Peter Jones (the Senior Consultant for Eunomia, not the director of Waste2Tricity) has drawn attention to the importance of the European Commission to the national…
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In its fifth statutory report to Parliament on progress towards meeting carbon budgets the Committee on Climate Change has suggested that: “…Further reductions in waste…
The consultation for the Targets Review Project has now been launched by the European Commission, with responses needed by the 10th of September 2013. The consultation document is…
The fourth issue of Eunomia’s Residual Waste Infrastructure Review is out, and it shows that there has been an increase in incineration capacity at a…
Below are a number of online incineration-related petitions that our members have made us aware of.
The recently released Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) 2012-13 review raises concerns regarding the detrimental impact on recycling of incineration overcapacity and long-term waste contracts. Alongside this, CIWEM have raised concerns…
Rossano Ercolini was awarded the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize for his leadership in a grassroots campaign educating Italian communities on the merits of zero waste.
Recently released HMRC Figures show that the amount of solid waste recorded as being taxed at the Standard Rate of Landfill Tax has fallen from 52.465…
The Environment Agency has now belatedly published their 2011/12 Report on the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme (LATS). This was shortly followed by the Government withdrawing…
A new petition on Avaaz has been launched by GAIA. The petition states that: “As European citizens we ask the European Commission to limit the construction of…
The Derby and Cardiff court cases (which are being brought by locals rather than by UKWIN) are both scheduled to be heard in the coming…