waste site management Articles
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Cash & go machine for used beverage containers installed at a waste management site in Norrköping
The first highly efficient self-service Cash & Go machine for used beverage containers has been installed in a waste management site in Norrköping - and the consumers are enthusiastic. Revolutionary new thinking - bulk feeding of unsorted used beverage containers In the month of June 2011 Anker Andersen A/S delivered their first Cash & Go reverse vending machine to Returpack AB in ...
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Site selection of sanitary landfills on the small island of Mauritius using the analytical hierarchy process multi-criteria method
This paper focuses on the application of a multi-criteria analysis methodology — the analytical hierarchy process — for the locating of a sanitary landfill on the small island of Mauritius. Four candidate sites were assessed using three main criteria (environmental, technical and socio-economic) and twenty-one sub-criteria. Scores were assigned to each criterion and sub-criterion by stakeholders ...
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Strategies to improve waste management in Portuguese construction industry: the deconstruction process
The environmental impact of the construction activity has gained increasing importance in the last few years and has become a key challenge for the sector. The resulting inconveniences of the activities in a construction project are numerous. However, there are still many examples of an inefficient waste management. The deconstruction of buildings has gained more and more attraction in recent ...
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Landfill siting using GIS, fuzzy logic and the Delphi method
The focus of this paper is on the development of an evaluation methodology for landfill siting. The first part of the paper presents the methodology developed, utilising GIS technology for the analysis and visualisation of the geographic data, and fuzzy logic for the evaluation of the final results. The Delphi method is also utilised to determine the membership functions used in the fuzzy logic ...
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Wood waste market in the UK
The purpose of this project was to undertake both market and economic assessments for wood waste in the UK. The two sections of this report are described separately below. This section first identified gaps in wood waste estimates and then presented an approach for closing identified gaps. A review of current publicly available literature confirmed that there are a range of estimates available ...
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EPA Revises Water Quality Criteria
Tens of thousands of members of the regulated community from industrial facilities with air emissions and wastewater discharges to municipal wastewater treatment plants, to hazardous waste site managers may be affected by changes to the WQC. US EPA Water Quality Criteria (WQC) which attempt to protect human health and the environment associated with the US waters, serve as the basis for most ...
By AECOM
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Total Waste Management to the Caravan Club case study
Client: Caravan Club Location: Multi Site Location Date: 23/03/2012 Sector: Leisure About the Project: GPT facilitate total waste solutions to over 120 Caravan Club sites. The waste streams managed include general, mixed recycling, glass, green waste andad hoc hazardous waste. The Caravan Club provide modern membership run facilities and are seen as the UK’s leader incaravanning ...
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Status of municipal solid waste management system in India
Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) has become a worldwide concern and is a major issue especially in developing countries due to environmental problems, such as air, soil and water pollution and generation of greenhouse gases from open dumping sites. The MSW management is going through a critical phase due to the non–availability of suitable facilities to treat and dispose of the increasing ...
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Applying & Testing Waste Management Quick Wins
Executive Summary This project was to implement and test construction waste recovery Quick Wins (QWs) on several case study projects on behalf of the construction team at the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), to investigate construction waste streams and analyse the management and disposal process. The aim was to explore a range of possibilities and best practice options available ...
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Ontario Landfill Site - Case Study
A Texas based company with waste management sites around North America have installed electrical generation plants at various locations that use methane collected from the waste. The daily operation of these sites include the management of the leachate, a liquid waste by-product of decomposition, and the collection of gas for electricity production. This is typically carried out at multiple wells ...
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Plasterboard waste recovery from smaller building sites
Most methods for recovering waste plasterboard from construction sites rely on it being segregated on site into adedicated collection container, such as a skip, bin or bags. This can be difficult for smaller building sites where spacefor these containers may be limited, and the quantities of plasterboard waste are small thus reducing the costeffectiveness of recovery. However, many small and ...
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Capital Dock Dublin Ireland, Aramark Properties- Harp CX2 Biodigester Case Study
Be Well. Do Well.™ is Aramark’s sustainability plan. It sums up their goal to make a positive impact on people and planet over the next five years. Harp Renewables were delighted to be part of that impact in providing Aramark with a Harp CX2 Biodigester at their Capital Dock premises in Dublin. Michael Farrell, estate manager at Capital Dock who represents Aramark on their 4.8 acres mix ...
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Eco waste solutions voisey’s bay nickel mine
The challenge Vale Inco’s wholly-owned subsidiary Voisey's Bay Nickel Company (VBNC) is mining the largest nickel deposit in the world in Newfoundland Canada. During the Construction and Operation Phases of the camp, waste from 250 to 700 people needed to be processed. This waste was largely generated by the kitchen and dining areas. Packaging waste (wood, cardboard and plastic) was also ...
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Leachate Collection & Removal Systems – Pump Stations
Romtec Utilities designs and supplies pump stations for many different types of applications, including leachate collection and removal systems. Leachate pump stations are required whenever water passes through a bed of solids and extracts contaminating elements. The most common scenario for collecting and pumping leachate is for landfills, but there are industrial applications as ...
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Impact of CO2 Emission Trading Schemes on Residual Waste Management
ABSTRACT The EU-Emission trading scheme (ETS) in its current design hardly affects residual waste management directly: methane from landfill-sites is not included although it is one of the “Green-House-Gases” (GHG) of the Kyoto Protocol, CO2-emissions from waste incineration plants are generally exempted from the regulation of the directive and emissions from combustion of landfill-site gas can ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Washington report: what organizations are in your state?
ALABAMA Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) The ADEM administers all major federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air, Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water acts and federal solid and hazardous waste laws. The ADEM’s mission is to responsibly adopt and fairly enforce rules and regulations consistent with the statutory authority granted to the Alabama Environmental ...
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Medical Waste Management Facility Isle of Man – Addfield C1000 - Case Study
Offsetting environmental and biosecurity issues whilst providing cost benefits by managing waste on the island. In 2006, Addfield-Techtrol installed a 1000kg per hour medical waste treatment plant on the Isle of Man, UK. The plant was integrated into the existing municipal waste site and conceived to manage a wide variety of hazardous waste streams that included clinical waste, animals, and ...
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Your local waste management operation spends more time on odour management than you think
When it comes to odour management at landfills, it’s widely accepted that prevention is better than a cure. Any possibility of slightly reducing odour impact can save navigating the fallout of a disruptive situation for waste management operations and local communities. However, odour is notoriously difficult to measure and manage. Moreover, limiting the impact of offensive odours is a ...
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How are landfills benefiting from incorporating community engagement into their odour management strategies? Let’s find out.
First, let’s address some well-established facts related to solid waste management and odour. s widely known that waste generation is increasing at astronomical rates worldwide. Populations are growing closer to waste management operations that were previously isolated. Estimates of the next few decades show no indication of municipal solid waste generation slowing down. By 2050 ...
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Spelling it out: The Three Es of At-Source Fluid Waste Management
For many years, the default approach when it comes to managing offshore waste has been to tank it ashore for treatment. But new initiatives like the North Sea Transition Deal, published in March 2021, have put practical and sustainable solutions at the top of everyone’s agenda. Below, we share our top motivations for at-source fluid waste management– the three Es: economy, efficiency ...
By Osso Ltd
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