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Waste Stream
Waste Stream: - The total flow of solid waste from homes, businesses, institutions, and manufacturing plants that is recycled, burned, or disposed of in landfills, or segments thereof such as the "residential waste stream" or the "recyclable waste stream." [Environmental Protection Agency] News archive for Waste Stream:: |
Mother Jones,..."When waste-pickers are denied access to the waste stream, they go through the ash, looking for metal, the only substance to survive incineration intact,"
420 Ontario Municipal E-Waste Depots Will Cost Too Much - 05 Aug 2008
PRLog.Org (press release),Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) is the fastest growing solid waste stream in Ontario and worldwide. The plan calls for the creation of 420
Envirowise urges end to wasteful printing - 05 Aug 2008
Business Green,...workers admit to wastefully printing documents they do not need or use, resulting in 4.7m tonnes of paper and board entering the waste stream each year.
County's composters no longer available - 05 Aug 2008
Sarnia Observer,..."About 30 per cent of your waste stream is typically organic materials." Having even 10 or 15 per cent of residential kitchen waste diverted to a backyard
K-STATE: K-State's Advanced Manufacturing Institute Engineering ... - 05 Aug 2008
Manufacturing Business Technology,The team has experience in a broad range of unit operations including fermentation, digestion, reaction, separations, waste stream co-product recovery,
Truckee setting up plan against greenhouse gas - 05 Aug 2008
Tahoe Daily Tribune,...the town's recycling program, which removes about 70 percent of recyclables from the waste stream - compared with the 50 percent state requirement.
ZEDfactory goes upmarket - 05 Aug 2008
Green Building Press,...“We’ve considered the whole lifecycle of materials, including their fabrication, impact on the environment and waste ‘stream’, as the design has evolved,�
Boston's wasted opportunity - Aug 3, 2008
Boston Globe,And there are great successes, such as San Francisco, where 69 percent of waste-stream materials are diverted from area landfills.
Single-Stream A Better Solution - Aug 2, 2008
Hartford Courant,Why would anyone spend time attacking processes that make recycling easier, target more than 50 percent of the waste stream and drastically increase the
Horse Waste + Wood Waste = Thermal Energy - Aug 4, 2008
Alternative Energy Retailer magazine,...steps to ensure that MaxWest’s technology will provide the seamless process Ocala and Marion County are looking for to manage this waste stream process.
Alpine Sweetens Recycling Offer During DNC - Jul 31, 2008
YourHub.com,To qualify, a hotel must show that it sends 30 percent or more of its waste stream to recycling or composting within a given month.
Home composting bins available - Aug 1, 2008
Norwood Bulletin,The organic portion of the waste stream contains yard waste and kitchen waste, each representing 25 percent of total waste generated (with geographic
Is scrap a waste commodity - Aug 1, 2008
Commodity Online,Where material has been separated from the solid waste stream, that material has, because of its intrinsic value, been removed from the realm of solid waste
Milford's Hometown News Source - Jul 30, 2008
The Milford Observer,Pulling recyclable materials out of the waste stream is one of the easiest ways for the town to save – and earn – money. Making recycling easier by
Ready For E-Waste? - Jul 27, 2008
KOIN.com,Computers, computer monitors and TVs will be diverted from the waste stream. But just how that will happen will vary from city to city, and county to county
What do we do now? - Aug 3, 2008
Ha'aretz,This exchange also serves to reduce the amount of material prematurely entering the waste stream. Certainly, most of the families turning to gemachs do so
Shamrock Means Going Green - Aug 3, 2008
Associated Construction Publications,..."We stripped out everything and retooled the place with all new, high-capacity equipment and new technology to attack this huge waste stream and reduce what
Metal Sorters reclaim and segregate valuable metals. - Aug 4, 2008
ThomasNet Industrial News Room,FinesSort's series of powerful magnetic components recover valuable ferrous and non-ferrous metals from the fines waste stream in scrap yards.
Wastebasket blues: Houston doesn't recycle enough garbage ... - Aug 1, 2008
Houston Chronicle,It also forces households to be mindful of the waste stream they churn out every day. All that trash has to go somewhere. Someone has to pick it up,
Alaskan senator's indictment just tip of pork-filled iceberg - Aug 1, 2008
Seattle Times,The radioactive waste stream grows into a mighty river as we consider the costs ofwarehousing the current stockpile of spent fuel rods across our nation.
A month without plastic - Jul 31, 2008
BBC News,..."Plastics packaging waste in particular is a very visible part of the waste stream and it's also growing. "Ironically as we become more successful at
Think Green to Make Green - Jul 31, 2008
Motley FoolMetal in the waste stream is as precious as energy these days, and Waste Management sells scrap metal for an additional revenue boost.
Sustainable Solutions Inc. Acquisition Creates Single Network for ... - Jul 22, 2008
PR Leap (press release),These members include: material/product intelligence, research and redevelopment, IP and Patent licensing, waste stream assessment/management (Circleâ„¢),
Carpet recycling is gaining ground - Jul 31, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,Old carpet is just a sliver of the overall waste stream, 1.6 percent of all trash collected in San Francisco by Norcal Waste Systems.
New Energy Company, Solid Recovered Fuel, Offers Combined Energy ... - Jul 16, 2008
MarketWatch..."We put the pieces together to give a business, utility or a public facility the ability to convert MSW, including its own waste stream, into syngas--a form
The Cones Are Coming - Jul 31, 2008
TheDay,...“This can amount to a 20 percent reduction in the amount of material going into the waste stream. Programs in Vermont showed an average household disposed
Editorial: Mansfield ethics policy should cover 'waste' disposal - Aug 1, 2008
Mansfield News Journal,It also suggests a possible need for the city to examine its waste stream to be sure taxpayers receive maximum benefit from the city's material purchases.
Dalton Utilities to start producing biodiesel from algae - Jul 25, 2008
Daily Citizen,...“They are evaluating our waste stream to come up with a way of maximizing fuel production from the waste stream and marrying the process to the remainder of
A Business Analysis of the World's Water - Aug 3, 2008
Processing Talk,In a similar vein, the upsurge in challenging materials in the waste stream has created the need for heavy-duty disposal equipment. At the end of the day,
Local entrepreneur helping state ‘green’ businesses - Jul 11, 2008
Newburyport Current,Both the corporation and the forest need to solve problems of input, production and waste without creating a useless waste stream.
'Post Consumed' at the Center for Land Use Interpretation - Jul 31, 2008
Los Angeles Times,Three of them, "Collecting and Sorting the Trash of Los Angeles County," "Diversions in the Waste Stream" and "Landfills," follow the format of
Recycling is the word on the street with the rollout of on-the-go ... - Jul 30, 2008
packagingnews.co.uk,In 2006, over 500000 tonnes of plastic bottles entered the household waste stream, of which a quarter was recovered. Plastics don’t seem very much,
Waste Collectors May Become Trash Cops - Jul 31, 2008
FoxReno.com,Diversion accounts for 1415159 tons of waste, or 70% of the total waste stream. "San Francisco is making it easier than ever to participate in recycling
Time to bring back the bring-bank - Jul 30, 2008
packagingnews.co.uk,...project is already demonstrating how bulk importation of wine can have a positive impact on surplus volumes of green glass in the waste stream.
Solutions to extend life of next landfill - Aug 2, 2008
Pacific Daily News,There's little profit in it, but it represents a significant reduction in the waste stream. We need to add glass and plastic, which in practical terms never
Newport Computer Services looks to India for its future - Aug 1, 2008
IndUS Business Journal,...“Managing this world properly ultimately comes down to managing your waste stream properly.� IL&FS Waste Management focuses on the solid waste industry in
Getting rid of your TV and a tsunami of waste - Jul 25, 2008
Downey Patriot,Solid waste managers worry that consumers will opt for HDTV en masse, consigning perfectly good analog TVs to the US waste stream.
Waste workers disiplined - Jul 30, 2008
Record-Searchlight,Redding officials have asked workers accused of taking items from the waste stream to inventory them, return them to the Transfer Station and pay for their
Fuel made easy - Aug 3, 2008
The Daily Advertiser,But biodiesel can also be made from canola oils and from waste stream sources, including used cooking oils or animal fats. Dozens of people who wanted to
The Economic Impact of Reprocessing External Fixation Components - Aug 1, 2008
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription)By repurchasing a product from the manufacturer at a reduced cost, they saved money and diverted the product from their most expensive waste stream.
Scientific Alliance newsletter 1st August 2008 - Aug 1, 2008
Cambridge Network,Their innovation comes from their ability to convert a variable solid waste stream into a gas of sufficiently consistent quality to enable the microbial
City plans to turn its waste into fuel - Jul 24, 2008
Portsmouth Herald News,By Adam Leech PORTSMOUTH — The city plans to put its wastewater to work by harvesting solids from the waste stream and using them as an energy source.
New company offers waste solutions, energy alternatives - Jul 24, 2008
Biomass Magazine,...“We put the pieces together to give a business, utility or a public facility the ability to convert MSW, including its own waste stream, into syngas – a
Reusing household water can be tricky - Aug 1, 2008
Grand Junction Sentinel,A laundry load full of work shirts is going to produce a distinctly different waste stream than one full of dirty diapers. With plenty of reasons to support
BioGold Fuels Receives Commitment for Waste Supply in Harvey County - Jul 18, 2008
FOXBusinessBIFC) announced that it has received a written commitment from the Board of Harvey County Commissioners to enter into a long term waste stream contract.
Sewer plant planners flushed with optimism - Aug 1, 2008
Newburyport Current,There, the DPW has managed to give a second life to probably the least likely thing in the municipal waste stream: sludge. And city workers have been doing
Glass, Paper, Cardboard: Recycling Riddle Solved - Aug 1, 2008
Martha's Vineyard Gazette,So for that waste stream, yes they are creating a lower value product.� Plus, of course, co-mingled material must be sorted at some point, and that sorting
Big Compost survey in Warwickshire - Aug 4, 2008
Coventry Telegraph,..."Composting is a fantastic way of reducing the amount of rubbish going into the waste stream. "In fact a third of the rubbish we throw away each week could
Waste Management launches online CFL program - Jul 28, 2008
Solid Waste & Recycling,..."Waste Management helps consumers responsibly handle the growing household universal waste stream," said Rick Cochrane, senior business director of Waste
City prepares for work on reservoir - Jul 16, 2008
Boston Globe,Carnevale said the state-approved filtration design called for half of the plant's waste stream to be discharged into the sewer system, and the other half
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