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Del Birmingham

China Tells WTO: No More Garbage Imports - 0 views

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Triple Pundit China WTO garbage imports limited waste

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  • Del Birmingham on 27 Jul 17
     
    The logistics of how the world copes with its mounting waste were just thrown a wicked curve ball from the Pacific Rim. And the case for embracing a circular economy became stronger. Last week China announced that it would no longer accept many imports of garbage from other countries.
Del Birmingham

Sweden Runs Out Of Garbage: Only 1% Ends Up In Landfills | Collective-Evolution - 0 views

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environmental news Collective Evolution CSRWire Sweden landfill 1% waste-to-energy

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  • Del Birmingham on 10 Nov 15
     
    Something incredible has been taking place in Sweden over the past several years, somewhat of a "recycling revolution," if you will. Currently less than one percent of the garbage produced in Swedish homes ends up in the landfill today, with the other ninety-nine percent being recycled or composted.
Adriana Trujillo

Finelite Cuts Waste 84% in 7 Years · Environmental Management & Energy News ·... - 0 views

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waste cuts trend issue ROI Finelite

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  • cut its waste production by 84 percent between 2005 and 2012 through using reusable packaging, Sustainable Plant reports.
  • about $27,000 a year in garbage disposal costs, the article says
  • Adriana Trujillo on 26 Aug 13
     
    Finelite, a manufacturer of high-efficiency lighting systems, cut its waste production by 84 percent between 2005 and 2012 through using reusable packaging, Sustainable Plant reports. Through such innovations as replacing bubble wrap used to protect products with crinkled paper and so-called lean packaging, the company saved about $27,000 a year in garbage disposal costs, the article says.
Adriana Trujillo

The great garbage fire debate: Should we be burning our trash into energy? - Salon.com - 0 views

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WTE trash add environmental news

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 24 Jan 17
     
    Waste-to-energy technology has shown some success, but adoption has been slow, particularly in the US. This column looks at some of the challenges.
Adriana Trujillo

From trash to treasure: Adidas designs shoes made of ocean garbage - CNET - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jul 15
     
    The oceans are crammed with floating junk, including thousands of pieces of plastic per square mile of water, the U.N. says. In a bid to raise awareness of the problem, Adidas has developed a prototype sneaker made mostly from recycled floating plastic. 
Adriana Trujillo

Solar-Powered Trash Compactor Slashes Waste Management Costs · Environmental ... - 0 views

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trash management waste Q2 other company news add ROI

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Jun 15
     
    The solar-powered compactor packs 16 yards of loose trash into just 4 yards, reducing waste pick-up at the busy property to just once per week, thus slashing hauling costs by 50 percent, reducing CO2 emissions by more than 14 tons annually, and importantly limiting garbage truck noise to guests and neighboring residents.
Del Birmingham

In Season of Returning, a Start-Up Tries to Find Homes for the Rejects - The New York T... - 0 views

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The New York Times other company news sustainable roi waste Optoro start-up resale products

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  • Del Birmingham on 29 Dec 15
     
    The Christmas gifts have been delivered, and Secret Santa is done. Now, the work begins for Optoro, a start-up company that aims to reduce the financial and environmental costs of another great holiday tradition: returns. Little known to shoppers, however, is that a majority of returned items never make it back to retailers' shelves. Instead, the items wind their way through liquidators, wholesalers and resellers, many of the purchases ending up in landfills. According to some estimates, as much as two million tons of returned items - most of it undamaged merchandise - are thrown away each year, enough to fill over 200,000 garbage trucks.
Adriana Trujillo

What will it take to get plastics out of the ocean? | Ensia - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Feb 16
     
    Efforts are underway to develop plans for cleaning up the world's marine garbage patches, but the scale of the problem makes conventional cleanup technologies impractical. What's really needed is a change in attitude among the people producing the waste in the first place, writes Anja Krieger. "Redefining what kinds of plastic products we really need, and how to regulate, use and dispose of them, will be at the core of the answer," she argues.
Del Birmingham

David Katz: What if you could turn plastic trash into cash? | TED Talk | TED.com - 0 views

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TED waste plastic oceans bank circular economy

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  • Del Birmingham on 29 Jan 18
     
    TED Talk: Can we solve the problem of ocean plastic pollution and end extreme poverty at the same time? That's the ambitious goal of The Plastic Bank: a worldwide chain of stores where everything from school tuition to cooking fuel and more is available for purchase in exchange for plastic garbage -- which is then sorted, shredded and sold to brands who reuse "social plastic" in their products. 
Del Birmingham

Incineration Versus Recycling: In Europe, A Debate Over Trash by Nate Seltenrich: Yale ... - 0 views

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shared by Del Birmingham on 29 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • recycling most materials from municipal solid waste saves on average three to five times more energy than does burning them for electricity.
  • As it turns out, countries with the highest rates of garbage incineration — Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, for example, all incinerate at least 50 percent of their waste — also tend to have high rates of recycling and composting of organic materials and food waste. But zero-wasters argue that were it not for large-scale incineration, these environmentally Zero-waste advocates say a major problem is the long-term contracts that waste-to-energy plants are locked into.conscious countries would have even higher rates of recycling. Germany, for example, incinerates 37 percent of its waste and recycles 45 percent — a considerably better recycling rate than the 30-plus percent of Scandinavian countries.
  • (In the United States, more than half of all waste is dumped in landfills, and about 12 percent burned, of which only a portion is used to produce energy.)
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  • In Flanders, Belgium, an effort to keep a lid on incinerator contracts has led nearer to zero waste, said Joan Marc Simon, executive director of Zero Waste Europe and European regional coordinator for GAIA. Since the early 1990s, when recycling rates were relatively low, the local waste authority in Flanders has decided not to increase incineration beyond roughly 25 percent, Simon said. As a result, combined recycling and composting rates now exceed 75 percent, GAIA says. "They stabilized and even reduced waste generation when they capped incineration," Simon said.
  • Without incineration, he believes, most European countries could improve current recycling rates of 20 or 30 percent to 80 percent within six months. Hogg agreed, saying that rates of 70 percent should be “easy” to attain. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which calculates recycling and composting together, puts the current U.S. rate at 35 percent, compared to a combined European Union figure of 40 percent.
  • Del Birmingham on 29 Aug 13
     
    Increasingly common in Europe, municipal "waste-to-energy" incinerators are being touted as a green trash-disposal alternative. But critics contend that these large-scale incinerators tend to discourage recycling and lead to greater waste.
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