waste treatment plan News
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New Earth solutions continues expansion plan
Waste treatment and resource recovery firm New Earth Solutions has obtained planning permission from Bristol City Council its advanced composting facility. The new facility will be based in Avonmouth, Bristol and has the capacity to take 50,000 tonnes of food waste and green waste per year from households in the Avon area. Bristol City Council has given NES a 20-year composting contract to meet ...
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Shanks gets green light to build waste facility
Cumbria County Council has granted planning permission for waste management firm Shanks to build a £20 million mechanical biological treatment plant. The facility will be built at Hespin Wood near Carlisle and will process up to 75,000 tonnes of waste per year. Last November, the council agreed to a 25-year private finance initiative deal with Shanks to help the council cut the amount of waste ...
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Unchecked pollution befouling majestic Lake Titicaca
Gulls swept down to feast on hundreds of dead and dying giant frogs floating in the rancid waters along a southeastern shore of Lake Titicaca, where the algae-choked shallows reek of rotten eggs. The die-off was the most striking sign yet of the deteriorating state of South America's largest body of fresh water. Local fishermen have a harder time finding anything to catch, while farmers who ...
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New biodegradable waste management plans proposed and evaluated
Researchers have designed and proposed a new organic waste management plan for Catalonia, Spain, and presented it in a recent study. They say that the plan would reduce a number of environmental impacts that arise from landfilling biodegradable waste, including natural resource depletion, acidification, and eutrophication. To reduce the negative environmental effects of landfilling and to ...
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“Clearing the Air” News Round Up post from OMI Industries
Welcome to the “Clearing the Air” News Round Up post from OMI Industries. We have compiled the latest industrial odor control news stories for your reference, arming you with the right information to keep your facilities odor-free. If you have any news that you would like our team to cover, please fill out our contact form and we will strongly consider running your story. Water ...
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VT Group opens trial facility for wakefield PFI project
A trial autoclave facility has been opened by VT Group as part of its plans for the Wakefield PFI contract. The company is preferred bidder for the PFI project and is trialling a full-scale waste treatment facility before building the new treatment centre for the area’s municipal waste at South Kirkby. The “first of class” trial facility has been built as a smaller version of the final ...
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Professor Willy Verstraete at Ecomondo: “Revolutionary prospects from waste water recovery”
He’s an unquestionable international authority on microbiology applied to the treatment of waste water and organic waste. Willy Verstraete, professor emeritus at Ghent University (Belgium), he has countless publications, among those most cited in his area of study, to his name. Heading the Flemish Science Council (FWO) as of this year, a Belgian institution to support the ...
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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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Construction World, June 2016, Waste To Wealth
CW delves deeper into various solutions and technologies to manage city waste. Solid waste management (SWM) is becoming an area of acute concern in India. A recent report submitted to the National Green Tribunal by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) revealed that nearly 76 per cent of all cities indiscriminately dump their solid waste in violation of the rules, ...
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