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GCC will now look at incinerator alternatives after it agrees to back planning refusal

http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/10427738.print/ GCC will now look at incinerator alternatives after it agrees to back planning refusal 12:00pm Saturday 18th May 2013 By Chris Warne GLOUCESTERSHIRE County Council will defend the decision of its planning committee to refuse permission for the £500 million Javelin Park incinerator project near Haresfield. The authority’s planning committee unanimously opposed the controversial [...]

INCINERATOR

CTA SAYS: Then of course there is the 5-7% toxic fly ash (that needs treatment) which means approx 28-30% by weight of what is thermally converted remains as ash that needs daily disposal, ad infinitum. The ENB’s Elvis AU prefers to state that waste is reduced 90% BY VOLUME by incineration. Of course the waste [...]

EPA Must Revisit Sewage Incineration Rule, DC Circ. Hears

http://www.law360.com/articles/438594/epa-must-revisit-sewage-incineration-rule-dc-circ-hears EPA Must Revisit Sewage Incineration Rule, DC Circ. Hears Share us on: TwitterFacebookLinkedIn By Erica Teichert Law360, Washington (May 03, 2013, 6:11 PM ET) — The Sierra Club and a municipal wastewater treatment coalition urged the D.C. Circuit on Friday to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its sewage sludge incineration performance [...]

Derrick Murphy: King’s Lynn incinerator-backing ‘political suicide’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22453266 Derrick Murphy: King’s Lynn incinerator-backing ‘political suicide’ The former leader of Norfolk County Council said backing its plans for a waste incinerator at King’s Lynn were “political suicide” for him. Conservative Derrick Murphy, who stood down in January after publicly supporting the project, admitted he had always had doubts about it. Mr Murphy, no [...]

Plan for waste incinerators set to be fired up

Hong Kong needs to use waste incineration for sustainable development, the environment minister said ahead of the release of a waste management blueprint. Monday, May 13, 2013 Hong Kong needs to use waste incineration for sustainable development, the environment minister said ahead of the release of a waste management blueprint. Wong Kam-sing said that as [...]

Incineration and Health Issues

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A great waste

Sunday, 05 May, 2013, 12:00am Magazines›Post Magazine Fred Pearce The many economical and ecological benefits to using human excrement and urine as fertiliser are not to be sniffed at. Fred Pearce gets to grips with a sorely underused resource Locals call them honey-suckers, but don’t be fooled by the name. They cruise through the hi-tech [...]

What kind of waste incinerator does Hong Kong need?

Thursday, 09 May, 2013, 12:00am Business LAI SEE Howard Winn The troubling question of what to do about Hong Kong’s waste got a spirited airing at a public forum yesterday evening. There was a panel of five experts who were attending the “International Conference on Solid Waste 2013 – Innovation in Technology and Management”. The [...]

Incineration overcapacity ‘threatens’ recycling | New study adds to warning of incineration overcapacity | Resource magazine

http://www.resource.uk.com/article/News/Incineration_overcapacity_%E2%80% 98threatens%E2%80%99_recycling-2653 Incineration overcapacity ‘threatens’ recycling 21 January 2013 by Annie Reece A new study commissioned by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) has found that incinerators operating in some EU states have the capacity to burn ‘more than the non-recyclable waste generated’ and warns that plans to increase incineration capacity pose an ‘environmental [...]

Incineration overcapacity EU

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