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We report on Europe’s growing ‘right to repair’ movement. Plus: plastics crisis; greener funerals; coffee waste innovators; battery mining; recycling renewables
...Other new studios are being planned in Sunderland and on sites near London....
...They added: “We will be closing nine CarStore sites and seven CarStore pods this quarter in order to focus on Evans Halshaw and Stratstone....
...“It’s a tragedy to see the waste of humankind, when you see doctors, when you see people who are clearly good people, who can’t get on with their lives.”...
...In 2022, as part of its Green Deal, the European parliament proposed ambitious legislation to standardise rules on packaging waste across the bloc, including targets for reducing the amount of material used...
...It already operates a standalone solar farm on a restored landfill site in Essex in Britain....
...“With the history of the packaging law and the misinformation campaigns on it, it’s not the best deal we could have dreamt of,” said Seán Flynn of the campaign group Zero Waste Europe....
...It is very site specific and difficult to scale in a cost-effective way. There is no one fungi that can be deployed on all biohazard sites....
...Disagreements over how the 400mn tonnes of annual plastic waste should be managed have stalled negotiations....
...The state-owned operator of the UK’s largest nuclear waste site is set to be prosecuted by the industry watchdog over alleged IT security breaches....
...Woodford, whose fund company Woodford Investment Management collapsed in 2019, said in a new blog that he hoped to shed light on the events that led to his fund’s demise....
...DuPont is one name on the list (lol). Waste-management companies like Republic Services also say they see an opportunity for profit....
...In November, oil-producing countries were accused of stalling the first international agreement on cutting plastic pollution. “Big Oil is betting on plastic to save itself,” Marsh said....
...“It’s closing the loop on water usage,” says Kothapalli....
...Oil-producing countries have stalled efforts to draft the first legally binding international agreement on cutting plastic pollution, proposing to move the focus to waste management rather than scaling down...
...However, 90 per cent of the waste expected to be buried at any UK site has already been produced. The search has homed in on three areas: South Copeland and Mid-Copeland in Cumbria; and Theddlethorpe....
...“We’re recycling waste from the site itself,” says Baker-Brown, whose 2017 book The Re-use Atlas will be revamped and republished next April....
...The sprawling site on the River Mersey can process up to 500,000 cars a year and sends about 1mn tonnes of recycled steel annually to customers around the world....
...“The scale of waste there is even bigger than in the EU, it’s an untapped market for us,” says Trueman. The company is fighting waste on other fronts, as well....
...Of course, not everyone has green space on which to reuse their own food waste....
...Frédérique Ries, a liberal Belgian MEP who led negotiations on the law, hailed parliament’s vote as “a strong message in favour of a complete overhaul” of packaging and waste management in the EU....
...But if biomass-based schemes are to play a major role, they will require close monitoring of land management in far-flung regions....
...But police were increasingly focused on gang activities related to trade in medicines and animals rather than e-scrap, added Pozzi, who is also chair of the e-waste branch of Euric, the European recycling...
...It would cost the government £1.2bn overall to deliver on its programme to reduce the use of hotels, after the Home Office overshot its original estimates on rehabilitating two sites by nearly eight times...
...The project, whose site is visited by kudus, springboks and buffaloes, is close to completing a feasibility study on the economics of extracting minerals from gypsum waste generated by old phosphate mines...
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