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 …
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 …
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 …
More robust enforcement of laws designed to tackle the growing problem of e-waste is urgently needed, says Anja ffrench of Computer Aid, along with improved management of electrical waste by governments
… bans in place should enforce them Ban the landfill and other dumping of e-waste. …
Design is everywhere, deciding how things look, how they work and how systems run. But effective ecodesign is difficult when decisions are made in isolation, says Steve Evans
… and energy costs. The end-of-life equivalent: landfill tax, is beginning to bite. But even …