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.
… Recycle industrial wastes to cut 1Gt from world's carbon emissions Wilf Lytton Sandbag | 1st December 2015 Comment Climate … industries and regulators must adopt a 'recycling' mentality to these hazardous …
We cannot rely on governments in meeting in Paris to solve the many-headed climate problem, writes Vandana Shiva. It's up to us to safeguard the future of the Earth, and of our own and other species. So let's all join in this pact to love and protect our one and only home.
… A People's Pact to Protect the Planet Vandana Shiva | 2nd December 2015 Comment … and regenerative agriculture is based on recycling organic matter, and hence recycling … the land. In living economies there is no waste, and there are no wasted or disposable …
Public authorities implement new waste management models that are capital-intensive and technology-driven at the cost of more socio-ecologically sustainable alternatives provided by waste pickers.
… Waste pickers under threat Barcelona Research … management models that are capital-intensive and technology-driven at the cost of more … environmental sustainability . The informal recycling sector in the Global South sustains …
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.
… Industrial wastes could capture 1Gt a year of CO2 … toxic, bleach-like waste is produced and piled in landfills every year, with often … of metals we would like to recover for recycling. Some are critical in terms of …
Biogas - a methane-rich fuel made from rotting food waste or sewage - has huge potential as a clean, green fuel for the UK. But a perverse web of subsidies, rules and contracts could mean UK councils are about to kiss goodbye to the real power of waste...
… Biogas: is your council about to waste your waste? David Strahan | 4th August 2009 News WasteAndRecycling Energy Climate Change Biogas Biofuel …
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 ...
… E-waste in Ghana: where death is the price of … agbog-fire.jpg Attempts to recycle E-wasteand donations of old electronic devices are … their final destination under the cloak of recycling. It is the most toxic place in the …
The long term problems of what to do with nuclear waste remain entirely unsolved, writes Andrew Blowers. Yet governments and the nuclear industry continue to peddle their untenable 'bury and forget' policy of deep geological disposal, which only unloads the toxic legacy of modern day nuclear power and weapons onto uncountable future generations.
… Why worry about nuclear waste? What has the future ever done for us? Andrew Blowers | 16th November 2016 News … remote location spent fuel is reprocessed for recycling in the form of mixed oxide fuel …
Biodegradeable Waste (BDW), ‘plants and animals’, comprises an amazing 59 per cent of your household waste. Do you simply throw yours in the bin? If so you...
… 59 per cent and counting... George Pilkington | 1st … 2006 Ethical Living Compost Composting Waste BDW Worms Vermicompost Vermicomposting … Lifestyle Composting Green Living WasteAndRecycling Green_Living_MAIN_1.jpg …
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.
… From latest gizmo to toxic waste: the dark side of the worldwide … some 70% is still working when disposed of, and over a third is disposed of illegally. … e-waste ended up in official collection andrecycling programs. The rest, amounting to …
Mel Poluck visits a flagship environmental project that rescues, reuses and recycles tonnes of wood destined for landfills, doing much the same for those it employs
… CASE STUDY: recyclingwaste wood Mel Poluck | 9th June 2009 Activism WasteAndRecycling Case Study Wood Recycling …
With the 5th International Degrowth Conference taking place next week Spanish Ecologists Professor Joan Martinez Alier and Federico Demaria - both working at the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) - explain why we need a 'less is more' alternative economic model and how the burgeoning Global Environmental Justice movement is a key concept in achieving the only goal that will halt Climate Change.
… Degrowth and the Global Movement for Environmental … in different categories, such as mining, waste disposal, tourism, biodiversity, water … mining and biomass, also in the export of waste, such as the breaking of huge ships on …
As UK supermarkets scramble to reduce packaging in the face of growing legislation and consumer demand, Aimee Steen talks exclusively to those tackling the problem at high street stores and asks what role customers have to play
… ASDA and Marks & Spencer lead assault on packaging waste crisis - but will it work? Aimee Steen | … News Packaging Waste Tesco Asda M&S WasteAndRecycling Investigations waste 2 resized.jpg …
'For the rich, much much less, while for the billions who lack the basics: more good food, better housing, abundant clean water...'
… Degrowth and the Green New Deal Gareth Dale | 28th … due to Chernobyl alone, and the problem of waste. Scientists are still stumped by the … problem of warning the creatures approaching waste dumps a hundred thousand years from now. …
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.
… Mae-Wan Ho | 13th February 2015 News Oceans Waste Toxics Recycling beach-plastic-qr-mexico-cut.jpg On … of plastic by 20150, writes Mae Wan Ho, and much of it will litter the oceans, …
Viewed in new light, waste is a resource – to be used again, recycled or resurrected for another use
… 10 groups campaigning against waste The Ecologist | 19th June 2009 Activism WasteRecycling Cradle To Cradle Design Nearly Out … The Book Of Rubbish Ideas Biologic Design And Humanure Emmaus Waste Watch Freecycle …
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.
… Hugh's 'War on Waste' is great - but we need to grasp the … | 3rd August 2016 Comment Waste Consumerism Recycling Economics Green Economy Society UK … a post-consumer culture of caring, sharing, and knowing when we have enough. Watching the …
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.
… 'Recycling is for drunks, addicts and babushkas' - inside Russia's shadowy waste industry Minna Halme Lancaster … University | 8th February 2016 Comment WasteRecycling Russia Society bottles-cut.jpg …
Martin O'Brien investigates how waste management has become a lucrative business.
… Waste management proves a profitable business … Martin O'Brien | 7th August 2008 News WasteRecycling Rubbish Privatisation Recycling Landfills Pollution Society WasteAndRecycling …
Greening your home can save you energy and money as well as making it healthier and lowering its carbon footprint
… Greening your home can save you energy and money as well as making it healthier and … to their policies on toxic chemicals, recyclingand climate change. Anything we've … key to water efficiency is reducing waste, not restricting use. Water meters can …
A Greenpeace investigation has exposed the massive efforts of global food and drink giant Coca Cola to defeat popular proposals to require deposits on single-use plastic bottles, writes Maeve McClenaghan. In fact, deposit schemes are working fine in many countries in which the company operates - it's a simple case of corporate profit before environment, oceans and wildlife.
… big 'fight back' against tackling plastic waste Maeve McClenaghan Greenpeace Energydesk … Pollution Corporations Politics UK EU Scotland Oceans coca-cola-beach-cut.jpg A … plans to reduce littering and increase recycling." 16 million plastic bottles going …
Producers will pay the full cost of disposal and recycling of packaging, recycling collections will be made consistent and a deposit return scheme for drinks containers will be introduced.
… Wasteandrecycling system set for shake up Catherine Early | 20th December 2018 News WasteRecycling Plastic Packaging Deposit …
Npower, owner of the UK's third largest coal-fired power station, says it will have to black out two million customers if it can't fill this lake with poisonous ash. Paul Kingsnorth investigates
… ash. Paul Kingsnorth investigates As we stand looking out over Thrupp Lake, it begins to … too, was a wildlife-rich lake. Now it is a waste pit, fi lled with hundreds of thousands … the tree line, killed the lake by piping its waste coal ash straight into it. Nine other …
London is gearing up for Circular Economy Week to accelerate climate action and contribute to a green recovery.
… | 29th May 2020 News Circular Economy Science And Systems Economy London Waste city_hall_london_at_dawn_cropped.jpg … products and materials. The London WasteandRecycling Board (LWARB)’s third #CEWeekLDN is …
Despite the best efforts of the industry to rebrand and clean up incineration, the fact remains that today's incinerators still permit pollution.
… fire Pat Thomas | 6th September 2007 News Waste Incineration Incinerators Energy From … Trash Garbage Risk Incineration Incineration Landfills Recycling Energy Health Investigates_36.jpg …