1.1 Background The Canadian Council of Ministers of Environment (CCME) Waste
Management Task Group (WMTG) commissioned this report to summarize the current state …

Reduce The first priority within the waste management hierarchy is to reduce by as much as
possible the amount of material that enters the recycling or the solid waste stream and the …

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Waste generation and resource shortages have long been recognized as two of the greatest
challenges human society is facing. In the early 1970s, the Club of Rome, a group of …

The generation of waste in urban regions over time is seen to impact the balance of
anthropogenic and natural resources. Various national and international initiatives to …

The proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Waste Management and the
Environment follow on from the success of previous meetings beginning in 2002. Topics …

The International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment is organised
every two years by the Wessex Institute of Technology in collaboration with other institutions …

Municipal waste management and Waste-to-Energy (WtE) potentials in New Zealand are
discussed. The existing main waste management strategy of New Zealand is to reduce …