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Veolia acquires guy`s waste services
Veolia ES Solid Waste, Inc. today announced it has acquired all the business assets of Guy’s Waste Services, based in Byron, Ga, a town located outside of Macon, Ga. The acquisition includes all subsidiaries under Guy’s Waste Services including KMA Transfer, LLC. and Ace Trash, LLC. All of the operations will now function as Veolia Environmental Services. The acquisition, which opens ...
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Aco Recycling Introduces new solutions for Smart Waste Management by IoT Tech: Aco Smart Wastee
Aco Smart Wastee is a low cost wireless sensor device conceived to be installed in waste containers and monitor their fill level and status. It enables an optimization in the route planning for waste collection and an improved container management thus providing an important cost reduction of the exploitation. Aco Smart Wastee has an optimized design presenting a HDP (high density polyethylene) ...
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Influencing factors on local authority recycling rates identified in UK
Resource efficiency experts WRAP today published a new report which has identified key factors that influence local authority recycling performance rates, and which quantifies the degree to which these impact on those rates. The research, “Analysis of recycling performance and waste arisings in the UK 2012/13”, has been produced to give local authorities and waste management ...
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Ultratech’s Portable Spill Containment is faster than a leaky locomotive
UltraTech’s latest addition to their spill containment product line provides hazmat responders with a quick and effective way to contain fuel and fluid leaks and spills from locomotives, tankers and other railcars. The Ultra-Track Berm is portable enough to be quickly and effectively moved by one person to a leak or spill and can capture up to 144 ...
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Waste Management Launches Innovative Curbside Compact Fluorescent Lamp Recycling Program
Service offers safe and convenient way for communities to responsibly dispose of used CFLs as part of residential recycling programs. HOUSTON - Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM), North America"s largest residential recycler, has launched a new program for communities to recycle used compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in a safe, environmentally responsible manner along with their residential ...
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Linz AG Have Once Again Put Their Faith in Lindner`s Miura 1500 - This Time with a Tracked Chassis
As early as 2017, LINZ AG was one of the first clients to start up the then brand-new Lindner Miura 1500 at the waste treatment facility in Linz’s Gaisbergerstrasse. The Miura’s high performance and quality was so impressive, it soon led to another order for a mobile primary shredder. Now, once again, LINZ AG opted for Lindner Recyclingtech and the Miura 1500 shredder – this ...
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Managing waste for a greener tomorrow
Growing population and infrastructural changes world over has given rise to the waste being accumulated. The waste aggregate in Middle East has increased over the years and per capita waste generation for the region is expected to boost up to 18 billion tons by the year 2020. Abu Dhabi based marine contracting company Khamis Al Rumaithy (Kare), is planning to come up with a deepwater ship ...
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VDL presents first electric vehicles for waste collection
VDL Translift in Dronten has presented the first electric vehicles for the collection of waste and raw materials, together with public waste collectors HVC, ROVA, the municipality of Rotterdam and Cure. So-called side loaders, the two vehicles will be deployed by HVC and ROVA in quarter four of this year. The two electric crane trucks for Rotterdam and Cure will follow in quarter one of 2020. ...
By VDL Belgium
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City of Los Angeles Innovates Municipal Waste Management
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Six thousand six hundred tons of refuse (trash, recyclables and yard trimmings) are currently being collected curbside on a daily basis in the nation's second largest city. As its population increases, and resources become more limited, the City of Los Angeles is working hard towards becoming a cleaner, greener 'zero-waste' city. This means that the City's solid waste material ...
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Spill Containment Railroad Railcar Spill Containment
Many clients are not sure what is needed and the requirements. We have great partner in Ultratech who makes it much easier. Training our reps have gone thru is done to make your project a success. Now, there is something new. *NEW* Ultra-Track Pans - Composite Model Been in the works and now available. Revolutionary Modular, 20-foot spill containment pans share containment, providing unlimited ...
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Clear guidance for UK local authorities aims to boost recycled glass quality
New guidance to help local authorities boost the quality, financial and environmental benefits of their glass recycling collection services has been launched by WRAP (Waste Resources & Action Programme). The 20-page Good Practice Guidance provides essential information on the potential benefits to local authority waste managers of making the most of collecting and recycling waste container ...
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Oil Skimmers offers compact model 5H oil skimmer for confined spaces
The Model 5H oil skimmer from Oil Skimmers Inc., the leader in oil skimming solutions and equipment, is compact in size for hard-to-reach areas. Designed for congested plant facilities or confined spaces, the Model 5H can be installed on open or closed tanks. Like the larger version, the Model 6V, the Model 5H is fully automatic and runs 24 hours per day, seven days a week. Oil is removed by ...
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Maintenance Staff Injury Prevention Starts with a Waste Caddy
Janitors and maintenance teams have enough physical strain in the course of their job. After making the rounds, lifting and throwing bags into the dumpster and dealing with oversized items, the employee then has to push the waste container to the proper collection site. That last step can be the most difficult – manually pulling or pushing thousands of pounds. Tips to Prevent Injuries to ...
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Flat recycling to go underground with new Finnish waste system
A Finnish underground waste system by vacuum technology firm MariMatic is set to rival the Swedish Envac system and help encourage residents to recycle from flats. MariMatic may look to the UK to develop the Metro Taifun system that does away with kerbside collections and collects municipal waste using an underground network of vacuum pipes. The Envac system was recently installed at developer ...
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EPA Inspection Reveals Violations of Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule for RDF Inc. in Lincoln, Neb.
EPA Region 7 conducted a random record-keeping inspection at RDF Inc., doing business as Paul Davis Restoration, a Lincoln, Neb., remodeling company, in December 2012, which revealed violations of the Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RRP) Rule. As a part of a settlement, RDF Inc. has agreed to spend $27,304 to replace windows in pre-1978 homes in Lincoln, and pay a $3,033 penalty. According to ...
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New tool to make waste collection routes more efficient
Significant savings on mileage and vehicle costs can be achieved by using computer optimisation to plan waste collection routes, new research suggests. When applied to a case study of cooking oil recycling in Portugal, it was found that the technique could lead to a reduction of 13% in annual distance travelled and a fleet hiring cost reduction of 11%. The increased interest in recycling has led ...
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EPA announces completion of mission assignment in response to Minot, ND floods
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that the field mission assignment in response to flooding in Minot, North Dakota has been completed. EPA Emergency Response staff first mobilized to Minot on July 11th, 2011 and began mission activities at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the City of Minot, and the State of North Dakota on July 17th, 2011. ...
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BD and Rady Children`s Hospital-San Diego announce innovative pilot project to reduce environmental impact of sharps disposal
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego today announced that they have implemented an innovative pilot program at the Hospital that is designed to safely divert a significant percentage of BD sharps waste from landfills and utilize the recycled materials. Single-use, disposable medical devices such as ...
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EnergySolutions Enters Second Phase of Fukushima Clean-Up Contract
EnergySolutions (NYSE: ES) announced today that it has entered into the second phase of its contract with Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) as part of the on-going remediation of the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant. Previously selected as the technology provider for the clean-up of the large volume of radioactively contaminated water at the site, EnergySolutions will now supply the ...
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Mapping for Growth: Optimizing SOIL Collection Routes
Whether it’s using mobile tools to inform marketing or evaluating the optimal design of a compost bin, innovation is at the heart of everything that SOIL does as we provide our regenerative sanitation service in Haiti. The Challenge One of the biggest challenges we face in operating SOIL’s EkoLakay sanitation service is logistics and the costs of transportation. EkoLakay’s ...
By SOIL Haiti
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