waste acceptance Articles
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A chance to drive hazardous waste policy
The proliferation of energy-from-waste (EfW) power plants is making a significant contribution to the UK’s efforts to end its reliance on harmful fossil fuels. But while EfW plants provide a solution to municipal waste, they also produce a low amount of hazardous waste in the form of air pollution control residue (APCr). Despite numerous solutions existing that process and reuse APCr ...
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The Real Cost of Landfill
In the western world we are focused on the reduction of landfill and replacing it with a more holistic approach to waste management. This includes a mix of recycling, re-using and general reduction. However there is still a need for incineration in many cases as no other technology provides the same complete destruction of the waste – many pollutants and particulates can only be ...
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Properties and Behavior of Radionuclides
For the purposes of this document, radionuclides should be considered to have properties similar to those of other heavy metals.This does not imply that all radionuclides are heavy metals, but that the majority of sites requiring remediation of radioactively contaminated materials are contaminated with radionuclides that have similar properties. Like metals, the contaminants of concern are ...
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Keeping APCr out of Landfill
The CIWM have recently featured an article by our very own Dr David Deegan in the latest edition of their magazine. The article explains why Tetronics International were unhappy to be informed recently that Defra ministers had taken the decision not to remove the derogation that allows Air Pollution Control residues to be disposed of to landfill at three times the standard waste acceptance ...
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Time to address the air pollution control residue problem
The incineration of municipal solid waste is gaining increasing importance in the UK, especially as the burning of waste can be used to generate energy, providing a more sustainable solution to our waste problem by diverting it from landfill sites. An issue with incineration is that some of our waste contains hazardous chemicals such as chlorine and lead which are volatilised during the process. ...
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Treatment and Disposal of Air Pollution Control Residue
What is APCr? Thermal waste management using Energy Recovery Facilities (ERFs) is now a well-managed and mature technology that is subject to environmental monitoring by a range of competent international bodies. These ERFs have been established as a means of diverting waste away from landfill disposal and for valorising the material and energy content of the waste. Counter to historic operation ...
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Chinese Import Ban Encourages New Ways to Improve Recycling Efficiency
Here at Kiverco, we recently completed a multi-million pound installation of a new, state-of-the-art recycling facility at McQuillan Environmental in Dundrod, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland. One of the drivers for this new recycling plant was to dramatically improve the quality and “purity” of the waste products produced, which has become increasingly important since China’s new ...
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Deep in the Dumps? How municipalities can avert a waste disposal crisis
Municipalities across Canada are looking for economical and environmental methods to improve their waste management diversion methods. Some are scrambling to assess and extend landfill disposal capacity and others are trying to dramatically increase their diversion rates. Many are initiating a combination of strategies. Canada's largest city has arguably received the most attention with regard to ...
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The Proven Solution that Permanently Eliminates Hazardous Waste
The effectiveness of Blastox® in landfill environments is being questioned by companies offering other technologies. References have been made that Blastox® cannot pass certain leach tests. The following information will clarify these issues and provide an easy-to-understand, fact-based response regarding the long term stability of Blastox®.Specifically, the ability of Blastox® to pass certain ...
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WI BAT conclusions published - key findings in emissions monitoring
The final draft of the Best Available Technology Reference document for Waste Incineration (WI BREF) was accepted by European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau (EIPPCB) on summer 2019 and the WI BAT conclusions published on 3rd December 2019, under the IED Directive 2010/75/EU. This BAT conclusions covers the incineration and co-incineration of waste, including the following ...
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The Importance of Properly Disposing of Antifreeze Waste
Waste antifreeze, also called engine coolant often contains heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and chromium in high enough levels to make it a regulated hazardous waste. A study performed by the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) determined that approximately 40% of used antifreeze would be considered a hazardous waste due to elevated levels of lead (ASTM document STP 1192 ...
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Water Recovery Project
The Commercial Opportunity Fielding considers it a matter of environmental ethics to extract and repurpose anything of value from the waste streams it handles, wherever feasible. For some streams, however, the cost of separation exceeds the value of its components. Such streams require some form of ultimate disposal. For hazardous liquid wastes there are few environmentally acceptable disposal ...
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Waste Sorting Plant for Sale Price
Sorting plants designed to accept mixed municipal waste, where all household waste is collected in a single waste stream, are capable of extracting metals and glass, and typically contaminated plastics. The waste entering such a plant is already too intermingled at the point of collection, prohibiting high-quality recycling. Facilities sorting co-mingled dry recyclables tend to produce ...
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WI BAT conclusions finally published – key findings
The final draft of the Best Available Technology Reference document for Waste Incineration (WI BREF) was accepted by European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau (EIPPCB) on summer 2019 and the WI BAT conclusions published on 3rd December 2019, under the IED Directive 2010/75/EU. This BAT conclusions covers the incineration and co-incineration of waste, including the following ...
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Guidance on Hazardous Waste Rules Issued Amid Delays to New Regime
Technical guidance on how to interpret the new EU definition of hazardous waste has been published by the Environment Agency to help industry navigate a course through a bewildering range of semi-implemented EU law. 1 The new system, soon to replace the UK's 'special waste' regime, will significantly increase the range of wastes falling under special controls, but regulations paving the way for ...
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Not in my back yard — international shipments of waste and the environment
Waste without borders: Zhang Guofu, 35, makes EUR 700 a month, a huge wage in provincial China, sifting through waste that includes shopping bags from a British supermarket chain and English-language DVDs. The truth is that waste placed in a bin in London, can quite easily end up 5 000 miles away in a recycling factory in China's Pearl River delta. Waste of all descriptions is on the move. ...
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Management of Hazardous Wastes
' Management of hazardous waste is a growing concern in many countries. The long-term impacts and costs of improper disposal can be very high and the emphasis must be on prevention. A comprehensive management system should include (i) policies, institutions and effective regulations and (ii) adequate and acceptable disposal facilities (either public or private). This note outlines the key ...
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Integrated Environmental Risk Management in Real Estate Transactions
Traditional risk management posits a rational, five-step process for managing risks. The outstanding differences between this traditional process and the environmental risk management process lie in the technicality and complexity of step one (identifying and analyzing environmental risk) and of the first part of step two (examining the feasibility of alternative risk management, specifically ...
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