Who would that ... I used to call them incinerators.
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Incinerators and landfill will take some of the surplus waste.
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Now more waste is ending up in landfills and incinerators.
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They suspect that either big facilities, likely in China or India, just aren't running their incinerators — or a slew of illegal refrigerant operations could be popping up somewhere that don't have incinerators at all.
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Yet local authorities in many countries remain hostile to new incinerators.
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That argument overlooks the toxic effect of incinerators, Lopez-Nuñez said.
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Used tires go to incinerators in unmarked trucks, accompanied by security guards.
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General waste is whisked to incinerators or (now rarely in Taiwan's case) landfills.
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If landfills and incinerators can meet the standards they set, they should be welcomed.
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"The incinerators have been working round-the-clock," one resident told Radio Free Asia.
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"The incinerators have been working round the clock," one resident told Radio Free Asia.
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It would retain a ban on new refineries, pulp and paper mills and incinerators.
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An interim presumption could be made, and the use of incinerators required in theater.
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Instead, the scrap winds up in landfills, burned in incinerators, or in the oceans.
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Recycling materials also ensures that waste doesn't go into landfills or incinerators, the EPA adds.
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The hand-drawn aesthetic superimposes pencil drawings onto things like incinerators, turning them into dragons.
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It can, for example, burn the coating off "weatherized" wire by using specially designed incinerators.
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It can, for example, burn the coating off "weatherized" wire by using specially designed incinerators.
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The environment would benefit, with fewer mines, more trees and less need for landfills and incinerators.
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They blocked access to three out of the four incinerators serving the Ile de France region.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says more food fills incinerators and landfills than any other material.
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Waste incinerators have provoked protest as communities worry about stench and the risk of toxic emissions.
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Garbage is hauled to transfer stations and then sent to landfills or incinerators outside the city.
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Lowering these proportions requires more investment in waste infrastructure such as managed landfills or low-polluting incinerators.
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The number of incinerators in China has shot up from 57 in 2010 to more than 400.
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But it is better for the environment to set fire to low-grade plastics in efficient incinerators.
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Thirty-two garbage incinerators in Sweden now produce heat for 810,000 households and electricity for 250,000 homes.
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Four of the incinerators would be in greater Jakarta, already one of the world's most polluted cities.
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Thai officials say that some incinerators may still be burning because factories are working through old stockpiles.
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Less than two months later, the cabinet approved his plan to build more landfills and three incinerators.
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Currently 8503% of solid waste goes to landfill worldwide, 2850% to open dumps, 21.15% to incinerators (see chart).
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Some California forests plan to use incinerators that will turn the trees into biomass before they become tinder.
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The study found 19653 garbage incinerators that were operated by the city, and 17,000 others in apartment houses.
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Voters everywhere want rubbish to be taken away—and they do not want to live near landfill sites and incinerators.
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Incinerators would notice a higher share of plastics, Stengler said, because, tonne for tonne, they produce a lot of energy.
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The city of Soma last year set up municipal incinerators specially designed to burn carcasses and filter out radioactive cesium.
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Most Western governments have since imposed rules to minimise pollution from landfills and incinerators and to prevent leaks of toxic waste.
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The third option is simply landfilling, but most companies do incineration so that they can claim the incinerators capture the energy.
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Consider the following: Nearly three-fifths of all clothing ends up in incinerators or landfills within a year of being produced.
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According to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report from 2012, 84 percent of used clothes go straight to landfills or incinerators.
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The regulators who say that burning rubbish is now safe were making the same claim when incinerators were still spewing out dioxins.
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In some cities, garbage incinerators have been built in African-American neighborhoods that do not have the political clout to block them.
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"I remember the incinerators burned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, looking out my window seeing Peabody Coal," he said.
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Half of all Latinos live in this country's most polluted cities, in neighborhoods where incinerators, power plants, and factories are clustered together.
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Brewer's reports called for incinerators to be installed as a safer alternative to burn pits, but many of them collected dust in storage.
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Germany's environment ministry reckons that incinerators have actually helped to improve air quality by reducing the need for dirtier coal-fired power plants.
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When mercury gets into the air from coal plants and incinerators, it's carried by precipitation into rivers and lakes, settling at the bottom.
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Dutch photographer Roger Cremers was on a visit to Auschwitz in 2002, when he noticed an American tourist standing next to the incinerators.
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According to the nonprofit Zero Waste Alliance, that means diverting at least 90% of waste from landfills and incinerators by recycling and composting.
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"I've had me septic done, me incinerators searched, me house done four times," she added, referring to a police search of her property.
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While incinerators are located on the U.S. portion of the base, they are never used, according to the soldier that spoke with Fox News.
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But they see incinerators as essential to tackling what the World Bank predicts could be a 50% rise in China's solid waste by 2050.
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected several challenges to federal regulations of boilers and solid waste incinerators brought by industrial and environmental groups.
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Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said he had directed government funding bodies to "prioritise" waste-to-energy projects, which include incinerators and landfill gas harvesting.
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The result: Year after year, New Yorkers rely on rail, barge and trucks to ship trash to methane-producing landfills and toxin-emitting incinerators.
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And once it does, it only goes through the recycling process once or twice before ending up in incinerators, landfills, or in the ocean.
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The rest go to landfills, are burnt in incinerators — which can cause air pollution — or end up in the country's streets, rivers and beaches.
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Protests, while still relatively rare in China, increasingly break out over contentious issues including the construction of garbage incinerators or pollution from factories near homes.
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However, a recent study by the nonprofit Zero Waste Europe found that even state-of-the-art incinerators can emit dioxins and other harmful pollutants.
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On Tuesday, university students protested at new, tougher entry requirements, garbage collectors blocked access to incinerators, and a small number of energy workers downed tools.
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But local governments have often given ground in the face of growing public opposition to chemical plants, waste incinerators and other potential sources of pollution.
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Burnt offerings The EPA has calculated that such controls have reduced emissions of dioxins and furans from America's incinerators from 26.4,213 grams a year to 153.
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In a study that I recently described in the journal Management Science, I looked at whether exchanging this stuff keeps it out of landfills and incinerators.
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In June, the environment minister, Fadi Jreissati, told The Daily Star, a local newspaper, that he did not think Lebanon was "qualified" to regulate the incinerators.
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Three of those reports obtained by Fox News contained numerous photos taken by Brewer during his inspections and also his recommendation to replace the pits with incinerators.
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Open burning of waste, another common disposal method, releases lots of dioxins, just as it did in incinerators in the rich world before the rules were tightened.
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But in reality, the vast majority of used plastic has been ending up landfills, incinerators or shipped to other nations, where its fate is far from clear.
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No need to poison the food chain with formaldehyde, increase the carbon footprint with manufacture of elaborate coffins, mausoleums or wasting of the organic proteins with incinerators.
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With generous subsidies, Beijing has ordered governments and businesses to build industrial-scale farms with safeguards like quarantine areas for new arrivals and incinerators for diseased pigs.
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They are trying to convince residents that incinerators are clean and safe (as modern ones are, in places like Taiwan) by, for instance, promoting school trips to facilities.
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Greenpeace said 73 percent of textile fibers used to produce more than 100 billion garments each year ended up in landfill or incinerators after they have been used.
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The fuel is of sufficient quality and consistency to allow it to be used as a substitute for coal in factories and power plants, not just in incinerators.
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Thus, instead of clamping down on landfills because of the methane they produce, or incinerators for fear of dioxins, governments should tackle methane and dioxins across the board.
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Despite chains like John Lewis and Inditex-owned Zara launching recycling programmes for unwanted clothes, some 73% of garments still end up burned in incinerators, or in landfill.
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That's precisely why some countries — Sweden, for example — have come back around to the idea of incinerating garbage now that technology has evolved to reduce emissions from incinerators.
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Globally, more plastics are now ending up in landfills, incinerators, or likely littering the environment as rising costs to haul away recyclable materials increasingly render the practice unprofitable.
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Greenpeace says 73 percent of textile fibers used to produce more than 100 billion garments each year end up in landfill or incinerators after they have been used.
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Under the government's plan, the amount of dioxin produced by the incinerators would be monitored once every five years, compared to the European standard of twice a year.
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On the whole, however, landfills and incinerators seem to attract a disproportionate amount of scrutiny and regulation—especially given that some equally dangerous facilities are barely monitored at all.
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Electronics that end up in landfills and incinerators pose an even greater risk because toxic materials are released back into the ground, air and water as they break down.
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Neighborhood police and fire stations protect their homes and businesses; hospitals and clinics stand ready to treat the injured or ill; and trash is hauled to dumps or incinerators.
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Even the most recyclable plastic is only being recycled at a rate of 20 percent to 30 percent, while the rest ends up in incinerators or landfills, researchers said.
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But, when you do they'll likely end up in landfills and incinerators, which is obviously very bad news for the environment even if it does make you feel less cluttered.
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In Australia about 30 waste-to-energy projects are operational, mostly confined to small incinerators and co-generation plants, though a handful of larger projects are on the drawing board.
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Instead, the containers end up in landfills or are burned in incinerators, a concern for environmentalists who say that toxins can seep into the ground or escape into the air.
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The plant's operator, Republic Services, runs 91 MRFs nationwide, next door to landfills (of which it runs 13) or incinerators (of which it owns 114) which burn waste to produce electricity.
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Second, there's the residue flushed out of the bottom of furnaces and incinerators at coal plants, called bottom ash, which is often combined with water and stored in ponds on-site.
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For example, to respect the environment, he dries out the food he takes home from trash bins, reducing their total volume so that the city's garbage incinerators can work more efficiently.
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Greenpeace UK said that a program limited to smaller bottles would "confuse customers" and fail to capture "millions" of larger bottles which would then end up in landfills, incinerators or oceans.
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Particulate matter is catch-all term for the a mix of microscopic liquid droplets and solid particles pumped into the air by fires, trash incinerators, car exhaust, and power plants, for example.
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" Upon arrival in Salonika in October 1915, Emslie and her female colleagues "built incinerators, dug latrines, erected tents, installed X-ray equipment and set up a dispensary in a disused silkworm factory.
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"To get to our goal of 100 percent sustainable energy, we will not rely on any false solutions like nuclear, geoengineering, carbon capture and sequestration, or trash incinerators," according to his plan.
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Environmentalists say that the government's handling of toxic pollution in Tropodo is a troublesome sign given its plans to build a dozen waste-to-energy incinerators in major cities around the country.
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This is one of the parts of the city that is mostly black, a residential pattern that dates to the 1930s, when "colored districts" were adjacent to two incinerators, according to a city plan.
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If, for example, federal projects like roads, incinerators or oil pipelines could be rushed through without hearing from local communities first or sufficiently studying their impacts, the effects on public health could be devastating.
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Why this is a breakthrough: Even the most recyclable plastic is only being recycled at a rate of 20 percent to 30 percent, while the rest ends up in incinerators or landfills, researchers said.
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But many buildings do not have space for these bins, or they fill up more quickly than they can be collected, which means a lot of recyclable material ends up in incinerators or landfills.
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While China's short-staffed environmental watchdogs are keen to involve the public in enforcing standards, authorities are wary that social media-driven protests against chemical plants, waste incinerators or nuclear processing facilities could trigger protests.
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It costs the city almost $400 million annually just to ship what it collects from homes, schools and government buildings (by rail, barge or truck) to incinerators or landfills as far away as South Carolina.
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And I was recruited then--a few years later, I was recruited to sort of be the doc to advocate for communities that were struggling with polluting incinerators, polluting coal plants, toxic waste sites, etc.
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As previously reported by Fox News, many of the incinerators were shipped to the Middle East but never installedThey collected dust in storage while the old, dangerous practices of burning toxic waste in open pits continued.
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We take you to the incinerators that turn waste into ash, and go inside glowing white rooms where row upon row of massive containers hold high-level nuclear waste—these containers are warm to the touch.
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"To get to our goal of 100 percent sustainable energy, we will not rely on any false solutions like nuclear, geoengineering, carbon capture and sequestration, or trash incinerators," Sanders writes in the almost 14,000-word manifesto.
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Shell, BA and Velocys - who have applied for planning permission for the plant from local authorities in North East Lincolnshire - are targeting domestic or commercial black bag waste that would otherwise end up in landfills or incinerators.
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Other recent examples of Europe's more aggressive approach include a ban on the use of pesticides that appeared to be killing bees, prohibitions on the inclusion of some antibiotics in animal feed and restrictions on waste incinerators.
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And Dunn is just one of three dozen or so landfills and incinerators around the country that received some of the 12 million-plus tons of construction, commercial and residential refuse exported from the city that year.
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In January, Stars and Stripes reported that the U.S. military was still using a burn pit to dispose of medical waste at the al-Taqaddum Air Base in Iraq—years after the government required the use of incinerators.
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Bloomberg's and de Blasio's teams increased the city's reliance on incinerators, arguing that using the trash to produce energy is better than simply burying it in a landfill that produces methane — one of the most potent greenhouse gases.
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"This is a real moment of reckoning for the US because of a lot of these incinerators are aging, on their last legs, without the latest pollution controls," said Claire Arkin, campaign associate at Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.
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"Many of the healthcare workers who fought so valiantly to save lives are today working in conditions which are very little changed: an unreliable water supply, backed-up toilets and incinerators that don't work," said Kate Norgrove of WaterAid.
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The industrial furnace next to the space was once used to destroy toxic materials at temperatures of 1600 degrees, but these military-grade incinerators will now be set up to burn any surplus cannabis—another requirement from the state.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "The 'Final Recycling Frontier': Organics" ("New York 101" series, Metropolitan, June 4): The New York City Department of Sanitation should be applauded for its efforts to divert food waste away from landfills and incinerators.
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The soil told of local pollution, indicating the use of municipal refuse incinerators, which peaked in 1937, and offering clues of events farther afield, such as evidence of the aboveground nuclear weapons tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Kellogg Brown & Root, which operated the burn pits as part of a $35 billion logistics contract in Afghanistan and Iraq, went on burning waste in open-air pits for years, even after the government dispatched cleaner-burning incinerators to U.S. bases.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will invest in trash-burning incinerators and aim for all packaging to be 100 percent recycled by 2025 after China, which took one third of the country's rubbish, banned waste imports, its environment minister said on Friday.
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The British buy more clothes per person than any other country in Europe, the report published as a result of the inquiry noted, while around 300,000 tons of textile waste are sent to landfill or incinerators in the UK every year.
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Because when recycling is highly contaminated and too costly to process, then the landfills generate more revenues, the virgin material industries sell more virgin materials and there is a stronger appetite for building incinerators that burn waste to create energy.
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That means that — according to Greenpeace — companies should not be labelling plastics #3-7 as recyclable; those items are being sent to landfills and incinerators most of the time no matter how many consumers throw them in the blue bin.
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People of color, and poor people of all races, are much more likely to be exposed to environmental hazards: lead paint in houses and the soil, incinerators and power plants, air pollution that can contribute to asthma and slow cognitive development.
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The situation in Beirut reminds of the Naples garbage crisis, caused by political inefficiency, corruption and mob crimes, aggravated by the lack of modern incinerators and low levels of recycling, and which peaked during the summer of 2008, and largely remained unresolved since then.
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But the European Union is probably the most zealous regulator: it has separate legally binding "directives" on waste policy in general, hazardous waste, the transportation of waste, pollution control, landfills, incinerators, and a host of specific sorts of waste, from cars to packaging to electronic goods.
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When WaterAid partnered with WHO and the Centers for Disease Control to develop minimum standards for WASH in healthcare facilities, Mali's Ministry of Health adopted these standards, opening the way for WaterAid to help provide 23 healthcare facilities with sustainable access to water, sanitation kits and incinerators to properly manage medical waste.
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It includes instances in which bodies were used without donor or next-of-kin consent; donors were misled about how bodies would be used; bodies were dismembered by chainsaws instead of medical instruments; body parts were stored in such unsanitary conditions that they decomposed; or bodies were discarded in medical waste incinerators instead of being properly cremated.
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There isn't much of a domestic market for US recyclables—materials such as steel or high-density plastics can be sold on, but much of the rest holds little more value than rubbish—meaning that local authorities are hurling it into landfills or burning it in huge incinerators like the one in Chester, which already torches around 3,510 tons of trash, the weight equivalent of more than 17 blue whales, every day.
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