To comply with the requirements of the Landfill Directive, a total of 257 landfill sites in Scotland were required to submit conditioning plans by mid My 2002. By 2007 approximately 110 of these existing sites will have made an application to operate under a PPC permit with the remainder ...
Pod of 55 pilot whales die after being stranded on a beach in Scotland A pod of 55 pilot whales have died after they were found washed ashore on a beach in Scotland in the worst mass whale stranding in the area, marine experts said Monday. ...
The changes also marked the first day that operators of landfill sites in Scotland will no longer be liable to pay UK landfill tax for waste disposed of at their Scottish sites. Instead, they will be liable to register and account for Scottish Landfill Tax, one of the first independent tax...
To comply with the requirements of the Landfill Directive, a total of 257 landfill sites in Scotland were required to submit conditioning plans by mid My 2... RK Silver - Geoenvironmental Engineering: Integrated Management of Groundwater & Contaminated Land: Bga Geoenvironmental Engineering Conference...
A government-sponsored renewable energy funding scheme, known as the NFFO (non-fossil fuel obligation) in England and Wales and the SRO (Scottish Renewables Obligation) in Scotland, provides support funding in the form of elevated purchase prices for electricity generated by non-fossil fuel means....
Ford S, Warren K, Lorton C, Smithers R, Read A, Hudgins M (2013) Feasibility and viability of landfill mining and reclamation in Scotland. Scoping Study, Final Report Ranjan MR, Ramanathan AL, Tripathi A, Jha PK (2014) Landfill mining: a case study from Ghazipur landfill area of Delhi...
Over time, the waste items found in landfill can leach harmful gases and toxins into the atmosphere. Chief among these is methane, which is a known greenhouse gas and air contaminant and has a global warming potential (GWP) far higher than its more notorious counterpart, ca...
Rebecca LeDrew, a former graduate student of Lynch’s, researched circular economies in the Netherlands and Scotland for her master’s thesis. When it comes to waste recovery, LeDrew says, while there’s a recent tendency to focus on new technologies, much can be gleaned from older tradition...
In a first-of-its-kind innovation, DCW Polymers has developed a circular process for South West Water. This process ensures that the bio-beads, which play a crucial role in wastewater treatment, are repurposed into valuable filtration media inst...