http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/index/uneThematique.asp?idThema=4 Wastes en http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=655&idThema=4 13/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=655&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=655&idThema=4 Eight years after the European directive was voted, and two years after the start of the activity in France, the end of life vehicle recycling industry seems at last to be revving up: the Environment... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=652&idThema=4 06/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=652&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=652&idThema=4 To attempt to reduce the mountain of waste created by babies’ nappies and adult incontinence products, the majority of which go to landfill, the United Kingdom is about to acquire its first recycling... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=646&idThema=4 02/05/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=646&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=646&idThema=4 production in the United States. The study was published recently in Environmental Science and Technology. As in the European Union, food is transported over long distances in the United States – over... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=642&idThema=4 17/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=642&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=642&idThema=4 Over the last 10 years, the world’s waste incineration capacity has increased from 160 million to 200 million tonnes per year, and should continue to rise over the next five years to reach 240 million... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=629&idThema=4 09/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=629&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=629&idThema=4 Germany’s Federal Statistics Office reports that almost 750,000 tonnes of electrical and electronic waste (WEEE) were collected in 2006, just two years after Extended Producer Responsibility was http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=618&idThema=4 01/04/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=618&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=618&idThema=4 On 26th March, Greenpeace demanded that chemicals industry giants Ciba and Syngenta pay €254 million and €127 million, respectively, into a special fund that was set up to clean toxic waste from sites... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=612&idThema=4 27/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=612&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=612&idThema=4 While the objective announced by the French Environment Ministry – to limit the number of products generating high levels of waste by taxing them – is supported by all parties, there will be fierce... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=610&idThema=4 26/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=610&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=610&idThema=4 The Scottish assembly has announced that it is to launch a plan to reduce the amount of household waste sent to landfill to 5% of total waste production by 2025. For the whole of the UK, this figure... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=600&idThema=4 19/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=600&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=600&idThema=4 The Erika, a 24-year old Maltese-registered tanker, broke in two in a storm on the night of 12th December 1999. It sank, spilling 20,000 tonnes of heavy fuel into the sea and onto 400 km of coastline,... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=588&idThema=4 11/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=588&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=588&idThema=4 In its “Environmental Outlook to 2030” published on 5th March, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) welcomed improvements to efficiency in the use of raw materials. But... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=583&idThema=4 05/03/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=583&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=583&idThema=4 A few months before the European Commission’s proposed revision of the directive on the ecodesign of energy-using products (1), the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) has asked the Commission to... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=573&idThema=4 27/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=573&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=573&idThema=4 Two years after the Agricultural Act (1) was passed, the decrees of application relative to the banning of disposable plastic bags by 2010, demanded by members of parliament, have still not been http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=558&idThema=4 14/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=558&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=558&idThema=4 Over 40 million inhabitants now have access to an electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) selective waste-collection service, and over 3,300 producers are registered. These results are... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=552&idThema=4 12/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=552&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=552&idThema=4 The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published a report entitled “Better management of municipal waste will reduce greenhouse gas emissions”. It predicts a 25% increase in waste generation by http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=540&idThema=4 01/02/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=540&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=540&idThema=4 The European Environment Agency has just published new figures on the production of household and packaging waste, per capita and per annum.Household waste production has stabilised since 1995, but at... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=537&idThema=4 30/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=537&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=537&idThema=4 Each year in the UK households throw away around one third of the food they buy, amounting to 6.7 million tonnes of rubbish. According to the government-funded Waste and Resources Action Programme... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=522&idThema=4 18/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=522&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=522&idThema=4 On Wednesday 9th January, Australia’s new Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, announced that plastic bags would be phased out from supermarkets by the end of http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=518&idThema=4 16/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=518&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=518&idThema=4 As part of the “war on waste”, China is banning the use of the thinnest plastic bags from 1st June and encouraging people to use baskets or reusable cloth bags. As many as three billion plastic bags... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=512&idThema=4 11/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=512&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=512&idThema=4 Since the fall of communism in the nineties, Western Europe has dumped an increasing amount of illegal waste in Poland. There has been an upsurge in waste trafficking since Poland joined the European... http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=508&idThema=4 09/01/2008 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=508&idThema=4 http://www.thehsedaily.net/en/document/detail.asp?id=508&idThema=4 According to Agence France Presse, on the 6th of January the Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano, denounced a “garbage tragedy” in Naples and the surrounding region of