This Book Will Put You to Sleep by Chronicle Books

Author:Chronicle Books [K. McCoy and Dr Hardwick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781452173795
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2018-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

Waste Disposal: a Global Guide

The guide to sorting your garbage for recycling in Niihama City in Japan is 21 pages long.

In New Zealand the Waste Management Hierarchy policy was incorporated into national law in the Local Government Amendment Act No.4, 1996.

Estonia met its 2013 target for biodegradable municipal waste being sent to landfill ahead of schedule in 2009.

In South Africa the volume of waste generated in 1997 was about 500 million tons.

Denmark incinerates approximately 80 per cent of its household waste.

Waste disposal in Portugal is one of the administrative tasks that has been devolved to the municipal authorities.

In 2013 Belgium was announced as the best-performing country in waste management in the EU.

Waste disposal in Liechtenstein is regulated by the Act on Environmental Protection (29 May 2008) – comparable to the Swiss Federal Act on Protection, which sets out basic standards for the handling of waste and contaminated sites.

In Minnesota the statute MS s 115A.914 sets out the technical standards that a responsible collector of used tyres must adhere to.

In Vietnam the Prime Minister’s Decision 1929/QD-TTg on the ‘Orientation for Development of Water Supply in Vietnam’s Urban Centres and Industrial Parks Leading to 2025, and Vision for 2050’ set out a target of reducing the rate of water loss in named cities to less than 15 per cent by 2025.

In Latvia there are more than 3,000 commercial or educational institutions that provide special containers for collecting worn-out batteries.

The recycling project in Barbados has been managed by the Government of Barbados’s Solid Waste Project Unit in co-operation with the Sustainable Barbados Recycling Centre (SBRC).

In Saudi Arabia the per capita generation of waste in 2015 was approximately 1.5 to 1.8 kilograms per person per day.

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