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...They met disapproval — which the county’s denizens seem to have courted ever since....
...Journey by Tim Hannigan (Head of Zeus/Apollo) This deep dive into Cornwall’s history, landscape and identity should be stacked on service-station counters all along the A303 this summer, a primer for the county...
...Similarly at the Greyhound in Pettistree, the team plans to organise community days where excess ingredients – such as the senseless glut of birds that end up in landfill during the shooting season – are...
...Large quantities of used solar panels have been going straight to landfill, in the absence of a serious recycling system for the industry....
...“I’ll have my coloured lights and leftover gingerbreads from a display we’re doing at the London Marriott hotel County Hall,” he says. “Hopefully they won’t be stale.”...
...After a short lifespan these plastic carpets become unhygienic, fray, curl up and often end up in landfill with the rest of the world’s unrecyclable plastic....
...In Ashe County, North Carolina, it’s an industry....
...Capital & Counties, the owner of two plots in the capital and none whatsoever in the counties, is down a bit on a gloomy outlook....
...Along the banks of the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, giant cranes whir overhead as thousands of construction workers toil away at what will be one of the largest plastic factories in the world...
...According to Reuters, more than 20m tons of used diapers end up in landfills or are burnt every year around the world....
...“It may have been carved out of an old landfill site, but this is the only neighbourhood with level streets, where kids can ride their bikes and where you don’t need a ‘hillivator’ [the external lifts popular...
...The idea brings to mind Shahar Livne, who sculpts in “lithoplast”, a clay of minestone, marble dust and landfill plastic, which may one day be naturally occurring....
...in landfills rather than ploughing it into fields....
...Veolia is converting waste and wastewater to energy, using biomass, biogas, process by-products and landfill gas capture. Human sludge in sewage is turned into plastic....
...Landfill? Some “vintage” collection in a corner of the home counties that will be forever boho-Biba?...
...Combined with the devolution of stamp duty, landfill tax and business rates, the Welsh assembly would be responsible for raising roughly one-fifth of its budget....
...The Bronx, sandwiched between Manhattan and the leafy northern suburbs of Westchester County, is the least prosperous of New York City’s five boroughs....
...The Welsh Assembly has been given new powers to set business rates and collect the proceeds of local landfill and stamp duty levies after Treasury ministers in London set out a radical devolution of powers...
...The Treasury this week gave the Welsh Assembly powers to set business rates and collect the proceeds of local landfill and stamp duty levies, as well as offering a potential referendum on varying income...
...The company wants to set up power plants across the country, not only to become a supplier, but to use the huge volumes of waste that Mr Asquith says either end up in landfill or are exported – at great...
...Yet supporters of charging believe that shoppers are already paying substantial hidden costs of retailers buying plastic bags and local authorities having to send used ones to landfill sites....
...You can quibble over whether it would exclude smaller cities, towns and counties from the benefit, but core cities seem the best lever available to achieve devolution....
...The 12-county Bakken region stretching over much of North Dakota and parts of Montana has seen its working population swell by 70 per cent since 2010, mainly driven by oilfield workers and those in fringe...
...And in County Durham, Emerald Biogas is building an £8m facility processing farm and food waste....
...But he pointed to evidence that co-mingling could deliver higher levels of overall reductions in landfill....
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