Waste Management World Articles, April 2012

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Features

Filming Landfill in LA

Located in Whittier, California and owned by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (the Districts), Puente Hills Landfill is a major part of the long-term integrated waste management system of Los Angeles County.

Micro-Turbine: Maximum Flexibility

Around the world thousands of historic landfill sites are silently producing millions of tonnes of methane gas, which either makes its way into the atmosphere where it adds to the cocktail of greenhouse gases potentially heating the planet, or it is flared, and the energy it contains is wasted.

Organic Collections: The Food Waste Agenda

Organic waste collections, specifically the collection of segregated food waste, remain top of the municipal waste management agenda across the UK, both in terms of government policy and financial support and in terms of the media spotlight.

Time for Blue Sky Collection?

Where waste collection services are seen as part of a local government function, there will be someone telling the operations department that the carbon footprint of the fleet must be reduced.

Size Matters Bigger Wastemaster Articulated Wheel Loader

Back in 2003 JCB introduced the first 'Wastemaster' machines.

Catching up with the WEEECast Directive

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Recast has been formally approved by the European Parliament, but there are still a few stages for it to go through before it enters into national law.

Negative to Positive Sorting Reaching for the stars with SATURN

Due to the change of emphasis from landfilling to waste treatment, which is implicated by the Landfill Directive, more and more waste is undergoing treatment processes.

Ray of Light for CRT Recycling

Ben Messenger looks at an award winning technology developed by a small firm in Manchester, England that combines heat and chemistry to extract lead and clean glass to recycle leaded CRT glass.

New Law Opens Polish Waste to Energy Market

In the past Waste to Energy (WtE) development has been restricted in Poland.

TALKING HEADS: Megacities

Effective management of municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the greatest challenges facing local governments today.

International Show Preview

Babcock & Wilcox Vølund is one of the world's leading suppliers of equipment and technologies designed to convert household waste and bio-fuels into thermal energy.

Regulars

From the Editor

Megacities: An Opportunity Not to be Wasted

For thousands of years the vast bulk of the human population led a rural life, first as hunter gatherers, and then as farmers and agricultural workers tied to the land and living in small communities.

ISWA Comments

News

50,000 TPA Food Waste Thermal Hydrolysis to Fuel Oslo's Busses

Starting next year Oslo, Norway will transform food wastes into green fuel for the city's buses, according to the Research Council of Norway (RCN).

ISWA information

ISWA at IFAT ENTSORGA, from 7 to 11 May 2012 in Munich, Germany

ISWA is an official partner of IFAT ENTSORGA 2012. With more than 110,000 visitors from 185 different countries, 215,000 m2 of exhibition space and 80 side events, IFAT ENTSORGA is the largest trade fair for Waste Management in the world.

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Volume 13
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April 2012
 

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