Waste, a huge problem

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Waste, a huge problem




by moinsdewatt » 15/05/18, 22:23

Submerged with waste, Moscow suffocates

By Ottilia Ferey, AFP agencies the 15 / 05 / 2018

Russia produces nearly 70 million tonnes of waste a year, according to estimates by the Greenpeace environmental organization. Selective sorting only exists in about one hundred Russian cities and most waste has been accumulating for decades in increasingly polluting landfills.

Moscow suffocates. The waste accumulating in landfills, with their unpleasant odors and toxic waste, is insupporting the inhabitants of the periphery of the Russian capital. And incineration, a solution brandished by the authorities, is far from satisfying everyone. According to Greenpeace, over the last ten years, the volume of waste in Russia has increased by 30%. Only 2% of this waste is incinerated and 7% recycled, while the rest is stored in landfills.

"Russia seems to realize the prediction of the physicist Niels Bohr that humanity will die by suffocating under its own waste," says a head of Greenpeace-Russia, Alexei Kisselov. In the vicinity of Moscow, 24 dumps have been closed in the last five years because they had reached the maximum dimensions, while 15 others - huge stinking mountains in the open - continue to receive new masses of polluting waste unsorted. "Most were created 50 years ago, without any gas treatment technology and wastewater" that flow, recognizes the local Ministry of Ecology.
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Faced with this ecological disaster, the Russian government has promised to build five waste incineration plants: four in the Moscow region and one in Kazan, on the Volga. The first two plants, capable of incinerating 700.000 tonnes of waste per year and producing each 70 megawatts of electricity, must be completed in 2021 at Voskressensk, in the south-east of Moscow, and at Naro-Fominsk, in the Northeast. "The goal is to stop waste disposal in landfills," says Andrei Chipelov, director of RT-Invest, which is developing the project.
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by moinsdewatt » 16/05/18, 18:08

Putin will envy us this:

The new Suez sorting center in Limeil-Brévannes will sort 60 000 tons of waste per year

PATRICK DESAVY Factory New the 16 / 05 / 2018

Thanks to an investment of 15 million euros Suez has built in Limeil-Brevannes (Val-de-Marne) a new highly automated sorting center that will process 60 000 tons of waste per year.

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The new Suez sorting center in Limeil-Brévannes will sort 60 000 tons of waste per year.

The Suez group has inaugurated the 15 May, its new generation sorting center Limeil-Brevannes (Val-de-Marne) which represented an investment of 15 million euros and employs 90 employees according to Marie-Ange Debon, director France, Italy, Central and Eastern Europe of Suez.

The new center has a processing capacity of 60 000 tons of waste per year, twice as much as the equipment it replaces and which was installed on the same site. Already fully loaded only a few months after its commissioning, it can sort 13 different streams from garbage from a population basin of about a million inhabitants. The establishment can also handle the flows from the Parisian guidelines set up by Suez as part of the Réco project aimed at recovering plastic bottles and cans. Once sorted the different waste (paper, wood, cardboard, metals, plastics, etc.) are oriented towards specialized recovery channels.

"The characteristic of this equipment is to be innovative and very structured with a process very close to industrial processes", specifies Marie-Ange Debon. Thus the technologies and equipment implemented (optical sorting, sorting by size and weight, sorting by magnets, etc.) make it possible to have a very high level of automaticity and speed.

The financing of the new plant was supported by Ademe and Citeo (a company born from the merger of Eco-Emballages and Ecofolio).


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by moinsdewatt » 16/05/18, 21:34

E-waste: Thousands of illegal tons in Nigeria via used cars

Jacqueline Charpentier 20 April 2018 

An 2 study of used electrical and electronic equipment (UEEE) sent to Nigeria, mainly from European ports, revealed a serious problem of non-compliance with international and national rules governing these shipments.
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A used car filled with used electronic equipment the majority of which no longer works - Credit: UNU & BCCC-Africa

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European e-waste sent illegally to Nigeria in used-market vehicles
UNU & BCCC-Africa

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by moinsdewatt » 13/07/18, 20:49

Recycling is piling up in the United States because China does not want more

11 juilelt 2018

For the past few months, the metropolitan Baltimore-Washington recycling plant has had a problem: it has to pay to get rid of the paper and plastic it sorts, instead of selling them. Because China does not buy any more, affirming that they are too "contaminated".

The 900 tons of recycling spilled by 24 dump trucks on 24, five days a week, on the conveyor belts of the Elkridge factory, one hour from the US capital, are certainly not clean.

In an infernal mechanical din and a cloud of brown dust, dozens of gloved and masked workers, mostly women, remove from their expert hands a bazaar of rubbish, clothes, wooden objects, cables, tree branches. and the obsession with recyclers: plastic bags, which are not supposed to go into the bins to recycle because they get tangled in the machines.

The goal is to "decontaminate" as much as possible, that is to say on the one hand to strictly separate recyclable materials from non-recyclable waste, on the other hand to ensure that the final piles of plastics, paper or of boxes do not contain any other material.

"We even had to slow down the machines and hire more people" to better decontaminate, says the manager, Michael Taylor.

At the end of sorting, large cubes of compacted waste (paper, cardboard, plastics, etc.) are produced. These wastes had been bought for decades by companies, mainly in China, who cleaned, crushed and transformed them into raw materials for industrialists. These importers turned a blind eye when the plastic bales were too dirty or not "pure" enough.

China, last year, has bought more than half of the recyclable waste exported by the United States. Globally, since 1992, 72% of plastic waste has ended in China and Hong Kong, according to a study published in Science Advances.
But since January, Chinese borders have closed to most paper and plastic, a consequence of a new environmental policy in Beijing ... Chinese leaders saying they want to no longer be the trash of the planet, or even its dump.

For the rest, including metal or cardboard, Chinese inspectors have set a contamination rate of 0,5%, too low for current US technologies that can not sort the waste so accurately. The industry expects that almost all waste categories will be rejected by 2020.

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In Elkridge, the factory still sells its PET (plastic bottles) to a buyer in South Carolina, and its carton abroad. But mixed paper and plastic are worthless: it pays subcontractors to take them back.

Elsewhere in the United States, recyclers have resolved to a taboo act: they no longer sort the plastic and paper, which end up in landfills.

"Nobody wants to say it out loud, because nobody likes to do it," Bill Caesar, boss of WCA, a Houston-based company told AFP.

The American giants Republic Services and Waste Management have acknowledged having done punctually, as in Oregon. Small towns, especially in Florida, have simply canceled the recycling collection.

Other importing countries, Indonesia, Vietnam or India, are unable to absorb the tens of millions of tonnes that China imported. And few American industrialists have the technology to process these materials.

"China has given the sector too little time to adapt," says Adina Renee Adler of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, a large trade federation.

"We will soon have so much inventory that we will have to put more and more in the landfills if we do not find new markets," admits the president of the National Waste and Recycling Association, Darrell Smith.

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The problem is beginning to be felt in cities when renegotiating municipal contracts. Especially since many cities have ambitious recycling targets - like Washington, which wants to go from 23% of household waste to 80%.

The capital is already paying 75 dollars to recycle a ton, against 46 dollars for garbage, which is burned to generate electricity.

“There was a time when it was cheaper to recycle, but it's not anymore,” said Christopher Shorter, director of public works in Washington.

"Recycling will cost us more and more," he warns.

To avoid financial penalties, the city wants to better "educate" its citizens so that they stop putting bad waste, such as plastic bags, in the blue bin.

To reduce the amount of waste to be recycled or burned, she is considering the collection of organic waste, with a future third bin, and the construction of a composting plant. And she thinks to make pay the inhabitants to the weight of waste.

Even with these measures, Bill Caesar, in Houston, warns all Americans: soon they will have to pay more for "the privilege of recycling".


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by moinsdewatt » 20/11/18, 00:20

China bans import of new types of waste

By RFI Published on 19-11-2018

China, which has blocked 2018 since January the import of certain waste, such as plastics, paper and textiles, will further extend the list of products banned from 31 next December. And this, at the risk of aggravating the accumulation of materials to be recycled in rich countries.

According to an official document mentioned on Monday November 19, by the agency China New, thirty-two types of solid waste, ranging from scrap stainless steel to wood, auto parts and ships, can no longer be imported into China. the country as of the end of the year 2018. This document comes from the Ministries of Environment and Trade, the National Commission for Reform and Development, and Customs.

Prohibitions in two stages

In April 2018, the Ministry of the Environment had announced that the next bans would occur in two stages: by 31 December for 16 product categories, by the end 2019 for 16 others. To no longer be the world's leading recycling destination, Beijing has already closed the door last January to twenty-four categories of solid waste, including plastics, paper and textiles, much to the chagrin of some US and European recycling companies forced to store waste pending a solution.

Falling imports

As a result, its imports fell during the first ten months of the year, while China, hungry for raw materials, has been absorbing Western waste for decades. Plastic waste, paper and imported metal totaled 17,27 billion tonnes over the January-October period, down by 51,5% from the first ten months of 2017, according to Customs figures recently cited by China's new.
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by Christophe » 20/11/18, 00:40

Uh ... that's more than 35 billion tons of waste imported in China in 2017?

Either ... uh ... about 100 million tonnes ... PER DAY?

100 000 000 Tons per day? I have to write it in numbers to realize ...

What is the global martime tonnage per day? History of comparing ...
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by moinsdewatt » 20/11/18, 01:12

This other article earlier in the year shows that it's millions of tons of waste landfall in China and not billions
http://worldenvironmentday.global/fr/ac ... -problèmes
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by moinsdewatt » 15/03/19, 08:07

55% of waste is recycled in the European Union

05/03/2019

The rate of waste recycling in the European Union was around 55% in 2016, according to the latest Eurostat report. In 2010, it amounted to 53%.

Eurostat yesterday published its latest study on waste recycling in the European Union yesterday, Monday, 4, which highlights an increase in rates from year to year. Overall, 55% of the waste was recycled in 2016 against 53% in 2010, excluding the treatment of mineral waste.

Construction and demolition waste is at the top of the recycling rate with an average of 89%, followed closely by the general packaging of which 67% is recycled (against 64% in 2010). The recycling of plastic packaging has, for its part, made a big leap forward: in 2016, it reaches a rate of 42%, almost double that in 2005 (then 24%).

Recycling rates increase but reuse is still low

If these figures are rather encouraging, the study nevertheless points to the low reuse of recycled products: "only 12% of the material resources used in the EU in 2016 came from recycled products and recovered materials, thus avoiding the extraction of primary raw materials, "the press release read.

In addition to the Eurostat report, the European Commission has also published a stocktaking report on the circular economy action plan set up in 2015. The document will serve as a support for the annual conference of the platform of European actors in the circular economy, planned in Brussels 6 and 7 March 2019.


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by Christophe » 15/03/19, 09:54

Christophe wrote:Uh ... that's more than 35 billion tons of waste imported in China in 2017?

Either ... uh ... about 100 million tonnes ... PER DAY?

100 000 000 Tons per day? I have to write it in numbers to realize ...

What is the global martime tonnage per day? History of comparing ...


Google answer:

The weight of goods transport by sea in the world is 9,1 billion tons, the equivalent of almost 289 tonnes transported via the sea every second (meter). The tonnage transported increased from 2.5 billion tons in 1970 to 8.4 billion tons in 2010.


So the figure of 35 billion tons of waste is completely fanciful since it represents 35 / 9,1 = 384% of the world's total tonnage!

If it is 35 million tons (and it is) it is 0.4% which is reasonable ... (even less than one would have expected ...)
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by Christophe » 15/03/19, 09:55

moinsdewatt wrote:This other article earlier in the year shows that it's millions of tons of waste landfall in China and not billions
http://worldenvironmentday.global/fr/ac ... -problèmes


It is still crazy that AFP confounds billion and millions! : Shock: : Shock: : Shock:

Do not be fooled by these tokes, intoxicants, misinformation !!
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