How much cigarette butt litter is cleaned up in Norway each year?
Littered cigarette butts pose an environmental problem. Until now, there has been a lack of knowledge about what quantities it makes up.
Littered cigarette butts pose an environmental problem. Until now, there has been a lack of knowledge about what quantities it makes up.
Norwaste recently presented Biogas Statistics for 2021 at the Biogas Conference in Oslo
Norwaste has performed picking analyzes of household and commercial waste in Trondheim municipality
In collaboration with the City of Oslo, Norwaste has received support from the Handelens Miljøfond to map littering in Oslo. The project will provide key figures on annual plastic waste from the most important clean-up activities in Oslo municipality. Today, there is no total overview of the littering situation in Oslo, the project will therefore contribute valuable insight and data on the amount and type of waste that goes astray through littering.
The project was carried out in collaboration with Bergfald Miljørådgivere and SALT Lofoten. An interdisciplinary collaboration has provided a report to the Norwegian Environment Agency showing the status of EPS, within production, waste management and possible measures to reduce littering.
Ine comes from 5 years in Oslo REG, where she has worked with waste management and service development within waste management. Among other things, she has worked with the introduction of source sorting in schools in Oslo, which has required good cooperation between the municipal administration and several agencies.
Norwaste offers an effective half-day introductory course aimed at new employees in the industry, board members and others who deal with waste and recycling.
Norwaste has mapped differences in how state managers set requirements for waste facilities that receive, intermediate storage and process waste. The survey shows that there are differences in requirements for waste facilities, both from county to county, but also within the same county. There are differences in the structure of the permits, how the content is structured, what requirements are set and…
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Norwaste's new addition is a heavyweight in the management of sewage sludge and organic waste.
Together with Plastic REVolution Foundation, Norwaste has mapped the development of extended producer responsibility (EPR) in Ghana and comparable middle income countries with some success in regulating EPR.