Waste Stories 11/1/2016

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1. Management Sciences for Health

MSH, a global health nonprofit organization, uses proven approaches developed over 40 years to help leaders, health managers, and communities in developing nations build stronger health systems for greater health impact. It works to save lives by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Since its founding in 1971, MSH has worked in over 150 countries with policymakers, health professionals, and health care consumers to improve the quality, availability and affordability of health services.

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2. European Sustainable Clothing Action Plan project

The overall objective of the LIFE ECAP project that is led by WRAP, is to adopt a circular approach to divert over 90 000 tonnes/year of clothing waste from landfill and incineration across Europe by March 2018, and to deliver a more resource efficient clothing sector. ECAP will set targets aiming to scale up these savings by 2020 to over 540 000 tonnes/year (€111 million), and by 2030 to over 700 000 tonnes/year(€144 million).

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3. Joint Healthcare Waste and Resources Research Group and ISWA International conference (sponsored by Grundon Waste Management)

In conjunction with the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), the Group will be hosting an international conference on April 14 and 15, 2016. It will be held at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Topics to be covered will include current and emerging technologies, sustainability and preparing for emergencies.

The programme can be found here: Programme – Dec 2015

Sponsors include: Daniels, Econix, GV Health, Frontier Medical Group, Newster, Sharpsmart and ISS Ltd. (Please contact Terry Tudor: terry.tudor@northampton.ac.uk, if you wish to sponsor)

Booking details can be found here: healthcare waste 2016 conference

 

4. Changes to hazardous waste legislation in NI

S.I. No. 209 of 2015 relates to the control of major accident hazards Involving dangerous substances. It implements the Seveso III Directive (2012/18/EU) into Irish law. It sets down rules for the prevention of major accidents involving dangerous substances including hazardous wastes, and seeks to limit as far as possible the human health and the environmental consequences of such accidents, with the overall objective of providing a high level of protection in a consistent and effective manner. The intention is to achieve this through tiered controls on the operators of the establishments subject to the Regulations: the larger the quantities of dangerous substances present at an establishment, the more onerous the duties on the operator. The new regulations align the scope to new international chemicals classification (CLP Regulation transposing Global Harmonised Standards classification). There is also an enhanced emphasis on the need for operators to provide comprehensive information to the public.

5. Update on Knowaste facility at Hayes 180

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