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US manufacturers and retailers balance tires and the environment
Tire companies, big box stores, and the government are putting the brakes on the use of lead wheel weights. Through EPA's National Lead-Free Wheel Weight Initiative, partners have agreed to phase-in the use of lead-free alternative wheel weights and reduce the amount of lead released into the environment by 2011. 'Our partners have pledged to reduce or eliminate their use of lead wheel weights,' ...
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European households encouraged to sort more recyclable waste
Governments need to take account of the effort householders need to make to sort recyclable waste into distinct streams, such as paper, glass and organic waste, when designing waste management policies. New research suggests that when householders have the option to dump mixed waste, deposit-refund systems may be the most effective way of encouraging recycling. Using the Netherlands as a case ...
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GPT Waste partners with Landmarc to manage waste streams
GPT Waste has been appointed by Landmarc Support Services (Landmarc) in a long-term contract to manage waste streams arising from around 120 sites across the nationwide Defence training estate, and to share its objectives of achieving the best possible environmental outcomes and most efficient delivery of service. Landmarc works in partnership with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) ...
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European Organizations Issue Declaration on Waste Containing Nanomaterials
On April 13, 2016, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), the European Environmental Citizens’ Organization for Standardization (ECOS), and the Oeko-Institut issued a press release announcing the availability of the Declaration on Waste Containing Nanomaterials. According to the press release, over 80 signatories have endorsed the Declaration, “demonstrating ...
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Wealden council issues RCV tender for kerbside collection expansion
Wealden District Council has issued a GBP£1.5m tender notice for up to ten new refuse collection vehicles, in order to extend its kerbside recycling service across the district. The three year contract calls for 26 tonne ‘twin pack’ waste collection vehicles, with bin lifts, which will enable the council to collect two waste streams simultaneously from their kerbside caddy ...
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OECD Claims Urgent Research Needed into Risks from Nanomaterials in Household Waste
According to a February 22, 2016, press release from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an OECD report states that “[u]rgent research is needed to assess the possible risks to human health and ecosystems from the ever-increasing amounts of engineered nanomaterials going into household waste and ending up in the environment.” The OECD report, ...
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Maes Containers to Start the Robotic Revolution of Sustainable Recycling With ZenRobotics Recycler
Technology to save the Earth: World's first solar-powered robotic recycling system will be installed in Belgium this year. Containers Maes the Belgian experts in sustainable recycling are to install the now globally available ZenRobotics Recycler™, the world's first robotic recycling system. The Maes facility near the corporate headquarters in Tessenderlo, Belgium, will take delivery of ...
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Sainsbury`s and Recolight to run energy-saving light bulb and battery recycling scheme
Sainsbury’s and light bulb recycling company Recolight will run a scheme to collect end-of-life energy saving light bulbs and batteries from Sainsbury’s stores. The retailer claims that this makes Sainsbury’s the first supermarket to offer a joint collection of light bulbs and batteries for consumers. Recolight chief executive Nigel Harvey told MRW: “We are very excited and we are committed ...
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Stericycle Becomes Member of Practice Greenhealth
LAKE FOREST, Ill., April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Stericycle, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRCL) today announced it has become a member of Practice Greenhealth, a nonprofit organization spearheading positive environmental stewardship and best practices in the healthcare community. Stericycle also announced it is one of 15 members of the Practice Greenhealth (PGH) Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) ...
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Too many waste fractions? No room for a recycling station? A multi-chamber baler can be the solution!
Cardboard boxes, shrink film, wooden pallets, straps, metal cans and on top of that shredded paper from the office? Are you dealing with a lot of different waste fractions in your business and is lack of space for a regular recycling station a challenge? You are not alone! Many stores, warehouses and factories are facing the same situation, but there is a solution that allows you to at the same ...
By Orwak AB
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Countrystyle awarded £16m New Spitalfields Market waste contract
Countrystyle Group has been awarded a £15.8m contract to manage waste, recycling and cleansing services at New Spitalfields Market in Leyton, East London. Countrystyle Group will assist market tenants while a new segregated waste collection strategy is implemented, which will require them to segregate various waste streams into separate bins. The firm will then transport the materials such as ...
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Maine company fined for hazardous waste violations
Oxford Aviation, Inc., of Oxford Maine , a company that refurbishes and refinishes airplanes, has resolved a case involving EPA allegations that the company violated hazardous waste requirements. Following a Sept. 2009 EPA inspection of the Oxford facility, EPA alleged that Oxford violated the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by failing to adequately determine the contents of ...
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Environmental analysis – online monitoring of chromate in wastewater
Metrohm Process Analytics is pleased to present a solution for the online monitoring of chromate (hexavalent chromium) in industrial wastewater streams. This turn-key solution uses titration with subsequent photometric detection and is based on the ICON Analyzer, a dedicated online photometer for water and wastewater analysis. Chromate is useful in many industries – in the production of ...
By Metrohm AG
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Scotts Manufacturing Company to Pay $148,388 penalty for Hazardous waste issues at Fort Madison, Iowa, facility (IA)
The Scotts Manufacturing Company, of Marysville, Ohio, has agreed to pay a $148,388 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of alleged violations of hazardous waste laws at its pesticide blending and packaging facility in Fort Madison, Iowa. Scotts employs approximately 200 full-time and 200 part-time workers at the Fort Madison facility, which blends and packages various lawn and ...
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Eldo W.R.M.S., Inc., to Pay $23,900 civil penalty for hazardous waste violations at salvage goods facility in Grandview, Mo.
Eldo W.R.M.S., Inc., a commercial goods salvage wholesale and retail business, has agreed to pay a $23,900 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of hazardous waste violations at its facility in Grandview, Mo. According to an administrative consent agreement filed by EPA Region 7 in Kansas City, Mo., an EPA representative conducted a compliance evaluation inspection at the ...
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Officials Eye 6 Barrels Tied to Nuke Dump Leak
Scientists investigating a mysterious radiation leak at the federal government's underground nuclear waste dump have identified five other potentially explosive containers of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory that are being stored at a site in West Texas, New Mexico Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn told a legislative panel Tuesday. Flynn told lawmakers that scientists have been unable to ...
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EPA selects Illinois students for the president’s Environmental Youth Award
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has selected middle school students Dana Gattone, Angel Loizzo and Maggie O’Brien from St. Philip the Apostle School in Addision, Ill., as regional winners of the 2010 President"s Environmental Youth Award. Winners from each of EPA"s 10 regions were recognized today at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. "The work of these motivated students shows ...
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Plastic recycling
Plastics have become an integral part of our lives. Plastic constitutes about 12% of Municipal solid wastes generated in USA,a sharp increase from just 1% in 1960 to the current level. Increasing usage of plastics have created environmental issues such as increased energy and water usage, emission of greenhouse gases and finally waste disposal and health issues. Many countries are now trying 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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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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