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 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 …
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. …
Attempts to recycle E-waste and donations of old electronic devices are harming poor people's health and devastating the environment, writes Nele Goutier. Agbogbloshie, once an idyllic landscape of wetlands and small farms, is now the most toxic place in the world ...
… for 50,000 people, it is also biggest E-waste landfills in the world, where many old … estimated 35,000 Ghanaians who depend on the landfill in Agbogbloshie for their survival. … a doctor to realize that working in E-waste landfills is unhealthy. Workers suffer from …
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Personal care products contribute some of the largest amounts of waste that end up in landfills.
… the largest amounts of waste that end up in landfills. You’re already familiar with the … as one-third of the refuse that ends up in landfills. Once it’s there, some of that … as one-third of the refuse that ends up in landfills. Once it’s there, some of that …
Convenient, flimsy, costly, cynical, manipulative, wasteful, deadly...we'll never forget the plastic bag
… before the first of these has degraded in its landfill site. Since then, several trillion … at all because of the lack of oxygen in most landfill sites. The UK plastics industry parrots that only one per cent of landfill is due to plastic bags, but this …
Consumers are exasperated with manufacturers that do not make any effort to reduce their packaging.
… are sent for recycling actually end up in a landfill or shipped abroad. Following on from … people worry that a lot of it is heading to landfills or being shipped abroad. "Consumers …
Madeleine Cuff challenged herself to spend a week reducing her food and packaging waste. Did it work, and will other consumers and supermarkets take note?
… a black bin bag every month and sending it to landfill. Makes you think before casually … tonnes of good food in the UK ends up in landfill every year because it has 'gone off.' …
On current trends the world will contain 33 billion tonnes of plastic by 20150, writes Mae Wan Ho, and much of it will litter the oceans, concentrating toxins and damaging marine life throughout the food chain. The alternative is to classify the most toxic plastics as 'hazardous waste', and for all plastics to be reused and recycled in 'closed loop' systems.
… plastic. Less than half has been consigned to landfill or recycled, and much of the … reused and recycled, instead of ending up in landfills where chemicals leach from the …
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 …
Twice as expensive as petrol, three times the price of milk, and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. Is it worth it, and what impact is it having on our environment?
… Supplies Water Sources Plastics Consumerism Landfills Recycling Bottled Water Companies …
What would you do if an American company planned to site a huge incinerator - bigger than the Millennium Stadium - above your town? How would you feel if you knew that no existing technology could prevent that incinerator pumping out toxic chemicals?
… resolved by moving away from incineration and landfill and aiming for a zero waste policy, …
Plastic pollution in the oceans is impacting every level of marine life, writes Kate Rawles, from micro-plankton to whales. And here is your chance to do something about it - join a research expedition to the Azores next month to study the problem and develop solutions!
… marine transportation. Plastic is blown from landfills to the sea, or washed there via …
Orcas from Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia are under threat,in large part due to toxic organic compounds in the marine food chain, writes Sierra Rayne. To give them a fighting chance, the nearby community of Victoria, British Columbia must install advanced sewage treatment - rather than just dump its wastewater largely untreated into the orcas' ocean home.
… of in a responsible manner (e.g., engineered landfill, incineration), a negligible quantity …
They're becoming more and more common - wrapped around everything from milk to chickpeas. But just how environmentally friendly are composite cartons compared to the good, old-fashioned tin or jar?
… and recycles tonnes of wood destined for landfills, doing much the same for those it …