When Damilare Odumosu thought of food waste in his home country of Nigeria, he asked what he could do to make things better.
The 25-year-old son of a computer programmer decided to use technology to solve the problem.
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Bringing about a higher level of transparency and accountability in provincial and federal governments to help protect taxpayers from abuse
When Damilare Odumosu thought of food waste in his home country of Nigeria, he asked what he could do to make things better.
The 25-year-old son of a computer programmer decided to use technology to solve the problem.
Read more at cbc.ca
Dynagreen Environment Protection Group, which collects, stores and incinerates garbage, has surged almost 500 percent since its shares began trading in Shanghai on June 11, the best-performance among stocks listed in the city this year. It’s among the waste specialists poised to cash in on China’s carrot-and-stick approach to cope with the world’s biggest trash flow.
The government said this month that households across the nation will, for the first time, have to pay for garbage disposal by 2020 and, separately, that limits on landfills will be tightened. Other recent initiatives include raising recycling quotas in 46 major cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.
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Vietnam must not become a dumping ground for other countries’ scrap, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has warned.
“Authorities need to work in co-ordination to stop scrap from entering Vietnam and affecting the environment and people’s lives,” he said at a meeting of the government’s standing committee on importing scrap Wednesday.
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US company Lakeshore Recycling Systems has installed the new Machinex SamurAI waste sorter at its Heartland Recycling Center. It is the first recycler America to invest in this innovative artificial intelligence-powered machine.
The SamurAI sorter by Machinex achieves 70 picks per minute, compared to an average of 35 picks per minute for a human sorter. It recognises material in dirty, commingled and ‘constantly changing conditions’ including the introduction of new packaging and product designs.
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Given the world’s rapidly growing population, the medical waste management sector shows a lot of promise, so Peter Xiaoquan-Chen of Harden Shredding & Recycling Technology told Recycling International at the recent IFAT trade show in Munich. He cites figures saying that more than 2 million tons of medical waste is generated all around the world every year.
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Healthcare institutions have a legal duty to ensure that their hazardous waste is managed responsibly.
As stipulated in the Proposed National Health Care Risk Waste Management Regulations (2018), the person in charge of a health establishment must ensure that health care waste is handled, collected, transported, removed, treated and disposed of in such a manner that it does not pose a risk to human health and the environment. To monitor for compliance, the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) requires that waste generators keep detailed records on the waste management chain.
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The EU is in a desperate search for a sustainable circular economy. But critics warn that the imminent adoption of waste recycling targets for 2035 is only a compromise between the very different realities of the 28 countries. EURACTIV Germany reports.
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U.S. law enforcement officials on Thursday announced what they labeled as the largest ever fraud enforcement action involving elderly Americans in U.S. history, charging more than 200 people and bringing civil actions against dozens more.
The defendants, many of them foreign nationals living outside the United States, are accused of robbing more than one million elderly Americans of more than $1 billion, the officials said.
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The rising cost of prescription drugs is not a new story. But as continuing efforts to lower prices have had little effect, states are starting to take matters into their own hands.
The nonpartisan National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) reports that currently “a total of 87 bills in 34 states of all political stripes seek to save money on prescription drugs.” Six of these 34 states want to set up state-based programs selling cheaper Canadian drugs to U.S. patients.
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The pharmaceutical giant that misled physicians and patients about the addictive properties of its top-selling drug OxyContin, fuelling an overdose crisis that has devastated communities across North America, will stop marketing opioids to U.S. physicians.
However, the new policy does not extend into Canada.
Purdue Pharma L.P. announced the change in a statement issued on the weekend.
Read more at The Globe and Mail