soil recycling News
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New soil from recycled waste for barren steelworks
The multi-million pound regeneration project of a 200-year-old steelworks “wasteland” has combined recycled green waste with post-industrial slag and colliery spill to create 11 hectares of new landscape. The Works in Ebbw Vale, South Wales combined green compost - taken from households in the local region of Blaenau Gwent - with colliery spill and basic steel slag to make 100,000 tonnes of its ...
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Bokashicycle Launches New Product to Reduce Food Waste Disposal Expenses
Bokashicycle, LLC, announced this week the release of a new food waste pulverizing machine that can be used almost anywhere to shred, rip, bruise and pulverize food waste. First, it compacts the food and then it delivers it to a 55-gallon barrel or equivalent container. Food waste recycling immediately translates into significant savings for businesses such as restaurants, casinos, country ...
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AeroThermal’s twin thermal hydrolysis units to process 90,000 tonnes of waste per year
AeroThermal Ltd has revealed its twin Thermo-Pressure Hydrolysis vessels developed for an Irish power distributor are now onstream and on target to process 90,000 tonnes of household and municipal waste per year. The 65m3 TPH vessels which were designed, developed and engineered by AeroThermal Ltd in Poole, Dorset, utilise technology which pre-treats food waste and other bio-waste organics ...
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Legacy Waste in India
Legacy Waste processing as a Bio-mining or Bioremediation is an environmentally friendly technique to separate soil and recyclables like plastic, metal, paper, organic waste as most recyclable waste. More than 3,000 garbage dumps in India need to be restored or permanently closed. Scientifically unsustainable waste disposal causes irreversible damage to the environment: It produces ...
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Harvest power earns B CORP certification
Harvest Power, a leader in harnessing the maximum value from organic materials, today announced that it has been certified as a B Corporation, a new designation for corporations that use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. Harvest was certified by B Lab, a non-profit organization, for its environmentally- and socially-focused business model and its commitment to ...
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Ten New England Organizations Commit to Reduce Food Waste
Ten New England educational, healthcare and other business institutions have become members of EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge, a national initiative that encourages businesses, organizations and institutions to actively participate in food waste prevention, surplus food donation and food waste recycling activities. The 10 new participants in EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge from New ...
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U.S. Allows Radioactive Materials in Ordinary Landfills
TAKOMA PARK, Maryland, May 14, 2007 (ENS) - Radioactive materials from nuclear weapons facilities are being released to regular landfills and could get into commercial recycling streams, finds a report issued today by the nonprofit Nuclear Information and Resource Service, NIRS. Radioactive scrap, concrete, equipment, asphalt, plastic, wood, chemicals, and soil are placed in ordinary landfills, ...
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