News ‘Devastated’: $300m US recycling plant cancelled over tariffs A US company has cancelled plans to build a $300m plastic waste recycling plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, citing concerns about the financial case for the project in light of cuts…
News Village built for construction workers could end up in landfill, but there’s no room As a brand new hydroelectric dam in remote Northeastern British Columbia, Canada gears up for full generation this autumn, locals are grappling with an unexpected problem: What to do with…
Perspectives Can we use more old buildings to build new ones? Experts’ view We know that the linear way we build now – where materials make a one-way trip from the earth to landfill – is dangerously unsustainable. It assumes too many infinites:…
News Vinci to build state-of-the-art waste-to-energy plant in the Dordogne Vinci Grands Projets is to team up with its sister companies GTM Sud-Oues and Chantiers Modernes Nouvelle-Aquitaine to design and build a waste-to-energy plant in the commune of Brive-la-Gaillarde, in…
News Sweden gets go ahead for $11bn nuclear waste plan A court in Sweden yesterday approved plans to excavate a repository for nuclear waste, the Barron’s news site reports. The decision clears the way for a construction project that will…
News Dutch firm to build 75MW waste-to-energy plant in Lagos A Dutch waste-to-energy specialist has formed a partnership with the government of Lagos State in Nigeria to build a plant to power some 40,000 homes. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Harvest…
News Colossal waste averted as Chinese city decides to confiscate 39 Evergrande towers instead of demolishing them A colossal waste of materials and embodied carbon appears to have been averted in China after a city government decided that 39 nearly complete residential towers built by embattled developer…