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Using Muckbuster in a Commercial Bakery – What is the payback time?
A commercial bakery in the UK using the Muckbuster™ unit to create energy from its waste bakery products can pay for the unit in under 5 years. This is based certain assumptions: The most important factor is the type of waste and quantity that will be put into the Muckbuster™ unit. In our case, a half a metric tonne of food waste consisting of sandwiches and breads is ...
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Entsorga-Enteco 2006: Technology & Logistics: Vehicles and tours designed to be efficient
The flows of waste and recyclable products are currently being guided in completely new directions. In some cases this is due to environmental policy, in others to developments on the raw materials market. But whatever the cause, the segment of logistics systems for the waste disposal industry is now undergoing a comprehensive overhaul. This affects vehicles, vehicle bodies and equipment ...
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New England Organizations Step Up for EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge and Help to Reduce Food Waste
Twelve New England organizations have backed a national effort led by the US Environmental Protection Agency to help cut down on the nearly 35 million tons of food wasted in the United States each year. This EPA initiative encourages businesses, organizations and institutions to prevent food waste by donating or recycling food. Among the groups endorsing EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge, are ...
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Monitors arrive after radioactive waste site fire in Nevada
Radiation wasn't immediately detected during fly-overs of a burned trench containing long-buried radioactive waste at a commercial disposal site in rural southern Nevada, state and federal officials said Monday. Ground testing was scheduled next, headed by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency radiological emergency team sent to the site about 115 miles northwest of Las Vegas, said Rusty ...
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US Ecology to pay nearly $500,000 for hazardous waste violations (NV)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today fined US Ecology $497,982 for 18 counts of hazardous waste violations. US Ecology operates a commercial hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facility in Nye County, Nev., on the outskirts of Beatty. EPA inspectors found numerous violations at a hazardous waste unit designed to thermally treat contaminated materials, like soils, to remove ...
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NRC Publishes Strategic Assessment Of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Regulatory Program
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published the staff’s strategic assessment of the agency’s low-level radioactive waste (LLW) regulatory program, proposing several initiatives to meet impending challenges such as decreased disposal capacity and increased production of LLW as new reactors and other nuclear facilities come online. Those challenges include the anticipated closure to most of ...
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Commercial Disposal Urged for Chemical Weapons` Secondary Waste
WASHINGTON, DC, July 26, 2007 (ENS) - In an effort to speed up the ongoing destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile it would be a good idea for the U.S. Army to use commercially run hazardous waste management facilities to dispose of secondary waste that results from destroying the chemical agents, says a new report from the National Research Council. The United States is destroying ...
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State to investigate radioactive waste site fire in Nevada
Nevada state officials said Tuesday they don't know what sparked an apparent explosion and fire at a closed commercial radioactive waste dump in a predominantly rural county, but they vowed that the state will handle the investigation and cleanup. "We have the jurisdiction. We have the assets, and that's the course of action," James Wright, state Department of Public Safety chief, said after ...
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Beverage, Oil Makers Could Do More for Recycling, Publisher Concludes
Untitled Document Beverage makers and oil companies could be doing more to improve recycling of their packaging and products in the U.S., Michele Raymond, publisher of State Recycling Laws Update, said today in a speech before the Virginia Recycling Association. Raymond, who has been tracking recycling policy worldwide for 12 years, concluded that even though states ...
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Unsurpassed Performance Wins Customers For BioLargo’s Breakthrough Industrial Odor Control Products
In early 2015, Dennis Calvert, the CEO of BioLargo, Inc., (BLGO) was asked to serve on the board of directors of CleantechOC, the leading trade association in Southern California serving the clean technology industry. Learning about BioLargo’s award-winning odor control products, an association member involved in the waste handling industry explained their need for industrial odor control ...
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