NewsRack: 'Recycling' news in 'NewsTrust Environment' topic for user newstrust

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	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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New York’s ‘Food Recycling’ Program Could Be The Future Of Waste And Energy	18.6.2013	Think Progres
New York’s ‘Food Recycling’ Program Could Be The Future Of Waste And Energy
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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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'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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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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Throw It Out And It Powers Your Home: Puerto Rico Turns To Garbage For Renewable Energy	14.6.2013	Think Progres
Throw It Out And It Powers Your Home: Puerto Rico Turns To Garbage For Renewable Energy
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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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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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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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Local Briefs (Cached)	11.6.2013	Durango Herald
Fired Up Stories to take place at libraryFired Up Stories with firefighters from Durango Fire Rescue will be held at 1030 a.m. Wednesday at Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.Firefighters will read stories to children, talk about fire safety and put on fire gear, which will include child-sized gear for kids to try on.
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Battery maker Exide Technologies files for bankruptcy protection	11.6.2013	LA Times: Business
Battery maker Exide Technologies files for bankruptcy protection
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Local Briefs (Cached)	11.6.2013	Durango Herald
Fired Up Stories to take place at libraryFired Up Stories with firefighters from Durango Fire Rescue will be held at 1030 a.m. Wednesday at Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.Firefighters will read stories to children, talk about fire safety and put on fire gear, which will include child-sized gear for kids to try on.
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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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American Throw Out 40 Percent Of Their Food, Which Is Terrible For The Climate	6.6.2013	Think Progres
American Throw Out 40 Percent Of Their Food, Which Is Terrible For The Climate
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Regional recycling event at MBTA lot	2.6.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Regional recycling event at MBTA lot
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U recycling program turns trash problem into treasure	29.5.2013	Star Tribune: Local
Semester-ending student throwaways get a second life through Pack and Give Back project.
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