Waste Piles

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Waste Piles: - Non-containerized, lined or unlined accumulations of solid, nonflowing waste.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

News archive for Waste Piles::

It's Getting Greener Out There  -  05 Aug 2008
Channel Insider,As customers become more attuned to the importance of going green as energy costs escalate and e-waste piles up, they also are increasing the profit

Burning faces hazy future  -  Jul 14, 2008
Prince George Citizen,Logger Terry Campbell has been given the green light by the BC Ministry of Environment to burn waste piles of woody debris behind LC Gunn Park -- just above

Naples clear of trash but solution 3 years off -PM  -  Jul 18, 2008
ReutersROME, July 18 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Friday that the streets of Naples had been cleared of rotting garbage that had

Anglo American and the Pebble Mine make investment history. Can ...  -  Aug 4, 2008
International Business Times,...you develop this mine without polluting the salmon streams and dooming us to perpetual cleanup and care of the vast waste piles you will leave behind.

Ninemile Valley creek work called a model  -  Jul 29, 2008
The Missoulian,Some of the waste piles are so sterilized by mining toxins that they remain denuded lumps on the landscape. Eustache Creek workers used an excavator to

Meet Norfolk's green owls  -  Jul 18, 2008
Norwich Evening News,Steve Longdon, waste services general manager for May Gurney, said tea chests were now being pulled from waste piles at Sheringham, Wells, Hempton,

Green Waste Piles Up In Suva  -  Jul 27, 2008
pacific,There has been an increase in the burning of rubbish as a result of the Suva City Council's inefficient green waste policy, say concerned Raiwasa residents,

Nokia survey: Old mobile phones usually end up in drawers  -  Jul 8, 2008
NetworkWorld.com,...the shipment of second-hand electronic goods to their shores, since they are concerned these will be unwanted and end up in waste piles," she said.

Rothbury Festival: Epilogue  -  Jul 16, 2008
Examiner.comIt also felt like no area of the festival grounds was ridden with waste piles; people just may have listened to the Earth's call to take care and leave

Richard Munschauer '09 Digs Into Calciobetafite  -  Jul 24, 2008
Hamilton College News,Because the pegmatite he found came from waste piles created when the area was mined for road fill, Munschauer does not know the original geological layer

Repay Florida's growers  -  Jul 15, 2008
Palm Beach Post,Florida growers have had to dump truckloads of tomatoes in waste piles or let crops die on the vine because of a salmonella outbreak that has nothing to do

City moves to clear some land in watershed  -  Jul 19, 2008
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin,...orange paint on about 30 trees per acre — the trees that will be left standing; all the rest will go to lumber, pulp or waste piles, Douglas said.

Greka to Pay Millions?  -  Jul 23, 2008
The Santa Barbara Independent,As per the order, Greka was meant to manage, tests, and disposes of several petroleum-impacted waste piles at their oil pumping properties before they could

Waste piles up after heavy trash cutback  -  04 Dec 2007
KHOU,By Lee mcguire / 11 News A pilot program designed to save the city money has buried one southwest Houston neighborhood in piles of trash.

Composting facility battles its landlord: The city  -  Nov 24, 2007
Anchorage Daily News (subscription),...citing: "The large volume of non-composted waste piles which have accumulated on the property, along with associated potential clean-up costs."

Measure offers cleanup of mines  -  Dec 1, 2007
Arizona Republic,..."Our people have inhaled radioactive dust from the waste piles, drank contaminated water from abandoned pit mines and watered our herds with contaminated

From liabilities to assets: Timber harvest waste is turned into ...  -  Nov 19, 2007
Bemidji Pioneer,Often, the waste piles are burned to eliminate a fuel source in case of wildfire. However, the slash at the current site has been salvaged and ground into

Geothermal Power vs. Conventional Power Sources  -  Nov 28, 2007
Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition,...no rail lines or pipelines, no gigantic mines and processing facilities, essentially no air pollution, no toxic waste piles and long-term repositories.

Ceremony marks official start of cleanup work in mined area w ...  -  Nov 20, 2007
Joplin Globe,The waste piles, Blunt said, once were symbols of jobs and economic prosperity in Southwest Missouri. The cleanup of those piles, he said,

This Week in Legal Times...  -  Nov 19, 2007
The BLT,...“But that number could go higher — much higher, because as the waste piles up, the damages pile up along with it,� Berry says. If you were wondering how

Fishing company founders' plans renew  -  Nov 10, 2007
Glenwood Springs Post Independent,Some of the work involved backfilling mine entries, stabilizing some 15 miles of roads and reclaiming three coal waste piles.

Waste piles up in New Summerfield  -  Aug 13, 2007
Jacksonville Daily Progress,By Raymond Billy NEW SUMMERFIELD – The garbage is piling up in New Summerfield and Mayor Danny Stallings wants something done about it.

Animal waste piles up as abattoir incinerator packs in  -  Aug 12, 2007
Cyprus Mail,AGRICULTURE Minister Fotis Fotiou said yesterday that a malfunction at two animal waste plants in Kofinou posed no imminent danger to public health.

EPA Comments on Report That Supports Present and Future Activities ...  -  Aug 22, 2007
WebWire (press release),EPA’s comments focus on transitioning off-road vehicles and recreational activities away from the mine waste piles in St. Joe State Park.

REPEAT: Sparton Resources Inc.: Drilling Program Begins to ...  -  Aug 1, 2007
WM Experts (press release),With a possible doubling of the amount of ash available in the waste piles for processing, the amount of available uranium that could be produced from them

Electronic waste piles up at Salvation Army  -  Jul 28, 2007
Grand Junction Sentinel,By KYLENE KIANG The Daily Sentinel It doesn’t take long for the heap of old, boxy computer monitors to accumulate in the outdoor sale yard of the Salvation

EPA asks DNR to ensure protection from lead at state park  -  Aug 23, 2007
KWMU,..."We want to prevent that from happening by stabilizing mine waste piles and covering them up so they are no longer washing into watershed and blowing into

Bottom Line Seals the Deal  -  Aug 19, 2007
Wall Street JournalThey told prospective customers that Applied Intellectual Capital's technology could generate revenue by recovering valuable metals from waste piles.

Regional district suspects arson in refuse site fires  -  Aug 21, 2007
Williams Lake Tribune,By Jeremy Deutsch The Cariboo Regional District now believes fires set at a number of wood waste piles at rural refuse sites were caused by arson.

$544090 to flow to Clear Creek Watershed Foundation  -  Aug 23, 2007
WebWire (press release),The proposal includes installation of traps for contaminated sediment, removal of mine waste piles, and development of an innovative orphan mine trading

Coal power waste is Sparton's uranium treasure  -  Aug 3, 2007
The Northern Miner (subscription),The next step would be to sample the waste piles and determine their overall uranium content and bulk chemistry, followed by leaching tests for uranium

New York equity firm buys Icicle Seafoods processor  -  Aug 12, 2007
Alaskajournal.com,...ship the Northern Victor that required Icicle to remove the historic seafood waste piles, but that Icicle did not meet the deadline for removal.

Water Board Acknowledges It Can't Protect Water Quality  -  Aug 10, 2007
YubaNet,Title 27 Unit (Regulates approximately 265 landfills and numerous surface impoundments and waste piles). b. Regional Board has only 40% of staff needed to

Sparton and WildHorse Energy Acquire Rights to Evaluate Uranium ...  -  Aug 3, 2007
WM Experts (press release),The work will include systematic sampling of the waste piles, and determination of their overall uranium content and bulk chemistry.

Review: XSProject Carpal Tunnel Syndrome — Gives "Trash Bag" A ...  -  Aug 21, 2007
Wired BlogsThe XSProject pays Indonesian trash pickers to weed out neat-looking refuse from waste piles and then converts the salvaged materials into messenger bags.

FreshPlaza: Global Fresh Produce and Banana News  -  Aug 16, 2007
FreshPlaza,This way, waste piles up inside the tomatoes’ cells. “This also goes for cucumbers and tropical fruits. The only fresh produce that benefits from

High number of cancer cases raises alarms  -  Aug 11, 2007
Bangor Daily News,..."All of the data collected to date suggests that the contamination is found primarily in, within and adjacent to the waste piles as well as in the sediments

It Takes More Than a Tangerine  -  Jul 30, 2007
Dissident Voice,Animal waste piles up as efforts to deal with it fall behind. Small producers enrich the soil with manure. Big producers pollute our waterways with runoff

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific  -  Jul 27, 2007
World Socialist Web Site,There are fears of a major health epidemic as rotting waste piles up in the city and sewage is flowing onto roads in some localities.




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