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TANA Shredder: A game-changer for Pickens County landfill
In November 2020, Pickens County, South Carolina, faced a crisis as their landfill neared closure, exceeding capacity by 28,000 cubic yards. Urgently needing a solution for mattress shredding to meet regulatory compliance, the Solid Waste Department evaluated over 700 shredders. The TANA Shark 440DTeco emerged as the sole option capable of handling mattresses. Within three weeks of a ...
By Tana Oy
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EPA recognizes Hillsborough County, Fl., for Taylor Road Landfill superfund site reuse (FL)
At a ceremony this morning, EPA honored Hillsborough County, Florida, with the 2010 EPA Region 4 Excellence in Site Reuse award for creatively reusing the former Taylor Road Landfill site to serve multiple purposes that benefit the community. Region 4 created the Excellence in Site Reuse award to recognize those who have gone above and beyond in redeveloping a Superfund site. Since clean up ...
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New York Governor Fills Environmental Protection Coffers
ALBANY, New York, July 23, 2007 (ENS) - New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has signed legislation that will increase revenue to the State's Environmental Protection Fund from $225 million to $250 million in the 2008-09 fiscal year, and to $300 million in fiscal year 2009-10 and thereafter. 'The Environmental Protection Fund is a pivotal funding source for the state's premier environmental ...
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Santa Isabel Agrees to Close Its Municipal Landfill
(San Juan, P.R.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that the Municipality of Santa Isabel has signed an order with EPA requiring the town and the landfill operators to stop receiving solid waste at the municipal landfill. The order also requires the owners and operators to have appropriate closure measures completed by the summer of 2010 and to conduct post-closure ...
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GBB highlights unique island communities expertise and understanding at WASTECON
Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) has developed a unique expertise and understanding of the recycling and solid waste management challenges of island communities over the past two years with important assignments in Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, County of Maui, HI, and the Cayman Islands.As part of the technical session entitled “Solid Waste Management: An Island Perspective,” which ...
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`New England Organics` to Be Renamed `Casella Organics,` Reflecting Casella`s Integration of Its Resource Renewal Services
Casella Waste Systems celebrated a quarter-century of organics recycling last week at an open house for its customers and supporters at its Hawk Ridge Farm compost facility, and announced that its New England Organics business will be renamed Casella Organics, reflecting the company's commitment to meeting a growing demand among its customers for organics solutions. "We believe the organics ...
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Using the Unusable: More Landfills Becoming Sources of Renewable Energy
The EPA’s RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative is picking up steam. The effort, launched in 2008, encourages the reuse of contaminated lands, landfills and mine sites for renewable energy generation. The agency’s Action Plan 2.0, released last fall, details how far the program has come and what is being done to expand it. “The cleanup and revitalization of contaminated ...
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Post-Closure Care of MSW Landfills – GSI White Paper 42
Nearly a decade ago, the Geosynthetic Institute published results of its first survey on Regulatory Status of Post-Closure Care of MSW Landfills in the United States. That publication was GSI White Paper #17. Thirty-states responded to the first survey. In the years since, GSI members and affiliated stakeholders in geosynthetics and waste management have requested a new survey be issued, ...
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Want to get to know International Lining Technology better?
International Lining Technology would like to wish everyone a happy, exciting new year. We have many projects and events to look forward to in 2015. One of the many includes two great industry conferences in February that will allow us to connect with both old and new clients. Project manager Sean Gill and others from our company will be attending the 2015 Society for Mining, Metallurgy and ...
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Want to get to know International Lining Technology better?
International Lining Technology would like to wish everyone a happy, exciting new year. We have many projects and events to look forward to in 2015. One of the many includes two great industry conferences in February that will allow us to connect with both old and new clients. Project manager Sean Gill and others from our company will be attending the 2015 Society for Mining, Metallurgy and ...
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EPA Announces Public Comment Period for TVA Phase 3 Clean-up Plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the public comment period today for the Phase 3 removal action at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Kingston Fly Ash Release Site. The River System Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis, or EE/CA, is the next step in the ongoing TVA Kingston Ash Recovery Project. A public meeting to discuss the various alternatives will take place August 21 ...
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Guam’s Ordot Dump closed, new landfill at Layon to open September 1
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the Ordot Dump will stop accepting waste and work will begin to permanently close the dump. It is expected to take at least two years to finish the work to permanently close the Ordot Dump, which includes installing a cap and constructing stormwater, leachate and landfill gas controls. ...
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EPA allows Waimanalo Gulch Landfill to reopen agency approval required as part of recent order (HI)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today it has approved reopening of the Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill, with conditions. While Waste Management has not completed all tasks yet due in the Order issued by EPA on January 25, 2011, EPA recognizes that the continued closure of the landfill may create a risk to public health from the mounting accumulation of waste throughout Oahu. ...
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John Carlton and Chris Lund Join GBB Ownership Group; Carlton Promoted to Senior Vice President
Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) is pleased to announce that John G. Carlton, PE, BCEE and Christopher A. Lund, PE have joined GBB co-founders Harvey Gershman and Bob Brickner in the ownership group of the firm. Mr. Carlton has also been promoted to Senior Vice President. "This is an important step for the future of GBB by enhancing the ownership group with strong, capable, and ...
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New solution to environmental permitting financial provisions
As an alternative to keeping money in bonds or a cash account, FillSecure offers a more lucrative way to meet the financial provision obligations of the Environmental Permitting Regulations.In response to the Environmental Permitting (EP) Regulations, introduced in April, a new financial product has been launched. Insurance brokers, Tysers, and financial advisers, Kynaston-Carnoustie, have come ...
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John G. Carlton, P.E., BCEE, Joins GBB as Vice President
Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) is pleased to announce that John G. Carlton, P.E., BCEE, has joined the firm as Vice President. Based in New Jersey, he has more than 22 years of solid waste management experience both as a consultant and in executive positions for public-sector authorities. “We’re happy to welcome John as part of GBB’s senior executive and ...
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Viridor to close Beddingham landfill site
Viridor has announced the closure of its Beddingham landfill site after reaching its full capacity. The site near Lewes is to close on 16 May but will continue to generate renewable energy from the methane emissions. The site took in 250,000 tonnes of rubbish each year and currently generates around 4.9MW of electricity, which is enough to power most of the houses in Lewes. A Viridor ...
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Former Brick Township Superfund Site Gets Remake as Solar Power Farm; Panels Provide Energy to Government Building, Local Parks
Brick Township received the first-ever U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 Excellence in Site Reuse Award today for its use of 24,000 solar panels at a Superfund Site. The award was given to recognize Brick Township’s reuse of a former landfill site to create a solar panel array that supplies electricity to the township’s government buildings and community parks. The ...
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Carpet Recycling UK Conference makes sustainable connections
The importance of making sustainable connections and the need to rethink how carpet products are designed to facilitate future recycling were two leading topics at Carpet Recycling UK’s recent seventh Annual Conference in Birmingham. The one-day event was preceded with a networking Awards Dinner on June 10th and conference sponsorship again provided by Invista, manufacturers of ANTRON® ...
By Axion Group
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ISWA establishes climate change task force
ISWA, the International Solid Waste Association, has established a climate change task force to be led by global leaders from industry, academia, and professional service provider organizations. The focus of this group is to examine the range of issues arising from the interaction between waste management and greenhouse gas emissions. From these efforts recommendations will be made on appropriate ...
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