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Goodyear Moves Towards Sustainability
Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Company announced at the 2022 Waste Expo trade show, a new formulation of its popular Endurance™ WHA waste haul tyre made with a renewable soybean oil compound. The Endurance WHA is now made with soybean oil, which replaces a portion of the petroleum-based materials used in its production. The soybean oil in the tyre is a bio-based material currently sourced from ...
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Veolia Environmental Services Announces Acquisition from Waste Management
Milwaukee, WI – Veolia Environmental Services (Veolia ES) Solid Waste, Inc., a division of Veolia Environmental Services North America, today announced it has acquired several business operations near Sumner, IL, from Waste Management of Illinois. The acquired operations include the Lawrence County Regional Landfill, which will be renamed Veolia ES Sumner Landfill, Inc. Veolia has also acquired ...
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Sionix to own and operate its first wastewater treatment facility
Mobile water treatment systems company Sionix Corp is to design, build, own and operate a wastewater treatment facility (WWTF) in the Bakken Shale Formation in North Dakota. Sionix has reached an agreement with Dakota Solutions Inc to lease a property in Tioga, North Dakota. The WWTF will be designed specifically for the treatment of heavily contaminated production, flowback and frac water ...
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Growing demand for Greasezilla FOG separation
The Downey Ridge Environmental Company, US developer of the Greasezilla FOG separation technology, has reported that demand for its system is expanding beyond its traditional wastewater treatment and grease trap waste hauling sectors into the biodiesel production, anaerobic digestion, food processing and water reclamation industries. The Greasezilla system can separate up to 40,000 gallons of ...
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APR Announces Pharmacy Stock Bottle Recycling Resources
The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), the leading international trade association representing the plastics recycling industry, recently developed resources for pharmacies to recycle stock bottles. In support of APR’s primary goals to increase the supply and enhance the quality of recycled plastics, pharmacy stock bottles have been identified as a highly marketable, quality stream of ...
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Prab will feature complete stamping and Chip Processing Systems at Fabtech Mexico 2015
PRAB, Inc., a global leader in complete integrated chip and fluid processing and stamping scrap handling systems will feature its full line of integrated and modular capabilities at FABTECH, May 5-7, 2015 in Monterrey, Mexico. PRAB will have equipment demonstrations and technical staff in booth 2105 in the Metalform and Machining section of the show. The booth is sponsored by Promotores ...
By PRAB, Inc
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SSI is Heading to Nashville For WASTECON 2011
SSI will be exhibiting at WASTECON 2011 in Nashville next week at the Gaylord Opryland Resort. We invite you to stop by Booth #608 and say hello to the SSI team. SSI Shredding Systems offers a wide variety of solutions for waste and recycling including: primary shredding before sorting or secondary processing; volume reduction for transportation and disposal; alternative fuel production; and ...
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EPS Densifier Cuts Labor and Disposal Costs for Best Buy
Country’s largest consumer electronics retailer finds solution from JWR, Inc. and Bright Technologies. Best Buy has been a household name in consumer electronics for the past 35 years, since the typical television set had a 19‐inch screen. Over the decades, “big screen” TVs have become commonplace, with the average size now approaching 50 inches. At the same time, Best ...
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Our Styrofoam Recycling Machines
Polystyrene, more commonly known as Styrofoam, is universally used as packing material for protecting fragile items in transit. The world produces nearly ten million metric tons of polystyrene to meet the demands of the shipping, food, and other industries. However, up to 98% of polystyrene scrap material or waste ends up in our waste stream, taking up 25 to 30 percent of landfills. Expanded ...
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Compactor Monitoring Promotion - Harmony Enterprises
Harmony’s Insite Compactor Monitoring Business owners around the country are enjoying the cost savings provided by waste compactors. They help to reduce the space needed for waste management, workplace hazards, vermin, odor, and employee pilferage. Whether they are indoor compactors that compact waste at its source and improve the customer experience, or outdoor compactors that reduce the ...
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New Year, New Spotlight!
Happy New Year from your friends at Harmony Enterprises! With all of the excitement and optimism that the new year and decade brings, we thought this would be a great time to reveal our new spotlight, the VC100 Vertical Compactor! Once you take a look at this incredible outdoor compactor, you will quickly understand why we want to feature it as our quarterly product spotlight during the months ...
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EPA funding to make Pittsburgh trash trucks cleaner
Funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency will enable less-polluting trash trucks to travel through the neighborhoods of Pittsburgh. EPA announced a $127,000 grant to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association who will, in turn, issue a grant to the City of Pittsburgh and two partners for a pilot project to cut emissions from the city's heavy-duty diesel trucks used for ...
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Terry Schweitzer Joins GBB as Vice President
Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) is pleased to announce that Terry B. Schweitzer has joined the firm as Vice President. Mr. Schweitzer has more than 19 years of experience in the solid waste management industry, working with major private-sector waste collection firms. He has extensive experience in collection operations and management that spans residential, commercial, industrial, ...
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Greasezilla says it is cutting through the FOG
Lansing, West Virginia-based Downey Ridge Environmental Co., developer of Greasezilla commercial fats, oil and grease (FOG) recycling systems, says its installed base is expanding beyond its traditional wastewater treatment and grease trap waste hauling sectors. Its newer endeavors are reaching into biodiesel production, anaerobic digestion, food processing and water reclamation industries, says ...
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Waste Management Announces Acquisition of Oakleaf
Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM) announced that today it will close the acquisition of Oakleaf Global Holdings and its primary operations for $425 million, subject to working capital and other adjustments. The combination will provide North American customers with unprecedented access to waste and recycling solutions by pairing the largest network of directly owned hauling, recycling, diversion ...
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Storage Bunkers sealed off at Nuclear Dump closed by Leak
Hundreds of containers of waste have been entombed at the federal government's underground nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico now that workers have closed off storage areas affected by a radiation leak, officials said Tuesday. After months of work, crews finished sealing the last of two bunkers at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant late Friday. The milestone was announced by state ...
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Debris Hauling Company Sued by California City for Discharging Dust into Neighborhood
Earlier this year, the City of Oakland filed a lawsuit against a construction debris hauling company that had been the focus of concern for the municipality and people living and working near the business. According City Attorney Barbara Parker, the company has been charged with intentionally blowing dust from construction debris into the neighborhood, allowing contaminated water to flow into the ...
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New video by SSI shredding systems helps educate school children on environmentally friendly waste disposal
SSI Shredding Systems of Wilsonville, Oregon has produced a five-minute instructional video showcasing the process of long-distance, waste rail haul systems using pre-load compactors. The video is being shown as an educational tool for field trip students visiting Northwest waste processing facilities. Waste By RailWilsonville, OR – What started out as a brief marketing presentation has ...
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City of Cupertino Honored with U.S. EPA National Award for Innovative Food Waste Reduction Efforts
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest, Jared Blumenfeld, today will award the City of Cupertino the national Food Recovery Challenge Innovation Award at a ceremony held at Asian-specialty food store Marina Food in Cupertino, Calif. The City is being recognized for its unique partnership with waste hauler Recology to reduce food waste and ...
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The American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) Welcomes Anheuser-Busch, General Mills, Hershey and McDonald`s®
The American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) announced that four new partners in the packaging value chain have joined the organization as Voting Members: Anheuser-Busch LLC, General Mills Inc., The Hershey Company, and McDonald’s USA, LLC, bringing the total membership to 26 companies. The organization has also announced the date and ...
By Ameripen
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