Blogposts tagged 'Waste'

Modern art is (made from) rubbish

Posted by saunvedan - 26 September 2008 at 3:58pm - 0 Comments

The Rainbow Worrier, made from 5,000 plastic bags It's been an arty week for me. After the polar bear sculptures in the US, an outdoor art group in Devon - Trail Recycled Art in Landscape (Trail) - has made a trawler boat out of 5,000 plastic bags and named it Rainbow Worrier after our legendary ship the Rainbow Warrior. They even filled it up with plastic fish in fishing nets to highlight how plastic is destroying marine ecosystems.

Plastic waste isn't just what you see on beaches and coast lines. A plastic dump in the Pacific Ocean as large as Texas is constantly swirling in a massive gyre that is referred to as the 'trash vortex'. Other unflattering names include Asian trash trail and the Eastern Garbage Patch where six kilos of plastic swirls for every kilo of plankton.

Article tagged as: art, dumping, marine life, oceans, plastic, waste

The Weekly Geek: anaerobic digestion

Posted by bex - 20 February 2008 at 11:59am - 4 Comments

Ken Livingstone wants it for London, Hilary Benn is giving money to it and Adam and Debbie are bringing it to Ambridge. After a couple of millennia in the sidelines, anaerobic digestion has finally hit the big time (well, The Archers, anyway) - which is why we've chosen it for this second edition of the Weekly Geek.

Every year, we bury thousands of tonnes of waste food in landfill sites around the UK. We produce almost one and a half million tonnes of sewage a year (don't do the maths - it's disturbing), which is mostly spread on land, incinerated or buried as landfill. And we produce enormous amounts of agricultural waste on our farms. All of this waste breaks down to release greenhouse gases as it decomposes.

Article tagged as: agriculture, anaerobic digestion, climate change, decentralised energy, waste, weekly geek

Activists block waste train bound for Sellafield

Posted by bex - 23 September 2003 at 7:00am - 0 Comments
Italian activist arrested after stopping a nuclear waste train bound for Sellafield

Italian activist arrested after stopping a nuclear waste train bound for Sellafield

Article tagged as: hachette, nuclear transports, reprocessing, sellafield, waste

OSPAR and radioactive discharges from Sellafield

Publication date:  11 August, 2009

Publication date: June 2003

Summary
The UK's Environment Minister will be in Bremen, Germany, on June 25th and 26th for a meeting of the signatories to the OSPAR Convention (the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic).

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Article tagged as: reports, reprocessing, sellafield, waste

New nuclear reactors - more radioactive waste

Posted by bex - 29 July 2002 at 7:00am - 0 Comments
Map of nuclear Britian

Map of nuclear Britian

Article tagged as: nuclear power, reactor safety, renewable energy, waste

Our sustainable future?

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Stephen Tindale: Speech to the Chartered Institute of Waste Management

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Article tagged as: incineration, waste, waste management

The Basingstoke incinerator - poisoning food, risking health

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Publication date: June 2002

Summary
The Basingstoke incinerator, which is due to completed in October, will burn ninety thousand tonnes of household rubbish every year. It is one of three currently under construction in Hampshire and will burn municipal waste from the north of the county. It is owned and will be operated by French waste disposal company Onyx.

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Article tagged as: basingstoke, chemicals, incineration, reports, waste

What's wrong with the Government's waste strategy

Publication date:  9 November, 2001

On 21 March 2001, the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee, a multi-party group taxed with looking at, amongst other things, waste issues, released their report, Delivering Sustainable Waste Management. The report delivers a stinging analysis of the inadequacies of the Labour Government's current waste strategy. The following material is excerpted from the Select Committee press release announcing publication of the report.

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Nuclear Transport Routes in 2001

Publication date:  9 January, 2001

A printable map of nuclear transport routes across the UK by land and sea.

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Article tagged as: nuclear power, nuclear transports, reports, waste
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