Santander is one of the most important tourist cities of northern Spain, with an estimated population of 185.000 inhabitants. As a modern European city, Santander performs municipal solid waste management satisfactorily, and has implemented a separate waste collection system since 2003. Currently it has an average production of municipal solid waste of 1.14 kilograms per inhabitant per day, with a recycling rate of 39.9, 22.7 and 30.0 per cent of paper and cardboard, packaging, and glass respectively. (Session A6: Waste collection)

After three years of negotiation between the institutions of the Community on 29 May 2006 the new Regulation (EC) o 1013/2006 on Shipments of Waste has been passed by the Council.

The waste hierarchy is an easy and comprehendible tool for supporting decision making in solid waste management. The waste hierarchy gives priority to waste reduction, reuse and recycling, incineration and landfilling but the basis for this priority is quite uncertain (McDougall,F.R. et al., 2001;Rasmussen,C. et al., 2005). Thus, it has been the aim to evaluate waste management systems by their environmental profiles by using life cycle assessment.

SUMMARY: The population on earth is growing in urban and rural areas. More people generate more waste. More waste needs more installations. New sites are not popular and have to be established at remote areas. This means long transportation distance.

Hochiminh city is the biggest economical, industrial, commercial, export and service center of Vietnam. Thanks to the advantage of the geographical position, climate, soil, land and waterway transportation systems, Hochiminh city obtains the highest economic development rate (12 – 15%/year) of the country. The city has become the main force for not only the Southern Major Economic Region but for the whole country, too.

Solid Waste Management: Identification of a new sanitary landfill site, comparative site rating and Environmental Impact Assessment, rehabilitation/final closure of existing dumpsites

The definition of the concept of waste laid down in Directive 75/442/EEC on waste constitutes the keystone of all sectoral regulation on waste products, including the Community rules pertaining to the trans-frontier movement of waste. The definition runs as follows: ”any substance or object in the categories set out in Annex 1 which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard” is deemed to be waste.

The use of pure plant oils (PPO) as a transportation fuel has a number of advantages not only compared to fossil fuels, but also compared to other bio-fuels:

The amount of waste exportet from the Netherlands to Germany has increased heavily during the last years from 526.000 tons in 1998 up to almost 4 million tons in 2003.

Kuwait city, located on the Arabian Gulf, with a total population of circa 2.5 million (only of which 0.8 million are Kuwaiti nationals), is considered to be a fast growing city.

The article investigates the extent to which EU regulations relating to the law on State aid apply in Switzerland in the aftermath of the conclusion of the bilateral agreements between Switzerland and the EU. Specific consideration is given to the State measures implemented in relation to the “Swiss” airline.

More than 2000 km north of Moscow, in the Timan-Pechora Region, the Kharyaga Oil Field is located. Gas is transported through a 9.5 km long 6" pipeline with an operating pressure of up to 356 bar to a field injection well and is reinjected into the reservoir.

This paper will give an overview of the history of PiMS and the new developments within Gastransport Services regarding the implementation of an integral Pipeline (integrity) Management System.

This paper looks at some of the legal issues and risks faced by a producer of waste, a transporter of waste and a recipient of waste. It also looks at some legal issues associated with the re-use of waste.

The closure of Freshkills Landfill in Staten Island at the end of 2001 has forced the City of New York to seek alternative methods of waste management.

This is a laboratory study on the combustion emissions from pulverized solid fuels: NOx (NO and NO2), SO2, CO and CO2. Coal, waste tire crumb and waste plastics, such as poly(styrene), poly(ethylene), poly(methyl methacrylate), poly(propylene) and poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC), were burned in an electrically heated drop-tube furnace at high particle heating rates (104-105 K s−1) and elevated gas temperatures (1300–1600 K).