Diana Butron
California and Other Four Environmental Groups Filed a Lawsuit Against ExxonMobil Over Plastic Pollution
The estate of California suing a big plastics manufacturer for environmental harm is the first of its kind.
European Environment Agency
Updated data: Uppsala has cleanest city air in Europe
Published today, European Environment Agency’s (EEA) updated European city air quality viewer shows that people in Uppsala and Umeå, Sweden, and Faro, Portugal, can enjoy the cleanest city air in Europe.
UNEP
Clean Air Day highlights urgent need to invest in air pollution solutions for global prosperity
More than 99 percent of humanity is now breathing polluted air, leading to more than 8 million annual deaths, including more than 700,000 children under five
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Navigating the circular economy reporting landscape
Measurement and reporting are essential to the circular economy transition.
Landfill Tax fosters Recycling William F. Ritter
The paper "History of Landfill And Landfill Gas Management In The United States" shows that in USA “states with high recycling rates have high landfill costs, and nine of the top ten states with high recycling rates also have bottle bill legislation that requires a deposit on bottles. Sates with low recycling rates also have low landfill fees for solid waste.”
Quantifying methane emissions from United States landfills Daniel H. Cusworth, Riley M. Duren, Alana K. Ayasse, Ralph Jiorle, Katherine Howell, Andrew Aubrey, Robert O. Green , Michael L. Eastwood, John W. Chapman, Andrew K. Thorpe, Joseph Heckler, Gregory P. Asner, Mackenzie L. Smith, Eben Thoma, Max J. Kra
We quantified emissions at hundreds of large landfills across 18 states in the United States between 2016 and 2022 using airborne imaging spectrometers.
UBA - German Federal Environmental Agency
Climate emissions fall by 10.1 per cent in 2023 – biggest decline since 1990
UBA projection: National climate target for 2030 achievable
The history of landfills and landfill gas management in the U.S. William F. Ritter
The purpose of this article is to discuss the history of solid-waste management (SWM).n New York City, U.S., which was the first city to start refuse collection and establish a recycling center in the late 1890s.
ZMS Zweckverband Müllverwertung Schwandorf
Slag processing at the waste-to-energy plant ZMS Schwandorf
Modern processing technology captures metals (ferrous and non-ferrous) almost completely
The effect of barometric pressure changes on the performance of a passive biocover system, Skellingsted landfill, Denmark K. Kissas*, P. Kjeldsen, A. Ibrom, C. Scheutz
This study investigated the performance of a passive biocover system at a Danish landfill.
UNEP
UN’s global methane tracking system set to translate data revolution into climate action
High-tech, accessible and reliable data that informs countries, companies and the public about emissions could revolutionise reporting systems, accelerate climate action, and hold polluters to account
Argus GmbH
Methodology, Design and Implementation of Solid Waste Analysis (SWA), Turkey
The ARGUS approach consists of a well developed sampling and sorting methodology and an evaluation process to predict the accuracy of the SWA results. According to the local circumstances we can propose three different methodologies for SWA. The differences are found primarily in taking the sampling units.
European Comission
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
Climate change is a global problem that needs global solutions. As the EU raises its own climate ambition, and as long as less stringent climate policies prevail in many non-EU countries, there is a risk of so-called ‘carbon leakage'.
Zero Waste Europe
Influential studies on reusable take-away packaging found to be biased in favour of single-use
Heavily cited studies which favour single-use over reuse often lack transparency and have implicit biases against reuse due to funders’ interests, cherrypicked scenarios and false assumptions, according to a new report by Reloop and Zero Waste Europe.
Minderoo
The Plastic Health Map
Scientists establish world-first database mapping research on plastic chemicals to potential human harms
European Comission
Circular economy: Commission recommends actions to boost recycling in 18 Member States at risk of missing waste targets*
18 Member States are at risk of missing one or both of the 2025 targets.
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