As nature recycles, reclaims and reuses all of its resources, the problem of waste is only in the human imagination, with resources only becoming waste when used, mixed and thrown away, according to ...

There is no waste in nature, yet we humans have become adept at producing it – in abundance, observes David Grandorge This photo was taken in Kohtla-Järve in north-east Estonia, near its border with ...

The report is the fourth from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) since the Plan was first published under Theresa May’s Government in 2018. The overarching aim of the ...

Recently, a leaflet was delivered to my home from Nuclear Waste Services, the company that is overseeing the final disposal of some of the most dangerous waste that exists. It reminded me that the ...

The proposals for Directives on Waste and related topics including landfill, published by the European Commission on December 2 2015, contain a number of proposed definitions which are either similar ...

Waste is tipped into a holding area (1) where it is picked up by grabs and dropped into a hopper (2). The waste is pushed gradually into the incinerator (3) which runs at a temperature of 750 degrees ...

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