This section provides a selection of recent news found in online newspapers and magazines related with policies, management and treatment of waste and their impact on social welfare. We hope you find them interesting and useful.
 17/10/2017 – MIT News – A new way to harness wasted methane |
 14/12/2015 – West Virginia University – WVU leads efforts to study recovery of rare earth elements from coal mining waste |
 09/08/2017 – FoodManufacture – Modern alchemy: profiting from food waste |
 15/03/2017 – The Telegraph – Nobel Prize winner Sir Fraser Stoddart hopes to turn gold mines green |
 23/02/2015 – The Guardian – The future of waste: five things to look for by 2025 |
 25/04/2017 – Independent – Discovery of plastic-eating worms offers chance to finally get rid of world’s growing piles of litter |
 17/07/2017 – The Telegraph – Here’s how mining can reinvent itself for the modern age |
 23/02/2016 – Resource – Potential breakthroughs for biofuel and AD |
 9/10/2014 – Materials World – Bacteria for biomining |
 12/04/2016 – Business Green – It’s time for businesses to get their hands dirty and embrace landfill mining |
 10/03/2016 – New Scientist – Bacteria found to eat PET plastics could help do the recycling |
 12/04/2016 – Waste360 – High-Tech Biological Systems Show Promise in Treating Leachate |
 02/12/2015 – Belfast Telegraph – ‘Clean tech’ hub on old landfill site eyes top end anchor tenant |
 01/12/2015 – Waste Management World – Drones Monitoring Methane Emissions from UK Landfill |
 16/11/2015 – The Times – Why our sewage is worth its weight in gold |
 16/11/2015 – The Telegraph – Gold worth millions is flushed into British sewers every year |
 08/10/2015 – The Times – Mealworms offer answer to landfill |
 21/09/2015 – The Guardian – US may be drastically underestimating landfill emissions – study |
 20/08/2015 – Mining – Heap Leach: Mining’s breakthrough technology |
 03/08/2015 – The Independent – Nature Studies: Restoring natural habitats is expensive – but it’s worth every penny |
 30/06/2015 – CORDIS – NANOREM: early results confirm the potential of nanoparticles for soil and water remediation |
 26/08/2014 – The Guardian – Abandoned landfills polluting UK rivers, research finds |
 29/10/2011 – The Telegraph – Tipping point: what happens when our landfills are full? |