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• Water and Sewerage Costs Set to Rise

• Slurry Costs Cut by Aeration

• Incineration of Paint Solvents from Coating Lines

• Used Tyre Reefs for Coastal Defence

• Strathclyde Sewage Will Not Be Incinerated

• Hampshire Waste Options Under Consideration

• Ceramic Based Air Filtration Gives High Performance

• Aqueous Organic Pollutants Degraded by Photocatalysis

• Costs of Municipal Waste Disposal in the UK

• Technology to Reduce Air Pollution

• Double First In Landfill Awards

• Cheap Pollution Technology for Eastern Europe

• German Plant Authorises FGD system

• Leipzig Waste Management Scheme

• Hazardous Waste Incineration Plant in Almaden (Spain)

• Lurgi Awarded Flue Gas Desulphurisation Contract at Leipzig Power Station

• Portuguese Pharmaceuticals Manufacturer Minimises Waste

• Household Battery Association Of Europe, Japan And The United States Agree On Co-operative Plan To Study Battery Recycling

• Waste Injection Suggested as Method for Reclamation of Landfills

• Changing Pattern of US Municipal Solid Waste Disposal

• Desulphurisation Ahead of Schedule at Power Stations

• Oxygenated Diesel Fuel Produced from Waste Vegetable Oils

• New Technology from Shell for Capping Wells

• New Method to Recover Chlorofluorocarbons

• New Plastic Degrades in Seawater

• New CFC Destruction Method

• Power from Chicken Litter

• New Report on Recycling Waste.

• Profits in Bag Recycling

• Paper Recycling in Cheshire

• Government Highlights Work of Energy Efficiency Office

• Recycling in Scotland

• Jaguar Adopts ‘DryPure’ System for Paint Waste

• New Hazardous Waste Incineration Process

• New Organisation to Boost Electronic Scrap Recycling

• Elm Energy Plan to Expand Their Operations

• Recycling Ceramic Sludge Waste in Italy

• Recycling Steel Packaging

• More Polyethylene to be Recycled

• Organic Reclamation and Composting Association

• European Initiative for Recycling Plastic Bottles

• New Lactic Acid from Waste Plant

• Textile Recycling in the USA

• Plastic/Paper Composite Developed from Waste Products

• Edible and Biodegradable Food Packaging

• New Method for Sulphur Recovery from Phosphate Waste

• Chitin Collects Heavy Metals for Reprocessing

• On-Site Remediation Package Systems for Soil and Sludge

• US Firms Begin to Design for Disassembly

• New Glass Recycling Technologies

• Colorado Tyre Shredding Project Completed

• Successful Bioremediation at Canadian Oil Refinery

• More Uses For Sewage Sludge

• Joint Venture Company Moves into Metals Recycling in New Zealand

• IABD Approves Loan for First Stage of $2.6bn Sao Paulo River Clean-up

• US Firm Breaks Japanese Monopoly

• New Use for Sewage Sludge

• Quality Standards Scheme for Inland Waters

• Guidelines on Clinical Waste Disposal

• Contaminated Land Clean-Up Costs Possibly Underestimated

• Tougher Sentences for Green Crimes

• Open Cast Coal Mining - A Balanced Approach

• NAWDC Comments on Waste Disposal Planning Proposals

• New Officers at NAWDC

• Reaction to NRA Groundwater Policy

• Comments On The Proposed Environment Agency: Waste Disposal Planning

• New Qualifications For The Waste Management Industry

• Criticism of German Green Dot Recycling

• German Chemical Profits Drop

• Belgium Environmental Taxation

• Norwegian Report on Value of Environmental Education to Industry

• EC Environmental Resolution on Industrial Competitiveness

• Italian Parliament Discusses New Waste Management Proposals

• Difficulties Anticipated in Germany’s Plastics Recycling Plans

• Shanks & McEwan Director Is New CEADS President

• US Consider Tank Regulations

• Environmentalists Critical of Clean Air Act

• Arizona Pollution Prevention Incentive

• Copper Environmental Committee Formed

• Transportation Company Liable for Full Costs of PCB Clean-up

• US Agencies Support Technology Transfer Agreements

• Human Activities and the Environment

• Complaints against Third World Dumping

• Doubts Over Pollution Permits

• Safety Conditions were Violated at Bhopal

• Australians Reject High Temperature Incinerator

• OECD Pilot Study on Harmonising Pesticide Regulations

• Historic City of Bath Undermined

• River Clean-Up Claim Against Coalite

• Survey of Landfills Identifies Failures

• Wheal Jane Mine Floods Fal Estuary

• HSE to Prosecute Allied Colloids Over Fire

• Explosion and Fire at French Oil Refinery

• EPA Review Dioxin Limits

• US EPA Reassess Effects of Dioxins

• Limited Spending on Environment by Japanese Companies

• Banks Concern over Pollution Liability

• Increase in US Medical Waste

• Electronics Industry Founds Council to Organise its Recycling

• EPA Given Equity in PRP Bankruptcy Case

• Waste Management International Regroups

• Shanks & McEwan’s Profits Drop

• Pollution Clean-up Insurance Available

• Environmental Best Practice For Company Transport

• European Commission Action on Threat to Ozone Layer

• Role of UN Commission on Sustainable Development

• Nigerian Imports of Hazardous Waste from Europe

• Implementing the Rio Agenda: Partnerships for Change

• Approval for 5th Environmental Action Programme

• European Waste Liability Convention

• European Commission Outlines Forthcoming Strategy on Environmental Information

• Life: Financial Support for Demonstration Projects

• Industrial Competitiveness and the Protection of the Environment

• Government Provides Environmental Guidance to Businesses

• Chemical Release Inventory Proposals

• Consultation Paper on Reducing VOCs Launched

• Agriculture and the  Environment: technical  and vocational education.

• From Regulations to Compliance: Building Institutional Capabilities

• Environmental Management Standards for Clinical Waste Disposal

• New Incinerators for the UK

• Waste-to-energy Facilities in the UK

• First UK Design and Construct Landfill

• Foam Covering for Landfill Sites

• Emissions Reduction Reported by Ciba-Geigy

• Solventless Paint Removal

• Sludge in the Forest

• Mobile Sewage Treatment Works

• Environmental Technology Group Formed

• New Ciba Hazardous Waste Incinerator

• New German Effluent Treatment and Acid Recovery Plant

• Installation of Desulphurisation Plant in Poland

• Polish Lorry Manufacturer Orders Pyrolysis Furnace

• Plasma Torch Incinerator for Clinical Waste

• New Waste Sorting Plant for Austria

• PVC Degradation by Combined Wet Oxidation and Alkaline Hydrolysis

• POLVITEC Process Chosen for Sludge Incineration at Cement Plant

• EC Questioned about Expansion of Rognes Landfill

• Marshall Islands Contaminated Soil Controversy.

• US Considers Incineration of Chemical Weapons.

• Improved Air Filters from Mikropul

• New Economical Biological Treatment for Toxic Effluent

• Waste Disposal Court Actions in Texas

• Ohio Incinerator Approved

•  Plans for Hanford Incinerators Blocked

• Westinghouse Acquires Florida First Processing

• Computers Investigate Hazardous Waste

• UST Clean-up Costs Estimated at Over $41 Billion

• Mobile Units For Soil Remediation

• New Technology for Soil Remediation

• Hazardous Waste Strategy For The Emirate Of Dubai

•  Waste Disposal in Japan

• Renewable Energy Projects in Wales

• Funding for Plastics Reclamation Project

• Composting Potato Peelings

• New Uses for Waste Straw

• Patented Soil Remediation Process

• New Organisation for Metals Recycling

• Reclamation Schemes in the West Midlands

• Smurfit Acquires Wastepaper and Packaging Companies

• PowerGen Signs Contract for Gypsum Recycling

• Aluminium Foil Recycling Programme

• New Aluminium Recovery Process

• Recycling in Milton Keynes

• Solvent Recycling Machine

• Chicken Litter As Renewable Energy Source

• Recycling BMW Cars

• New French Car Recycling Target

• Fluorescent Markers For Sorting Plastics

• Recycling Mixed Nylon Waste

• Shell Process Converts Waste Plastics into Oil

• New Biodegradable Cellulose Polymer

• German Horticulturists Examine Packaging

• New Dutch Waste Incineration Plant

• Mouldable Materials from Wood Wastes

• Dust Recycling in Converter Steelmaking

• German Firm Helps Clean Up Russian Steelworks Pollution

• More Recycled Newsprint for North America

• Processing Costs at MRFs Exceed Revenues

• New Waste Pelletising Waste

• Bioventing Tests on Oil Contaminated Soils

• New Soil Clean-up Process Available

• Wichita Clean-up Programme Receives Award

• Wisconsin Superfund Settlement Involves 16 Municipalities

• New York City Implements Waste Management Plan

• Feasibility Study on Dry Cell Battery Recycling

• Building Blocks from Tapioca Gypsum

• Fuel Oil from Plastic Waste

• Recycling Printed Circuit Board Plastics

• Seal Sands Incinerator Approved

• Northumbrian Water Will Not Challenge Incinerator Decision

• Joint Venture LAWDCs Attractive to Metropolitan Authorities

• Planning Status of Reclamation Companies

• Unl’wful Compost

• Changes to Contaminated Land Register Likely

• Appeals for Commercial Confidentiality in IPC Applications

• National Power Decides Not to Burn Orimulsion at Pembroke

• Restrictions Lifted at Dioxin Contaiminated Farms

• Clean Air Grant Under Review

• Subsidiarity and its Application

• Appeal Court Verdicts

• Scandanavia Adjusts to EC Environmental Legislation

• Basis of Environmental Legislation in Poland

• Remediation of Soviet Army Bases in Poland

• New Bulgarian Environmental Legislation

• Dutch Waste Exported to Eastern Germany

• Greek Island Waste Plan and Turtles

• Austria To Sign Basel Convention

• Recycling and Technology Park Planned

• Shell Cleared of Soil Contamination Liability

• Environmental Impact Assessments for Research Plants

• No Early Changes in US Environmental Policy

• Indecision Over Waste Classification Status of Incinerator Ash

• Municipalities in Superfund Clean-Up Agreement

• Texas to Introduce an Emissions Credit System

• New Approach to Complying with Environmental Regulations

• EPA Producing Inventory of Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites

• NAFTA Environmental Standards in Canada

• Canadian Pollution Liability Problems

• New Standards for Recycled Plastic

• Pipeline Company to Pay for Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

• Oil Spill Clean-up Company Operational by August 1993

• Revenue for the US Justice Department

• Explosion in Mexican Sewers - Charges Bought

• Dioxin Contaminated Waste May be Incinerated in Arkansas

• Australia and Singapore Sign Environmental Protection Agreement

• Environmental Programme for Hong Kong

• Green Tax Opposed in Japan

• Research Indicates Dioxins Can Form in Sewage Sludge

• Chlorobutadiene Leak from Du Pont Plant in Northern Ireland

• Castleford Explosion Causes by Exothermic Reaction

• South Wales Coal Tip Slips in Heavy Rains

• Environmental and Health Threat from Asbestos Mining

• Danube Basin Threatened by Damaged Montenegrin Dam

• Boston Harbour Clean-Up

• Lessons from Exxon Valdez

• BP Chemicals Release 1991 Emissions Data

• Wheelabrator’s Vision for Integrated Waste Management.

• Environmental Expenditure Reduced by Monsanto

• Collected Research Suggests PVC Environmentally Friendly

• US $2.5 Billion Wastewater Treatment Market

• Insurers May Have to Pay for Illinios Clean-up

• Waste Reduction at Titanium Dioxide Plant

• Tougher Environmental Regulations Will Increase Industry’s Costs

• Mexican Environmental Market

• Waste Management Use Recession for Acquisitions

• Environment Awards for British Business

• GATT and the Environment - The Debate Goes On

• UNICE View on Proposed Capbon Dioxide Tax

• Compliance with the MARPOL Convention

• Dolphin Deaths At Sea

• Landfill Levy Report Published

•  First Decision On Refusal to Register Waste Carrier

• HMIP’s First Successful Prosecution in 1993

• Pressure on Local Authority to Prepare Recycling Plan

• Minister Warns Industry to Get Out of CFCs

• Guidance on Non-agricultural Use of Herbicides

• Construction and the Environment

• Planning, Pollution and Waste Management

• Waste Dispute in Bedfordshire Resolved

• Solvents Roadshow

• Four LAWDCs Vested

• New Leigh Plant at Sheffield

• New Shanks & McEwan Plant Opens on Teesside

• Siemens Plessey Distribute Lear Siegler Equipment

• Launch of Emulsion Splitting Flocculant

• Yorkshire Water’s Brighouse Sludge Incinerator

• New Treatment System for Dorma

• Noise Nuisance at Power Station Reduced

• KPMG to Advise Hungarians on Hazardous Waste Management

• Warsaw Wastewater Appraisal

• Chemical Waste Incinerator for Basel

• CFC Emissions From Discarded Fridges

• Biohoch Wastewater Treatment System

• Paper Sludge Dewatering Costs Reduced in Germany

• Incinerator Ready for Controversial Trial

• Detox Wet Oxidation Treatment for Wastes

• Delay for PCB Incinerator

• Sao Paulo Examines Industrial Waste Management Options

• The EnvIRONment Process

• SCA Newsprint Grant Approved

• Waste to Energy Plants An Environmental Benefit

• New Solvent Recovery Distribution Company

• Plastics from Waste Vegetable Matter

• Waste Exchange Services

• Recyclable Water-Based Paint System

• Cheap Plastics Waste from Germany For Sale in UK

• UK Paper Industry Seeks Help on Imports

• Clean-up of Contaminated MoD Land at Woolwich Common

• Krupps Plan Sulphur Recovery in the Urals

• New German PVC Recycling Plant

• DSD Expands, But Critics Remain

• New German Electronics Waste Recycling Company

• Complete Recycling for Mercedes

• Tyre Recycling at Maastricht

• Recycling Initiatives in France and Germany

• Sludge Treatment Process to be Licensed

• Pyroplasma Process Produces Methanol from Tyres

• University Composting Facility

• New Processing Facility for Old Corrugated Containers

• New Soil Washing/ Bioremediation Company Formed

• Wood Waste Converted to Packaging Material

• Laidlaw Opens Automated Paint Recycling Facility

• The Lessons of Lowermoor

• Deposit at Transfer Sites Controlled

• Prosecution Rights of Waste Regulatory Authorities Re-established

• Government Action Urged on Contaminated Land Registers

• Government Report on Economic Incentives for Recycling

• IEHO View on Crop Burning

• Liability for Groundwater Contamination

• Draft Standard for Farm Wastes

• UST Insurance from Miller Environmental

• IEHO Response to Proposed Chemical Release Inventory

• Maritime Safety Questioned

• Commission Creates European Chemicals Bureau

• Delay in European Eco-Labelling

• Hazardous Waste Management in Hungary

• Transfrontier Transportation of Toxic Waste

• Proposed MEREX Incinerator in France

• French Recyclable Waste Tax Delayed

• Attica Basin Pollution Questioned

• Sweden Proposes to Recycle More Plastics

• Radian to Co-operate with Russian Research Institute

• Environmental Pressures on the Russian Chemical Industry

• Eastern Europe Takes Steps Towards Remediation

• Key US Environmental Appointments

• US Administration Gives Environment Higher Priority

• Carnegie Commission Environmental Report

• Record EPA Penalty for Texan Businessman

• Another Unconstitutional State Waste Import Ban

• Contaminated Soil Temporarily Reprieved from Land Disposal Restrictions

• EPA Proposes Methyl Bromide Ban

• Companies Sued for Herbicide Spill

• New US Sludge Rules

• Australian PM’s Environmental Proposals Criticised

• Australian National Standard for Hazardous Facilities

• New Japanese Packaging Legislation

• Shetlands Oil Spill

• Braer Oil Dispersant Failed Rocky Shore Safety Test

• Health Concerns on Degreasing Chemicals

• Gas Emissions from Abandoned Coal Mines

• Controlling Water and Gas in Decommissioned Pits

• NRA Pilot Study at Wheal Jane

• Ferry Sewage System Deaths

• Bath Reconsiders Stone Mine Problem

• Di-Tertiary Butyl Peroxide Transport Exemption

• MAFF Questioned About Sheep Dip Products

• Contaminated Soils and Other Wastes Sold as Site Fill

• FoE Names Midlands Companies Discharging Red List Substances

• Virus Danger from Tyres

• New Controls on the Use of Asbestos

• Hazard Information Systems

• Greek Oil Tanker Pollutes Spanish Coastline

• Sources of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution in Florida

• Cities Act on Photochemical Smogs

• Oil Threatens Sumatran and Malaysian Coasts

• First Company to sign Environmental Commitment

• Change of Name for Waste Management

• World Industry Council for the Environment Established

• New US/Canadian Waste Exchange Network

• International Solutions to Packaging Waste

• Joint Ventures in the French Waste Incineration Market

• New French Waste Group

• CFC-Free Refrigerant for Sea Tankers

• Wessex Waste Management Buys Waste Management Ltd.

• British Steel Wins Environmental Award

• Thames Buy Simon Engineering

• South West Water Buys Haul-Waste

• Help for Small Businesses

• BFI Interested in Special Wastes in Europe

• Shanks & McEwan Invest in Land Fill Gas Company

• Shell UK Environmental Report

• Wider Horizons for Brown and Root Environmental

• IMO Changes for Tankers

• New Executive Director for UNEP

• US Environmental Law Applied to Antarctica

• Regulation on the Shipment of Hazardous Waste

• Hazardous Waste Incineration Directive Delayed

• Industry Urged to Lobby MEPs Over EC Packaging Directive

• Fresh Impetus to Discussions on EC Carbon Tax

• Proposed EC Action on Environment and Sustainable Development

• Contaminated Land Registers to be Reviewed

• Waste Management Licences - Delayed

• Draft Guidance on Landfill Monitoring and Licence Surrender

• ACBE Sector Report

• Six Environmental Technology Grants Awarded

• Environmentalism and Political Theory - Towards an Ecocentric Approach

• The Polluter Pays Principle and Cost Recovery Charging

• The Greening of British Party Politics

• Valuing the Environment- Economic Approaches to Environmental Evaluation  

• Strathclyde Sludge Disposal Plans

• New Sewage Sludge Incinerator for Yorkshire

• Fibre Optic Sensors Monitor Deposited Waste

• Difficulties in Sludge Disposal

• Reclaimed Polymers Reused by Microwave

• Waste Incineration in the Irish Republic

• New High Temperature Oxidation Waste Treatment Process

• Chlorinated Hydrochlorides Cleaned by Catalyst

• Clean Coal Technology Power Station in Spain

• Innovative Waste Treatment Database Launched in US

• Joint Project for Destruction of Hazardous Compounds

• Dioxin Incineration Stopped in Jacksonville

• New Emission Reduction System

• Cost Effective Alternative to Cadmium Electroplating

• New Hong Kong Incinerator

• Compost from Fish Waste

• Celtic Technologies Clean-up Oil Contaminated Soil and Groundwater

• Costs of Domestic Recycling

• Recycling Plans Criticised

• Expansion of Textile Recycling Expected

• Recycled Thermal Fax Paper

• BP Chemicals Promote Plastics Waste Recovery

• Recovery Unit for Volatile Hydrocarbon Emissions

• Thermoplastic Recyclate Properties Tested

• New Austrian Packaging Legislation

• Hoechst Develop Plastics Recycling Plant

• Non-Corrosive De-Icer Developed from Waste Biomass

• Recycling Facilities Mandatory for Californian Property Developers

• Environmental Assessment of Proposed Battery Recycling Plant

• Bioremediation Enhanced by New Micro-Organism Delivery System

• New Waste Handling Plant in Saskatchewan

• Recycled materials used in Chevrolets

• Containerboard Recycling Mill Ahead of Schedule

• Japanese Develop Cheap Biodegradable Plastic from Lactic Acid.

• Fuel Oils from Chlorinated Waste Plastics

• Paper Recycling Increases in Japan

• Controversy over Rechem Pontypool Plant and Toxic Waste Imports

• Recycling Plant Bought by Local Council

• ICI Produces Model Application for IPC Authorisation

• Chemical Company Fined

• Withdrawal of Contaminated Land Registers

• NRA Chairman Rebuts Expenditure Myth

• Outline Consent Granted for NW Water Treatment Plant

• Environmental Education

• New Environment Programming Committee for CEN

• European Talks Aim to Reduce Sulphur Emissions

• Paper Industry Oppose Proposed Belgian Eco-tax

• Mixed Reaction to Simpler Dutch Environmental Regulations

• Electronics Waste Recycling

• Hungarian Environment Bill Delayed

• German Wastewater Treatment Levy

• Clinton’s Energy Tax Criticised by Chemical Industry

• Illinois Plans to Increase Waste Disposal Fees

• EPA Indemnification Guidelines Worry Clean-up Contractors

• Judge Not Bribed by Marine Shale

• Great Lakes Protected By New Water Regulation

• Ontario Debates An Environmental Bill of Rights

• Sun Co. Sign Environmental Agreement

• Experienced Businessman to Join the DOE

• Methyl Bromide Use in US to be Phased Out

• Japanese Water Regulations Updated

• Israeli Solid Waste Crisis

• Ferry Sewage Systems

• Positioning of Car and Lorry Exhaust Pipes

• First Assessment of Total Refinery Explosion

• Prior Informed Consent Procedure Applied to Exports of hazardous Product

• Pollution from Greek Tannery

• The Ethics of Green Investment Funds

• German Government Provides Clean-up Funds for Polluted Eastern Areas

• Small Firm Consortium for East Asia

• America May Have to Comply with European Regulations

• Environmental Markets in South America

• Effects of German Packaging Legislation

• Weston Link-up with Italian Engineering Company

• Bank Advises Recycling Firms

• Welsh Water Buy Acer

• Swiss Bank Corporation Backs Ecofin

• Budapest Chemical Works Looks for Western Investment

• Motorola Phase Out Use of CFCs

• Pacific Rim Countries Must Balance Trade and the Environment

• Environmental Consultancy for China

• Port Waste Discharges Curtailed

• Reduction in HCFC Cap and Methyl Bromide

• Emissions Register Planned for EC

• EC Preparations for Directive Limiting Organic Solvent Emissions

• Proposed Directive on Controlling VOC Emissions from Petrol Stations

• Monitoring CO2 and Other Greenhouse Gases in EC

• Government Plans for New Environment Agencies Attacked

• Measures to Protect UK Coastline from Oil Pollution

• HMIP First EPA Prosecution

• HMIP Charging Scheme for 1993/94

• Local Authority Air Pollution Control Charges for 1993/94

• The Environment in Europe and North America: Annotated Statistics 1992.

• NEM Acquire Landfill Site

• Loophole in New EC Incinerator Requirements

• Mercury-free Chlorine Plant Opened

• Munitions Disposal in Wales

• Clean Technology Goal for Researchers

• Cleaner Processes with Clay-based Catalysts

• Disposal of Food Waste in the EC

• Zeolites May Cause Mystery Foam

• ICI Recycles Russian Munitions

• Innovative Canadian Technology for PCB Destruction

• Development in HCFC Degradation

• Star Recycling Wins New York Sludge Contract

• Carver-Greenfield Process for Treating Waste Soil

• Disposing of Carbon Dioxide in Aquifers

• Novel System Seals Soil Core Samples

• Paper Recycling in North East Gets Boost

• Severn Bridge Roads May Use Blast Furnace Slag

• Competition and Co-operation in European Recycling.

• Recycling Council Objectives

• Waste Paper Plant Upgraded

• Utilisating Paper Sludge on Agricultural Land

• Microfiltration Process Increases Degreasing Bath Life

• French Battery Recycling Scheme Threatened

• Paper Recycling into Pulp Stocks

• US Navy Recycling Contract

• Niagara Energy-from-Waste Facility Sold

• Clintec Wins Quebec Incineration Contract

• Phoenix Recycling Operation

• Fluor Daniel and ReTec Join Forces

• Plastics Recycling Advances by Mazda

• Oji Improves Recycling Content in Paper Manufacture

• Recycled Bumpers for New Cars

• Hydrocarbon Recovery from Soil

• Merck Fined by Poole Magistrates

• Chemical Company to be Prosecuted by HSE

• ICI Appeal Against Site Licence Conditions

• Mine Closures Concern NRA

• Farmers Face Waste Licensing Burden

• Rechem Criticise Government Intervention over Hazardous Waste Shipment

• Kent Considers Future Waste Management Strategy

• Dutch Incinerators Subject to New Emission Levels

• Dutch Environmental Audit Behind Schedule

• France Starts Contaminated Land Clean-up Programme

• Environmental Co-operation in Eastern Europe

• Safety Reassessment in German Chemical Industry

• Developments in Irish Environmental Legislation

• Environmental Committee Needs New Direction

• NAFTA Environmental Talks Begin

• US EPA Must Reduce Costs

• Du Pont CFC Production to End in 1994

• Environmental Audits in Mexico

• End of BSE Epidemic in Sight

• Use of Organophosphorus S(eep Dips

• Dioxin Contamination in Derbyshire

• Firefighting Foam May Cause Fires

• Discharges from Gold Refineries Pollute the Mediterranean

• Uncertainty About Anthrax Outbreak in Sverdlovsk

• Fatal Explosion at Hoechst PVA Plant

• Sewage Sludge Dumped at Sea Reaches Food Chain

• Capital Spending By European Chemical Industry

• Possible Blue Circle Sale of Waste Management Division

• New CBI Waste Guidelines

• Expansion Planned for US Environmental Businesses

• Mixed Response to First US Emission Permits Sale

• Environmental Groups Form Eco-label Lobby Coalition

• Meeting of UN Commission on Sustainable Development

• G7 Aid to Russia Environmental Conditions

• Energy Taxes Likely in the USA and the EC

• NAFTA Negotiations on Environmental Issues Begin

• Eco-Management and Audit Scheme Approved

• June Launch for Eco-labels in the United Kingdom

• EC Green Paper on Remedying Environmental Damage

• UNICE Comments on Industrial Competitiveness and Environmental Protection

• Future EC Involvement in Environmental Issues

• EC Plans to Reduce Risk from Existing Chemicals

• Essential Halons Nominated

• Pilot Scheme for Chemical Release Inventory

• Environmental Auditing.  An Introduction and Practical Guide. Helen Woolston (ed).  British Library, 1993. ISBN: 0-7123-0789-3

• The OECD Environment Industry: Situation, Prospects and Government Policies @SHL = Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 1992

• A Review of the Environmental Impact of Recycling

• Kent Plans for Waste Disposal in the Long Term

• New Openings for Closed Collieries

• Birmingham Awards Incineration Contract

• Innovative Technology Applied to Filter Beds

• Waste Disposal Com’anies Encounter Difficulties

• Expanded Polystyrene Disposal

• Wheeled Shredders

• Waste Minimisation Opportunities Identified

• New Asbestos Disposal System

• Export of Toxic Waste from Germany Prevented

• Mixed Plastics and Coal Incineration Trial

• German Sico-Cap Dries Paper Mill Sludge

• Restrictions Placed on WTI’s Ohio Incinerator

• Secondary Containment Liner System for Above-Ground Tanks

• New Waste Facilities for New Orleans and Midwest

• New Detoxification System for Metalliferous Hazardous Wastes

• Perox-Pure Chemical Oxidation System Successfully Demonstrated

• Waste Minimisation at Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

• Japanese Waste Minimisation Programme

• National Collection Scheme for Aluminium Foil

• National Recycling Forum Initiatives

• First UK Garden Waste Composting Unit

• Charitable Status Sought for Community Recycling Network

• Cracking Technology for Recycling Mixed Plastics

• Leeds Paint Exchange Project

• Blast Furnace Gas Sludge Reclamation

• New Mobile Test Laboratory for Separation Technology

• Sheffield’s Recycling Plan

• Waste ‘92 Contaminated Land Project Underway

• Polypropylene Recycling Plant Now Operational

• Recycled Car Lights

• Waste Oil Recycling

• New Danish Technology Recovers CFCs from Insulation Foam

• Money for Used Oil in California State Scheme

• Disused Chromium Plant to be Redeveloped

• Pilot Vermicomposting Schemes

• Guelph Plans Full-scale Trial of Wet-Dry Waste Management System

• Japanese Tyre Recycling Plant

• Disposal of Liquid Industrial Waste at Sea Ends

• Clarification of Waste Definition Needed

• Sale of Demolition Waste as Hardcore Blocked

• Policy Following Abandoned Land Register

• Unleaded Petrol Sales Increase

• Legal Aid Granted To Residents

• New Guidelines on Colour Coded Waste Sacks

• Companies Warn about Environment Regulations

• Germany Removes its Imported Toxic Waste from Romania

• Carbon Dioxide Emissions May Exceed EC Targets

• New Dutch Soil Clean-up Regulations Proposed

• Reaction to Belgium’s Planned Eco-Tax

• EC Policy on Sheep Dip

• Head of White House Environmental Office Announced

• US Defence Department Wants to Increase Environmental Budget

• US Military Base Closures

• US Water Treatment Receives Funds

• Proposed EC Energy Tax Causes Concern in Gulf

• Bhopal Prosecutions

• Japan Seeks Environmental Technology Markets Worldwide

• HSE Report on Lessons from International Biosynthetics Incident

• ReChem Plant - No Risk To Health

• White Sea Pollution

• Computer-Tracking of Hazardous Material Shipments Rejected

• Exxon Disagrees on Effects of Valdez Spill

• New Research on Brazil’s Continuing Mercury Contamination Problem

• Waste Management International Announces First Quarter Profits

• Waste Facilities Audit Association Formed

• Auditing the Environmental Auditors

• Laidlaw Reorganises to Accommodate the Recession

• Lancashire Company Installs Innovative Emissions Control Technology

• Sussex County Councils Sponsor Green Business Award

• Legislative Pressures and the Recession Affect Packaging

• Elf Atochem Publishes Cefic Figures for 1992

• Raytheon Forms New Company

• World Map of Hydrogeologic Conditions and Ground-Water Flow Available Shortly

• Environmental Role for NATO

• Export of Hazardous Waste to Africa

• Clean-Up Plan for Central and Eastern Europe

• The Commission’s 1993/1994 Programme and the Environment

• The European Waste Catalogue

• EC Network for Environmental Science and Technology

• Socialists Present European Environmental Action Programme

• MEPs Criticise EC Environmental Policy

• The EC Energy/Carbon Tax Debate

• New Ministerial Appointments

• National Environmental Technology Centre

• DOE Reviewing IPC Regulations

• New Government Advice on Hazardous Chemicals

• Royal Commission Report on Incineration

• Sludge Review

• Municipal Solid Waste Recycling in Western Europe to 1996

• Practical Guide to Environmental Management

• The East European Environment Crisis Its Extent, Impact and Solutions

• The Strategic Approach to Derelict Land Reclamation

• Planned Waste Incinerator Abandoned

• New Multi-Liquid Absorbent

• New Material Offers Cost Benefits in Dye Removal

• ICI’s New Sulphuric Acid Recovery Plant Ends Sea Disposal

• Innovative Ion Exchanger Fibres

•  French Landfill at Rognes Under Scrutiny

• Hospital Incinerators Covered by Many EC Directives

• Sealing Bags for Leaking Tanks and Drums

• Spanish  Authorities Address Waste Disposal

• Water Pollution Reduced by Rhone Poulenc

• Californian Investment in Mexican Hazardous Waste Disposal Facilities

• New Clean-Up Method for Chlorinated Solvents in Soil and Groundwater

• New York’s Waste Management Programme for Dry Cell Batteries

• Hazardous Waste Treatment Capacity for Western Canada

• Ohio Seek Incinerator Approval

• Waste to Energy Plant Planned in Puerto Rico

• Indian Power From Waste Proposal

• Possible Electrochemical Destruction of Pollutants

• Kingston Oil to Focus on UK Recycling

• Increased Range of Waste Plastics Processed by Cascade Extrusion System

• Local Authority Recycling Plans

• Implications of Waste to Energy Plants for UK Recycling Targets

• EC Funding for Local Recycling Projects

• Belgian Packagers Reclamation Initiative

• French Steel Industry Accepts Returned Packaging Waste

• Paper Recycling Within EC Institutions

• Ciba-Geigy Soil Remediation Programme Agreed

• Long Term Composting Contract Abandoned in Oregon

• Regulatory Concessions for Recycled Materials Urged

• US Company to Clean Up Oil Pollution in Ecuador

• New Technique for Recycling Laminated Composite Resins

• Government Help for Farm Waste Management Plans

• HMIP Successfully Prosecute for Dust Emissions

• Tighter Controls on Triorganotin Compounds Proposed

• Extended Scope of Seveso Directive in UK

• Contentious Export of Waste to Mexico Delayed

• Ambitious French Environmental R&D Programme

• EFTA Environmental Standards to be Maintained

• Commission Action on Illegal Waste Traffic

• Environmental Criteria for EC Timber Imports  

• Dutch Launch Environmental Management Certification Programme

• Turkish Landfill Explosion Sparks Review

• Covert Operation to Detect Illegal Hazardous Waste Transport

• North America’s Chlorine Industry Under Pressure

• Connecticut Householders Not  Responsible for Waste Disposal

• New US Sludge Disposal Regulations

• Australian Environment Ministry Open to Tradeable Permits

• Discovery of Illegal Waste Shipment Leads to Conviction in USA

• Safety of Benomyl and Carbendazim Questioned

• Health Concern about Organophosphorus Sheep Dips Expressed

• Safe Disposal of Organophosphorus Sheep Dips

• Helpston Landfill Causes Concern

• Fears of Water Contamination from Collieries

• Croatian War Pollutes Danube

• Environment Canada Acts on Acid Discharges to St. Lawrence River

• Shanks & McEwan Makes Provision for Debts

• Tarmac Sell Econowaste to ARC

• Leigh Interests Announce Results

• Pressure on UK Insurers Eased by US Court Judgement

• Greater Awareness of Environmental Issues in UK Boardrooms

• Wessex Water Announces Increased Profits from Waste

• The Case for an International Court for the Environment

• UNEP Programme Changes Emphasis

• British Green Movement Seeks New Direction

• Changes to Seveso Directives Proposed

• Proposed EC Directive on the Use of Chemicals at Work

• European Environment Council June Meeting

• HMIP Undergoes Internal Reorganisation

• Future Strategy of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution

• First Report on the National Household Waste Analysis Project Published

• HSC Extends Remit of Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances

• DOE and DTI Challenge the Packaging Industry on Recycling

• Revised Air Pollution Guidance Issued

• Consolidation of the Clean Air Acts 1956 and 1968

• Waste Not, Want Not

• Safe Disposal of Clinical Waste

• A Measure of Commitment. Guidelines for Measuring Environmental Performance.

• Venturi Scrubbing Cleans Aluminium Foundry Gases

•  Expanded Polystyrene Compactor

• Odour Problem at Whisky Distillery Solved

• Best Concrete Mix for Silage Effluent Containers

• Vacuum Tanker for Recycling and Disposal

• Oil and Fat Effluent Treatment

• Orange Peel to Replace Ozone Depleting Solvent

• Kodak Builds Photochemical Waste Treatment Plant

• New Developments in Injectors for Sewage Sludge

• Coloured Skips From Welconstruct

•  Waste Handling Equipment from Neatworld

• Falling Film Crystalliser for Naphthalene

• Irish Government Promotes Incineration of Hazardous Waste

• Thermal Recycling Technology for Refinery Waste

• New Ammonia-based Flue Gas Desulphurisation Process

• Quicker Sewage Cleaning with a Magnetic Treatment Plant

• Rubber Degrading Bacteria Discovered

• Disposal of Television Tubes

• Advanced Chemical Waste Treatment Plant Opens in Hong Kong

• Funding Required for Plastic Recycling Scheme

• Electricity from Chicken Litter

• Trees for Restored Landfill Sites

• Thresher Converts Straw to Food or Fuel

• Environmentally Friendly Products from Linseed

• Biogas to Power in East Midlands

• New Director for Warmer

• New Sewage Sludge Recycling Equipment

• Plastic Polymer Cracking to Provide Feedstock

• Swedish IGCC Power Plant to Use Wood Chip Waste

• Israeli Coffee Waste used as Fertiliser

• Aga’s Freezing and Chipping Process for Tyre Recycling

• Commodity Exchange Set Up for Recycled Materials

• Allied Signal’s Clean-up Bill

• Prison Recycling Business

• ASME Urges Mining Tyres to Recover Value

• Flotation Paper Deinking Process

• Farmers Seek Compensation from Yorkshire Water

• Extension to Scrap Metal Duty of Care Exemption

• European Plans to Cut Sulphur Dioxide Emissions

• Government Policy on Waste Management Licensing

• Waste Disposal Plans Outlined

• New Training Scheme for Drivers Transporting Dangerous Goods

• Poland Increases Environmental Protection

• Waste Paper Complaints

• Improved Environmental Performance Reported by Dutch Chemical Industry

• Environmental Fund to Lessen Impact of NAFTA

• Clean-up Laws Slackened in New Jersey

• President Clinton Names Sustainable Development Policy Council Members

• Incinerator Rules Changed in USA

• Court Rules Insurance Companies Not Liable for PCB Cleanup

• Environmental Labelling in China

• Hickson & Welch Fined £250,000

• Certificate of Exemption for the Carriage of Organic Peroxides in Tanks

• Phosphorus Flares Washed Up On Coast

• Hydrofluoric Acid

• Lloyd’s  Join Superfund Talks

• Green Consumerism in Shops and Investments

• British Gas Environmental Review

• CEFIC Guidelines on Environmental Reporting

• Expanding American Alliance to Buy Recycled Products

• Environmental and Energy Meetings between Japan and the EC

• More Protection for Oceans as Amendments Come into Force

• Seven States Sign Council of Europe Civil Liability Convention

• Report of the Berlin Meeting of the Paris/Oslo Commissions

• Exchanging Information on Greenhouse Gases

• Gorbachev Calls for Fundamental Change in Attitude to Environment

• Problems with EC Eco-Labelling Scheme

• Air Pollution Deregulation

• NRA Water Quality Document Sets Out Strategic Aims

• New Chairman for the Advisory Committee on  Business  and the Environment

• Government to Support Institute of Environment and Health

•  Training Scientists to Assess Environment Risks

• New Chemical Information and Packaging Regulations

• New Proposals Affecting Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail

• Manual of Environmental Policy: the EC and Britain

• Pollution Prevention

• Monitoring the Environment

• Project Catalyst to Minimise Waste

• Innovative Sludge Drying Method

• Effluent Process Technology from AEA and Pall

• Environmental Legislation Affects Crematoria

• Improved Working Environment at London Waste Centre

• South West Water Sponsors Agricultural Use of Sewage Sludge

• Rechem’s Pontypool Incinerator Authorised by HMIP

• Aluminium Melter Design Based on Popcorn Machine

• Dissent Over Birmingham Waste Contract

• Marne Pollution Zero Programme

• Environmental Aid for Budapest

• Compact Treatment System for Wastewaters Containing Cyanide

• Low Emissions From Finnish Fluid Bed Boiler

• First Commercial Supercritical Water Oxidation Plant

• Weston Awarded Air Quality Management Contracts

• NOx Removal Costs may be Overestimated

• Landfill Bans for US States

• Flue Gas Desulphurisation in Wyoming

• Commercial Bioremediation Technology

• Wastewater Dyes Removed by Chitin

• Casein Treatment for Oil Spills

• Sludge Depth Meter

• Tyre Disposal In Illinois

• WTI Incinerator Operations Suspended

• Biomass Co-generation Expansion in India

• Small Scale Waste Disposal Facilities Favoured in Australia

• Lower Cost Flue Gas Desulphurisation in Japan

• Flue Gas Desulphurisation System for China’s Shandong Power Plant

• Market Study for Waste Derived Composts

• New Flotation Smelter for Aluminium Scrap Melting

• IBM Recycles Computer Plastics

• BP Plans Plastics Feedstock Recycling Demonstration Plant

• Billiton Lead Recycling Sold

• Elm Tyre to Energy Plant Commissioned

• Concern About Prices for Recycled Glass

• Austrian Quality Label for Recycled Plastics

• Remediation of Stored Hazardous Wastes in Spain

• Biomass Power for the Netherlands

• Shipboard Storage for Waste Plastics in Germany

• Standard Recycling Costs

• New Paper Recycling Capacity in Eastern Europe

• Neural Networks Utilised for Sorting Plastics

• Viscose Fibre from Agricultural By-Products

• Legislation for Tyre Recycling

• Waste Tyre Projects Funded in California

• Canada Plans $200 Million Clean-up of Arctic Military Bases

• Commercialisation for Bioremediation Products

• Daramend Soil Bioremediation Process Now Available

• Customised Packaging from Recycled Paper

• Ford Motor Company Recycling Guidelines

• Composting Food Processing Wastes

• Avon Waste Disposal Policy Upheld

• Waste Disposal and Landfill Levies

• Environmental Code for Ceramics Industry

• EC Eco Label Progress

• Road Tanker Code Published

• New Austrian Waste Packaging Regulations

• Report on International Trade and the Environment

• Belgian Environmental Tax Introduced

• Export of Hazardous Waste from Germany to be Banned

• Ohio Orders Review of WTI’s New Incinerator

• EPA Changes to Superfund Programme.

• Wisconsin Waste Disposal Case

• Fleet Factors Case Decided

• US Bureau of Land Management Potential Liabilities

• EPA Enforcement Division Reorganisation

• Nominations to EPA Posts Published

• FoE Guide to Contaminated Land

• Infection Risk from Dormant Bacteria

• Agricultural Wastes Pollute River Po

• Explosion Damages Hickson’s Irish Plant

• Explosion at Russian Chemical Plant

•  Oil Spill Test Burn Off Newfoundland

• Fears of Acid Leaks from Grounded Ship

• US Chemical Accidents

• Nitric Acid Causes Explosion Killing 70 in China

• Lessons of 1991 TNT Explosion in China

• Nigerian Oil Spill

• Successful Complaint Against ICI Advertisement for HFC

• US Acquisitions by Rust International

• New Chief Executive for Cleanaway

• Waste Management International Plans Expansion in Far East

• EC Contaminated Land Market

• World Bank Includes Environmental Aspects in Project Reviews

• World Bank Aid for Mexico

• Paper and Plastics Company Wins BS 5750 and Aims for BS 7750

• Increased Employment in Californian Recycling Industries

• Reorganisation at Metallgesellschaft

• Increased Bans on the Dumping of Waste at Sea

• New Oil Tankers Must be Fitted With Double Hulls

• Multilateral Trade Organisation

• NAFTA Environmental Impact Statement Not Required in USA

• Baltic Ecological Parliament Established

• METAP (II) Launched in Casablanca

• EC Volatile Organic Carbon Directive

• EC Eco-Label Scheme Criteria

• EC Waste Shipments Regulation Faces Court Challenge

• Implementation of the EC Eco-Management and Audit Scheme in the UK

• Environment Select Committee to Examine Recycling

• Power Stations Allowed to Burn Orimulsion

• NRA Consults on New Charging Scheme

•  Ministers Praise Winners of Queen’s Awards  for  Environmental Achievement

• Environment Industry Yearbook

• Environmental Information: A Guide to Sources

• Business and the Environmental Challenge: A Guide for Managers

• Environmental Opportunities: Building Advantage out of Uncertainty.

• Pollutant Industries

• Environmental Law

• Common Household Products: A Review of Their Potential Environmental Impacts and Waste Management Options

• Smart Landfill Gas Flare Installed at Kent Landfill

• Road Construction Waste

• Ciba Geigy Reduce Emissions at Grimsby Site

• Proposed Waste to Energy Plant

• Few Problems for Straw Disposal

• Extension of Mucking Landfill Opposed by Essex County Council

• Fabric Filter Cuts Foundry Emissions

• German Waste to be Imported to UK

• UK Waste Management Plans Medical Incinerator

• Company Reduces Sludge Disposal Problems by Centrifugation

• Emissions in Ireland Challenged

• Clean Incinerator Programme Established by Industry

• Water Paint Removal for Airline

• 200th Pulveriser Sold to French Recycling Plant

• Pyrolysis Process for Recycling Tyres

• Environmental Regulations Offer Market Opportunities

• DuPont Cancels Hazardous Waste Incinerator Plans

• Russia and USA Exchange Information on Clean-up Technologies

• CFC Destruction Method Applied to VOCs

• Pilot Plant in Indonesia Desulphurises Coal

• Saudi Arabian Waste Incinerator

• Overpackaging Wastes Money and Resources

• New Waste Paper Recycling Plant

• Markets for Waste Derived Compost

• EPP to Recycle Waste Plastics Collected by Local Authorities

• Aluminium Federation Proposes Packaging Waste Framework

• Nottingham Waste Recycling Plant

• Cambridgeshire’s Successful Community Composting Experiment

• Poultry Processor Benefits from New Waste Disposal System

• Dundee’s Peat Free Compost

• German Recycling Legislation Adopted by Danish Companies

• Recyclable Biodegradable Plastic

• Comparable Economics of Rubber Recycling Methods

• KEAC Extends Sales of Sand Reclamation Furnace to France

• Aluminium Recycling On the Up

• German Plastic Recycling Encounters Problems

• Metals Recovered from Incineration Ash

• Mobile Mercury Clean-up Methods Under Test

• California Builds Largest Wastewater Recycling Plant in USA

• Liquefaction Process Converts Plastic Waste to Oil

• Battery Collection Case Study

• Plastic Exchange for Chicago

• Waste Exchange Needs Adequate Funding

• Japan Seeks New Measures to Deal with Plastics Waste

• Law Lords to Decide on Pollution Liability

• Landspreading Control Urged

• Waste Disposal Fines On the Increase

• The Environmental Standard BS 7750

• ACBE Recommends Strategic Waste Management Review

• Reclamation Association has Parliamentary Adviser.

• NAWDC Annual Conference

• Possible Environmental Deregulation Condemned by AEC

• Revised Guidance on Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Micro-organisms

• Bankers Urged to Accept Some Liability for Pollution

• Environmental Protection Agency for Italy

• CIS Demands Environmental Programmes

• EC Packaging Directive Under Fire

• Dutch Hazardous Waste Proposals

• New Incinerator Rules for Hazardous Waste

• Costs to Oil Industry of Environmental Compliance

• New Regulatory Agency for Texas

• Another EPA Move Towards Pollution Prevention

• NAFTA Approved by US Congress

• First Response by Oil Spill Clean-up Company

• Tougher Standards for Chinese Chemical Industry

• Environmental Conference for Developing Countries

• Rechem May Appeal Following Water Pollution Conviction

• Eurotunnel Policy on Hazardous Freight

• Heat Stress Monitor for Protective Suits

• Contradictory Claims on Missing Cargo of Sulphuric Acid

• New Zealand’s Pollution Problems Highlighted by Greenpeace

• New Public Information Policy for the World Bank

• MRM Becomes Partner with RUST

• Chemical Waste Management to Reduce Costs

• US Market for UK Life Cycle Analysis Software

• Environmental Highlights from Rhone Poulenc’s 1992 Annual Report

• Shell Backing for Three Business Environment Associations

• European Lighting Industry Worries About Eco-labels

• London Energy and Environment Forum

• Barito Pacific Boycott Campaign Gathers Momentum

• Pros and Cons of Toxics Release Inventory

• Environmental Industrial Accidents

• More Countries to Ratify Global Warming Convention

• Ozone Hole Over Antarctica Is Biggest Yet

• Environment Chamber Established at International Court of Justice

• Directive to Limit Carbon Dioxide Emissions

• Progress for EC Landfill Draft Directive

• Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive Adopted

• Landfill Co-Disposal Practices

• NRA Annual Report - 1992

• Criticism of  Government’s Battery Plans

• UK Nominations for Essential Uses for Ozone Depleting Substances

• UK Withdraws Essential Use Nominations for Halons for 1994

• Canadian Environmental Policy: Ecosystems, Politics, and Process

• International Law and the Environment

• Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment

• Sustainable Waste Management - The Adur Project

• Methodologies for Treating Wastewater

• Belfast’s Waste Disposal Strategy

• New Company Offers On-site Hospital Waste Management Service

• Cleaner Power Generation Systems Under Review by Commission

• Successful Danish Biogas Pilot Plant to be Expanded

• EPA to set Glycol Guidelines

• First New Landfill in Massachusetts Since 1990

• Parsons Wins Hazwaste Contract from US Army

• New Integrated Waste Management Project Based in Quebec

• Delays Over Incinerator Permit in Washington State

• Safety Belt for Oil Tankers

• Sorbents Stockpiled at Australian Regional Centre

• No Money for Old Paper

• Hoppecke Offer Scrap Battery Recycling Service

• Safety-Kleen Extends Its Solvent Recovery Service

• BGR to Reduce the Price of Cullet

• Proposals to Revive Faltering Lead-Acid Battery Recovery in UK

• Austrian Government Evaluates Organic Composts

• Household Waste to Sand in Hours

• Norway Plans Mixed Plastics Recycling Facility

• Biogas Plant to Heat Finnish Hospital

• Plastics Waste Reclamation Scheme for Norway

• In-Situ Soil Remediation for Mixed Waste

• Contamination Removal Enhanced by Direct Current Electric Fields

• Chrysler Demonstrates Recycling Commitment by Using Recycled Material Body Panels

• Research Agreement to Turn Coal and Waste Products into Oil

• Polycarbonate Tile Recycling in Japan

• Japan’s Progress in Battery Recycling

• Government Policy on Contaminated Land

• Environmental Standards will be Maintained

• Draft Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail Regulations

• Responses to European Commission’s Environmental Liability Green Paper

• Rechem Considering Appeal Over HCB Discharge Levels

• Proposed Environmental Agency

• Italian Industries Demand Action on Waste Legislation

• French Insurers Worried by Court Ruling on Liability for Delayed Action Pollution

• Landfill Problems in France

• US Plan to Combat Global Warming

• Appeal Court Ruling Affects Application of Liability Under CERCLA

• EPA’s Nominations for CFC Essential Use Exemptions

• Senior Executives Question Efficacy of Superfund

• Companies Seek Leave to Challenge Government Actions Under Superfund

• Bethlehem Steel Fined for Disposal

• Possible Anthrax Contamination in Pontypridd

• Eurotunnel Policy for Transporting Hazardous Goods

• Waste Disposal from Greek Ships

• European Commission to Prosecute for Non-Implementation of Asbestos Directives

• The Summitville Mine Clean-up

• Aerobic Environmental Degradation of PCBs Detected

• Countries Disagree Over Dangerous Goods Rail Transport Standards

• Attwoods to Sell Struggling US Recycling Subsidiary

• Increasing Insurance Cover for Pollution Liability

• Banks Concerned Over Pollution Liability

• US Environmental Consultants Begin Work in Former USSR

• Caird Goes into the Red Following Write-Downs

• No Deal between Browning-Ferris and Western Waste

• Philip Environmental to Buy Two US Waste Companies

• Reduction in Marine Oil Pollution

• Implementation of UNCED

• Deliberations of GATT Environment Committee

• Maastricht Treaty May Speed Up Environmental Legislation Process

• EC Publishes Draft Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive

• LIFE Priorities for 1994

• Cash Boost for International Environmental Centre in UK

• Directive on Assessment of Risks to Man and the Environment

• New Incentives for Recyclers in 1994

• UK Organisations Congratulated on EC LIFE Funding

• UK Calls on Germany to Take Action Over Packaging Waste Mountain

• HSC Review of Regulations Seeks Evidence on Benefits or Costs

• Commitment to Tougher Waste Laws

• Government Grants to Reduce VOC and CFC Emissions

• Consultation on Air Quality Monitoring Networks Launched

• Progress Report on New Local Authority Air Pollution Controls

• Characterisation of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 1992 Update

• Hazardous Waste Clean-up, Liability, and Litigation: A Comprehensive Guide to Superfund Law

• Magnetotactic Bacteria and Heavy Metal Removal

• Ultraviolet Oxidation Stabilises Contaminated Liquids

• Clinical Waste Incinerator Proposed for Letchworth

• New Venture for Sea Bed Hazardous Waste Clean-up

• Lanstar Extends Waste Treatment Facilities

• Alternative Aluminium Melting Technology Wins Two Awards

• New Household waste Incinerator Planned for Cleveland

• Exhaust Gas Scrubber on Trial at Butterly Brick

• Increased Deinking at Schongau Mill

• Durr Supply A Range of Paint Plant Technology

• US Postal Service Reduces Pollution

• US Manufacturers Send Hazardous Waste Off Site

• Molten Metal Baths to Recycle Waste

• Underground Storage Tank Management Software

• Du Pont Report Heralds Co-operation

• Bacterial Gel for Heavy Metal Removal and Recovery

• Prison Expands Waste Food Programme

• Mechanical Mining Technique Applied to Waste Treatment

• Monitoring Air Quality in China

• New Membrane Cuts Costs

• Aylesford Paper Mill

• New Methods for Identifying Recyclable Plastics in Vehicles

• Recycling Leftover Ready Mixed Concrete

• Product Design for Recycling

• Reed Beds Absorb Mine Pollution

• Modified Sewage Sludge for Agricultural Use

• Cyclic Reactor Improves Polyurethane Glycolysis

• Novel Aluminium Can Recycling Scheme Launched in Northern Ireland

• Plastics Collection May Cease

• Increase in European Can Recycling Rate

• Recycling Association for European Cities

• Award and Orders for Halon Recycling Machine

• Comco Martech Uses Bioremediation on Former Soviet Bases in Eastern Europe

• Successful Swedish Paper Recovery

• Compost from the North London Waste Authority

• New Remediation Techniques for Ultra-Cleaning of Contaminated Soils

• Three-dimensional Modelling Aids Clean-Up Programme

• Hazardous Waste Detoxified by Insect Enzymes

• Potential for Chemical Intermediates from Lignin

• Chrysler Makes Increasing Use of Recycled SMC

• CFC Recycling Process Wins Canadian Award

• New Oxygen-Based Process Cleans and Bleaches Mixed Paper Waste

• Aluminium Recycling Process Simplified

• Vendor Information System for Innovative Treatment Technologies

• Predictions for Recycling of Automotive Materials to 1997

• Commercial Scale Metal Dust Recycling

• Novon Compostable Cutlery

• LAWDC Reject Possible Landfill Levy

• Recycling At All Costs Criticised by House of Lords

• Draft Offshore Installation Regulations and Code of Practice Published

• Scottish Farmers Blame Rechem For Death of Cows

• HMIP’s Administrative Workload

• Environmental Code of Practice for Engineers Approved

• British Scrap Federation Half Yearly Meeting

• French Waste Oil Collection Law Breaches Free Trade

• EC Marking System for Batteries and Accumulators Containing Dangerous Substances

• Germany Agrees to Stop Exporting Waste Plastics to UK

• Island Exemption from Carbon Dioxide Tax

• EC Questions Incinerators Sited in Cork

• French Ban on Waste Imports

• Slovakia’s Environmental Laws Explained

• Restructuring of Dutch Environmental Tax Legislation Proceeds

• Chemical Industry Councils Find a Role in the USA

• Municipalities Liable for Waste Disposal under CERCLA

• Injunction Applied to Leak Detection Device

• California Approves Market Based Air Pollution Abatement Scheme

• Tax Incentives for Japanese Recyclers

• Environmental Taxes Not Included in Japanese Bill

• Taiwan Mounts Big Clean-up

• Database of Environmental Information on Developing Countries

• Environmental Advice for Corporations in South Africa

• Australia and New Zealand Examine Implications of Contaminated Land Liability

• Water Supplies Contaminated by Unleaded Petrol Leaks

• Irish EPA Review Hickson’s Licenses

• E-Mail Helps Pakistan Deal With Hazardous Chemical Spill

• Environmental Scheme for New Industrial Buildings

• Attwoods to Sell Recycling Subsidiary

• UK’s First Tyres-to-Energy Power Station Opens

• Economics of HDPE Bottle Recycling

• Malcolm Wood

• Insurers Face $850 Million Claim Over Exxon Valdez

• Northumbrian Water’s Half-Year Performance Below City’s Expectations

• US Environmentalists Criticise GATT Settlement

• Environmental Agreement Signed Between Germany and Israel

• Permanent Global Environment Fund Sought

• Caribbean Information Centre Based in Puerto Rico

• International Agencies in Asia and t(e Pacific

• Oil Spill Pollution Control

• European Environment Agency Officially Launched

• Packaging Eco-balances for Waste Recovery Targets

• EC Recycling Targets Agreed

• Industry View of Proposals to Revise the Seveso Directive

• EC Ignores US Global Warming Report

• House of Lords Rules on Pollution Liability

• New Environmental Technology Best Practice Programme

• Climate Change Workshops

• Royal Commission Invites Evidence on Soil Pollution

• New Definition for Waste

• Waste Management Licensing and Environmental Costs of Waste Disposal Options

• The East European Environment Crisis Its Extent, Impact and Solutions

• The Strategic Approach to Derelict Land Reclamation

• Planned Waste Incinerator Abandoned

• New Multi-Liquid Absorbent

• New Material Offers Cost Benefits in Dye Removal

• ICI’s New Sulphuric Acid Recovery Plant Ends Sea Disposal

• Innovative Ion Exchanger Fibres

•  French Landfill at Rognes Under Scrutiny

• Hospital Incinerators Covered by Many EC Directives

• Sealing Bags for Leaking Tanks and Drums

• Spanish  Authorities Address Waste Disposal

• Water Pollution Reduced by Rhone Poulenc

• Californian Investment in Mexican Hazardous Waste Disposal Facilities

• New Clean-Up Method for Chlorinated Solvents in Soil and Groundwater

• New York’s Waste Management Programme for Dry Cell Batteries