waste management software Articles
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How can councils stop staff sickness impacting refuse collections?
Ideally, we’d all like to start the year on the front foot – but many local authorities have spent January playing catch up, after high levels of staff sickness interfered with refuse collections over Christmas. But while illness cannot be predicted or avoided, there are ways that council waste management teams can limit its impact on essential services. According to the Daily ...
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Food Waste’s Biggest Losers: The Environment and a Company’s Bottom Line
In the food manufacturing and food processing industries, food waste is an enormous problem. In fact, it’s not unusual for each major processor and each major manufacturer to throw out at least 200 tons of product each month. That’s a lot of waste – and a lot of money. Consider this: each ton of food waste is worth about $500 – 750 depending on the industry. ...
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Optical equipment manufacturer
Overview: Multi plant implementation using EPOCH’s Chemical Management module to track detailed chemical usage. EPOCH is interfaced to company's ERP system for electronic input of chemical transactions. One data feed provides all information necessary for generating SARA 312 Tier report, 313 Form R, and VOC and HAP emissions for Title V reporting. EPOCH VOC and HAP emission reports show rolling ...
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20 ways to manage municipal waste more effectively in 2020
2020 marks the start of a new year and a new decade. It’s a great opportunity for local authorities to assess how well your essential services are functioning, in order to put new initiatives in place to innovate your services over the next 10 years. If you’re involved in waste management, we’ve put together 20 top tips to help you look at your department with fresh eyes, ...
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It’s the most wasteful time of the year: 6 strategies for dealing with festive rubbish
Christmas is traditionally a time for giving, but where there’s presents, there is also rubbish. As other industries wind down for the festive period, the waste management sector is experiencing a peak in demand – and local authorities can often still be clearing the Christmas backlog well into the New Year. To prevent the next few weeks from overwhelming your collection crews and ...
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How to dispose of home fireworks safely
Autumn festivities will look a little different this year, with many communities cancelling firework displays over concerns around social distancing. As a result, households up and down the UK will be choosing to celebrate Diwali and Guy Fawkes’ Night at home – but they won’t always know how to dispose of their fireworks. There is a legal requirement for anyone discarding ...
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How can councils put a stop to the UK’s fly tipping crisis?
Coronavirus has had a massive impact on the UK’s infrastructure – both in terms of the services on offer, and the way communities are responding. For local authorities, the COVID-19 outbreak has forced major changes to health and safety protocol, with waste management facilities stripped back to essential collections only for the time being. While most UK councils have been quick to ...
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ESdat environmental database software helps organizations manage their environmental data for ISO 14001
Environmental data management software is an efficient way to handle large amounts of data generated with the adoption of environmental standards like ISO 14001. A recent survey by EScIS shows that 100% of environmental professionals saved time using their ESdat environmental database software and that having the data organized was seen as a major feature. ESdat environmental database software ...
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Do households really understand how recycling works?
When it comes to creating an eco-friendly world, the UK is lagging behind our European neighbours. We recycle around 44% of all municipal waste, which is well below countries like Germany (67%), Switzerland (56%) and the Netherlands (53%), according to official statistics. But what’s causing this green living gap? New research suggests confusion around how recycling works is impacting ...
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Bin sorting needs to be simpler!
Putting the bins out should be a simple task. But for many households, sorting rubbish into the right receptacle has become too complicated. Multiple bins and complex rules – which can be different in each council – are making waste disposal a challenge. As a result, local authorities regularly deal with incorrectly sorted refuse. How can we make bin sorting simpler, to help councils ...
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Use by versus best before: what`s the difference?
When you pick up food in packaging, you expect to clearly see certain details on the label. Like an expiration date. But how many people know what this information actually means? A third of people are throwing products away at their ‘best before’ date, because people think that they can’t then be consumed. And this misunderstanding is contributing to the food waste disposal ...
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Cardboard cities: a surge in ecommerce is causing refuse chaos for councils
When COVID-19 forced retail stores to close, it sent online sales into overdrive. But while this solved a practical problem for locked-down households, the sudden surge created a huge increase in waste packaging for local authorities to manage. As the world moves out of the pandemic, there are many restrictions we’ll leave behind. Yet the appetite for ecommerce is likely to remain strong. ...
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The UK’s rising population is overstretching council services. How can you respond?
The UK is a growing country. Our population has now passed the 66 million mark – and while more people means larger communities, it also means more strain on essential services. For local authorities, expanding neighbourhoods are increasing the pressure on your waste management. How can you improve refuse collections, to manage more households than ever before? Let’s take a closer ...
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Integrated system for regulatory control of the radioactive waste management in radioactive installations
The object of this paper is to present the 'Integrated Information System for Supporting the Inventory Control of Radioactive Waste' ? SICORR. The SICORR model considers the following items: the radioactive waste control inventory, encompassing the treatment and integration of the radioactive waste and the radionuclide data and processes; the installations that produce, use, transport or store ...
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Is a Job Management System really necessary?
A Job Management System does a lot of heavy business lifting. It enables you to organise and automate numerous daily operations and give your office and mobile workers a central platform. Job Management Software controls your jobs from the initial estimate to the final invoice. It "connects" with your network ecosystem and subsequently frees you from the groundwork your trade business requires. ...
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