Badly thought out waste policy could land the UK with a £0.5 billion fine
… UK likely to miss landfill targets The Ecologist | 28th September 2009 News Waste Landfill Pollution Waste And Recycling landfill.jpg Badly thought out waste policy …
Landfill sites, giant hog farms, incinerators and other 'bad neighbor' industries in the US tend to be situated in African American communities, writes Heather Kathryn Ross. The Environmental Protection Agency is legally obliged to prevent 'environmental racism', but from California to Michigan, low-income communities of color have been waiting years for it to take a stand. Now, backed by Earthjustice, they are forcing the issue - in the courts.
… Society stones-throw_jeronimo-nisa-cut.jpg Landfill sites, giant hog farms, incinerators … decision to open and later expand a massive landfill in the heart of their historically … pollution from decaying waste. Smith says the landfill has gobbled up acreage from black …
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has been found guilty by a court in Scotland of dumping radioactive nuclear waste into a conventional landfill site and allowing radioactive particles to leak from its Dounreay reprocessing plant.
… Nuclear waste dumped in landfill 7th February 2007 News Nuclear Waste Landfill UKAEA Dounreay Scotland Nuclear Waste Landfills Industrial Energy Pollution News web …
Belém in Brazil will host the COP30 international climate summit. But the city is struggling to deal with basic environmental and health issues.
… challenges surrounding the Marituba and Aurá landfills, which serve as disposal sites for … us ingrained in this cycle of degradation.” Landfill The Marituba landfill was created in 2015 and now receives …
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 …
Powerful storms and rising sea levels mean once-hidden waste could be exposed to pollute oceans and beaches.
… bomb' Rod Minchin | 17th February 2020 News Landfill Plastics Pollution 23069463-1.jpg … oceans and beaches. More than 1,200 coastal landfill sites are in danger of spilling their … will fail and you'll potentially have former landfill either eroding out onto the foreshore …
Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption…
… 2008 News Consumption Waste Sustainability Landfill Consumerism Landfills Recycling Green Living Politics And … Pollution Science And Technology Society Landfill-Main-NS.jpg Our economy demands that …
Plastic rubbish gets tossed away in far-off places that we rarely get to see. Daisy Dumas assesses its impact on the world's largest floating landfill.
… Landfill-on-sea Daisy Dumas | 7th February … its impact on the world's largest floating landfill. A challenge. Try, if you can, to … by the GPGP, Midway could be mistaken for a landfill site. Its beaches are littered with …
The shocking death of Zane Gbangbola, killed by toxic gas from a 'forgotten' landfill under his home, exposes the UK's dangerous legacy of contaminated land, writes Paul Mobbs. Without action, these polluted sites will damage health and even kill for centuries to come. But governments, local authorities, landowners and developers are united in a shameful policy of silence and denial.
… killed by toxic gas from a 'forgotten' landfill under his home, exposes the UK's … hopefully from that some recommendations on landfill. We will fight to get Zane a … a large area of gravel workings and 'wet tip' landfill. As the gravel was extracted, waste …
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 …
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 …
Imagine you could turn 30 per cent of your household waste, at no cost, into high-quality compost for your plants, while also reducing toxic emissions from incinerator plants...
… Waste Composter Green Lifestyle Composting Landfills Green Living Energy Food And Farming … 1. It reduces the amount of rubbish sent to landfill sites and incinerators. A third of … per year of compostible rubbish not going to landfill or incineration sites. 2. You can …
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.
… Thomas | 22nd March 2007 News Monsanto Health Landfill DDT Agent Orange Agribusiness Farming … Campaigns Monsanto Risk Industrial Pesticides Landfills Agribusiness Cancer Health Politics … were being hauled daily to a nearby limestone landfill site operated by Purle Brothers. 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 Resurgence & Ecologist magazine has ditched the plastic wrap after a year of searching for the most sustainable solution.
… make it environmentally sound - sitting in landfill for all that time, or floating across … if it’s hidden from sunlight in a mountain of landfill. Although many of you have led the … have around 12 million tonnes of plastic in landfills, and the recent reports of record …
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 …
Agency calls on courts to hand out stronger penalties for waste and pollution criminals
… and financial losses caused by our love of landfill and incineration COMMENT The more we … want to keep so quiet? NEWS UK likely to miss landfill targets Badly thought out waste …
Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports.
… Incineration Industrial Plastics Community Landfills International Development Education … per day. In a city that has only ever landfilled its rubbish, Chiwy is among a group …
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.
… Monsanto Risk UK Industrial Pesticides Landfills Fresh Water Health Politics And … tonnes of highly toxic chemicals in a Welsh landfill site. …
A new system for cleaning soils contaminated with industrial toxins harnesses the power of White rot - a common fungus that decays fallen wood in forests. Research in Finland shows it can also destroy dioxins and poly-aromatic hydrocarbons.
… result, these soils are often transported to landfill sites - Finland alone dumps over a million tonnes of contaminated soil to landfill every year. An alternative is to …
Eco-friendly soap brand has launched shop designed to combat fast fashion.
… the 300,000 pieces of clothing retiring to UK landfill per year. New research was carried … least to the massive amount of clothes in UK landfill, with a modest 12 percent throwing …
Following last month's Ecologist story, Burying the truth, the Douglas Gowan story continues.
… PCB wastes also took place in at least 10 landfill sites across Wales and England. … was internally advising its management that landfill was an unacceptable way of disposing … or mainland Europe. Secondly, it confuses the landfill sites Gowan was investigating, making …
Following last month's exclusive Ecologist investigation, Burying the truth, the Douglas Gowan story continues...
… PCB wastes also took place in at least 10 landfill sites across Wales and England. … was internally advising its management that landfill was an unacceptable way of disposing … or mainland Europe. Secondly, it confuses the landfill sites Gowan was investigating, making …