Waste Monitoring News
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ET expands portfolio with water probes
Enviro Technology is enhancing its product suite with a range of high-performance monitors tailored for professionals with responsibility for water quality measurement and management. Manufactured by In-Situ, the TROLL® sensors measure water quality indicators such as temperature, pH, conductivity and dissolved oxygen. They also record additional factors including temperature and water level. ...
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Richer countries produce richer waste
The more affluent a country is, the more waste it produces a report by CyclOpe and Veolia Environmental Services has found. Following up from its 2006 report From Waste to Resource, results show developed countries China, the USA and the EU15 top the list as the biggest producers of municipal waste. According to From Waste to Resource: An abstract of 2009 World Waste Survey, waste from richer ...
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WIH resource group announces collaborative partnership with Quantum Compliance System, Inc.
WIH Resource Group (WIH) announces a collaborative partnership with Quantum Compliance Systems, Inc. (Quantum). This partnership combines Quantum’s 25 years of experience in data management and software solutions, with WIH’s 26 years expertise in consulting services for solid waste, recycling, and transportation for local government agencies, municipalities, and private businesses. The ...
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econ down-under
Australia catches up to meet highest environmental standards in treating hazardous wastes to avoid unnecessary landfill in the nearest future. In November 2009 econ industries signed a Basic Engineering contract to extend an existing treatment facility for industrial wastes with state-of-the-art process technology. The target of this engineering is to finally establish in 2011 a VacuDry plant ...
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Lowest council tax rises in England since 1993 could cause problems for waste collections
Council tax in England for the financial year 2010/11 is expected to rise by the lowest percentage since 1993, according to a new survey. However, this news has been met with concern from some quarters who are worried that such small increases in council tax will place financial strain on local authorities and force subsequent cuts to frontline services such as waste collections. The survey ...
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`Duped` Brazil waste shipping company awarded £730,000
The shipping company involved in exporting and repatriating ‘illegal’ waste sent to Brazil, has won £731,615 in damages and costs. Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) brought the claim in the High Court against Worldwide Biorecyclables, its director Julio Da Costa and its previous co-director and company secretary Andre Oliveira. The money was awarded becuase the shipping company suffered ...
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Dedicated EU body needed to ensure enforcement of European waste law, says commission study
A European Commission study published today recommends setting up a dedicated European body to oversee the implementation and enforcement of EU waste law. The study is part of a series of steps being taken by the Commission to improve waste management and ensure it meets the standards set by EU legislation to protect citizens and the environment. Illegal dumping of waste continues on a ...
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Multiparameter colorimeter offers cost-effective clean and waste water testing
A new, cost-effective instrument that lowers the cost of entry to multiparameter clean and waste water testing has been introduced by Camlab, one of the UK's leading scientific equipment suppliers. The Camlab Water MC500 multiparameter colorimeter is designed to test more than 70 different clean and waste water testing parameters for the cost equivalent to two single parameter colorimeters. The ...
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Call for government to fund programme of data gathering for waste prevention
The Government needs to fund a programme of data gathering in order to set waste prevention targets, according to LARAC principal policy advisor Andrew Craig. Speaking to MRW, Craig said the Government also needed to produce regular surveys of waste streams so that they could measure waste prevention. His comments follow the recommendations made by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ...
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Weak lensing gains strength
Weak gravitational lensing is a uniquely promising way to learn how much dark matter there is in the Universe and how its distribution has evolved since the distant past. New work by a team led by a cosmologist from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has made major progress in extending the use of gravitational lensing to the study of much older and smaller ...
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Government consults on nuclear waste policy
Decommissioning Dounreay generates a variety of different wastes that need to be managed carefully to protect the public and environment from harm. Some of this waste is radioactive. The most hazardous form of radioactive waste generated at Dounreay is known as intermediate-level waste and comes from a variety of redundant plant such as nuclear reactors, fuel reprocessing and laboratories. A ...
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EPA analysis shows reduction in 2008 Toxic Chemical Releases
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is releasing its annual national analysis of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). The TRI database contains information on chemical releases into the air, land and water, as well as waste management and pollution prevention activities. The analysis of the 2008 data, the most recent data set available, shows that 3.86 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were ...
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`Intelligent` waste collection system trialled in Shanghai
New research has developed a system to monitor municipal waste. It uses sensors to calculate the weight, volume and, potentially, type of waste, identify hazardous waste and optimise the routes of waste collection trucks. The EU's Sixth Environment Action Programme identifies waste prevention and management as one of four top priorities1. In the EU, approximately 3562 million tons of waste are ...
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Portable XRF for soil and waste screening
The new xSORT hand-held XRF spectrometer from SPECTRO Analytical Instruments can achieve laboratory-quality analysis on soil and waste samples. Laboratory analysis by X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry has been an accepted technique for the analysis of such materials for many years and was given official approval by European Standard EN 15309:2007. Using the simple sampling procedures described in ...
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SGS acquires the Environmental Company EKO-PROJEKT LTD Pszczyna Poland
SGS is pleased to announce the acquisition of Environmental Company EKO-PROJEKT LTD, Pszczyna, Poland EKO-PROJEKT is the leading Polish environmental and analytical services provider with a strong focus on sampling and laboratory analysis of water, wastewater, solid waste, soil and landfill monitoring as required by EU regulations. It also offers environmental data management, digital mapping ...
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Tough legislation boosts the South African hazardous waste management market
The South African hazardous waste management market is experiencing rapid growth due to tightening legislation related to waste collection, transportation and disposal. Environmental inspectors have been pressuring waste generating companies to improve their environmental impact management programmes, opening up opportunities for waste management companies. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan ...
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Mechline launches GohBio ‘natural’ food waste disposal
Reduce approx 550 kilos of food waste to grey waste water in 24 hours with GohBio from Mechline. GohBio is a new product that reduces food waste disposal costs, ‘Future Proofs’ against disposal cost increases, reduces landfill and is energy efficient and sustainable.GohBio is NOT a composting machine nor does it rely on composting to decompose food waste. It uses a special formulation of highly ...
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AET Group wins sustainable award
AET Group Inc. is proud to announce that they have recently been awarded with a Gold Sustainable Service Award.On Thursday, 22nd of October, 2009, AET Group Inc.’s President and CEO, Scott Freiburger and Chief Operating Officer, Larry Freiburger were honoured to accept the Gold Sustainable Service award on behalf of the company’s achievements and dedication to environmental sustainability in ...
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Wind drives oxygen transport in Arctic waste rock
The growth of the diamond mining industry in Canada’s Northwest Territories has led to significant economic benefit to the region with three operating mines producing approximately 13% of the world’s diamonds in 2008, according to the Mining Association of Canada. However, the long-term benefit to northern communities will depend on careful environmental management of mining activities. The ...
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WRAP launches new innovative online tool for construction waste recovery
The Waste & Resources Action Programme has launched an innovative new tool, allowing materials recycling operators and waste management contractors to track recovery rates. Aimed at those working in the construction industry and committed to halving waste to landfill, the Site Specific Waste Analysis Tool enables firms to record each consignment of construction, demolition and excavation waste ...
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