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- Lagos signs MOU for solid waste management 5 Dec 2009 23:40 GMT
... Lagos signs MOU for solid waste management LAGOS State governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has ... management project will deliver a model for Africa. While thanking the Clinton Global Initiative and ...
- World Bank to invest $5.5 billion in North African solar 11 Dec 2009 03:46 GMT
... of investment money for North African solar power projects. Initial ... project. The North African facilities won't generate nuclear waste, though. The project will save (as compared to traditional ...
- Recycled Wastes and Good Money 3 Dec 2009 09:55 GMT
... Recycling of wastes is a profit oriented business; ... This is a key factor for modern waste management. Disused products from polyethylene such as nylon ... Ade Adenekan is the Executive Director of Pan-African Reconciliation Centre in Lagos, he was for ...
- Cement industry mulling over '©waste-to-energy alternatives 10 Dec 2009 22:19 GMT
... The use of waste or alternative fuels and resources (AFRs) is 
beginning to ... explosives, mineral acids, radioactive waste, 
unsorted municipal garbage 
and high-concentration cyanide waste. He said the ... permanent-disposal waste option and support the National Waste Management Strategy. ...
- Tightening legislation sees significant growth '©in waste handling sector 10 Dec 2009 22:51 GMT
... The South African hazardous waste management market is 
experiencing rapid growth owing ... growth owing to tightening legislation related to waste collection, transportation and disposal. Environmental inspectors have been pressuring waste-generating companies ...
- Egypt's Citadel Capital sells two minority stakes for $55m 8 Dec 2009 11:53 GMT
... also acquired a controlling stake in two solid waste management businesses - The Egyptian Company for Solid ... - The Egyptian Company for Solid Waste Recycling (ECARU) and the Engineering Tasks Group (ENTAG) ...
- Getting Everyone Thinking with HP's Recycling Scheme 3 Dec 2009 19:38 GMT
... THURNAU (GERMANY) — Hewlett-Packard Co. has been thinking green ... teamed up with a German company to recycle disposable ink cartridges from HP printers. Once ... or incinerators, aggravating the problem of solid waste pollution. Together with its partner Produkte Durch ...
- Minister appeals for African nations 5 Dec 2009 08:19 GMT
... available adequate and predictable financial resources to African countries as a contribution to fight against ... change slated for December 7-8 in Denmark. Zambia’s position on climate change resonates with the ... arising from increased mining and industrial activities, waste management, deforestation, land degradation, water and air pollution ...
- Tiger Woods jokes, garbage pickers and Early Grey 9 Dec 2009 18:10 GMT
... Copenhagen Notebook: Tiger Woods jokes, garbage pickers and Early Grey December 09, 2009, 11:21 AM ... journalists and NGO types at the about waste management. Apparently, the folks behind the Kyoto ... amount of material from landfills through informal recycling and composting set-ups — will suffer. In ...
- Egypt's Citadel sells stakes to broaden portfolio 8 Dec 2009 12:10 GMT
... other areas CAIRO, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Egypt's Citadel Capital ( ) said on Tuesday ... footprint to include new sectors such as solid waste management," Citadel said in an emailed statement. Citadel, ...
- South Africa: Medical Waste Horror 3 Dec 2009 00:41 GMT
... Welkom is the Green Scorpions' biggest medical waste discovery to date. The dumping breaks waste management laws and poses serious public health risks, ... Garden Hospital in Chatsworth. The hospitals have waste-disposal contracts with the Wasteman Group, which includes ...
- Waste saga deepens 3 Dec 2009 06:51 GMT
... found another two sites of buried medical waste in the Welkom area in the Free ... the waste until a suitable solution for disposal, either a certified landfill or incinerator, could ... been dumped there by South Africa's second-largest waste management company, Wasteman. It included bandages, body parts ...
- More medical waste dumps found 3 Dec 2009 10:37 GMT
... found another two sites of buried medical waste in the Welkom area in the Free ... the waste until a suitable solution for disposal, either a certified landfill or incinerator, could ... been dumped there by South Africa's second-largest waste management company, Wasteman. It included bandages, body parts ...
- Hazardous Waste is Not All Waste After All 3 Dec 2009 16:58 GMT
... paid between 120-130,000 Euros per ton of waste delivered. Wuttke says that what makes matters ... should pay for the costs of hazardous waste management even if it means passing the burden ... in most industrial processes, more investment in recycling technologies, as is the case of BRAL ...
- How Europe's Discarded Computers Are Poisoning Africa's Kids 4 Dec 2009 15:50 GMT
... People in the West throw away millions of old computers every ... scrap. But the toxic elements in the waste are slowly poisoning them. According to the ... It costs about €3.50 ($5.30) to properly dispose of an old CRT monitor in Germany. ...
- Nanofilm CEO Rickert to Speak at Nanotech Business Summit Conference Meets in Cairo Egypt, December 5-6, 2009 4 Dec 2009 05:49 GMT
... Dr. Scott Rickert, President and CEO of Nanofilm, is a ... Today's Surfaces to Solve Energy, Environmental, And Waste Problems.” , 2009 -- Dr. Scott Rickert, President ... approaches are enabling breakthrough applications that reduce solid waste, improve the efficiency of , curtail energy ...
- Libya straddles isolation and re-engagement 5 Dec 2009 14:29 GMT
... The elaborately named "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyyah" ... independent visitor to Libya: cars and public transport are flagged down as they journey from ... town of Ghadames undergoing mass-scale renovation. Modern garbage amid Roman ruins in Libya. In the ...
- Critics slam e-waste policing efforts 3 Dec 2009 18:47 GMT
... Two and a half years on from the introduction of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, the ... manufacturers to take responsibility for the safe recycling and disposal of their equipment, either by ...
- Recycling Discarded Flip-Flops 8 Dec 2009 15:50 GMT
... The once-pristine Nyongo Sharif beach along Kenya's northern coast, ... unlikely dumping ground for the world's plastic garbage. But the Somali upwelling, a powerful current, ... “Tons and tons and tons of plastic waste, including flip-flops, flow down rivers and clog drainage ...
- Hand over used phones for recycling 10 Dec 2009 21:54 GMT
... Seeking to lessen pollution in Uganda, Nokia, the world’s largest ... “expired” phones to hand them over for recycling. Ms Dorothy Ooko, the Nokia communications manager ... among manufacturing corporations, which are scrambling for waste as a source of raw materials to ...
- South Africa's National Planning Commission and tackling poverty 4 Dec 2009 18:07 GMT
... In light of South Africa's entrenched poverty, William Gumede argues that ... every resource and talent at the country's disposal, Gumede writes, and instilling a culture 'where ... that the country could not afford to waste the littlest of resources. These central planning ...
- Cape Town firm pioneers production of biodiesel from waste cooking oil, chicken fat 10 Dec 2009 22:19 GMT
... A Cape Town-based renewable-energy company, BioGreen Diesel, is currently pioneering ... Diesel, is currently pioneering the conversion of waste cooking oil into a less expensive, pollution-free ... of using a biodesel blend to fuel transport trucks. By using a biodiesel/diesel mix, Pick ...
- Turning trash into treasure in Cairo 8 Dec 2009 05:20 GMT
... few Cairo families have begun to recycle waste -- now that the nation's pigs are gone -- ... to produce hot water for families in Garbage City. This is where thousands of freelance ... (CID), a consulting group that specialises in waste management. She said the project is a "good ...
- From trash to treasure 9 Dec 2009 05:36 GMT
... few Cairo families have begun to recycle waste — now that the nation's pigs are gone ... Nasser slums, which are known locally as Garbage City. He runs Solar Cities, a non-governmental ... (CID), a consulting group that specialises in waste management. She said the project is a "good ...
- Turning trash into treasure, and keep... 8 Dec 2009 19:14 GMT
... few Cairo families have begun to recycle waste by generating biogas from rubbish. It is an ambitious ... Nasser slums, which are known locally as Garbage City. He runs Solar Cities, a non-governmental ... (CID), a consulting group that specialises in waste management. She said the project is a "good ...
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