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Latest environmental company news
Waste Management and Linde North America - part of The Linde Group - have announced a joint venture to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, located at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California to convert landfill gas into a clean vehicle fuel. The project offers a unique opportunity to “close the loop” by fueling hundreds of collection trucks with clean fuel produced from garbage.
Collecting garbage and recyclables in California is about to get a lot cleaner, thanks to this jo... [more]
Coskata Inc. has announced it will produce 40,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year at a commercial demonstration plant near Pittsburgh.
The $25 million project will be located at the Westinghouse Plasma Center, the current site of a pilot-plant gasifier owned and operated by Westinghouse Plasma Corporation (WPC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Alter Nrg Corp.
The plant, located about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, is expected to begin delivering ethanol in early 2009 utilizing a varie... [more]
Eastman Kodak Company and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. have announced the launch of a national program to recycle used materials from in-store picture kiosks. The program is underway at about 4,100 Wal-Mart stores and Sam’s Clubs in the U.S. that operate KODAK Picture Kiosks, and is expected to annually recycle two million pounds of thermal printer ribbon, spools and cartridges.
The KODAK Picture Kiosk is a walk-up, in-store photo station where consumers can quickly and easily make photo prints, en... [more]
Silicon producer West Virginia Alloys (WVA), a unit of Globe Specialty Metals, Inc. has entered into an innovative agreement with Recycled Energy Development (RED) to recycle energy, improving the efficiency of its operations while slashing greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants.
RED will invest $45 to $55 million to recycle hot exhaust into a net 40-44 megawatts of electricity generation, offsetting roughly one third of WVA’s electric consumption. This project marks RED’s first deal u... [more]
Converted Organics Inc. has acquired the assets of United Organic Products, LLC of Gonzales, CA, as well as the assets, including the intellectual property, of Waste Recovery Industries, LLC of Paso Robles, CA.
These acquisitions make Converted Organics the owner of the proprietary technology of the High Temperature Liquid Composting (HTLC) system, which processes various biodegradable waste products into liquid and solid organic-based fertilizer and feed products. Converted Organics also ac... [more]
Approximately three million tonnes of household rubbish will be created by householders in Britain this Christmas and for every one tonne of rubbish produced by householders, a further 15 tonnes has been created through manufacturing of the goods and extraction of raw materials
Of this waste, an estimated 800,000 tonnes is created by toy packaging alone. Research into this year’s predicted best-selling toys shows that manufacturers are still producing toys in excessive and unnecessary packagi... [more]
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