New system for Bulgaria for separate collection of hazardous waste from households
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Via Expo
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February 7, 2012
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Sofia, Bulgaria
28-30 March 2012
b2b Forum for South-East Europe
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Gold Sponsor of ‘Save the Planet’
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Since 2011 “Recycling Bulgaria” has been an official representative of the German company Titech, which offers a wide range of sensor and detector technologies for identification and separation of different kinds of materials. Due to infrared sensors, sensors in the visible spectrum of light, electromagnetic and X-ray sensors a reliable sorting of valuable raw materials with high purity and capacity is achieved.
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“BalBok Engineering” Co., jointly with Sofia Municipality, began implementing a completely new system for separate collection of household hazardous waste. The system, which includes acceptance of the waste at the holder's spot or at a mobile collection station, providing save transport and packaging, and also a subsequent treatment and disposal, has been launched in 2011. It will contribute significantly to the separation of the hazardous household waste from the total amount of waste, daily generated within the municipality.
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In the middle of 2011 "Meva Bulgaria" EOOD officially presented its new range of containers for separate collection of organic waste. The range includes containers of 120, 240 and 1100 liters. They are equipped with special openings in the sidewalls for better air circulation, grilles in the bottom - to drain excess fluid and pads of special covers. All this reduces the odor and helps to speed the process flow in the vessels. For greater convenience vessels are in compliance with DIN 30740, DIN 30700 and EN 840-2, allowing their removal with standard transportation equipment used in our country at present.
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The Recovery
Author: Dr. Brigitte Hoffmann, AT recovery
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Recovery, in its sense of "recycling" and "reprocessing", is the contemporary order of the day - assuring supplies of mineral resources is gaining ever more importance, in all industries. Rising feed materials prices and the increasing scarcity of economically exploitable primary resources are generating ever greater potentials for the processing of waste for the recovery of useful materials.
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This is also apparent in the amendment to the Closed Substance Cycle and Waste Management Act passed by Germany's federal cabinet in March of this year, implementing the European Waste Framework Directive in German law. Here, for the first time, recovery is assigned a higher ranking than thermal valorisation. No less than 65 % of all residential waste is to be recycled, and 70 % of all construction and demolition waste processed via the materials recovery route, by the year 2020: a challenge to both research, development and industry!
The methods and materials available for this purpose are both diverse and numerous. The following articles show what reputable German and European companies nowadays mean by "recycling management". Whether scrap or glass recycling, the reprocessing of flooring materials for reuse, or the development of machines for the recycling industry, one rule is constant: never recycling at any price but, instead, strictly on sound economic, ecological and legal principles. And the industry can anticipate yet more challenges in the context of adherence to new legal requirements resulting from amendment of the landfill regulations.
The technical journal AT recovery provides detailed information on all facets of the recovery and recycling of reusable materials. The focuses are the reprocessing of electronics and metal scrap, glass recycling and the reprocessing of wood, plastic, domestic and all types of industrial waste. The central emphasis at all times is on reuse as secondary materials. The journal is published in English and German language and is distributed worldwide.
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Overwhelming public support for EU plastic bag ban
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Brussels - Over 70 percent of respondents to a European Commission public consultation have voted in favour of a ban on the distribution of plastic bags. Green groups Seas at Risk and EEB say the Commission should now act on this overwhelming support and implement a ban across Europe. The public consultation was intended to explore options to reduce the use of plastic bags and options to improve the requirements of biodegradability under EU law.
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Over 15,500 responses were gathered by the Commission with just over 15,000 replies from EU citizens.
The results of the consultation show that over 70 percent of respondents agree that a ban on plastic bags across the EU is needed with only 12 percent agreeing that current requirements on compostability and biodegradability in the Packaging Directive were appropriate.
Chris Carroll of Seas At Risk said: “Plastic bags are a menace to the marine environment and this consultation has shown that European citizens have had enough of them. The Commission must listen to this resounding support for a ban and implement one across Europe as soon as possible. The Commission must also now look at how to reduce the use of other single use and disposable products and packaging that often end up as waste in the marine environment.”
Stephane Arditi of the European Environment Bureau said: “With more than two thirds of respondents supporting a ban of single use plastic bag, a clear signal is being sent to European institutions: It’s time for longer lasting products and for effective legal instruments supporting waste prevention.“
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