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RNZ News
3 days ago
- General
- RNZ News
Whakatane launches three strikes rule for rubbish recyclers
Whakatane is getting a three strikes policy for rubbish recyclers, that's people who are rubbish at sorting their kerbside recycling and greenwaste bins. Anyone caught three times with contaminated bins, will lose them for three months. Whakatane District Coucil said at its worst, up to 65 percent of recycling going from Whakatane to the Material Recovery Facility in Tauranga are rogue items. Whakatane District Council solid waste manager, Nigel Clark spoke to Lisa Owen. To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
E&E News
07-05-2025
- Business
- E&E News
Incinerator emissions proposal marks a first for Trump 2.0
EPA is closing in on changes to Clean Air Act regulations for some solid waste incinerators, following a lawsuit brought almost a decade ago. The agency on Tuesday sent a draft final rule for small and institutional trash-burning operations to the White House regulations office for a routine review, according to a notice posted on a government tracking website. Under a revised settlement to the Sierra Club suit filed in 2016 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, EPA must wrap up work on the rule by the end of next month. Advertisement The draft, which has not yet been made public, is notable as only the third regulation of any kind that EPA has sent to the Office of Management and Budget regulations office in the 3 ½ months since President Donald Trump took office. The first two, which are still under review, would repeal existing regulations, according to EPA's thumbnail descriptions of each.
