Landfills

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Landfills: - 1. Sanitary landfills are disposal sites for non-hazardous solid wastes spread in layers, compacted to the smallest practical volume, and covered by material applied at the end of each operating day. 2. Secure chemical landfills are disposal sites for hazardous waste, selected and designed to minimize the chance of release of hazardous substances into the environment.
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News archive for Landfills::

Warrantech Teams up with Second Rotation to Support the First Step ...  -  04 Aug 2008
MarketWatchWith more than 3000 landfills already existing in the United States, the need for electronics recycling - or e-cycling - is more critical today than ever.

Scare tax on garbage is a big waste  -  04 Aug 2008
Jacksonville Daily News,Fifty percent will go to DENR, the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources, to clean up 700 pre-1983 orphan landfills.

County cleaning up Hana landfill  -  04 Aug 2008
Maui News,In 2006, the county agreed to pay fines of $200000 for unsanitary conditions and permit violations at the Central Maui and Lanai landfills,

Marion Landfill: What's The Stink About?  -  04 Aug 2008
WSIL TV,The Illinois EPA maps 5 landfills in Southern Illinois: In DuQuoin, DeSoto, Sumner, Fairfield and Thompsonville. The newest addition to that list would be

Macro Beer Feeling Green  -  04 Aug 2008
PSFK,This will be done with piping in biogas (methane) from landfills and a Bio-energy Recovery System (BERS) that uses bacteria to convert post-brewing waste

Costs make recycling glass bottles a tough sell  -  04 Aug 2008
Columbus Dispatch,That means more than 10 million tons of glass clattered into landfills in 2006. Rumpke Consolidated Cos., which collects recyclables in Columbus,

Its a trash crisis  -  04 Aug 2008
Deccan Herald,..."These are challenging times, and the UK is behind the game when it comes to relying on landfills," said Beverley Parr, a spokeswoman for the Department of

The Waste-Pickers of Delhi  -  04 Aug 2008
Mother Jones,Because it will reduce the amount of methane off-gassed by landfills, it will generate carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol. But the incinerator will

Early MOSA exit eyed  -  04 Aug 2008
Oneonta Daily Star,MOSA collects rubbish from the three-county area and has retained Riccelli Enterprises Inc. to truck it to landfills in Monroe and Ontario counties,

Rubber Speed Cushions Find Their Home at Southern California HOAs  -  04 Aug 2008
MarketWatchEach cushion uses 40 tires, which would otherwise be in environmentally hazardous landfills. Highly reflective highway tape is imbedded into each unit to

New Hanover seeks to reconsider incinerator's future  -  04 Aug 2008
StarNewsOnline.com,That caused problems when the haulers started taking the trash to out-of-county landfills, robbing New Hanover of revenue needed to pay for its waste

Peat International's global success story  -  Aug 3, 2008
The Windy Citizen,In the US, however, companies might not feel the same immediacy when it comes to handling waste more efficiently--even though building new landfills is not

Need junk?  -  Aug 2, 2008
London Free Press,..."I am very into keeping things out of landfills if at all possible," Jan says. "It's good for everyone." But why post things for free when sites like

Landfill study a waste?  -  Aug 2, 2008
Rock Hill Herald,By Charles D. Perry Â· cperry@heraldonline.com York County leaders paid a consulting firm nearly $90000 to figure out if the county needs more landfills.

Government to manage landfills to arrest pollution  -  Jul 26, 2008
Malaysia Star,SUNGKAI: The Government will take over management of the countryâ€™s 260 landfills in a move to reduce river pollution by leachate from the dumpsites.

AC set to hire expert on landfills  -  Jul 31, 2008
Online Athens,Athens-Clarke County will hire a consultant next month to guide it through the lengthy, complex process of applying for permission to expand its landfill.

$14.95 kits keep corkscrew light bulbs out of landfills  -  Jul 21, 2008
Dallas Morning News,By ELIZABETH SOUDER / The Dallas Morning News Congratulations â€“ you've decided to spring for those efficient, long-lasting compact fluorescent light bulbs.

THOMAS KOSTIGEN'S ETHICS MONITOR Bioplastics will be all the rage  -  Jul 31, 2008
MarketWatchThe European Commission Landfill Directive requires a diversion of 65% of organic waste away from landfills between now and 2016.

Blue Earth Solutions Announces Two New Foam Recycling Contracts  -  Jul 30, 2008
MarketWatchBlue Earth Solutions offers a true environmentally friendly process that reduces EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) from landfills and other potentially hazardous

Online-only letters  -  Jul 31, 2008
Seattle Times,...use more energy to produce and will wind up in landfills anyway. When you compare that energy to the vast amount wasted by making "disposable" plastic bags,

Recycling centre to ease strain on area landfills  -  Jul 14, 2008
London Free Press,By JOE MATYAS The opening of a new recycling centre in London will help extend private landfills sites throughout the region, a city official said yesterday

IDF cracks down on West Bank dumping  -  Jul 29, 2008
Jerusalem Post,Alongside the new order, the Civil Administration is also working with several foreign governments and NGOs to develop sanitary landfills throughout the

USA Gypsum Releases Granular Gypsum, a New Recycled Product  -  Jul 30, 2008
MarketWatchBusinesses can cut down on disposal costs while helping the environment by preventing scraps from reaching landfills. USA Gypsum offers on site roll-off

Recycling cardboard  -  Aug 2, 2008
The Patriot-News - PennLive.com,Second, every item that fails to be recycled is going into landfills and costing us all money. Some items going in the landfills are endangering us and

Health Department will measure PFC levels in adults near 3M plant ...  -  Jul 9, 2008
Minneapolis Star Tribune,BACK STORY: PFC-containing wastes were disposed in a number of landfills in the east metro and have seeped into the groundwater and contaminated numerous

Old tires make new roads  -  Jul 31, 2008
Los Angeles Times,Those tires on your wheels may end up on your roads, thanks to a more than $325000 effort to divert 21000 waste tires from California landfills and use them

How much radiation is too much?  -  Aug 3, 2008
phillyBurbs.com,By JO CIAVAGLIA The 750 tons of radioactive sludge that Waste Management agreed to accept at its local municipal landfills would expose the public to less

Landfills scale up rates  -  Jul 24, 2008
Kemmerer Gazette,With the installation of scales at the Kemmerer and North Lincoln landfills, commercial and residential users will see a host of changes, including rate

BC reg to target landfill gases  -  Jul 30, 2008
Ecolog.com (subscription),Landfill gas is produced from the bacterial decomposition of degradable organic waste at landfills. It is composed of methane and carbon dioxide in

Cascade Co. landfills raising fees  -  Jul 23, 2008
KPAX-TV,Cascade County Rural Solid Waste District Fees went up 55% Tuesday as commissioners unanimously approved the hike. The changes means that fees at the eight

New bags will break down in landfills  -  Jul 26, 2008
The Barrie Examiner,Sandy Frape's pharmacy is going green on Monday, but her customers might not notice the change. That is, until they ask for a bag to carry home their

'Pay-As-You-Throw' Trash Fees  -  Jul 28, 2008
Wall Street JournalAfter decades of environmental battles over landfills and incinerators -- both potential sources of emissions and pollution -- PAYT represents an effort to

Worriers v. Nonworriers  -  Aug 1, 2008
New York Times Blogs,And finally, I donâ€™t buy the argument that plastic bags are worse than paper bags because they donâ€™t biodegrade in landfills. First, landfills are so

Busted! Three myths about recycled paper and Bank of America hits ...  -  Aug 1, 2008
Green Options blog,In fact, Triple Pundit points out that paper that ends ups in landfills instead of being recycled gives off methane which has a warming effect 23 times

Metro-east receives grants to inspect landfills, clean up illegal ...  -  Jul 25, 2008
Belleville News Democrat,The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency will award grants of $169665 to St. Clair County and $123012 to Madison County. The grants are part of more

Posted -39 sec ago  -  Aug 2, 2008
Welland Tribune,ROSE:To Walker Industries, for its efforts to turn landfills into sources of energy. The Niagara company has teamed up with Cambridge-based firm Comcor to

Gov't Meeting on Landfills  -  Jul 22, 2008
Î•Î¾Ï€Ï?ÎÏ‚,Karamanlis will chair a government meeting on landfills at 11:00 Tuesday. The meeting will focus on refuse management in Attica, in view of an imminent fine

Radioactive sludge on hold for Bucks landfills  -  Jul 22, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer,The operator of two Bucks County landfills says it is suspending plans to dump radioactive sludge from the Limerick Nuclear power plant until public

Protecting the earth from ourselves  -  Jul 31, 2008
The National,In line with it strategic plan to improve solid waste management, Abu Dhabi emirate is building two new modern â€œproperly engineeredâ€? landfills that will be

Clinton thrift store funds social-help program  -  Jul 28, 2008
Chicago Tribune,..."We provide a service by diverting textiles from landfills," Molano said. "This allows the clothing to be reused." What's not needed at the store goes to

Government to clean up toxic landfills near capital  -  Jul 22, 2008
The National,They are served by a number of smaller landfills that are not all managed properly. According to studies by consultants, performance at several landfills

3 ex-landfills filling new, nobler niches  -  Jul 20, 2008
Deseret News,One of the Ogden's old landfills closed in 1966, after a 16-year run. When I-15 came through the area, some of the on/off ramps for Hinckley Drive (state

Clearfield County Commissioners discuss landfills  -  Jul 23, 2008
Leader Vindicator,The state Department of Environmental Protection denied a municipal waste landfill permit application by PA Waste LLC for a site in Boggs Township.

Capturing methane to turn landfills into power plants  -  Jul 23, 2008
West Virginia Public Broadcasting,By Beth Vorhees A Charleston businessman and former state treasurer wants to build a methane-fueled generating plant at Charleston's landfill.

Residents of El Dorado relieved he wasn't talking about them?  -  Jul 31, 2008
Kansas City Star,..."I would say that we should convert it to a landfill, but that would be insulting to landfills. "If Dorothy was from Canton, Kansas, she would have wished

Niagara, Hamilton nix garbage plan Waste diversion from landfills ...  -  Jul 15, 2008
Niagarathisweek.com,Instead, Niagara's regional government and the City of Hamilton will each concentrate on diverting waste from existing landfills, and will abandon an

Builders learn it's easy to be green  -  Aug 1, 2008
DesMoinesRegister.com,Shelly Codner with the Iowa Waste Exchange presented statistics on how construction debris affects the state's landfills. More than half of construction

Ethanol Breakthrough: InEnTec Announces First Commercial-Scale ...  -  Jul 22, 2008
MarketWatchIt doesn't compete with the world's food supply or even cultivatable land, and it significantly reduces the need for landfills which produce greenhouse

Methane recovery effort grows in county  -  Jul 30, 2008
Monticello Herald Journal,Murphy said most of the "larger" landfills throughout the state like Liberty collect and use the methane already, so now the focus is shifting to smaller

Palestine alarmed by Israeli nuclear waste  -  Aug 1, 2008
PRESS TV,Saadeh claimed the landfills do not meet international standards and are aimed at an ethnic cleansing of the Arabs in those areas, 'like what happened in

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