waste site management News
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Solinst demonstrates equipment at GOwen course
pOn the afternoon of May 6, a href=http://www.contaminatedsite.com/ target=_blankGOwen Environmental Ltd./a, along with AEHS and IAH, hosted an outdoor field demonstration session as part of an annual 5-day course on Contaminated and Hazardous Waste Site Management. Always a well organized and informative event for over 100 attendees, Solinst Canada Ltd. was very pleased to be included as a ...
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Solinst demonstrates equipment at GOwen course
On the afternoon of May 6, GOwen Environmental Ltd., along with AEHS and IAH, hosted an outdoor field demonstration session as part of an annual 5-day course on Contaminated and Hazardous Waste Site Management. Always a well organized and informative event for over 100 attendees, Solinst Canada Ltd. was very pleased to be included as a demonstrator for another year. Course attendees included ...
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Maxxam’s Bryan Chubb provides expert training on environmental forensics and analytical chemistry
We are pleased to announce that Bryan Chubb, Vice President of Business Development for Environmental Services at Maxxam, will give a lecture on Enviro nmental Forensics and Analytical Chemistry Requirements at the GOwen Contaminated and Hazardous Waste Site Management Course in Toronto (June 2 to 4, 2014). With 16 years of industry experience, Bryan leads Maxxam’s R&D committee and ...
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Consultation Defra’s Waste Management Plan & Site Waste Management Plans
A consultation is underway on an updates Waste Management Plan for England, however, Defra’s documents contain no new policies on waste management. The waste management plan will complement the waste planning policy, PPS10; this policy outlines what planning authorities should take into account when considering proposals for new waste infrastructure. The Department for Communities and ...
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Site Waste Management Plan regulations no longer an obligation
Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) for building projects are no longer a legal obligation for construction businesses in England. With government trusting the de-regulation will save money for the businesses obligated by the law, the Site Waste Management Plans Regulations 2008 were abolished and came into effect from the 1st of December this year. All Construction projects in England that ...
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Thermal Waste Disposal Systems for Kennels
Thermal waste disposal systems are always going to be a major cost component for kennels. Generated on a daily basis, this cost component will take up a sizeable chunk of your operational costs – but there is another option that can help maximise your businesses long-term bottom line. Ownership of an on-site disposal machine is simple. Thermal waste can be loaded continuously throughout ...
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EPA allows Waimanalo Gulch Landfill to reopen agency approval required as part of recent order (HI)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today it has approved reopening of the Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill, with conditions. While Waste Management has not completed all tasks yet due in the Order issued by EPA on January 25, 2011, EPA recognizes that the continued closure of the landfill may create a risk to public health from the mounting accumulation of waste throughout Oahu. ...
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Thermal Waste Disposal Systems for Kennels
Thermal waste disposal systems are always going to be a major cost component for kennels. Generated on a daily basis, this cost component will take up a sizeable chunk of your operational costs – but there is another option that can help maximise your businesses long-term bottom line. Ownership of an on-site disposal machine is simple. Thermal waste can be loaded continuously throughout ...
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Aim to reach waste neutrality in construction
A tool measuring performance towards 'waste neutrality' in construction has been launched by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme). The guide is aimed at helping professions working in construction to achieve 'waste neutrality' by considering factors such as where the value of construction materials wasted is equal to the value of additional reused and recycled content used on a ...
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Waste law is launched by Environment Minister Jane Davidson
Environment Minister Jane Davidson has proposed a measure that will enable materials such as food, wood, glass and plastic to be restricted or banned from landfill in Wales. The measure has been presented before the Welsh Assembly (February 22). It would also give ministers the power to introduce a mandatory charge for plastic carrier bags and give ministers the power to set councils ...
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Brighton and Hove to clamp down on SWMP from June
Brighton & Hove City Council will begin tighter regulation of construction sites to ensure that site waste management plans (SWMPs) are being followed. The plans, which come into force on 22 June, will include visits from the council in conjunction with the South East Centre for the Built Environment (SECBE) to local development sites to ensure that they are complying with the SWMP. The visits ...
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Low Maintenance Vermicompost Organic Waste Digester
The Vermigold vermicomposter is a cutting-edge solution to an ever growing problem of organic waste/wet garbage. It converts organic waste into nutrient-rich vermicompost and liquid fertilizer.The Vermigold vermicomposter is designed to provide continuous processing of organic waste materials using 'in situ' earthworm processing technology based on sound vermiculture principles.The organic waste ...
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Ecomesure at Pollutec Lyon 2021
Ecomesure will exhibit once again at Pollutec, the international reference show for the environment, industry, cities, and territories. Meet us at Eurexpo Lyon from 12 to 15 October on booth n°4-H83/M83 in the Club Ademe's village. The Club Ademe is the international network of innovative French eco-companies (SMEs and ETIs). The program of this 29th Pollutec edition is rich with more ...
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Construction industry calls Welsh waste bill “disastrous” for trade
The proposed adoption of Site Waste Management Plans (SWMP) and landfill bans in Wales would be “disastrous” for the construction trade, the Welsh Assembly has heard. Giving evidence at a committee session for the “Proposed Waste (Wales) measure” bill, Federation of Master Builders director Richard Jenkins described the SWMP plans as “a little bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut.” The Site ...
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Viridor appeals Oxfordshire EfW refusal
Viridor has appealed Oxfordshire County Council’s decision to refuse the construction of a £100M energy from waste facility in Ardley. (See MRW story) The waste management firm believes it has a strong appeal case because the area needs the local treatment facility in order to ‘help the council manage its waste more sustainably and to avoid costly fines and increasing landfill taxes’. ...
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Vinyl flooring take-back scheme to launch this month
Flooring manufacturers Altro and Polyflor are launching the UK’s first vinyl flooring recycling take-back scheme in September. Managed by Axion Consulting, Recofloor will recycle safety flooring offcuts and smooth vinyl offcuts into new flooring. Uplifted or end-of-life material will be used in the manufacture of traffic calming products such as traffic cones and road barrier bases. The scheme ...
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UK construction industry to get US-style reuse centres
American-style construction material reuse centres will be launched in the UK with the opening of ReIY Centres in spring 2009. The first pilot centres, which will be in Wirral, Waltham Forest and Tees Valley, have been set up to save builders and the public money by reducing construction waste. They will act as a hub for collecting unwanted building materials, which can then be sold onto the ...
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Morocco: GTZ advisory services spur new waste legislation
Eschborn, 21 March 2007. Morocco’s modern national waste control law, on the books since the beginning of this year, is a basis for regulated waste management. 'What we're doing now is breathing life into this law,' says Mohamed El-Khawad, head of the Moroccan-German environmental programme, a cooperative programme with the KfW Entwicklungsbank (KfW development bank) financed by the German ...
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Baioni at IE EXPO China 2017
Baioni Crushing Plants is proud to announce its participation to the Asia's leading environmental expo IE in Shanghai China to be held in the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) from 4 to 6 May 2017. This international trade fair focuses on Water, Sewage Treatment, Waste Management, Site Remediation, Air Pollution Control and Air Purification. The IE expo 2017 is an absolute must for ...
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South London company fined £51,500 for waste offences at Erith site
A South London waste management company has been fined £51,500 at Bromley Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to storing over twenty times the permitted amount of waste at their Erith site. Metropolitan Waste Management (WR) Limited pleaded guilty to 14 charges under regulation 38 of the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010, and was fined £51,500, ordered to pay ...
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