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London 2012 Olympic Waste Management contract awarded to Veolia Environmental Services

Sustainability will remain at the heart of the construction of the London 2012 Olympic Park, venues and infrastructure with a commitment to recover and reuse or recycle 90 per cent of the waste created through the ‘big build’ phase of the project. The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has also developed a new integrated Environment and Sustainability Management System which has been externally audited and certified to the international standard... [more]

Global Ecology patents Mobile PureWater System

Global Ecology Corporation has filed an application to patent its Mobile PureWater System via an 8K submitted to the Securities and Exchange commission. This transportable system filters and purifies up to 90,000 liters of water per day by pumping it from a contaminated water source and treating it within the system itself. The unit is powered by solar, wind, diesel generator or vehicle alternator dispatch and requires no external power source. ... [more]

UGI generates electricity using recovered landfill methane gas

Landfill gas is generated during the natural decomposition of solid waste and the byproduct gas is largely comprised of methane, a primary greenhouse gas. Landfill gas was given the highest preference, along with other energy sources such as wind, solar, biomass and low-impact hydro, as an alternative energy by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania when the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard was enacted into law almost 4 years ago. The legislation ... [more]

BlueFire Ethanol to Construct Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Production Plant

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. has been granted a conditional-use permit from the County of Los Angeles, Department of Regional Planning, to permit the construction of the nation’s first commercial facility to convert biowaste into ethanol. The Los Angeles County Planning Commission approved the use permit for operation of the plant on 10 undeveloped acres near Lancaster, California, in the Antelope Valley. BlueFire plans to initiate commercial ... [more]

Chicken manure generate power and heat at a large chicken farm in Beijing

GE Energy’s ecomagination-certified Jenbacher gas engines will use biogas created from chicken manure to generate needed power and heat at a large chicken farm north of the China’s capital city of Beijing. The plant is the first of its type in China and could pave the way for similar applications in the future. The Beijing Deqingyuan Chicken Farm Waste Utilization plant comes as the country seeks innovative ways to meet its energy and environm... [more]

 

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Waste Management gets Litchfield Park contract (The Arizona Republic) Waste Management of Arizona has secured a five-year deal to provide trash-collection and recycling services to Litchfield Park, taking over a service previously provided by Allied Waste Industries Inc. of Phoenix.

Eye on the Environment: Reuse and recycling advances cut waste (Ventura County Star) Last week's column about recycling of construction and demolition debris provided an overview of a successful county program. Since the Ventura County Board of Supervisors implemented a mandatory recycling program on Feb. 8, 2007, staff members of the Ventura County Integrated Waste Management Division have approved more than 500 projects, and only about 10 percent of the construction debris ...

China to regulate recycling of electronic waste (China Daily) China on Wednesday approved a draft law on the management of electronic waste, aiming to reduce the pollution it causes.

GCC states to tackle waste management (Gulf Times) Business Reporter GCC COUNTRIES are preparing to ramp up response to the growing requirement of waste management in the region as it witnesses rapid economic expansion.

Waste scheme to replace eco-tax payments (Times of Malta) A not-for-profit company will be set up to manage a national waste management scheme on behalf of businesses, allowing companies to participate in a cost-effective programme of collection and recycling, instead of paying eco-tax on their products.

School director seeks more recycling (The Hazleton Standard-Speaker) Dismayed over the lack of a district-wide recycling program, some Hazleton Area school directors want to rework bid specifications and include recycling in the next waste-removal contract.

Reading, writing and recycling (St. Clair County Journal) To help curb the growing number of waste contributed by bottled water- and soda-drinkers at the schools, Madison County Recycling this year began providing bins for recycled plastic bottles and Highland Recycling agreed to pick up recycled plastic at schools. Plastic is an enormous source of waste along with the cardboard.

Convenience aim of new recycling mode 09/07/08 (Dearborn Press & Guide) DEARBORN HEIGHTS/Dearborn - Since implementing its curbside recycling program in 2007, the city of Dearborn Heights has recycled more than 1,100 tons of material, according to Waste Management officials.

Corinth trash, recycling pick-up set to move to Friday (Denton Record-Chronicle) Pick-up days for trash and recycling will soon move to Fridays in Corinth. A Waste Management representative told the City Council that the company studied the current Monday-and-Tuesday schedule and found inefficiencies that they can cut out to save money and avoid a mid-year rate increase.

Email This | Print This (The Daily Record) STARK-TUSCARAWAS JOINT Solid Waste Management District Position Description Position: Education Specialist Reports to: Recycling Coordinator FLSA: Non-Exempt Employment Status: Full Time Civil Service Status: Classified Pay: Hourly ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION: Plans, organizes, and develops formal and informal presentations concerning recycling and other solid waste issues; makes formal ...