Electronic waste currently constitutes only four percent of total municipal waste, but it is growing by almost 30 percent every five years or three times as fast as the average growth of municipal waste, according to the Commission.
Figures also showed the total amount of municipal waste generated in Wales has generally decreased, with the tonnage 3% lower for April to June 2012 than for the same quarter in 2011.
"In a recent poll nine out of every 10 people who voted, opposed the construction of a municipal waste mass burn incinerator at Saddlebow, Kings Lynn, " it said.
Greenpeace says one study of 70 municipal waste incinerators in the UK operating between 1974 and 1987, and 307 hospital waste incinerators from 1953 to 1980, found a doubling in cancer deaths among children living nearby.
When finished, the power station will convert municipal waste from Greater Manchester and Cheshire into energy.
In 2008, consumer electronics computers, cell phones, cameras, printers, fax machines and so forth accounted for almost 2% of municipal waste in the United States.
For example, the facility at Pitsea in Britain, on the banks of the River Thames near London, accepts only solid municipal and commercial waste, because European law prohibits the mingling of liquid and solid waste, and of hazardous and non-hazardous waste.
Those are the kind of numbers that excite municipal waste watchers.
While the source of water currently received by the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation is filtered, sewage leakage and the poor management of waste often contaminates drinking water on its way into the homes.
The tsunami left an estimated 22.5m tonnes of debris scattered across Japan's north-east coast the equivalent of possibly 20 years of municipal waste.
Los Angeles County installed 30 of the units to harvest electricity from a large municipal waste center.
Further, the rising cost of energy makes converting municipal and industrial waste into advanced biofuels or combusting it to produce electricity an increasingly economic option.
This would result in reduced fuel consumption per delivery and minimized greenhouse gasses as a byproduct of waste from overripe product going to the municipal dumps.
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The group is thinking of pooling municipal services such as water and waste disposal, and even setting up a joint holding company.
Avondale currently charges a gate price to customers to receive and treat municipal, commercial and industrial black-bag waste at the recycling facility.
And the environmental impact does not stop there: in some countries, including the US, the report says, paper accounts for almost 40% of all municipal solid waste.
Tucson previously operated the VML as a municipal landfill that accepted all types of domestic and commercial debris and waste.
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In 2011 Abtech entered a joint venture with Waste Management, which is marketing the stormwater applications to its thousands of municipal customers.
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The Section 45 credit is also available for energy producers who use geothermal sources, animal waste, municipal waste, biomass and refined coal.
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