Is it possible to make a living by turning rotting food into usable compost while also helping to curb greenhouse gas emissions and reduce landfill disposal costs?
For some time there has been regulatory pressure to recycle building materials, backed by European Union rules intended to reduce landfill.
Yet cost-effective remedies exist: inexpensive technologies can reduce leaks and venting from existing oil and gas systems immediately; and innovative programmes exist to reduce landfill waste, which releases methane as it decomposes.
A small but growing number of companies have begun thinking this way, and they say it is essential for wealthy consumption-based societies that must begin to conserve resources, cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce landfill.
Leila Deen, energy campaigner at Greenpeace, said: "With the right policies in place, biogas could provide up to half the UK's domestic heat, reduce landfill and help us achieve our climate change targets.
Biolumber could reduce landfill waste significantly, I think.
It is being done to reduce landfill and save the government millions of pounds.
Propensity to reduce landfill dumping and large amounts of land area designated as dump sites.
Some of the South West's recycling is being sent abroad for processing to help reduce landfill costs.
A report to Gwynedd council's cabinet committee said reducing the collection service would save about £350,000 annually and reduce landfill waste.
Removing that organic waste from household trash streams would, for instance, help reduce landfill emissions of methane, a potent warming gas.
