People in Bradford will need a permit to use the city's waste and recycling centres under new rules due to come into force this summer.
But arid Adelaide recycles over 30% of its water, and to its south, the vineyards of McLaren Vale are irrigated with the city's waste water.
It coincides with a broader recycling plan by Mayor Michael Bloomberg who has vowed to increase the city's waste diversion rate to 30% by 2017.
The permits aim to cut back on the cost of running the city's waste and recycling centres by ensuring they were "only used by the residents of Bradford district who fund them".
Who can forget the story of the garbage barge sailing the coastline and waterways of the United States looking in vain for someone to take it, bury it or use it for landfill -- anything that would take it off the hands of a New York City overwhelmed by waste.
Most visibly, hundreds of tonnes of rubbish has piled up in the streets of Naples because the city has no adequate waste-disposal facilities.
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Both L.A. and New York City are considering major waste-to-energy projects, and Waste Management is experimenting with new technologies, including a test facility in Arlington, Ore.
The area is home to 30-40% of New York City's commercial waste handling, she says, with about 60, 000 diesel truck trips made through the community every week.
The project organisers hope it is a meal that will stick in the students' minds and, ultimately, help take a bite out of the city's food waste mountain.
The decision to invest in the new facility was made "in preparation for the 140, 000 tonnes of waste the city is predicted to produce per year by 2040", a council spokesman said.
In the verdicts returned Wednesday, the defendants were found guilty of several counts of misappropriating public funds through their roles overseeing the city's Solid Waste and Recycling Authority between the years of 2006 and 2010.
In comparison with cities of a similar size in population, drivers in the city of San Jose waste a cumulative of 10 million more annual hours sitting in traffic jams and suffer a 15% higher commute delay per peak-time traveler.
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The problem is most acute in the south west, with Swansea looking to send waste outside the city.
"What Portland is doing with organics is an area that we're very interested in, " says Nick Galus, a senior project manager with that city's solid-waste team.
Here we spend Act II straining to see whatever it is that's laying waste to the city, and Act III recoiling from glimpses of something unspeakable.
Ford was known for his obsession with customer service and efficient use of taxpayer money, and many conservative voters wanted to punish City Hall for gridlock and waste, Nanos said.
On another front, the mayor proposed banning Styrofoam food packaging from stores and restaurants and he called on the city to begin recycling food waste, which can be used as fertilizer or converted to energy.
Residents in Portsmouth say fumes from contaminated industrial waste land in the city are making them ill.
The centre is expected to divert about 90% of waste generated in the city, making a saving to Glasgow of about 90, 000 tonnes of CO2 every year.
Rossano Ercolini convinced Naples - a city gripped by a long-running waste crisis - to adopt zero-waste goals.
The facility is part of a 27-year waste management agreement between the city and county councils and private firm Resource Recovery Solutions (RRS).
Ms Henson said people already paid extra for garden waste to be collected from the city's brown bins.
The water was just starting to finally get out of the city but it was still sort of ways waste-deep in parts.
To those who say why waste money in such a small city?
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By picking up unsorted trash less often, Portland wants to divert waste from landfills and churn this leafy city's considerable volume of vegetation into compost.
Plymouth's unitary authority city council is also believed to be involved in the waste collection talks.
The rain and river water in the city state's reservoirs is being mixed with recycled waste-water from air-conditioners, sinks and toilets.
The proposal was developed by the Conservative-run county council and Labour-controlled City of York Council to reduce the amount of household waste being sent to landfill.
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The city's sewage system was so overwhelmed that human waste, sent straight into the water around New York, decayed on the river floor and choked out most life.
The proposal for the plant was developed by North Yorkshire County Council and the City of York Council to reduce the amount of household waste they were sending to landfill.
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