Hazardous Waste Transport News
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Selin Hoboy: Women In Trucking Top Women to Watch in 2024
GFL is delighted to announce that our Vice-President Environment, Health, Safety and Compliance (EHS&C) Selin Hoboy has been named one of Women In Trucking’s Top Women to Watch in 2024. This accolade recognizes women who are top performers in the trucking and transportation industry, and who go the extra mile to support other women within their own companies and industry ...
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QED Environmental to unveil new portable gas analysis technology at World Biogas Expo
Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative environmental products and subsidiary of Graco Inc. (NYSE: GGG), is set to debut a new range of modular portable gas analysers at the World Biogas Expo 2023. The new series – which will be officially unveiled in a matter of weeks – will be the culmination of 25 years of R&D in the field of portable gas ...
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QED Environmental Systems Targets International Expansion With Appointment of New Sales Director
Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative environmental products and subsidiary of Graco Inc. (NYSE: GGG), has announced the appointment of Jonathan Hibbins as Sales Director for EMEA and APAC, with a view to expanding the company’s range of operations in 2023. As part of his new role, Jonathan is planning to grow the manufacturer’s presence in the ...
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QED Environmental Systems Expands Italian Reach With New Distribution Partner
Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative environmental products and subsidiary of Graco Inc. (NYSE: GGG), announces the appointment of Recom Industriale S.r.I (Recom) as a new distribution partner for the Italian natural gas leak detection market. Recom will distribute QED’s complete portfolio of Huberg portable and vehicle-based gas detection ...
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QED Environmental Systems Partners with UPS® for Carbon Neutral Shipping
Q.E.D Environmental Systems, Inc. (QED), a leading manufacturer of innovative environmental products and subsidiary of Graco Inc. (NYSE:GGG), has struck a Carbon Neutral Services Agreement with United Parcel Service (UPS®) in order to mitigate the environmental impact of shipping products to customers. UPS® will use its carbon emissions calculator to determine the CO2 emissions of ...
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European Commission proposes revised waste shipment rules
With the UK having left the EU, the regulations do not affect most home nations, though they still apply to Northern Ireland, via the Northern Ireland Protocol arrangements. Under the proposals, waste exports to non-OECD countries will be “restricted” and only allowed if third countries are willing to receive certain wastes and able to manage them “sustainably”. There ...
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EPA to regulate certain types of `forever chemicals` in drinking water in 2023
The EPA on Monday released its strategy for addressing a type of cancer-linked chemicals called PFAS, including its plans to finish a rule to regulate certain types of PFAS in drinking water in 2023. PFAS stands for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and these substances are a group of man-made chemicals that have been linked to health problems such as kidney and testicular cancer. ...
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Sphera Wins $55M Contract to Support Hazardous Materials Management for U.S. Defense Logistics Agency
Sphera, a leading global provider of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance and risk management software, data and consulting services, announced today it has been awarded a $55 million contract to support hazardous material management for the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Sphera offers an integrated solution that gives visibility into the complex landscape of managing ...
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CL-Out Perchlorate Bioremediation Receives Greener Cleanup Leadership Award
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection awarded Irwin Engineering of Natick, Massachusetts the 2016 Greener Cleanup Leadership Award for the innovative in situ bioremediation of perchorate contamination of soil and ground water at the Concord Road Site in Billerica, Massachusetts. The award honors LSPs and their clients for promoting greener cleanup principles and practices to ...
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SUEZ and Five Capital sign an agreement for a majority stake in EDCO, a Saudi hazardous waste management company
SUEZ and Five Capital Fund I (a Saudi CMA-regulated fund) signed an agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Environment Development Company (EDCO), a Saudi hazardous waste management company. This operation will position the two partners in the rapidly expanding hazardous waste market in Saudi Arabia where major petrochemical industrial projects are ongoing and planned. Located in Jubail ...
By Suez
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Axion Polymers: adopting ‘Norwegian Proposal’ would benefit European plastics recyclers
Adopting Norway’s proposal to amend a global agreement on rules for exporting mixed plastic waste would benefit European plastics recyclers and lead to more investment in infrastructure, claims a UK plastics recycler. Manchester-based Axion Polymers welcomes the proposed changes to the Basel Convention that would set strict quality specifications about exports, saying these would ...
By Axion Group
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Geconor are building a business treating medical waste in Chile We interviewed general manager Jorge Rivera to find out more.
Having customers in more than 95 countries it can be challenging to ensure that we can provide a full service to our customers. This is where our expert team of distributors, partners and international engineers step in. Trained by our engineers in the complete installation, commissioning and maintenance of our machines to enable us to confidently support you no matter where you are. Having an on ...
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Tackling Medical Waste in Chile
Having customers in more than 95 countries it can be challenging to ensure that we can provide a full service to our customers. This is where our expert team of distributors, partners and international engineers step in. Trained by our engineers in the complete installation, commissioning and maintenance of our machines to enable us to confidently support you no matter where you are. Having an on ...
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QED Adds the Snap Sampler® to Its Line of Ground Water Sampling Products
Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative environmental products and subsidiary of Graco Inc., announces the acquisition of the Snap Sampler passive ground water sampling technology from ProHydro, Inc. The Snap Sampler system is uniquely designed to provide high sampling accuracy while reducing sampling program costs. The Snap Sampler system (US Patent 7,178,415), ...
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Environmentally Sound
On March 16, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to add hazardous waste aerosol cans to the category of “universal wastes” regulated under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations, codified at Title 40 of the C.F.R., Part 273. 83 Fed. Reg. 11654. According to EPA, this action would benefit the many manufacturing facilities and ...
By Acta Group
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Ion Science Tiger LT PID helps ensure safe export of hazardous waste
Tabib Toxic Waste Services Ltd uses an intrinsically safe handheld instrument to monitor VOCs in box containers being sent to Europe. Tabib Toxic Waste Services Ltd has purchased a second Tiger LT handheld photoionisation detector (PID) from Ion Science leading specialist in gas detection instrumentation for global occupational health and environmental monitoring applications – to ensure ...
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Tiger LT aids safe export of hazardous waste
Tabib Toxic Waste Services Ltd uses an intrinsically safe handheld instrument to monitor VOCs in box containers being sent to Europe. Tabib Toxic Waste Services Ltd has purchased a second Tiger LT handheld photoionisation detector (PID) from Ion Science leading specialist in gas detection instrumentation for global occupational health and environmental monitoring applications – to ...
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Harden Hazardous Waste Disposal Project in Shandong, China
As the largest city excelling at chemical industry province in China, Shandong province has a hazardous waste disposal center which is located in Circular Economy Demonstration Park in Dezhou City. It is the only comprehensive solid hazardous waste disposal site in Dezhou city. This disposal center can realize the hazardous waste resource recycling, hazardous waste reduction and harmless disposal ...
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Oxidation of Methotrexate by Ozone
Ozonator Industries Ltd. is pleased to announce the results of the testing done by the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering on the ozonation of methotrexate (MTX) in water. Ozonation is the core treatment technology used in the Ozonator Industries NG-3000 solution in treating bio-hazardous waste. It was found that “MTX was totally degraded ...
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Filtering HPLC solutions or other solvent-based liquids for the lab?
Sterlitech is proud to launch a new product based on the successes of the Autofil bottle-top disposable filter funnel, now in a solvent-resistant version. The Autofil PP bottle-top filters are a revolutionary new way to purify solvents for analytical applications or purify buffers and extracts. These new devices are the world’s first single-piece polypropylene funnel, designed to withstand ...
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