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WEEE recycling firm faces mercury charges
An electrical recycling firm charged with exposing employees to mercury will appear at Huddersfield Magistrates Court on 20 July. Electrical Waste Recycling Group, based in Kirkheaton in Huddersfield, is being prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive. Company director Craig Thompson is also facing charges. The firm recycles waste electrical and electronic equipment, including light tubes ...
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Mercury Recycling suffers drop in sales
Lamp and mercury waste recycler Mercury Recycling is looking at expanding into battery and LCD display recycling after it experienced a 9% sales drop in 2009. Its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2009 showed that Mercury Recycling remained profitable despite sales dropping from GBP£3.074 million to GBP£2.789 million in 2009. Pre-tax profits finished at GBP£333,000 but were down ...
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MA DEP mercury regulations
Name & Citation of Regulation(s) Collection, Recycling, Labeling and Sales Ban of Mercury-added Products; and Disposal Prohibition of Mercury-added Products in Solid Waste–310 CMR 19.00 (amended), 74.00 (amended), 75.00 (amended), 76.00 (added). Brief Explanation and Rationale for Changes Signed into law in July 2006, the “Massachusetts Mercury Management Act” is designed ...
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EPA and Macy’s announce settlement over hazardous waste management violations
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Macy’s Retail Holdings, Inc., have agreed to a settlement over hazardous waste management violations at Macy’s stores in Albany and Garden City, N.Y. EPA alleged in 2007 that Macy’s failed to properly identify and handle spent fluorescent and other types of light bulbs at the two stores. Macy’s has agreed to pay a $49,725 penalty and to ...
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Mercury spotlight: The toxic lamps that shall not be turned off
The most recent call by the UN to phase out mercury-added products by 2020 is poised to give lawmakers and a handful of powerful companies a headache. This week, Mauro Anastasio looks into the long-standing battle to ban fluorescent lamps in the EU. Batteries, thermometers, fluorescent lamps, cosmetics and other products containing mercury have their days numbered, the UN Environment Programme ...
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Manufacturer of concrete mixing equipment in Indianola, Iowa, to pay $59,775 civil penalty for hazardous waste violations (IA)
Cemen Tech, Inc., a manufacturer of concrete mixing equipment, has agreed to pay a $59,775 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of alleged violations of federal hazardous waste laws at its facility in Indianola, Iowa. EPA Region 7 conducted inspections of Cemen Tech’s facility at 1700 N. 14th Street in Indianola in 2007 and 2009, according to an administrative consent ...
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Great Lakes States Seek Comment on Mercury Reduction Strategy
CHICAGO, Illinois, August 29, 2007 (ENS) - The Great Lakes Regional Collaboration has opened a 60 day public comment period for its Draft Great Lakes Mercury In Products Phase-Down Strategy. In April 2006, the GLRC began development of a basin-wide strategy for the phase-down of mercury in products and waste. The proposal calls for action in five product areas and five economic sectors ...
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Waste Management LampTracker, Inc., to pay $118,800 penalty for hazardous waste violations at Kaiser, Mo., Facility
Waste Management LampTracker, Inc., has agreed to pay a $118,800 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of violations of its Missouri Hazardous Waste Permit and the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) at its permitted Kaiser, Mo., facility and a nearby unpermitted materials staging area. Waste Management LampTracker, which collects and recycles universal waste ...
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Don’t mess with mercury
As part of Children’s Health month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry today launched its “Don’t Mess with Mercury” video in an effort to protect children from the dangers of mercury. The EPA responds to numerous mercury spills every year that are primarily caused by children playing with mercury. The EPA’s cost for cleanup can ...
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Ellwood quality steels company settles hazardous waste violations at New Castle, Pa. facility
Ellwood Quality Steels Company has agreed to pay a $150,000 penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at its manufacturing facility in New Castle, Pa., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. EPA cited the company for violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the federal law governing the treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous ...
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Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks mismanaged hazardous waste and failed to maintain adequate training plan for personnel handling waste
Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks mismanaged hazardous waste at its facilities and failed to ensure that personnel handling hazardous waste had proper training, according to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The base agreed to pay a penalty for alleged violations of federal hazardous waste management laws, correct the violations and improve its waste management and ...
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Electronics Recycling Asia
November 13 - 16, 2012, Guangzhou, China Conference, exhibition and plant tours organized by World Recycling Forum The next top quality conference regarding E-scrap recycling will take place from November 13 - 16, 2012 in exciting Guangzhou, host of the world famous Canton Fair. During the conference, leading recycling experts from around the world – including manufacturers, collectors, ...
By ICM AG
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Electronics Recycling Asia
November 13 -16, 2012, Guangzhou, China Conference, exhibition and plant tours organized by World Recycling Forum The major recycling conference in China, Electronics Recycling Asia organized by World Recycling Forum, will take place from November 13 – 16, 2012 in exciting Guangzhou, host of the world famous Canton Fair. During the conference, leading recycling experts from around the ...
By ICM AG
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EC taking timid step towards solving e-waste challenge, says EEB
EEB, Europe's largest federation of environmental citizens' organisations, welcomes the European Commission's proposal to strengthen the Directive on the recycling of waste electronic and electrical appliances (WEEE [1]). The proposal safeguards the environmental objectives and the main provisions of the original WEEE Directive such as individual producer responsibility (IPR), which creates ...
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Mercury waste treatment
For many years we have been dealing with all types of mercury waste: Sludge, solids, waste lamps, catalysts, building rubble and various other wastes. Today one of our Business Development Engineers would like to share some of his experiences with you. to give you a short introduction to the wide field of mercury waste treatment: What is mercury and why is it so special? Mercury, quicksilver or ...
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Questions and answers on EU Mercury Policy
What is mercury? Mercury is familiar to many as a silver-coloured liquid which expands and contracts in a thermometer to show the temperature. It is also known as “quicksilver” or "hydrargyrum" (i.e. liquid silver) and is represented by the symbol Hg. Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at ambient room temperature. It is a chemical element and therefore indestructible. This ...
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