Clean water is an essential global resource. In the industrial world we have contaminated water over centuries of activities, as a result in our modern lifestyle people have no choice but to use the water that has been polluted from … Continue reading
Category Archives: Waste Treatment
Environmentally Friendly E-Waste Disposal
Each year millions of computers, mobile phones and other electrical equipment are sold to homeowners and businesses. However, after a few years most of these end up in landfill or stockpiled. Making sure your old equipment is properly recycled, … Continue reading
Tackling Waste Tyres
The Department for Transport’s Vehicle licensing statistics for 2012 [1] gives a figure of 34.6 million for the number of vehicles licensed for use on British roads. Therefore, taking into account approximately 1.5 million of these vehicles are motorcycles, it … Continue reading
What Happens to Your Rubbish After Collection?
Every week, millions of people put their rubbish or recycling out for collection. But what happens to it after it’s been taken away? General rubbish Although almost two thirds of UK waste can be recycled, around half is still disposed … Continue reading
Alternative Uses for Leftover Food
According to WRAP, around 7.2 million tonnes of food and drink are thrown away in the UK every year, with the majority being avoidable [1]. This leads to production of methane in landfill, and wastage of all the energy that … Continue reading
Wormeries – Extra-Efficient Composting
Composting food waste reduces the volume of waste that goes to landfill and contributes to methane emissions, and obviously generates compost for garden use. A wormery is a composting system (“vermicomposting”) to which worms are deliberately added. The worms speed … Continue reading
Waste Policy For England: When New Governments Inherit “Old” Policies?
Does a new government develop upon the progress of the departed party? Or is everything thrown out and a fresh approach taken? This article shall briefly present two key documents dictating waste policy in England; Labours “Waste Strategy for England … Continue reading
Breaking Down Barriers
More and more people are recycling and it is becoming easier to recycle more materials but still there will always be some residual waste that has not been sent for recycling. However, there are technologies whereby this ‘waste’ can be … Continue reading
Recycling With Wales
It’s not too often that you may consider your government over-ambitious. Perhaps even less often you expect they shall live up to your expectations. It is exemplary then, that the Welsh Assembly can lay claim to being both ambitious in … Continue reading
Introduction to the Waste Framework Directive
The Waste Framework Directive (WFD) is an integral piece of legislation reinvigorating current policies and inspiring new practices to protect the health of society and of our environment. But what is this directive and what is it about? What is … Continue reading
