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1. Too much building waste
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... Environment says that at least 26 per cent of the waste in our landfills is from buildings, the Organisation for Resource Efficiency in the Building and Related Industries says that up to half of all ...
Via stuff.co.nz, by Paul Easton - The Dominion Post, 24/05/2010 A new plant that turns plastic, food scraps and even human waste into fuel is humming away on the Kapiti Coast. "We pick it up ...
... among the tools were mainly CML 92 classifications. Some were aggregated indicators such as energy consumption, water consumption, waste, direct and/or external costs, etc. Some included routine calculation ...
... Council's demands that it reapply for expired resource consents. Meanwhile, illegal dumping of toxic waste flushed down stormwater systems has killed eels, sometimes by the hundred. It had taken the ...
5. PLA
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... it is "contaminating" existing "waste" streams. That's why many people want to ban it. As you pointed out, it will become viable once we use enough of it. So the difficult bit is the interim. ...
... from the Council's Burwood landfill site - and in future years from the city's Wastewater Treatment Plant - to be converted into electricity. This process is used to heat and cool the building with annual ...
... waste. According to Renewable Energy World, British Airways' planned waste-to-energy fuel plant is slated for construction in east London and should be converting 500,000 tonnes of organic waste ...
... crying loud for waste stream contamination. Well, it can be sorted. And as NatureWorks clearly states: It a journey, not a destination. It took long time to establish recycling schemes. It is much ...
The Question in LinkedIn Green group was: "Should the (US) plastic manufacturing industry stop the use of bioplastics and oxy-degradable plastics because they are likely to pollute existing waste ...
10. Micro hydro schemes
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While reading through a web article about hydro power generation, I thought: What if we would put micro hydro turbines in our stormwater or maybe even wastewater pipes.  Some waterwheel types that ...
... just becomes one more pathway to profligate waste. Let's take interstate highways as an example here, since they're both the solution to and cause of so many of our problems. Let's say you wanted ...
... The osmotic process also produces waste water that is saltier than freshwater, but not as salty as seawater, and the discharge of large quantities of this brackish water could be detrimental to local aquatic ...
... waste heat to generate electricity, but this time the benefit of the heat is the heat itself. The excess heat generated by a new Finnish data center will be used to warm homes throughout Helsinki.  ...
14. New World scraps plastic bag levy
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By LAURA BASHAM - The Nelson Mail, via stuff.co.nz, last updated 13:00 21/10/2009 New World supermarkets in the South Island have dropped their 5-cent plastic bag charge because of customer complaints. ...
... combustion and production processes often are of a relatively low quality in relation to compounds contributing to POCP. 3.5 Hazardous waste The handling of waste as a single or two impact categories ...
... to stop imports of palm kernel, because it was "used for about 1 per cent of feed in New Zealand". "It's a waste product, in my opinion it's not leading to deforestation and on that basis I have no ...
...  Anti-nuclear activists are also highlighting mismanagement of nuclear waste dumps in old salt mines. Wolfram Koenig, president of the Federal Radiation Safety Agency (BfS), said radioactive contaminated ...
... cord. 4.9    Panasonic - Advance from 12th to 10th place for energy efficiency and PVC-free product range, but still bad on e-waste. 4.7    Apple - Drops one position to 11th with no change in scores ...
... processes plus transportation. Production can contribute to water and air pollution, uses energy in various forms and produces the desired product plus by-products and waste. This phase is included ...
... what advice has he received relating to changes made to the vehicle fleets and fuel usage, electricity and gas usage, air travel, and waste volumes of the lead agencies involved in the Govt3 programme, ...
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