December 30th, 2011 by waster
Waste Appreciation: Visit A Landfill in 2012 Hi! Happy New Year Wasters! How about this to add to your list of New Year’s Resolutions? I thought that I would pass on the contents of the email below which came from a subscriber. I think that there must be many people who, like him, have busy lives [...]
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July 23rd, 2011 by waster
SustainableBusiness.com News Honda (NYSE: HMC) announced today that 10 of its 14 North American manufacturing plants are now operating with zero waste to landfill, while the remaining four plants are functioning with “virtually zero” waste to landfill. > > The announcement marks a significant milestone on the company’s “Green Factory” initiative. Honda has dramatically reduced [...]
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July 17th, 2011 by waster
SUGAR LAND, TX, Jul 15, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — Most states have government-backed incentives and regulations regarding air quality. Many of these are aimed at increasing the use of renewable energy. > > California focuses on meeting ambitious environmental goals every year. The state’s environmental [...]
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July 15th, 2011 by waster
TOWN OF MENASHA News: Standing in the parks department shop with a Honeywell gas meter in his hands, Randy Gallow slides a metal cover away from a manhole grate in the floor and stands over it for several seconds. “There’s nothing there,” said Gallow, a streets superintendent for the Town of Menasha, looking at the [...]
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June 25th, 2011 by waster
Pittsboro, NC – Computer equipment and televisions will be banned from disposal in North Carolina landfills as of July 1, as required by NC Session Law 2010-67 passed last year by the General Assembly. This means, as of July 1, these items cannot go in the trash. The law provides that televisions and computer equipment, [...]
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June 23rd, 2011 by waster
TAMPA — An ambitious plan to build a huge shopping, office and housing complex on top of an old landfill in St. Petersburg has been scrapped, the developers acknowledged Tuesday. > > A group called Florida Gateway Development I LLC had proposed buying the Toytown landfill along Interstate 275 from Pinellas County. There, it planned [...]
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June 21st, 2011 by waster
21 June 2011 Last updated at 17:25 This juvenile great crested newt will grow spines on its back in adulthood Endangered newts are thriving at a landfill site in Suffolk which has a legal requirement to protect them. The BBC’s Springwatch has been looking at the wildlife that lives on rubbish dumps, which also includes [...]
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June 12th, 2010 by waster
Waste for landfill reduced by 3.1% since last year. How much is truly related to increased recycling and how much to the recession is not known.
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February 9th, 2010 by waster
Dedicated ECU body wanted to guarantee enforcement of European waste law, announces Commission study A European Commission study published on 1 February 2010 counsels setting up a dedicated European body to oversee the execution and enforcement of ECU waste law. The study is a part of a collection of steps being taken by the Commission [...]
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September 11th, 2009 by waster
SITA UK has, on September 2 revealed that it plans to lodge an appeal later this month against Cornwall county council’s March 2009 decision to refuse its planning application to build a £100 million, 240,000 tonne-a-year capacity energy-from-waste facility near St Dennis. The company said that it had received written consent from the council to [...]
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