NewsRack: 'Recycling' news in 'Waste' topic for user chintan

Video games (for promoting science) \| Dean Burnett	19.6.2013	Guardian: Science
PETA recently released a video game where you commit violence against research scientists. Arguably the best response would be to create video games that promote and educate about science Apparently PETA have created a video game where you commit serious violence against research scientists . That's nice. Given how PETA have strongly objected to the vaguest hint of cruelty in video games many times , this seems a bit much. Who'd have thought PETA would be hypocritical in some way? There's a shock . But apparently this is an option now. If you have an agenda to pursue, you can make a video game about it to generate support. It's clever, when you think about it. So instead of bemoaning the crude, inaccurate and violent nature of PETA's tactic (there are no doubt plenty who have done this already), why not fight fire with fire, as the saying goes? So, here are some ideas for video games that accurately teach about science, as well as providing all the action and excitement you'd expect from ...
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Chicago aldermen hear arguments on plastic bag ban	18.6.2013	Chicago Tribune: Popular
Chicago aldermen hear arguments on plastic bag ban
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Taking Note: Let Us Start Composting Vegetables	18.6.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Taking Note: Let Us Start Composting Vegetables
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NYC aims to require composting food scraps	18.6.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Legions of New York City apartment dwellers will soon be asked - and may eventually be forced - to start collecting food scraps for composting.
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NYC aims to require composting food scraps	18.6.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
NEW YORK—Legions of apartment dwellers will soon be asked—and may eventually be forced—to start collecting food scraps for
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Power generation from waste on the cards	18.6.2013	Noida - City - The Times of India
The proposal for electricity generation from the waste site has been included in the project report for the plant currently being finalized by the Authority.
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Bloomberg set to roll out New York composting plan for food waste	17.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Mayor set to cross 'final recycling frontier' with city-wide plan to handle up to 100,000 tons of food waste a year The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, is preparing to roll out a new composting plan for the city, aimed at diverting some of the 100,000 tons of food scraps that ends up in landfill every year. Bloomberg, who is due to leave office early next year, has called food waste the "final recycling frontier". Now it appears New York is moving towards that line, testing pilot projects in some neighbourhoods in preparation for a city-wide composting plan. The city has hired a composting plant to handle up to 100,000 tons of food scraps a year – or about 10% of the city's total food waste, according to the New York Times, , which first reported the story. Last April, about 100 city restaurants joined a voluntary composting plan, the food waste challenge. By next year, 150,000 households will be on board along with 100 high-rise buildings and 600 schools. The entire city could be ...
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When recycling is the second-best option	17.6.2013	BBC: Technology
Where to go when your gadgets break down
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Finding inspiration in the slums of Dharavi (Cached)	17.6.2013	TOI: Mumbai
Finding inspiration in the slums of Dharavi
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Bloomberg’s ‘Final Recycling Frontier’: Food Waste	17.6.2013	NYT: Home Page
Bloomberg’s ‘Final Recycling Frontier’: Food Waste
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City awaits nod for debris disposal plant (Cached)	17.6.2013	Hindustan Times: India
City awaits nod for debris disposal plant
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'PetroKoch': an art project for the Metropolitan Museum \| Jeff McMahon	16.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
As David Koch gets his name on the Met's new plaza, why not add Detroit's pile of his tar-sands sludge as an installation? In Fall 2014, the David H Koch Plaza at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City will be revealed, the entire $65m project paid for by David H Koch . In the spirit of repurposing, recycling, and synergy, might the Met acknowledge Koch's further contributions by moving the ever-growing black mound of tar-like petroleum coke , owned by Koch and his brother Charles through their company Koch Carbon and currently dumped in Detroit's Assumption Park, to the Met's new Plaza? What more fitting tribute to the Brothers Koch than the gooey byproducts of their billion-dollar industry? What a stunning salute to the American supply chain; another Koch Brother, William, owns Oxbow Corporation, which deals in … petrocoke, a long-lasting reminder that Koch family values have real value. Looking to extend their legacy into perpetuity (such by-products requiring a very long time ...
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Stop the recycling!	15.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published Jun 15, 2013 01:01AM MDT I’d like to focus on the recycling programs that are coming to our cities. Our city leaders have decided that they are going to automatically sign us up for a curbside recycling program. We must put a stop to this! Recycling is something that we all should be doing, but to be forced to do it is like adding another tax to every household in the community. Why can’t we make these decisions for ourselves? Let the private sector do curbside recycling. Unfortunately, Kaysville, Farmington, Centerv... ...
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Solid waste push to jobs	15.6.2013	The Telegraph : Bihar
Solid waste is not worthless. It is environment-friendly to recycle it and "recycling provides jobs to 100,000 waste pickers in Delhi," says Bihar Pollution Control Board scientist Dr Naveen Kumar.
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Trash to cash: Norway leads the way in turning waste into energy	14.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
UK cities pay to send rubbish to Norwegian incinerators, but green campaigners warn of dangers For a country blessed with bountiful oil supplies, it may appear incongruous. But Norway is importing as much rubbish as it can get its hands on, in an effort to generate more energy by burning waste in vast incinerators. The Eurotrash business may sound like an unpromising enterprise, but it's one that is increasingly profitable. The UK paid to send 45,000 tonnes of household waste from Bristol and Leeds to Norway between October 2012 and April this year. "Waste has become a commodity," says Pål Spillum, head of waste recovery at the Climate and Pollution Agency in Norway. "There is a big European market for this, so much so that the Norwegians are accepting rubbish from other countries to feed the incinerator." He refuses to divulge the sums involved, saying only that the market is growing. Spillum is "considering requests" to burn waste from other UK towns. "As a rule we generate about 50% of ...
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China leads the waste recycling league	14.6.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
EU legislation is fuelling a multibillion-dollar market. As landfill charges increase, it is often cheaper to send rubbish abroad With the world's population and consumption increasing, the waste heap is growing. More than 4bn tonnes of waste (municipal, industrial and hazardous) is generated annually worldwide. Where does it all go? There is a major challenge in describing and quantifying the global waste trade. A limited number of countries monitor and make public their imports and exports. Definitions and reporting discipline can vary greatly across countries. There is also a large (and growing) illegal trade in waste, which is even more difficult to monitor. The market for waste is now worth an estimated $443bn (£283bn) a year, and this figure is growing because of increasing export volumes and rising prices. The top destination for waste is China, which in 2010 imported around 7.4m tonnes of discarded plastic, 28m tonnes of waste paper and 5.8m tonnes of steel scrap. Between 2000 and ...
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Homestead High students 'bin it' when it comes to e-waste	13.6.2013	San Jose Mercury News: San Jose/Valley
Students at Homestead High School spent the last half of their school year trying to gather up e-waste in hopes of diverting electronic items and potentially harmful toxins away from landfills.
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Get engaged in the art of reuse (Cached)	13.6.2013	New Kerala: Sports India
New Delhi, June 13 : Hidesign, an eco-friendly leather good brand, has come up with their annual eco-initiative, The Art of Reuse, that engages the practice of re-cycling those materials that are discarded as waste.
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Garbage burning emits significant amounts of toxic pollutants, particulates	13.6.2013	MinnPost
Hennepin County is moving ahead with a plan to increase burning by 20 percent at the downtown Minneapolis incinerator. Shawn Lawrence Otto's recent Community Voices commentary attacking "urban liberals and left leaning environmental groups" misrepresents basic scientific and political fact. His missive in support of garbage burning repeats 40-year-old discredited industry talking points, and paints an inaccurate picture of incineration opponents. With regard to air pollutants, Otto claims that incinerators emit "near zero" air emissions. In fact, incinerators account for significant emissions of some of the most toxic air pollutants on the planet. Incinerators are a major emitter of fine particulates and add climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency recently identified 118 point sources of criteria pollutants in the city of Minneapolis. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines these pollutants as having significant ...
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A conflict of interest	12.6.2013	Deccan Herald - Supplements
A conflict of interest
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