20 years of recycling for Recycle Week with progress and news from recyclers and businesses including plastic and food waste for a sustainable future
distinguish between waste reduction and recycling, and show that the behavior of households in reducing their waste can hardly be explained by social or group-oriented motives as it is not an observable action. Rather, it can be linked to purely altruistic motives. Against this backdrop, ...
Accounts on the signing of the Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003 by Governor Gray Davis; Inclusion of an enforcement provision that provides for the imposition of monetary penalties against both retailers and manufacturers in the event of noncompliance; Imposition of liability for each failure ...
In this chapter, firstly we explain the various recycling laws that have been enacted in recent years such as Container and Packaging Recycling Act, Home Appliance Recycling Act, Small Home Appliance Recycling Act, End-of-Life Vehicle Recycling Act, Construction Material Recycling Act, and Food Wa...
(Dharini et al., 2017). Therefore not only creation of harmful health impacts but also the E-waste in soil can cause reduction of harvest in commercial agricultural systems. It may create long term impacts on country’s economy. Except from the release of effluent into the open land, the ...
SEATTLE (Waste Advantage):The Murphy Administration is awarding nearly $16.2 million in grants to communities across the state to help them enhance waste reduction and recycling programs, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette announced. The awa...
The recycling of e-waste has attracted significant attention due to emissions of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other contaminants into the environment. We measured PCB concentrations in surface soils, air equilibrated with the soil, and air at 1.5-m height using a fugacity sampler in an aba...
Comments on the enactment of the electronic waste recycling act of 2003 as a response to the electronic waste crisis in California. Accounts on the signing of the Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003 by Governor Gray Davis; Inclusion of an enforcement provision that provides for the imposition ...
inferential statistics was used to describe the correlational aspects. Results: It was determined that female participants, younger participants, participants of both genders with university and postgraduate education levels, and urban residents were significantly associated with self-reported household waste ...
In the context of the current environmental policies of the European Union promoting the recycling and reuse of waste materials, this work aimed at investigating the environmental impact of ashes produced from the co-combustion of municipal solid wastes with olive kernel in a fixed bed unit. Lignit...