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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