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...Most outdoor wear is impossible to recycle, so if you have a jacket [by a well-known label] it’s going to go into incineration or landfill....
...A tree dumped into a landfill will decompose without air — anaerobically — releasing methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2....
...It processes 2m tonnes of car and other metal waste a year. Before the plant and a previous investment to recover the plastic waste in cars, the company was sending 500,000 tonnes to landfill....
...The downturn in consumer spending has reduced waste volumes, while an increase in taxes for companies still reliant on landfill has hurt demand....
...It will generate enough energy to power up to 50,000 homes by processing annually up to 350,000 metric tons of non-recyclable waste that would otherwise go to landfill....
...Distressed debt funds including Apollo and Avenue are circling Biffa, the struggling UK waste management group, which looks set to become the latest indebted company to be snatched away from its private...
...TEG makes its money from taking the waste, which would otherwise attract landfill tax, and selling the compost, as well as selling its equipment, a vessel that moves the vegetable material to speed composting...
...Republic now hopes to complete its agreed merger with Allied Waste, the number two....
...In June, the second and third largest trash handlers in the US – Allied Waste and Republic Services – agreed to merge in an all-stock deal....
...Allied Waste and Republic Services, the second and third-largest US waste services companies, said on Monday that they had agreed to combine in a $6.1bn stock-for-stock transaction....
...The combined entity would own 327 landfill sites and about 28,000 garbage trucks, according to Mr Steiner. Any deal between Waste Management and Republic would require regulatory approval....
...Graphite Resources estimates its plant will divert 80 per cent of the waste it handles from landfill without releasing the carbon emissions....
...Irish banks that had been hard hit in recent days also bounced, with Bank of Ireland up 6 per cent to €6.75, Allied Irish Banks rising 0.6 per cent to €11.25 and Anglo-Irish Bank gaining 3 per cent to €6.99...
...No prizes for guessing what he did next – he allied himself with another company, Wisdom Tree, to set up dividend- weighted indices tracked by ETFs....
...And more pressing still is that landfill in the UK – the squashy afterlife for 75 per cent of our plastic waste – is going to overflow, depending on where you live, between four and 11 years from now....
...Renewable Energy Holdings rose 6 per cent to 53p after it agreed to buy two renewable energy projects, a wind farm in Germany and a landfill gas project in Wales....
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