Björgólfur EA 312, an Icelandic freezing trawler, returned to its home port of Dalvík this week after a trip propelled by Icelandic-made fuel, called Lífsdísill (life diesel) – made from fats and oils wasted in food production. Read the full story

There has been a significant reduction in the quantity of Icelandic-caught fish being thrown back into the sea when fish of the wrong size are accidentally caught, or when the boat does not hold a quota for a particular species which ends up in its nets. Read the full story

An accident occurred this week which caused the release of waste from a chicken abattoir to flow into a South Iceland river. Read the full story

The Environment Agency of Iceland and the country’s Ministry for the Environment did not do their jobs properly when it came to waste incineration, a new report from the National Audit Office accuses. Read the full story

Reykjavik residents who choose to save money by bringing their own wheelie bins out onto the street could be liable for damages if wind blows them over and causes damage to people or property. Read the full story

The sale of south Iceland’s Sudurnes waste disposal site to German and American interests is under serious consideration. The interested companies want to use the site to burn waste oil from ships. Read the full story

An experiment currently underway in Greenland is trying to learn about the effect of glaciers on bedrock. This project has been organised and funded by global nuclear power companies who are planning to create a final storage facility for their radioactive nuclear waste hundreds of metres underground in bedrock caverns. Read the full story

Half a kilometre beneath the Swedish town of Oskarshamn is the Aespoe Hard Rock Laboratory, an underground maze of tunnels running four kilometres through granite rock. If researchers get their way, this test site will provide the know-how for Sweden to create the world’s first permanent nuclear waste dump. Read the full story

A new report released by Eurostat, the European Union’s official statistics office, has determined that Danes generate the most amount of rubbish out of all 27 EU member states. The Czechs earned the distinction of being the most thrifty when it comes to making waste. Read the full story

Biomethane, the gas created from human excrement, will soon be collected and used to power Oslo’s public transportation buses. This free and environmentally-friendly form of fuel will turn a waste disposal issue for Norway’s capital into a solution rather a problem if all goes as planned. Read the full story