Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is constructing a temporary facility to store radioactive waste at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc.
To deal with problems at the Ramaiyanpatti dump site on the outskirts of the Tirunelveli, southern India, a solid waste management programme which will convert the waste into biofuel and fertiliser.
Over the past three years WRAP has helped to keep 11 million tonnes of waste out of landfill, avoid 5.5 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions and generate £2bn of benefits to the UK economy.
A new member-based association launched in the UK to represent the recycling and reprocessing industries has set out to provide a more secure source of materials to help the country’s manufacturing sector...
A man has received a 15 month jail sentence following a successful prosecution by the UK's Environment Agency (EA) for illegally dumping over a million waste tyres across the country.
The recent shift in attitudes by a number of developed countries signalled at the Basel Convention's COP has signalled "a true paradigm shift" in the status of recycling, according Dr Katharina Kummer Peiry.
California based BlueFire Renewables, Inc. has entered into a MoU with China Huadian Engineering to finance its integrated Power Plant and Biorefinery in Mississippi.
A review of waste treatment infrastructure in Great Britain shows that in some regions, there may be an over-supply of treatment infrastructure by 2015, while opportunities remain in others.
U.S. based Waste to Energy company, Covanta Energy Corporation, has launched a new business to recycle and dispose of electronic waste - ECOvanta, located in west Philadelphia.
An amendment to the Basel Convention banning the export of hazardous wastes from developed to developing countries is to be brought into law within two to three years 178 countries.
