NewsRack: 'Solid Waste' news in 'Urban Waste' topic for user irge304

Taking Note: Let Us Start Composting Vegetables	18.6.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Taking Note: Let Us Start Composting Vegetables
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We Need a Fixer (Not Just a Maker) Movement	18.6.2013	Wired Top Stories
We Need a Fixer (Not Just a Maker) Movement
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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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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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Bloomberg’s ‘Final Recycling Frontier’: Food Waste	17.6.2013	NYT: Home Page
Bloomberg’s ‘Final Recycling Frontier’: Food Waste
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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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Gift of leisure: Dad's chores decoded	15.6.2013	CNN: Top Stories
While we love a fella who doesn't mind hand-washing some china, certain chores seem to fall disproportionately in the "dad" camp. This Father's Day, save him the trouble of cleaning the garage -- and learn to do it better than he can.
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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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Paul Rolly: Sleeping with the enemy? ATV riders honor BLM	14.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Paul Rolly Tribune Columnist Published Jun 13, 2013 06:21PM MDT Utah’s stalwart protectors of truth, justice and the American way have been dauntless in their defense of state sovereignty against those vile federal agencies like the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency that would enslave us all. Our heroes like state Reps. Mike Noel and Ken Ivory, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Rob Bishop have been on the front lines to take back our state lands from the carpetbagger feds and let us, the true stewards of the lan... ...
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Opinionator \| Fixes: Out of India's Trash Heaps, More Than a Shred of Dignity	12.6.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Opinionator \| Fixes: Out of India's Trash Heaps, More Than a Shred of Dignity
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New Hampshire getaway a feel-good stop on any East Coast road trip	12.6.2013	Chicago Tribune: Popular
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Seriously, Portsmouth?
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Puerto Rico Waste-to-Energy Plan Gets Key Permit	12.6.2013	International Herald Tribune: Americas
Puerto Rico Waste-to-Energy Plan Gets Key Permit
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Puerto Rico waste-to-energy plan gets key permit	12.6.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
The U.S. government approved a key permit Tuesday that helps pave the way for construction of a waste-to-energy plant in Puerto Rico that local environmentalists have long opposed.
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Litterbugs could lose their cars? Good.	10.6.2013	Chicago Tribune: Popular
Litterbugs could lose their cars? Good.
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Editorial: Litterbugs could, and should, lose their cars	10.6.2013	Chicago Tribune: Opinion
Editorial: Litterbugs could, and should, lose their cars
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Recycling woes	8.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published Jun 8, 2013 01:01AM MDT Our family pays $6 a month for a green-waste garbage can. Wanting to be ecologically minded, we went to the Bountiful dump to purchase mulch made from the waste from the cans. The dump was not selling mulch: “The content of arsenic was too high.” My neighbor went to a local garden club, where she learned about the fertilizing and recycling virtues of turkey litter (the poultry manure mixed with the bedding — wood shavings, rice hulls, etc. — that is scooped up at turkey farms. She applied tur... ...
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Zero waste? Reduce, reuse, recycle	6.6.2013	Minnesota Public Radio: News
Zero waste proponents can imagine a world in which nothing goes into a landfill or an incinerator, and all of our discarded materials become resources for others to use. Three experts discuss the trash ecosystem, at the Commonwealth Club of California.
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Activist: Smiling NKorean defectors told of misery	5.6.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Before they were detained in Laos and sent home, a group of young North Korean defectors smiled and teased each other as they told an activist how some of them were beaten with sticks for trying to steal noodles in their homeland.
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Before NKorea repatriated them, defectors jokingly talked about dark past, activist says	5.6.2013	Star Tribune: World

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