An Italian zero-waste and anti-incineration campaigner and a Colombian recycling campaigner named as two of the six winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize 2013.

WALES seems certain to miss a 52% recycling target for 2012-13, according to the latest figures. “The problem is the Welsh Government just hasn’t got its priorities right and it’s not taking the lead on recycling, which it could do. And I think it’s muddied its own waters by signing up to incineration programmes, which are heavily dependent on waste of any kind.”

'Our standard of living depends on how we use resources. Tomorrow's companies must be either resource efficient or they cease to exits'.

ANTI-INCINERATION campaigners are refusing to abandon their fight against a £500 million mass burner planned for Haresfield, insisting the project is 'not a done deal'.

MORE than 6,000 people have joined the fight against the possible construction of an incinerator on Deeside.

A CONTROVERSIAL proposed waste incinerator will go before York councillors again.

Human rights campaigners are celebrating after the West London Waste Authority ('WLWA') excluded French multinational Veolia from a £485 million contract covering 1.4 million inhabitants of the London boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond-upon-Thames, for treatment of residual domestic waste.

Anaerobic digestion project was expected to generate 60 jobs between the development and operational stages.

PERTH councillor Peter Barrett yesterday expressed his amazement that applicants for a highly controversial waste plant in Perth have added to their plans.

A controversial plan to build an incinerator to burn most of South Wales' municipal waste could be in jeopardy if Labour makes gains in next year's local government elections, it has emerged.

The commission has been urged to hold companies operating in the EU legally accountable for any "harm" they cause to people and the environment around the world.

A team from Imperial College, London, has been commissioned to carry out the inquiry by the Health Protection Agency after fears were raised about the health risks of incinerators, particularly for young children.

Following a public inquiry, the Secretary of State Eric Pickles has refused planning permission for Veolia’s proposed 180,000 tonne waste incinerator in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire.

Iceland's National Audit Office has reprimanded the country's environment agency and environment ministry for failing to comply with pollution monitoring requirements set by the EU regarding waste incineration.

CAMPAIGNERS aiming to block a controversial waste incinerator in the heart of the North Yorkshire countryside are drawing up their next set of battle plans.

Campaigners have issued a battlecry to Frodsham and Helsby residents to ‘Say No!’ to Peel Energy’s proposed wood burning plant.

Plans to build Europe's largest waste-to-energy treatment plant in East Renfrewshire have been criticised by a top politician.

Environment Agency Wales has escalated investigations into recent permit breaches at the Material Recovery and Energy Centre (MREC), Crymlyn Burrows.

About 8,000 laying hens that ate the contaminated feed have been destroyed, and as many as 120,000 eggs recalled, most of which were sold before Dec. 23, although on Tuesday there were concerns that dioxin-tainted eggs could still be on store shelves.

DELIGHTED campaigners have won their year-long battle against plans to build an incinerator in Middlewich. Cheshire East Council’s planning committee unanimously rejected Covanta’s controversial proposal at a heated three-hour debate on Monday.

According to a recently released New Economics Foundation (NEF) report entitled A Bit Rich: Calculating the real value to society of different professions waste recycling workers produce a far better social return than do bankers or advertising executives.

A booklet promoting a SITA incinerator proposal has been banned by the UK Advertising Standards Authority due to a large number of factual errors.

News that the Danish Energy Agency is stalling on plans to introduce new trash incineration plants should be welcomed by anyone who likes to breathe clean air.

02 March, 2009. Several hundred Hungarian and Austrian environmentalists protested on Saturday against a planned waste incinerator to be built in eastern Austria near the Hungarian border.

Lunedì, 26 Gennaio 2009. L’Enel chiamata in giudizio da “Diritto al Futuro”. Gli inceneritori non producono energia rinnovabile Lo sancisce una disposizione dell’Unione Europea: Ogni utente italiano paga un sovrapprezzo del 7% Si è svolta questa mattina a Palazzo Valentini, sede della Provincia di Roma, la conferenza stampa promossa dall’Associazione “Diritto al Futuro” per la presentazione della vertenza legale nei confronti del gestore della rete elettrica diretta al recupero del sovrapprezzo destinato alle fonti rinnovabili, utilizzato invece per finanziare gli inceneritori.

13 January 2009. Campaigners voiced their anger tonight after county councillors rejected calls for an independent investigation into any potential health risks of building a £100m incinerator in Oxfordshire.

Hungarian MEP Peter Olajos said on Friday he had submitted a petition to head of the European Parliament's Petition Committee David Lowe to protest against a planned waste incinerator project near Austria's border with Hungary.

‘‘Waste is a lot of carbon. Surely everyone knows this belongs in the soil or the economy, not the air.’’ This is according to sustainability analyst James Greyson, who runs global issues thinktank BlindSpot. Working in theNato Science Programme and the UN Climate Neutral Network, Blind-Spot develops strategies for every nation to transform old problems into new economic opportunities. It provides research and advice on how major global problems can be rapidly reversed.

18 September, 2008. Research examining the main components of residual waste - the waste left over after reuse, recycling and composting - has identified the measures needed at local authority, central Government and EU level to increase recycling.

ECJ offers guidance on waste to energy plantsMRW, UK - Sep 29, 2008Guidance on the legal definition of waste to energy plants has been offered by the European Court of Justice, which will help waste and electricity ...

Waste Strategy Board unveiled for South East Englandletsrecycle.com, UK - 2 hours agoWhile the board is not expected to prioritise action on municipal waste, it is set to adopt zero waste as one of its aims with a big emphasis on making use ...

Waste incinerators ? are we seeing democracy go up in smoke?Public Servant Online, UK - 4 hours agoEven when elected representatives are made aware of local opposition to contentious proposals like waste incineration, a ?leave it to the officers? culture ...

e-waste crisis in India and ChinaElectronicsWeekly.com, UK - Sep 24, 2008The Basel "ban" was based around an attempt to stop the developed world shipping e-waste to developing countries in particular for recycling. ...

Friends of the Earth call for 'zero waste' policy actionletsrecycle.com, UK - 18 hours ago... products in a bid to reduce the amount of residual waste sent to landfill to zero, according to a report published today by Friends of the Earth. ...

"No alternative" to incineratorThe Cornishman, UK - 17 hours agoTHE waste company behind plans to build an incinerator on the doorstep of a clay country village last night admitted that there is no plan B if the ...Hundreds protest against incinerator Western Morning Newsall 4 news articles

Controversial plans for a waste-fuelled power station in Cheshire have been approved by the government. The plant at the Ineos Chlor chemical factory site in Runcorn will use household waste to provide electricity for the huge complex.

12 September 2008. The separate collection and recycling of PET bottles is much more environmentally friendly than sending it to energy recovery with the household waste.

A CONTROVERSIAL £330m power plant fuelled by waste will be built near the banks of the Mersey, despite claims it will create a “25-year nightmare” for the people of Liverpool and Runcorn. Ineos Chlor will be allowed to construct the combined heat and power station, with a capacity of 100 mw, at its chemical plant in Runcorn.

Latest waste-to-energy plant given go-aheadBusiness Green, UK - Sep 16, 2008The government today further underlined its support for waste-to-energy projects, giving the go ahead for Ineos Chlor to construct a 100 MW combined heat ...

Work has got underway at the site of the new Indaver incinerator near Duleek in the past week. Duleek objectors say they will fight for robust independent controls Work on the controversial waste incinerator at Carranstown, Duleek – Ireland’s first commercial thermal treatment plant – finally began last week, almost a decade after it was first proposed.

Italy mobsters block efforts to clean up toxic trash heaps SANTA MARIA CAPUA VETERE, ITALY -- Raffaele del Giudice was a crusader. Squeezed into a sports jacket and a beat-up Fiat, he roamed the illegal trash dumps of southern Italy, covering his nose against the stench and exposing what he considers the ecological crime of the century.

Shipping our plastic bottles to China produces less CO2 than sending them to UK landfill, says WRAP

WB representative: "We are ready for cooperation with Azerbaijan on most projects" 26 July 2008 [10:17] - Today.Az http://www.today.az/news/business/46658.html

A study outlining the relative cost of different waste treatment options and how they are expected to change in the future has been published by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).

The value of second-hand plastic has risen so rapidly that mining operations to dig it out of rubbish dumps are forecast to begin within the decade. Waste suitable for recycling is already being dug out of landfill sites in the United States and it is thought that commodity prices are on the verge of making it a profitable option in Britain.

In an effort to galvanise public opinion, the UK Without Incineration Network (UK WIN) has released a map showing where the planned incinerators would be located. Activists say each incinerator would cost millions of pounds, burn thousands of tones of valuable resources and emit large quantities of greenhouse gases.