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City eyes coffee cup ban
RENÉ JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO
Plastic bags and take-out beverage and food containers — all with a bad rep for putting the fill in landfills — are being targeted in Toronto study.
Levies, deposit-return also being looked at as study targets worst trash offenders
Sep 14, 2008 04:30 AM
Moira Welsh
Environment Reporter
The City of [...]
waste community means sorting the rubbish 34 ways Japanese village’s strict recycling regime looks to a future free of incinerators and landfill
· Justin McCurry in Kamikatsu
· The Guardian
It was not that long ago that life in Kamikatsu revolved around the state of the rice crop and the number of tourists arriving to soak in the [...]
Julia Steinberger
August 25, 2008 11:17 AM
Eric Lombardi, the waste-management guru behind Boulder, Colo.-based recycler Eco-Cycle, is fighting incinerators around the world with a vision. Although his Zero-Waste Park may never be built, he has been able to use the artistic plan as an effective tool for discussion that has allowed city planners to consider alternative [...]
Date: 27 August 2008
By Jenny Haworth
SCOTLAND has ambitious plans to become a “zero-waste” country, where there
is literally no such thing as rubbish.
In this future society, everything would have a use, whether it is turned
into compost or burned as fuel.
However, sources have told The Scotsman that unless the habits of one sector
begin to change dramatically, any [...]
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