waste collection Articles
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WatchDog - All-in-one device for waste collection trucks
Imagine you could collect waste the same way you do now while getting automatic records of all actions made during the waste collection process! What if you could identify the bins or bags authorized for waste collection, verify the collection service, update waste inventory, be notified about asset misplacement data – and have it all done automatically? This is no longer a ...
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Revolutionizing Waste Collection and Management Vehicles
Waste collection and management is a critical component of a sustainable and healthy environment. The traditional methods of waste collection and management, such as manual labor and outdated vehicles, are often time-consuming, expensive, and inefficient. With the latest advancements in technology, waste collection, and management vehicles have revolutionized the way we manage waste, making the ...
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Waste Collection and Management Vehicles
Procompactor – Waste Collection and Management Vehicles Waste management is a critical aspect of modern society, and it is essential to have efficient and effective waste collection vehicles to maintain a clean and healthy environment. This article will discuss the importance of waste collection and management vehicles and the role they play in the proper disposal of waste. Waste ...
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The London Borough of Tower Hamlets council has awarded its waste management contract to Whitespace Work Software
Whitespace Work Software Ltd is excited to be working with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to deliver municipal, commercial and environmental waste collection services to its local residents. The client Tower Hamlets is a local authority situated in East London, covering much of the traditional East End and is home to over 317,000 residents. The borough includes a number of London’s ...
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A decision support system for waste collection management and its potential improvement with Radio–Frequency Identification Technology (RFID)
Due to vigorous globalisation and product proliferation in recent years, more waste has been produced by the soaring manufacturing activities. This has contributed to the significant need for an efficient waste management system to ensure, with all efforts, the waste is properly treated for recycling or disposed. This paper presents a Decision Support System (DSS) framework, based on Constraint ...
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TOM helps Mcdonald’s Chile cut the daily waste volume by 80%
McDonald’s is committed to improve its waste management, so it installed smart automatic waste bins, achieving a significant reduction in waste collection and in several of its locations. With TOM installed, bag switches occur only 3 times a day vs 3 times per hour before during rush hours. ...
By Orwak AB
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Waste collection at home is key to killing coronavirus
COVID-19 is not the first pandemic the world has experienced. As such, there are lessons to be learnt which can aid an efficient slow down in the spread of this disease. During the outbreaks of SARS and Ebola, for example, efficient waste management processes were implemented which acted as an integral force in halting their spread, which ultimately led to the saving of many lives. However, ...
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Bratislava launches large-scale smart waste management deployment
Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, in cooperation with the technology company Sensoneo, has announced the launch of a project targeted at waste digitalization and efficient waste collection. The project is supported by a grant from the European Innovation Council, which Sensoneo received in the summer of 2020 for the large-scale deployment of its solution to demonstrate its environmental and ...
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Waste connections’ sustainable safety culture
It seems that more and more companies are integrating safety taglines into their mission and vision statements. But what do slogans like “Safety First!” really mean? Is it little things like buying your employees reflective vests and first aid kits, or does it require more effort to really ensure human safety and create a corporate culture of putting safety first? In the solid waste ...
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High quality recycling at small quantities
Case story on cable recycling (Micro Module/E250C and Rasper R400-3). Hierros y Metales Díez in Zaragoza, Spain, is active with a number of various products and services within industrial waste management – e.g. waste collection and transportation, destruction service and recycling. The company in the 1950 by Jesús Díez. Today the company is run by his two sons ...
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How Smart Waste Fits in UN Sustainable Development Goals? Promoting Health.
The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face: poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. Sensoneo facilitates a positive change in the waste industry helping us all achieve Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.Sensoneo ensures healthy lives and ...
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The Borough of Welwyn Hatfield has awarded waste management contract to Urbaser and Whitespace Work Software - Case Study
Whitespace Work Software Ltd is excited to announce it will be working with Urbaser Ltd to help them deliver waste collection services to the Borough of Welwyn Hatfield starting from April 2020. Over the nine-year contract, Whitespace will provide support to Urbaser through its dynamic Whitespace ICT solutions, helping them provide efficient and valuable services to the local residents of ...
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A comprehensive evaluation of solid waste management in Kuwait
One of the major problems facing a nation is the need for the proper disposal of the voluminous of solid waste generated every year. Therefore, recent literature on solid waste management in Kuwait has been reviewed and data analysed on the total amount of solid waste generated in Kuwait. In addition, industrial solid waste, construction and demolition waste, and pharmaceutical waste are ...
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Combat Waste Hauler Shortages With Harmony Compactors!
Waste Hauler Shortages On The Rise Waste hauler shortages are on the rise and are impacting trash pick ups nationwide. According to the Solid Waste Association of America, the driver shortages in the waste collection industry were on the rise, even before 2020. “This is reflective of a wider licensed commercial driver shortage caused by an aging workforce, lack of recruitment of women ...
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A spotlight on the future of food waste
With the Government recently committing to separate food waste collections in its spending review, this waste stream is back in full view on the national agenda. Our resident composting expert, Huw Crampton, recently shared his thoughts with Skip Hire & Waste Magazine on the role legislation, decentralised solutions, and composting all play in helping the UK to manage its food waste ...
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Eagle disposal company: where service matters
Established in 1997, Eagle Disposal Company, located in Hearne, TX, offers waste removal services for city contracts as well as individuals outside the city limits. Unlike other major companies in the industry, Eagle Disposal not only focuses on customer service, but it is also an owner-operated business. Currently employing 38 people with three hauling locations, Eagle Disposal’s primary ...
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Technology helps advance collection efficiency: imperceptible to the eye, yet major to the industry
It’s common knowledge to any one of us who work in the waste management industry in North America that, until quite recently, the average citizen didn’t give much thought to the technology behind the collection truck that rolled by every week in their neighborhood. In fact, they might have been surprised to know that collection vehicle manufacturers have been producing trucks that are ...
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Digitalization of the Three Stages in Waste Management
Waste management and treatment is currently immersed in a complex process of innovation and transformation to make the collection, classification and recycling of waste more efficient, profitable and respectful of the environment. This more efficient management is a real necessity for Europe, since, according to Eurostat, in 2020 each European produced 505 kilos of waste, 38 more than in 1995. ...
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Solid waste industry reduces fatalities and injuries
The most recent data from 2009 for the solid waste industry1 indicate that occupational fatalities have decreased substantially and the downward trend in days-away-from-work injuries and illnesses continues.2 These data, which are recorded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), are encouraging. Yet the industry remains one of the top 10 most hazardous in the U.S. The total number of fatalities ...
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Waste Management - Bulgaria
Bulgaria is a country, that faces serious waste management challenges. The current infrastructure is old, fractional and insufficient. Addressing the issue constitutes a major priority for the Bulgarian government and the planned areas for development include the creation of regional waste disposal systems, as well as the construction and exploitation of large scale waste and ...
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