waste stream Articles
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YES Management, Inc. Leverages Wastebits’ RCRAInfo Integration - Case Study
The Challenge Yuma Environmental Services (YES Management, Inc.) is a fully permitted Waste Transfer Facility that focuses on providing simple, cost-effective solutions for a variety of Non-RCRA and Non-Hazardous Waste Streams. In July of 2018, the Federal EPA went live with a requirement that all hazardous waste manifests be submitted through the RCRAInfo site. The transition to the online ...
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Qingyuan Industrial Park - Case Study
Infinite Water designed a process to treat a complex mix of chemical and biological waste streams. The pilot evaluation treating 10,000 Litres per day to meet discharge limits was a success, leading to the customer requesting for two 200,000 litres per day plants to re-use the treated waste water. The Client Our client is the owner of one of the four large Industrial parks in Qingyuan, China. ...
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PPCPs: Preparing for an uncertain regulatory future
A recent study published in Environmental Pollution* identified 56 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in effluent samples from 50 large wastewater treatment plants across the U.S. Among the products found in samples were commonly prescribed anti-psychotic and antihypertensive drugs. As more studies continue to fuel public concerns over risks to public health and the environment, wastewater ...
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Augmenting your green chemistry ambitions with EH&S data
Hunter S. Thompson once said: “It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going”. You may feel the same way sometimes… Companies’ environmental health and safety (EH&S) regulatory compliance programmes and strategies have traditionally been aimed at preventing violations, ...
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Are you drowning in Environmental Data While Starving for Information?
Untitled Document A recent article in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT Doesn't Matter” generated a lot of discussions and an enormous amount of controversy. IT stands for Information Technology. The premise of the article is that information technology is becoming less relevant as a strategic management tool because it has become more accessible and affordable to all. ...
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Municipal solid waste: how to reduce it by 2050
The recent publication More Growth, Less Garbage (1) updates the data of the study What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 (2), developed by the World Bank, which globally aggregates municipal solid waste national data, reporting estimated generation to 2050. Global waste generation is estimated to grow from 2.24 billion tonnes in 2020 to 3.88 billion tonnes in ...
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Waste Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Managing waste is a complicated process that involves daily pickup schedules, trucking logistics, and sorting facilities. Waste management companies must deal with millions of tons of garbage every year. As this number increases, simple solutions are no longer sustainable. This increasing complexity requires new solutions. Embracing artificial intelligence technology will help improve the ...
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