landfill service Articles
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Major chain hotel vendor management case study
The Challenge This major hotel chain location was having issues with recieving fair pricing and rebates from their vendors. Staff at the property did not have the time or expertise to deal with billing issues, recycling commodity market rates or landfill fees. Existing recycling service provider was several months behind on rebate payments. Lack of transparency was hampering the abilty of ...
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Challenges and chances for organic waste Management in Australia
As in many other countries, waste management in Australia was seen as little more than providing adequate waste collection services and landfill disposal sites until recently. Waste was not seen as a problem, prompting waste generation rates per capita to reach a very high level. Understandably so, since a mere 18 million Australians occupy a vast land area with seemingly abundant space for ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Challenges and chances for organic waste management in Australia
As in many other countries, waste management in Australia was seen as little more than providing adequate waste collection services and landfill disposal sites until recently. Waste was not seen as a problem, prompting waste generation rates per capita to reach a very high level . Understandably so, since a mere 18 million Australians occupy a vast land area with seemingly abundant space for ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Project - Oakbank Services Install New Kiverco MRF
The Customer Oakbank Waste Management Ltd (T/A Oakbank Services) is a waste management company based in South West Scotland. Striving hard to re-use all waste and by diverting it from landfill. Oakbank Services handles all types of specialised wastes as well as providing haulage, skip hire and trade waste bin collections. It is owned by the Dundas Chemical Company where Cat 1 and Cat 3 ...
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Deep in the Dumps? How municipalities can avert a waste disposal crisis
Municipalities across Canada are looking for economical and environmental methods to improve their waste management diversion methods. Some are scrambling to assess and extend landfill disposal capacity and others are trying to dramatically increase their diversion rates. Many are initiating a combination of strategies. Canada's largest city has arguably received the most attention with regard to ...
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Rugged Pumps Survive at Puente Hills Landfill - Case Study
QED Pumps are the Pumps of Choice at North America's Largest Landfill The Puente Hills Landfill in Los Angeles County, California, is the largest operating landfill in North America based on daily tonnage received. Located in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County near Whittier, California, it is owned and operated by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County. It has received ...
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QED pumps are the pumps of choice at North America’s largest landfill - Case Study
The Puente Hills Landfill in Los Angeles County, California, is the largest operating landfill in North America based on daily tonnage received. Located in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County near Whittier, California, it is owned and operated by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County. It has received approximately 118 million tons of solid waste as of April 2008, raising the ...
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Harmony Service Technicians
Harmony is proud to offer baler and compactor service, repair, installation, and maintenance on our quality equipment throughout the United States, Canada, and beyond. We wouldn’t be able to do this without the dedicated professional work done by our own in-house service technicians. Harmony service technicians have decades of experience in welding, hydraulics, electrical configurations, ...
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Roll out of new contract for Total Waste Management Private Healthcare case study
Client: Ramsay Healthcare Location: Nationwide Date: 01/03/2012 Sector: Private Healthcare About the Project: Ramsay Healthcare Ramsay has a network of 22 private hospitals in the UK as well as 9 treatment centre's and 3 Neurological Units. GPT National Account Executives visited the hospitals, produced site reports with photographic evidence of current incumbents and produced a report with ...
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The Age of Steel: Recycling Ferrous Scrap
Steel – which can be found in food cans, household containers, automobiles and office buildings—is the most recycled material in the world. Many of the products we see and use every day are made from steel, including containers, cans, automobiles and appliances. The average appliance is 75 percent steel by weight, and most cars are made up of about 65 percent steel and iron. Steel ...
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Customers recommend leachate pumps from Geotech - Case Study
Application Leachate recirculation and condensate removal from gas lines Equipment The AP AutoPump range Location Sites across the UK Customer H&J Pipe Jointing Services Ltd Requirement Colin Jones of H&J Pipe Jointing Services said, "We were looking to supply pumps that were fit for purpose and that did the job, and after trying other brands we soon realised that the AP range ...
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Medical waste in developing countries
Developing countries or countries without well established infrastructures tend to have smaller satellite medical practices or clinics that are used by the local communities. These clinics tend to not carry a huge amount of supplies or have access to the latest machinery and equipment to do complex procedures but remain vital in the fight against key health issues such as fighting infection and ...
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Waste – The Fourth Utility
Waste Management is the collection, transportation, processing, managing and monitoring of waste materials or rubbish. In the UK, each household produces over 1 tonne of rubbish every year. This amounts to around 31 million tonnes of rubbish produced per year in the UK alone. Commercial and industrial businesses produce about one quarter of all waste in the UK. This is a drain on the economy ...
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GPT Waste help Carillion meet landfill targets with proactive waste management services - Case Study
The project, which was based at Doncaster train station, involved building a new platform and footbridge for the city centre station, this meant that there was a lot of excavating and signalling work to be carried out. Carillion approached GPT Waste for waste management services in order to assist in reaching their high diversion from landfill targets. GPT Waste were asked to visit the site, in ...
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ESdat Online and ESdat Lab Portal: Eurofins - Case Study
Eurofins has adopted ESdat Online and the ESdat Lab Portal to replace the historic spreadsheets in order to increase efficiency and accuracy, and provide the landfill operators with direct access to their consolidated historical results through a web interface. Streamlining Landfill Environmental Monitoring The Eurofins Field Services Groundwater team conducts compliance monitoring on behalf of ...
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Joint working and efficiency gains
The entire globe is suffering at the hands of the worst recession to hit since the 1940s, and this is not only a concern for the financial sector and people with savings and investments, but it is also a major worry for municipal authorities who are charged with delivering front line services that underpin our modern way of life—policing, health care, schooling and, of course, waste ...
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New LFG Collection System Utilizes QED’s Revolutionary LFG Measurement and Control Technology - Case Study
“The main advantage, to me, is the Fine Tune™ Control Valve* that is used on the QED wellhead - it’s one of those revolutionary things in the landfill gas industry. Gate valves don’t give you very good control unless you always want the valve 100% open and you can apply as much vacuum as possible. But when it comes to low-flow wells then it’s important to be able to ...
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What are the treatment options for landfill leachate?
New contributor to Water/Waste Processing aims to answer readers’ most pressing questions It’s said the United States has 1,654 landfills, handling more than 250-million tons of trash each year. One Washington landfill covers a 2,545-acre area, has a 120-million-ton capacity and a 40-year expected trash-receiving life. The facility, the Republic Services-Roosevelt Regional Landfill ...
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How To Choose The Right Landfill Geomembranes?
With the development of the economy and society and the advancement of urbanization, we generate more and more garbage. Building landfills is a way for us to dispose of garbage and protect the environment. Landfill geomembrane is new designed anti-seepage material for landfill projects and it is used more and more. Landfill geomembrane is low cost, and lightweight, easy to weld and install. Above ...
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Challenges at MSW Landfill Sites
Covering the day’s trash at the landfill Today’s municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills are much more than places to dump household trash. They’re engineered facilities that are designed to hold and isolate the trash from the environment and are governed by both federal and state regulations. Landfill designers and operators face two main challenges to the integrity of ...
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