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 …
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 …
In an open letter to the Ecologist, Douglas Gowan has detailed a two-year smear campaign waged against him in the Seventies by Monsanto, details of which were known to the Agency and were only revealed when Gowan submitted a Freedom of Information request. Who was it protecting?
… at Brofiscin. There are also some 14 other UK landfill or manufacturing sites that were … Monsanto or their primary waste hauler and landfill operator, Purle Brothers. By 1973 … between the original dumping and the current landfill discharges to a receptor, and thus …
We must create an economic ethos that places mutual collaboration above profit.
… for the future of the living planet. Landfill The ‘degrowth’ alternative, which … resources to compost heaps, rather than landfills or incinerators. The plan, which … in diverting 42 percent of municipal landfill waste to composting and recycling by …
Grace Lee has just spent a month in Seoul, South Korea working as an intern for the Resource Recirculation Management Division under the Climate Change and Environment Bureau of Seoul City Hall. Here’s what she has to say to her fellow US citizens about their domestic waste…
… natural resources and expansive land for landfills. However, we are not considering the fact that landfills have the possibility of leakage, … We are also refusing to face the fact that landfills are not infinite. The world is at …
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall has a done a great job exposing the scandal of Britain's billions of non-recyclable coffee cups, writes Rhodri Jenkins. But what about the coffee itself? The grounds can be used for everything from compost and biodiesel to boutique chemicals and supercapacitors - yet the vast majority of the world's 9m tonnes a year of waste coffee ends up in landfill.
… 9m tonnes a year of waste coffee ends up in landfill. Many of us depend on coffee to fuel … is created. The vast majority ends up in landfill. Researchers in South Korea, however, … grounds each year that would otherwise go to landfill. In a more specific enterprise, the …
There's a quick climate win for COP21 negotiators to ponder, writes Wilf Lytton - one that could convert a billion tonnes a year of CO2 into mineral form while neutralising caustic wastes like coal ash and slag. But first, industries and regulators must adopt a 'recycling' mentality to these hazardous materials, rather than the 'dump and forget' model that prevails today.
… untreated caustic materials are being sent to landfill around the world. The waste is … hazardous wastes once they have been landfilled. Companies that mineralise alkali … linear approach is a relentless march towards landfill and atmospheric pollution. Recycling …
The world produces over a billion tonnes a year of dangerously caustic wastes, write Helena Gomes, Mike Rogerson & Will Mayes. They are currently being dumped, although they could be used to sequester a gigatonne of CO2 from the atmosphere - while also yielding minerals essential for key renewable energy technologies.
… bleach-like waste is produced and piled in landfills every year, with often devastating … Often it's simply stored in piles or sent to landfill. This isn't safe. The waste can form … but none of them are practical enough to stop landfill disposal. Alkaline wastes have been …
Eighty percent of marine rubbish originates on land - via storm drains, overflowing landfills, and uncontrolled dumping in rivers. And once it's in the sea, no one is responsible for it, writes Alistair McIlgorm. It's high time for governments to clean up their act.
… on land - via storm drains, overflowing landfills, and uncontrolled dumping in rivers. … than half of the city's rubbish may reach landfill and the balance heads seaward via 13 … Sea back to town, and was faced US$10,000 for landfill disposal. Good ports are increasingly …
Battery technology is essential to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. But they must be more sustainable and easily disposable.
… and the pollution resulting from their use. Landfills One obstacle here is the low number … amount of technology, in any form, goes to landfills. That buildup can damage ecosystems …
Official recycling rates in Russia stand at close to zero, writes Minna Halme. But my study of the potential to develop the sector uncovered widespread informal recycling networks, lurking in basements, stigmatised for supposed links to organised crime, barely tolerated by the authorities. And any ideas of legitimising the shadowy recycling operations are met with frosty official silence.
… than 80% of Russian domestic waste ends up in landfill , and most of the rest is … chocolate he took us to visit his company's landfill site. The company focused primarily on landfill, he told us, because to get involved …
A new interactive guide reveals the most toxic cities in the UK - with Leeds topping the chart.
… guide from Good Move, looks at the number of landfill sites, active power stations, CO2 … plants and only one electrical substation and landfill site. The city also boasts a low rate …
Renewable energy, without doubt, is both driving and shaping the clean global economy of the future, writes Jeremy Leggett. But don't forget its equally essential partner: closing the consumption loop to create a truly circular economy in which there is no longer any such thing as 'waste', only resources we are not yet smart enough to use.
… useful lives either incinerated or sent to landfill. Increasingly materials and pollution … economy, taking on a target of zero waste to landfill or incineration by 2020. Within a decade of that it had reduced waste to landfill by 50%, becoming Greenest American …
Interface's sustainability model shows how large industrial companies can slash their carbon emissions and other environmental impacts without compromising profitability, reports Sophie Morlin-Yron. The key is to aim high!
… processes and has attained zero waste to landfill in its European facilities in … 1996, and byt eh same measure, waste sent to landfill is down 91%. Commenting on …
Last week's 'War on Waste' - throwaway coffee cups were the deserving target - was an exemplar of effective single-issue campaigning by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. But the answers to our waste problems go way beyond recycling. We must begin to plan a societal transition to a post-consumer culture of caring, sharing, and knowing when we have enough.
… place'. This is a helpful way to think about landfill: a mass grave of potential resources, … season, unfit clothing that is thrown away to landfill each year. The elephant in the room …
Government departments are turning their back on hardwood salvage efforts in Puerto Rico.
… trees and grinding/chipping them to send to landfills. Incredibly, this even applied to … the municipalities and reduced pressures on landfills. Using a portable sawmill from the … trees are already being shredded and sent to landfills. Only a very small fraction of the …
Earlier this month, campaigner Shlomo Dowen won a landmark High Court case that forced Nottinghamshire council to reveal its financial arrangements with waste contractor Veolia Environmental Services. So what did Veolia want to keep so quiet?
… uncovered what appears to be £300,000 in ‘landfill tax’ (charged at £32 per tonne last … pay for the toxic ash to be sent to hazardous landfill sites. We all pay for the rising …
We need to abandon Petropolis to prevent climate breakdown - and start building the ecomegacities of the future.
… only to deposit huge amounts of waste into landfill, into our seas and - in the form of … dispose - is unsustainable. The capacity of landfills accepting London’s waste is expected …
Our thirst for the latest gadgets has created a vast empire of electronic waste, writes Ian Williams. The EU alone produces some 9 million tonnes of it a year, of which some 70% is still working when disposed of, and over a third is disposed of illegally. With increasingly affordable electronic devices available to ever more people, it's high time for effective global regulation.
… Electronic waste was at first just dumped in landfill sites. But the danger of the highly-toxic elements in e-waste escaping landfill sites - into the water table, for …
The rise of free newspapers means that hundreds of thousands of trees are pulped each week to provide us with disposable pap
… in your council tax, for it either to be landfilled or, worse, through the creation of … because burying our burgeoning waste in landfill is no longer an option – the methane …
Fast fashion - like fast food - has led to serious bloating. This time it's our wardrobes and our charity shops that are stuffed - with clothes bought cheaply and easily discarded. TOM CRIDLAND is the founder of a sustainable fashion brand and a member of The Tomicks band playing as part of the fast fashion protests. He calls for radical change in our fashion industry
… billions of tonnes of discarded garments in landfill. There might have been some level of … therefore, will not be recycled but end up in landfill. Are consumers any better off with …
Are SUVs a crime against civilisation, or paragons of efficiency? Are they ugly, arrogant and antisocial, or bright, beautiful and mobile? And do the polar passions they arouse pit the politics of envy against the Americanisation of British culture? Paul Kingsnorth and Michael Harvey discuss
… Transport Cars Petrol Road Oil Incineration Landfills Community Climate Change …
Argentinean academic and activist Raul Montenegro on why indigenous people hold the keys to survival, why GM technologies only profit big business and how nuclear power ignores the rights of future generations
… community in closing the second largest landfill of municipal waste in Argentina. KM: …