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Tana Oy enters Botswana market with BH Botswana
Tana Oy, a Finnish environmental technology company, has announced a new partnership with BH Botswana, the nation’s sole distributor of JCB construction, mining, and power generating equipment since 1973. The agreement will enable BH Botswana to distribute TANA landfill compactors and TANA waste shredders to customers in Botswana, enhancing their portfolio of industry-leading machines and ...
By Tana Oy
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Customer seminar in Slovakia: recycling businesses are expected to rise
REDOX s.r.o, Tana’s distributor in Slovakia, organized a customer seminar in September for the latest waste management technologies, hosted in a picture perfect location at Mountain Hotel Šachticka at Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. Over 120 attendees participated in the event, where new technologies, products and services were featured by REDOX. Picture: Video of the latest ...
By Tana Oy
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Landfill operator gets fined by the EA for polluting waterway
A Wiltshire-based waste management company Hills Waste Solutions has been found guilty of polluting a local river, potentially endangering fish and invertebrates. Hills Waste Solutions, which operates the Chapel Farm landfill site, at Blunsdon, Swindon, was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £16,300 costs at Swindon Magistrates court, in a case brought by the Environment Agency. The court heard ...
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HMRC: Landfill waste taxable ‘unless expressly exempt’
All materials sent to landfill sites will be taxable ‘unless expressly exempt’, under the government’s proposed changes to Landfill Tax legislation from 1 April next year. HMRC elaborated on its plans on the 5th of December in a Policy Paper “Landfill Tax: definition of taxable disposal”. In it, the tax body confirmed that the current list for deciding materials ...
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New landfill rules mean tougher line in UK
Five months on since the new rules on landfilling waste came into force, the Environment Agency for England and Wales announced it expects the waste management industry, particularly landfill operators, to start taking a tougher line on the waste they accept from businesses for disposal. Liz Parkes, Head of Waste at the Environment Agency, said: 'We’ve been taking a sensible approach to enforcing ...
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Johnson Joins CEC as New Senior Project Manager
Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. (CEC) welcomes Scott Johnson, Senior Project Manager in the Waste Management practice of the firm's Phoenix office. At CEC, Johnson will contribute to the Solid Waste Industry Consulting Group. Most recently with Cornerstone, Johnson brings 20 years of experience in civil and environmental engineering and a background in both consulting and the private ...
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Commission takes Bulgaria to Court over illegal landfills
The European Commission is concerned that Bulgaria is failing to protect its citizens from the effects of bad waste management. Despite earlier warnings from the Commission, numerous Bulgarian landfills are still operating in breach of EU waste and landfill legislation, representing a serious risk for human health and the environment. In an effort to urge Bulgaria to speed up its actions in this ...
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EWS shortlisted for the Integrated Waste Management Project in the US Virgin Islands
The Waste Management Authority announced today that six (6) Developers were short listed for the VIWMA Integrated Waste management Project. A total of 12 firms responded to the VIWMA Request for Qualifications (RFQ) issued on August 14, 2015. After careful review and evaluation of the qualifications packages by a team comprised of VIWMA staff, six (6) private developer teams were selected to ...
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Santa Isabel Agrees to Close Its Municipal Landfill
(San Juan, P.R.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that the Municipality of Santa Isabel has signed an order with EPA requiring the town and the landfill operators to stop receiving solid waste at the municipal landfill. The order also requires the owners and operators to have appropriate closure measures completed by the summer of 2010 and to conduct post-closure ...
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Environment: Commission refers Slovenia to Court for failure to clean up highly flammable waste tyres
The European Commission is taking Slovenia to Court for its failure to comply with the requirements of EU waste legislation. The case concerns an illegal landfill in Lovrenc na Dravskem polju, where more than 40 000 tons of highly flammable waste tyres have been stored since 2006. Large fires broke out at this location in 2007 and 2008. Landfills operating in breach of EU waste legislation can ...
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Pennsylvania`s Trash Tax Hike Could Cost $41 Million
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (ENS) - The Pennsylvania Waste Industries Association is warning that said Governor Ed Rendell's proposed $2.75 per ton increase in Pennsylvania trash taxes would cost the state's municipalities, businesses, and consumers nearly $41 million a year in higher costs for collection and disposal of trash. Pennsylvanians disposed of 14.9 million tons of trash in 2005, the ...
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LWRB set 2009/10 spending priorities
The London Waste and Recycling Board has set its budget and spending priorities for 2009/10. At a meeting held on 12 February the Board has outlined a budget of £37 million to help London “divert materials from landfill”. Chief operating officer Paul de Rivas said that the Board was allocating £37.2m for the first year and was “setting up structures and processes to start to develop a pipeline ...
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Landfill tax rise will stay at £8 per year
Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that there will be a continued increase in the standard rate of landfill tax by £8 per tonne on 1 April each year until 2013 in this year’s Budget. This will mean that landfill tax will be £56 in 2011, £64 in 2012 and £72 by April 2013. The Government aims to reduce the UK’s dependence on landfill by encouraging further investment into alternative ...
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World-first breakthrough landfill wastewater technology cuts operating cost by nearly half
A ground-breaking onsite landfill wastewater (leachate) thermal treatment and separation process called LAT™ (Low temperature Ambient pressure Technology) has demonstrated a 48% reduction in operating costs and a 70% reduction in energy usage at Viridor’s Broadpath landfill site in Devon. Now commercially available, LAT™ is set to change the way local councils and landfill ...
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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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Viridor`s founder dies
Michael Harrison, founder of Viridor Waste Management, has passed away at the age of 75 leaving a legacy of one of the UK’s leading waste management companies. The firm has more than 250 sites and facilities across the UK and works with over 30 local authorities. Viridor chief executive Mike Hellings said: “It was a great privilege to have worked with Mike throughout this time. He taught me ...
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Tetra Tech Acquires American Environmental Group
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has acquired solid waste management specialist American Environmental Group, Ltd. (AEG) of Richfield, Ohio. AEG provides environmental, design, construction, and maintenance services to solid and hazardous waste, environmental, energy, utility, and other industrial clients. The company has more than 500 employees and approximately $95 ...
By Tetra Tech
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Saving customer’s money with high profile technology in heavy duty machinery
Waste management machinery has come a long way from being just machines: they are now reliable multi-tasking tools that not only handle waste but also serve the owner. Tana Oy's landfill compaction and waste shredding machinery may be robust and the operational environment and circumstances cannot always be considered as "neat". Despite this circumstantial roughness, Tana Oy has always been a ...
By Tana Oy
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£20,000 penalty for illegal burial of waste in Bromsgrove
On 27 January 2014, Terry Jacobs of Redditch and Colin Parsons of Kidderminster pleaded guilty at Redditch Magistrates’ Court to one charge each relating to the illegal burial of waste in Upton Warren, Bromsgrove. Colin Leslie Parsons, aged 69, was fined £4,000, and ordered to pay £6,000 in costs, along with a £15 victim surcharge, for operating a waste facility without ...
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‘Clearer’ landfill tax regime expected in summer 2017
From April, the standard rate of tax will rise from a current level of £84.40 per tonne to £86.10, and the lower rate from £2.65 per tonne to £2.70 per tonne. However, proposals to change the definition of ‘taxable disposal’ which had also been expected to come into force tomorrow – detailing exemptions from the landfill tax – are now expected to ...
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