Source Separation

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Source Separation: - Segregating various wastes at the point of generation (e.g., separation of paper, metal and glass from other wastes to make recycling simpler and more efficient).
[Environmental Protection Agency]

News archive for Source Separation::

Food Manufacturers Urged to Use Source Separation  -  Jul 26, 2008
Recycle,A Defra-funded report has shown that food and drink manufacturers have recovered or recycled 82% of the waste produced at their sites in 2006.

Champaign council to review city's energy consumption  -  Aug 4, 2008
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette,Feinen said that the city's recycling ordinance, at the very minimum, needs to be updated to no longer require source separation of curbside recycling.

Hitachi Showcases EMIEW2 Robot  -  Jul 21, 2008
TechShout!,The Robots voice recognition function is a result of sound source separation and sound pattern recognition. The sound source separation helps robot to

Landfill lowers fees as Brick shops for dump  -  Jul 24, 2008
Asbury Park Press,Mazza representatives would not say if it planned to take Brick to court, but it has cited state law that mandates source separation for recycling.

Solid waste management: Potentials, challenges  -  Jul 28, 2008
The New Nation,Motivation, awareness and commitment is highly required for source- separation. However, the waste which is dry and has a recycle value are stored at

Hitachi Makes Robot Good Listener w/ 14 Mics  -  Jul 18, 2008
Tech-On English,...(3) The voice recognition function is a combination of sound source separation and sound pattern recognition. In the sound source separation, sounds coming

Reduce non-stationary noise in handsets  -  Jul 10, 2008
EE Times India,...beam forming and blind source separation (BSS) use multiple microphones to more accurately identify, locate and group noise sources than is possible

Waste recovery centre hosts public information meeting  -  Jul 24, 2008
Pembroke Daily Observer,Under the regulations, the mall had to have a waste audit plan and a source separation plan. "Fortunately we had started a waste audit already," Ms. Brophy

Hitachi’s new humanoid robot distinguishes voices  -  Jul 21, 2008
CrunchGear,Hitachi developed a voice recognition technology that is based on sound source separation and sound pattern recognition. The first makes it possible for the

New rules on recycling  -  Jul 20, 2008
Charlotte Observer,At their meeting Monday evening, commissioners passed a resolution giving the county permission to enforce the Source Separation Ordinance that is a part of

Waste Management Plan Up For Public Input  -  Jul 17, 2008
Opinion250 News,...to deal with those issues. variable permit costs (deconstruction vs. demolition) to encourage source-separation, adopting green building standards (eg,

Hitachi EMIEW2  -  Jul 21, 2008
UberGizmo.com,To help it in doing so, the voice recognition function consists of sound source separation and sound pattern recognition. The former focuses on the

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CHINA 通讯网,...例如,盲�分离(Blind Source Separation

Westchester County takes tough line on recycling (28/11/2007)  -  Nov 28, 2007
MoreThanWaste,The County says that the Source Separation Law (see a copy at the Westchester web site) sets the parameters for recycling in Westchester and enforcement is

Court battle waged over 5T recycling  -  Nov 8, 2007
Nassau Herald,The state DEC informed the district in August 2006 that this kind of source separation is in violation of conditions under state law.

UPDATE 1-EU executive near deal on telecom unbundling-source  -  Nov 7, 2007
Reuters.uk,By Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The European Commission is near a deal on shaking up the eu's telecoms markets by retaining a controversial

For some homeowners: no garbage pickup without clear bags  -  Nov 29, 2007
The Journal News / Lohud.com,Spano said that when the mandatory source-separation law went into effect in 1992, Westchester was recycling only about 9 percent of its trash.

EA accused of weak regulation of new pre-treatment rules  -  Nov 20, 2007
MRW,The two-page document confirms that the onus is on landfill operators to ensure waste delivered to their sites is pre-treated - usually by source separation

Leave me Anonymous  -  Nov 9, 2007
Lanka Business Online,This tax is to be levied on 90% of households without any link to environment related behavior change (eg, source separation of garbage).

Law push to force hand of developers on recycling  -  Aug 14, 2007
The Standard,At a forum on source separation of waste yesterday, Director of Environmental Protection Anissa Wong Sean- yee said more than 650 public and private housing

36% of HK people join waste-cut scheme  -  Aug 14, 2007
News.gov.hk,More than 650 housing estates have joined the source separation of domestic waste programme, covering 840000 households and 2.5 million people,

Why Most People Dont Really Want To Heal (Part 1)  -  Aug 2, 2007
أرابياSince the ego was created to help us maintain the illusion of separation from the Source, separation is all that the ego knows. The ego feels lost,




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