municipal waste

£319.2 million for reducing landfill waste

The Department for Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (Defra) today announced £319.2 million in Private Finance Initiative (PFI) funding for three programmes to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills. The three projects are: * A £115.3 million Hertfordshire County Council effort to divert up to 170,000

municipal waste

Denmark's tops in trash, Germany's No. 1 in recycling

While the fact that the EU generated nearly a half-tonne of municipal waste per person last year might sound less than encouraging, the good news is that nearly 40 percent of that waste was recycled or composted. That’s according to a new report from Eurostat (PDF), which also found