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SEPA warns of North East tyre dumpers
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued a warning to tyre fitters, garages and other businesses producing waste tyres to check that they are only passed to genuine registered waste carriers. Following a spate of tyre dumping incidents in the North East, it is apparent that illegal disposal operators are active in the area, using unmarked hired vans to collect tyres. The ...
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Brothers handed suspended jail terms for illegal waste operations
Two brothers who ran a Leeds-based recycling company have been handed suspended jail terms for running unauthorised waste operations in the Yorkshire area. Jamie Michael Todd, 33, of America Moor Lane, Morley, and Thomas Todd, 24, of Littlemoor Gardens, Pudsey, must also carry out unpaid work after they each admitted nine waste management offences. The brothers were sentenced today (28 January) ...
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Change in hazardous waste regulations will help small businesses
Site operators producing less than 500 kilograms of hazardous waste a year will no longer have to notify the Environment Agency that their site is producing hazardous waste, from April 6, because of an amendment to the 2005 Hazardous Waste Regulations. Under the current system, only site operators producing less than 200 kilograms of hazardous waste a year at a site are exempt from ...
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Fluidized Bed Mixer Ultra-Fast, Gentle
A new 5 cu ft (142 liter) capacity Fluidized Bed Mixer model MF-5-SS from Munson Machinery, gently mixes low- to medium-density bulk materials, including liquid additions, in 10 seconds to two minutes, with 30 seconds typical. Unlike ribbon, paddle and plow blenders with a single shaft turning agitator blades slowly within a U-shaped trough, this specialized machine has two counter-rotating ...
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`Daunting` clean-up project completes on time
A seven year project to clean up the dirtiest area of Dounreay’s uranium conversion plant has been successfully completed on time. When the plant was operating, the ‘amber’ area housed equipment to dissolve uranium in acid to recover the reusable material and remove the waste products. The nature of the work caused high levels of contamination and workers were forced to don cumbersome air-fed ...
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New alliance to unite textile industry
A new alliance between textile sorting firms JMP Wilcox, Laurence M. Barry & co. and Nathan’s Wastesavers has been formed to provide a gold standard for textile exports. Sort UK is a voluntary collaboration committed to creating fully auditable systems, full UK waste compliance, responsible recycling and efficient national coverage. JMP Wilcox managing director Martin Wilcox said: “The key ...
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New standard to help reduce waste generated in building is launched by BSI
A new standard that can assist in reducing waste in the early stages of building or refurbishment projects has been launched by the BSI. Dealing with waste management is becoming more challenging for an increasing number of organisations as controls are becoming stricter and costs to remove waste increases. BSI, the business standards company, has revised its waste resource management ...
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Anderson, S.C., Woman Gets Prison for Extensive Bank Fraud Scam and Environmental Crime Nancy Stein operated American Screw and Rivet Corporation which was also sentenced
United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated late yesterday that Nancy Marie Stein, age 62, of Anderson, South Carolina , was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Henry M. Herlong in federal court in Greenville, to a total of 73 months in prison for six counts of violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344, commonly referred to as bank fraud; and 60 months for one count of ...
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Factors Affecting The Tyre Pyrolysis Plant Cost
If you are interested in information about the tyre pyrolysis plant cost, you have come to the correct place. Pyrolysis technology has completely changed the recycling industry because it is a process that permits for removing waste tyres, waste plastic and a variety of other waste products in an eco-friendly and profitable manner. However, a close look at the industry reveals that not all ...
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Household waste fuels the production of Cemex UK cement
Non-recyclable material from household waste is being used to manufacture cement. Cemex UK, suppliers of cement, aggregates and ready-mix concrete, are using climafuel in place of fossil fuels to heat the kilns in the production of cement. Climafuel has half the carbon footprint of coke and is made up of 50 per cent biomass. During extensive trials, the use of 30 per cent climafuel as a ...
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EPA to remove hazardous wastes at Elizabeth mining and development property in Montrose County (Colo.) (CO)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will conduct an emergency removal of hazardous substances this week at the 35-acre Elizabeth Mining and Development, Inc.(EMDI) site located at 11948 6300 Road, four miles northwest of Montrose, in Montrose County. EPA estimates that the cleanup will be complete by the end of the week. “EPA will remove a large volume of abandoned hazardous ...
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Waste sector creates £6.8bn and supports 103,000 jobs for the UK
The UK waste sector generates an estimated £6.8 billion in gross value and supported 103,000 jobs in 2013, according to a Defra study published on the 5th of February 2015. It also stated that efficiencies are increasing with council waste collection costs per household down the 5.7%. However, DEFRA has also found that while the sector was ahead of the growth curve prior to the recession, ...
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The G20 Has Been Designed to Securely Treat Petrochemical Waste
A by-product in the production of crude oil is the risks to the environment from contamination by raw oil as it is extracted from the ground. Often resulting in land that is unusable and toxic due to the high quantities of oil that has seeped into the soil. Across the Petroleum industry environmental security is of paramount importance, protecting the regions that they operate in from undue ...
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Fighting Fatbergs with Latest Pump Technology
Fatbergs causing flow restriction and blockage issues in city sewers Enormous human resource and costs involved in removal Correctly selected pump technology is pivotal in fighting fat, oil and grease Few will have failed to notice the increasing number of headlines relating to ‘fatbergs’, enormous congealed lumps of waste matter that are clogging sewers in major cities around ...
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Reasons to Buy a Waste Rubber Pyrolysis Plant
Annually, a large number of rubber merchandise is discarded inside the landfills as waste. These landfills heave be a problem cause they contaminate the whole environment in just a limited time. In the production, many chemicals are used as well as rubber making it dangerous for ground water when dumped irresponsibly. This is one of the main reasons why purchasing a waste rubber pyrolysis plant ...
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Xylem recognizes International Stockholm Junior Water Prize awardees for research using clay to remove and recover pollutants from wastewater
Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company focused on addressing the world’s most challenging water issues congratulates Luigi Marshall Cham, Jun Yong Nicholas Lim and Tian Ting Carrie-Anne Ng of Singapore, the winners of the 2012 Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP), the most prestigious international student competition for water-related research. The award was ...
By Xylem, Inc.
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North Slope Borough Settles With EPA for Hazardous Waste Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the North Slope Borough, Alaska have reached a settlement that resolves alleged violations of hazardous waste requirements under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. RCRA regulations require solid waste to be evaluated to determine if the waste is hazardous. EPA alleges that the North Slope Borough failed to perform hazardous waste ...
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FedEx advances corporate responsibility efforts
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) moved closer to meeting its 2020 global citizenship goals with significant support from its 290,000 global team members and through a number of smart investments. The FedEx 2010 Global Citizenship Update, released today, showcases how smart collaboration and strategic investments can help connect the world in responsible and resourceful ways, while creating economic ...
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MBT and AD can help UK to cut its emissions
Significant reductions in carbon emissions can be made in waste through use of anaerobic digestion (AD) and mechanical biological treatment (MBT) technology, according to the Government-backed Climate Change Committee (CCC). The CCC is a new independent body that advises the Government on long-term targets to tackle climate change and has produced a report Building a low-carbon economy. In the ...
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Hazardous waste was used in specatator area
Contaminated soil was taken from a former gas works in Attleborough in November 2006 to the racing circuit at Snetterton to form part of a bund to protect spectators, but the soil contained potentially harmful chemicals Swaffham Magistrates’ Court heard today (9/9). The waste should have been taken to a licensed waste site said Mrs Anne-Lise McDonald of the Environment Agency. Two companies ...
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