over the past 10 days.
… disused quarries and brickworks to dump toxic wastes, while knowing them to be lethal to …