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Local council attempts to restrict access to their civic amenity sites to permit-holding local residents will end up costing them more than they are likely to save, it’s been warned.

A study commissioned by European Aluminum predicts the increase up to 30 per cent.

Phil Piddington succeeds CEO Ian McAuly, who leaves the company to pursue other opportunities.

A company specialising in turning wine industry waste into value add products is helping to drive Australia’s booming craft spirits sector.

Russia has more than 41,000 square kilometers landfills area which is equal to the size of Switzerland, says Greenpeace. The non-governmental environmental organization recently ranked some of the country’s regions based on their waste programs wherein cities of Vladivostok, Vladimir, Yaroslavl, and Novosibirsk stood out as leaders in separate waste collection and recycling.

India is one the careless nations which does not seem take waste management seriously. It is rightly termed as a country underdevelopment despite having potential to make the system work by adopting advanced useful methods.

The irish AMCS group has acquired the dutch software producer GMT from investment company Nedvest.

The National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore recently called for a tender to study the life-cycle assessment of food packaging wherein disposables used in takeaway food and for dining-in accounted for more than one-tenth of all plastic, paper and cardboard waste produced in 2015, in the country.

The 17th International Automobile Recycling Congress IARC 2017 organized by ICM AG will be held from March 22 – 24, 2017 in the Hotel Palace in Berlin, Germany.

The East African Community (EAC) member nations have agreed to form a Regional E-waste Management Committee to tackle growing e-waste in the region. The Regional E-waste Management Committee will comprise of six nations- Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan.