Waste Scheme Put On Hold (from Salisbury Journal) Part of the This Is Wiltshire Network. Today's most viewed <<Back to most read Waste scheme put on hold By Roland Batten Comment . Read Comments (1) A FAR-REACHING waste management scheme aimed at achieving recycling targets in south Wiltshire has been put on hold for two months because of residents' worries over the introduction of wheelie bins and alternate week collections. Today's most viewed <<Back to most read Waste scheme put on hold...

After years of lax enforcement, the county is about to start enforcing the rules, meaning those who bring such items to the stations will be turned away and sent to the main landfill. BROOKSVILLE - Residents used to dropping off items such as old furniture, construction debris and yard waste at the county's two trash transfer stations may be in for a jolt soon. Horne, who has been with the county for nearly a year, said that he has observed that the county's solid waste assessment...

Designed to allow some logging, the forest plan has been bitterly contested for years by the timber industry and industry-dependent rural communities. In 1994, the government adopted the Northwest Forest Plan to help protect the owls and the marbled murrelet, a tiny seabird that nests in large trees, as well as to safeguard old-growth forests and watersheds. Logging companies say the reduction would allow them access to trees they are entitled to under the forest plan, which some experts...

Or will the growing chorus of skeptics about global warming be able to command enough attention to put the brakes on the warmists before they do the wrecking job? He thereby ratified the theory of Russian scientists that global cooling and another ice age is a far greater threat than global warming. In the rising hysteria over the global warming issue, a kind of race against time appears to be developing. That's 100 times faster than the warming over the past century, which has so alarmed...

As homes, roads and businesses continue to expand in Southern California's Orange County, wildlife habitat keeps shrinking while scientists study the effects of urbanization on bobcats. In California, researchers outfit bobcats with GPS tracking collars that continuously track movement and automatically drop off the cats within six months of being activated. Kevin Crooks, a Colorado State wildlife researcher, spent years studying carnivores' habitats in Southern California and found that...

Even the wildlife photographer, who maneuvers silently through the thick stand of pines into an opening that was planted in winter wheat, benefits from wildlife plantings. The Wildlife Habitat Seed Program is designed to provide an incentive for landowners to establish and maintain food plots that will yield a variety of benefits to the landowner as well as the species of wildlife he or she is managing. James Cummins is executive director of Wildlife Mississippi, a nonprofit, conservation...

The project to protect habitat for bobolinks, a grassland-nesting bird whose population is declining in New England, was designed by a team of University of Rhode Island economists in collaboration with a URI biologist and Providence-based EcoAsset Markets, inc. The project to protect habitat for bobolinks, a grassland-nesting bird whose population is declining in New England, was designed by a team of University of Rhode Island economists in collaboration with a URI biologist and...

The property is one of two sites on Bainbridge Island where the city and Forest Trends Business and Biodiversity Offset Program, which held a conference on Bainbridge this week, are attempting to strike a balance between urban growth and a goal for no net loss of the natural environment. Visiting conservationists look at two island sites touted for biodiversity offsets projects. The property is one of two sites on Bainbridge Island where the city and Forest Trends Business and Biodiversity...

Instead of sending 24 wheelie bins to landfill every week, the hospital now only fills six, and most rubbish is now recycled. ADVERTISEMENT The trial is being rolled out across the trust s eight other hospitals and, if it is successful, it could reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill by thousands of tonnes every year. Success of hospital s waste trial. It was a big project that involved training all ward staff to use the new system. by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail. Cardiff and...