• Legal Lookout: Redefining solid waste
  Some hazardous secondary materials excluded from EPA`s revised definition under RCRA. The definition of solid waste has long been the subject of controversy. ...
• Food waste diversion promoted on the street
  In January 2009, collection trucks hit the streets of San Francisco with a bold message: look more closely at your garbage, because it is primarily made ...
• Indicators to assess the recovery of natural resources contained in demolition waste
  Demolition waste materials are one of the major industrial waste deposits in many countries and represent an important quantity of potential resources ...
• High-strength wastes boost biogas production
  Water and wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are significant consumers of energy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates the industry uses ...
• Recycling of plastic waste by density separation: Prospects for optimization
  A review of existing industrial processing and results of alternative processing investigations for separating solid mixtures and specifically recycling ...
• New technology for municipal scale compost operations
  There is a new facility located in Ontario, Canada that accepts construction and demolition waste (C&D) and 100,000 TPY of source separated organics ...
• Rotary drum composting of different organic waste mixtures
  The effects of three different mixtures of organic waste on composting in a rotary drum were examined by measuring changes in physico-chemical and biological ...
• Reclamation of a mine contaminated soil using biologically reactive organic matrices
  Organic residues such as sewage sludge, biowastes and composts are increasingly used in land rehabilitation because they can improve the physical, chemical ...

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