May 29th, 2007 by admin
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Waste Strategy 2007 has been published, and yes, of course, poor old landfill gets the “worst” (least preferred option) ranking in the waste heirarchy again!
Seriously though, there was never going to be any change to the requirements for landfills [...]
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May 20th, 2007 by admin
NORTHERN IRELAND INTERIM GUIDANCE ON LANDFILL CLOSURE: CAPPING AND RESTORATION: The Environmental and Heritage Service haas released Interim Guidance on Landfill Closure: Capping and Restoration for EHS staff and operators. The procedures may be applied to both existing and new landfill sites. The guidance document sets out a brief overview of the main aspects to [...]
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May 7th, 2007 by admin
New Construction Design and Safety (CDM) regulations came into force last month. However, many have wondered whether the perpetuation of these regulations, given their cost, was justified and whether there would not be better ways to spend the large amount of money incurred in compliance.
The NCE (the magazine issued weekly to all Civil Engineers) in their [...]
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May 3rd, 2007 by admin
There will be a strong workload for landfill capping contractors this summer due to the closure of many landfills during 2006, which has taken place as a result of the ending of the grace period for the transition from Waste Management Licences to PPC Permits under the IPPC legislation.
Many landfill owners which did not apply for PPC [...]
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