Landfills News
The gold trade body noted that almost all input costs for miners have inflated, thus leading to significant rise in costs.
Those efforts are carried out with help from organizations, businesses, governmental entities and more than 260,000 volunteers.
Triple M Metal has been on an expansion spree over the past several years, making it a fully integrated recycler of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal.
The Jardim Gramacho landfill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gained worldwide attention two years ago when it featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Waste Land, BBC reported.
SITA UK plans to recycle road sweepings from across the Midlands , rather than sending it into landfills, following the installation of a road sweepings and gully arisings recycling plant in its Neatchell's Lane facility in Wolverhampton.
Keep America Beautiful Inc, nations largest educational organization,announced the winners of its first inter school recycling competition, Recycle-Bowl.
In connection with the National Environment day, a residential recycling program has been launched in Sharjah on Monday.
The recycling competition held annually between 600 colleges and universities in the United states and Canada has officially started on February 5th and will go up to 31st of March.
Abu Dhabi plans to divert 90% of the 10 mn tonnes of waste generated from moving to landfills to recycling. The target has been set by the Centre of Waste Management. Presently, the waste generated fills 1800 hectares of land for landfills.
Waste Management of Arizona and Arizona State University (ASU) announced today their collaborative program "Roadmap to Zero Solid Waste" that aims to eliminate 90 percent or more of ASU's solid waste by 2015.
The forty year old Palo Alto Recycling Center will close down on February 1 as the landfill that was located very close to the facility was closed last July.
The Residential Recycling Conference will convene for its third annual gathering at the Gaylord Texan on March 28-30, 2012. The nation's premier recycling conference features municipal recycling leaders, executives from privately owned recycling companies
Waste Wise Trust (WWT), a solid waste management organization, based in Bangalore in partnership with The Electronics City Industries' Association (ELCIA) has announced the inauguration of the first of its kind recycling facility at Electronics City Bangalore.
For the second year in a row, Stater Bros. has received a Waste Reduction Award for its many environmentally friendly programs from California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP).
GFL, already one of Canada's fastest growing full-service waste management companies, announced today that it has officially purchased TIR, one of Southern Ontario's largest recycling and waste management companies.
The Local Birmingham Dumpster Man, Michigan has dedicated some time to explain that even people who care about the earth and love to recycle can do their spring cleaning and throw everything out, without worrying about harming the environment. They explain that almost every waste material can easily be recycled with the proper recycling procedure.
Stone Creek Golf Course, located in Oregon City tapped ESD Waste2Water, Inc. to install their environmental golf course wash system to achieve a higher green status and streamline their golf course wash station practices.
More jobs at higher income levels are created by recycling than compared to landfilling or incinerating waste. Overall employment related to the recycling of materials in European countries increased by 45 % between 2000 and 2007.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has completed the cleanup of the Sayreville Landfill Superfund site in Sayreville, New Jersey and removed it from the Superfund list of the country's most hazardous waste sites
Tasmania's main recycler Veolia collects about 65,000 tons of recyclable waste every year
The EU Waste Framework Directive requires the United Kingdom to recycle, compost or reuse 50% of waste from households by 2020.
The Scotland Government has unveiled the Zero Waste Regulations as part of its long-term objectives,
The Procter and Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) is all set to meet or exceed the five- year sustainability goals it had set in 2007
There was 15% rise in the amount of biodegradable municipal material being landfilled by councils compared with the same period last year.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added 15 hazardous waste sites including abandoned mines and landfills in the country that pose risks to people's health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites