Sustainable Waste Management Project: Freda the Frog Education Initiative

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Sustainable Waste Management Project: Promotion of cloth nappy use in Durham

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Sustainable Waste Management Project: Haverton Hill Furniture Reuse Scheme

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Sustainable Waste Management Project: Newcastle City Council Recycling Centres

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Sustainable Waste Management Project: Home composting promotion in Newcastle

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Sustainable Waste Management Project: Haverton Hill Furniture Reuse Scheme

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Governing Sustainable Waste Management: Designing sustainable waste management into the housing sector

In seeking to shift municipal waste policy towards sustainability, policy-makers at European, national and local levels are facing the challenge of how to engage householders in reducing, reusing and recycling their waste. This in turn means engaging with the arena within which day to day waste management activities are practiced – the home. In view of this critical relationship between waste policy and household practices, this research project1 has sought to examine: • the ways in which new infrastructures for managing waste are being ‘designed in’ to new housing developments and renovated kitchens in the UK and Europe; • the barriers identified by key actors in the as impending the pursuit of a more integrated approach to housing design and waste management and how these might be overcome; • examples of best practice currently being developed in the UK and their applicability in the context of the North-East of England

The governance of innovation diffusion – a socio-technical analysis of energy policy

This paper describes a dynamic price mechanism to coordinate electric power generation from micro Combined Heat and Power (micro-CHP) systems in a network of households. It is assumed that the households are prosumers, i.e. both producers and consumers of electricity. The control is done on household level in a completely distributed manner. Avoiding a centralized controller both eases computation complexity and preserves communication structure in the network. Local information is used to decide to turn on or off the micro-CHP, but through price signals between the prosumers the network as a whole operates in a cooperative way