mercury waste News
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Get to know VaCure
econ industries´ competence to provide solutions to deal with mercury wastes is worldwide unique. Now, we are the only company worldwide, offering the VaCure systems: mobile mercury stabilisation units placed in a 40 ft container. In terms of flexibility, safety and eco friendliness this solution is unrivaled for final disposal of mercury waste. VaCure units are the ideal solution for ...
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Largest mercury treatment plant by econ opened in Australia
Econ industries is proud to announce the completion of a game-changing new facility for mercury waste management in Karratha, in the northwestern part of Australia. In July, Contract resources, a catalyst handling and mechanical services company, opened the largest mercury treatment plant in the southern hemisphere. Thereby, it eliminates the need to export mercury-contaminated waste from ...
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Econs support to `Make Mercury History`
The second part of our business year 2018 is characterized by our activities to treat mercury. Specifically, we started a service order for the conversion of several hundred tons of mercury to comparatively harmless mercury sulphide in England, continued to train operating staff and to optimise the newly established treatment centre for mercury wastes in Karratha/ Western Australia, planned ...
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Make Mercury History - Meet us at COP3 of the Minamata Convention
The third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP3) will take place from 25 to 29 November 2019 at the International Conference Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. As official partner of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Mercury Partnership econ will be present during the whole event. You can meet us, at our booth in the foyer of the ...
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New partnership with UNEP
We are proud to announce that econ industries now is an official partner of the United Nations Environmental Programme UNEP in the areas “mercury cell chlor alkali production” and “mercury waste management”. As a UNEP Global Mercury Partner our contribution will contain knowledge transfer in all fields of mercury contaminated site or waste management. Also we are offering ...
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Mercury waste treatment
For many years we have been dealing with all types of mercury waste: Sludge, solids, waste lamps, catalysts, building rubble and various other wastes. Today one of our Business Development Engineers would like to share some of his experiences with you. to give you a short introduction to the wide field of mercury waste treatment: What is mercury and why is it so special? Mercury, quicksilver or ...
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Discover econ industries` solutions for mercury contaminants in wastes and soils
The 9th Euro Chlor Technology Conference & Exhibition takes place in the Madrid Melia Castilla Hotel between the 1st and 3rd of April 2014. Three days to share best practices in safety, health and especially environmental protection. This opportunity to discover more about our unique solutions for mercury contaminated wastes and soils should not be missed. • When: 1 - 3 April 2014 ...
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First mobile VacuDry unit completed
After 6 months manufacturing econ industries has now delivered the first fully mobile VacuDry® vacuum distillation unit, having the size of a 40" container. The heart of the plant consists of our well proven VacuDry® 1.000 vacuum dryer. The feeding and discharge systems of the plant can be adapted to a wide variety of input materials. To stay flexible the plant is built in modules that ...
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Mercury Recycling suffers drop in sales
Lamp and mercury waste recycler Mercury Recycling is looking at expanding into battery and LCD display recycling after it experienced a 9% sales drop in 2009. Its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2009 showed that Mercury Recycling remained profitable despite sales dropping from GBP£3.074 million to GBP£2.789 million in 2009. Pre-tax profits finished at GBP£333,000 but were down ...
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EPA will propose rule to protect waterways by reducing mercury from dental offices / existing technology is available to capture dental mercury (DC)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced it intends to propose a rule to reduce mercury waste from dental offices. Dental amalgams, or fillings containing mercury, account for 3.7 tons of mercury discharged from dental offices each year. The mercury waste results when old mercury fillings are replaced with new ones. The mercury in dental fillings is flushed into chair-side ...
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Mercury Monitor RA-915AM With a New Multiplexer for the Mercury Solidification Plant in Almaden, Spain
MAYASA, through the Mercury Technological Centre, has developed a technique of stabilization and solidification of mercury and mercury wastes. In this procedure, with the title: METHOD OF STABILIZATION OF LIQUID MERCURY THROUGH SULFUR POLYMERIC CEMENT, VIA MERCURY SULFIDE, metallic mercury is transformed into mercury sulfide (HgS) and introduced into a polymeric sulfur matrix, obtaining a less ...
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TSCA Mercury Inventory: Dec. 26 Deadline for Comments on Proposed Reporting Requirements Approaching
As previously reported in our TSCAblog® item on October 26, 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed triennial electronic reporting requirements pertinent to the supply, use, and trade of mercury in the United States. 82 Fed. Reg. 49564. The 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) require EPA to establish periodic mercury reporting requirements for any ...
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EPA and Macy’s announce settlement over hazardous waste management violations
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Macy’s Retail Holdings, Inc., have agreed to a settlement over hazardous waste management violations at Macy’s stores in Albany and Garden City, N.Y. EPA alleged in 2007 that Macy’s failed to properly identify and handle spent fluorescent and other types of light bulbs at the two stores. Macy’s has agreed to pay a $49,725 penalty and to ...
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Pollution Prevention Videoconference Links Hospital Staffers
OLYMPIA, Washington (ENS) - Hospital employees across Washington state can learn the most current methods for managing and reducing hospital wastes, especially from disinfection and sterilization processes, at an interactive videoconference broadcast to six locations on March 8, 2007. Through speaker presentations, question and answer sessions and local roundtable discussions, participants will ...
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Japan Waste Management Association visits econ industries
In November, a delegation from the Japan Waste Management Association visited econ industries in the context of a study tour regarding European waste management best practices. The goal of the visit was to learn more about econ industries’ Zero Industrial Waste…! approach. The delegation members were eager to learn about the zero industrial waste approach that focuses on the reuse ...
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Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., in St. Joseph, Mo., to Pay Penalty and Build New Hazardous Waste Facility for Mercury Violations
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., a veterinary health products company, has agreed to pay a $68,475 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act violations based on its mishandling of mercury waste in St. Joseph, Mo. In addition to paying the civil penalty, the company will spend a minimum of $300,000 to build a state-of-the art hazardous ...
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Mercury pollution abatement by VacuDry reaches a new peak with the highest soil remediation job in the world
Are contaminated soils and mercury waste a topic for you? Have the high investment cost of large equipment prevented you from addressing the issue? Maybe a mobile unit is the right solution for your project? Find out more about our project in India… Mercury pollution continues to present a significant risk to the environment and human health globally. econ industries is proud to help ...
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Mercury – Have your say on the EU implementation of the Minamata Convention
The European Commission has launched an on-line consultation on issues related to the ratification and implementation by the EU of the Minamata Convention on mercury. The Convention was signed in October 2013. At that time, it was the 1st international environmental agreement concluded in a decade. It is a global treaty that aims to protect human health and the environment from the adverse ...
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Delegation from Indonesia visits econ industries to learn about zero industrial waste
In June, a Delegation of key-decision makers from Indonesia visited econ industries in the context of a bfz organised study tour. The goal of the visit was to learn more about econ industries Zero Industrial Waste...! approach. The Delegation members were impressed by our references and the concept of regional, flexible waste management treatment centres that focus on resources recovery rather ...
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Good on mercury and waste, bad on climate and enforcement: EEB assesses the Czech Presidency
EEB has released its assessment of the Czech Presidency, which it has done for each presidency since 1998, based on the Ten Green Tests it put before the Czech government when it took over from the French on 1st January. EEB views the six-month Presidency as a convenient period over which progress on the EU’s environment-related policy and legislation can be measured. “The Czech Presidency was ...
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