building site waste News
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Seagull attacks on the increase
Here's how we can help Given the amount of recent bad press our coastal Seagulls are receiving of late we at Eco Environmental would like to share a few thoughts about the current situation. Populations of any living thing depend on two things - habitat and food supply. Seagulls are bold and opportunistic creatures and have little fear when stealing food from us. We have caused a rise in urban ...
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EPA Finalizes $47 Million Plan to Address Pollution in Three Areas of Ringwood Mines Superfund Site in Ringwood, New Jersey
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its plan to address contamination in three areas of the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund site in Ringwood, New Jersey. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, these areas were used to dispose of waste materials, including paint sludge and waste in drums, from the Ford Motor Company’s automobile assembly plant in Mahwah, New Jersey. ...
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Best options for disposing construction waste
A recent study investigated the environmental impact of the disposal of construction waste in Catalonia, Spain. The study suggests that the best options are to recycle construction waste where possible, incinerate the rest and landfill when there is no other option. These findings are in line with the waste hierarchy specified in the Waste Framework Directive1. About 6.3 million tonnes of ...
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Viridor submits revised planning proposals to Oxfordshire County Council
Viridor has submitted a revised planning application to build and operate an energy from waste facility in Ardley, near Bicester after Oxfordshire County Council refused its original proposal in October last year. (See MRW story) Chosen as the preferred bidder in 2009 to provide a solution for Oxfordshire’s residual waste, Viridor submitted plans to build a £100 million EfW plant in on its ...
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Endecom applies to build UK`s first purpose built low level waste site
Endecom UK, a subsidiary of waste management firm Sita UK, has applied for planning permission to build the UK’s first purpose-built low level waste disposal facility to be built in West Cumbria. The proposed Keekle Head site will be used to primarily dispose of construction and demolition waste such as rubble, contaminated soil, concrete and overalls, gloves and boots, mainly resulting from ...
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Gaza’s water supply in danger of collapse, warns UN report
The Gaza Strip’s underground water system is in serious danger of collapse after recent conflict compounded years of overuse and contamination, a report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today warns. The UNEP report on the environmental condition of Gaza following Israel’s military operation in the region in late 2008 calls for the aquifer – supplying 1.5 million ...
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Thermal Desorption opens at Waste Recovery Park
Augean plc was granted authorisation to build and operate an innovative waste recovery park for the treatment of hazardous wastes, located on land adjacent to its existing landfill site at Port Clarence, Teesside. The 12.7 hectare site will provide an integrated waste management facility that uses several complementary treatment processes to recover more waste for reuse and recycling, providing ...
By Augean PLC
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Landfill operator forced to pay GBP 1.27 million penalty for running illegal site
The Environment Agency in the South West, has worked in partnership with the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), to secure the successful confiscation of £1, 194, 638 million from a landfill operator who ran his site illegally. The seizure of assets is largest ever made following an environmental conviction in this country. Exeter Crown Court today ordered that John Craxford and his company John ...
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Oregon Developer and Construction Firm Agree to Pay over $37,000 to Resolve Clean Air Act Violations
(The Dalles, Oregon. - Oct. 1, 2007) Two Oregon Companies involved in property rehabilitation and redevelopment --- Cook Development Corp. (CDC) and Birch Creek Construction, Inc, (BCC) --- have agreed to pay penalties totaling $37,500 to settle with EPA for alleged violations of the asbestos National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants (asbestos NESHAP), under the Clean Air Act (CAA) ...
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