Outsourcing Waste Hauler Buys Another

Outsourcing waste hauler Custom Ecology Inc. has bought another outsourcing waste hauler, First Tee Transport Inc. 

By Sean Griffey • March 15, 2012

NSWMA Backs Two Pieces of Waste Legislation in Florida

Two pieces of key solid waste legislation have been approved by the Florida Senate and House of Representatives during the 2012 legislative session. The first bill is a major rewrite of the environmental permitting laws that includes language that will double the term of permit extensions ...

By Sean Griffey • March 15, 2012

90,000 Tonne Food Waste to Biogas Plant for Wales

Waste management company, Shanks (LSE:SKS) has submitted a planning application to develop a 90,000 tpa biogas facility to handle 90,000 tonnes per year of food waste in South Wales. 

By Sean Griffey • March 15, 2012

Carpinteria, Calif., bans plastic and paper bags

The city of Carpinteria has enacted the state's first -- and the nation's second -- bag ban that applies to both single-use plastic bags and to paper bags. 

By Sean Griffey • March 15, 2012

Gasification: Refining Safety

Gasification is the process by which solid organic matter is converted into a highly flammable synthesis gas in a partially oxidising environment. The energy industry has many years experience of combustion as a power generation method, but has limited experience of the hazards created dur...

By Sean Griffey • March 14, 2012

U.S. EPA adds to superfund sites list

The U.S. EPA added nine hazardous waste sites to the National Priorities List of superfund sites and is proposing to add 10 sites to the list, the agency announced. 

By Sean Griffey • March 14, 2012

DOE, Ameresco Start Waste-to-Energy Plant

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Ameresco Inc. have launched a waste-to-energy facility in South Carolina.

By Sean Griffey • March 13, 2012

Charcoal studied for landfill methane containment

Researchers are now testing inexpensive biochar as a landfill cover ingredient to keep escaping methane in check.

By Sean Griffey • March 13, 2012

PA town ponders nonferrous recycling center

The Borough of Waynesboro in Pennsylvania might build a recycling facility in a former lumber yard building. 

By Sean Griffey • March 13, 2012

EPA questions Lake Michigan ferry owners

The U.S. EPA is requesting detailed information from the owners of the Badger, the nation's last coal-fired boat, the Ludington Daily News reported. The vessel is permitted through December to discharge coal ash into Lake Michigan as part of its operations, but the EPA is considering groun...

By Sean Griffey • March 13, 2012

Dallas explores options even if flow control shot down

While the city of Dallas was recently dealt a setback in court over its flow-control ordinance, city leaders are continuing to meet and plan on how to recover assets from the trash it collects. 

By Sean Griffey • March 13, 2012

US Department of Defense renews service contract with Sims Recycling

The U.S. Department of Defense has agreed to renew a five-year continuation of service contract with Sims Recycling Solutions.

By Sean Griffey • March 12, 2012

Samsung, AnythingIT Launch E-Waste Recycling Program

Samsung Electronics America and AnythingIT Inc. are launching an electronics waste recycling program for Samsung customers. The Fair Lawn, N.J.-based information technology (IT) management and recycling firm AnythingIT said in a news release that the E-Waste Recycling & Asset Recovery Prog...

By Sean Griffey • March 12, 2012

WM driver saves fellow worker from being crushed

When Brian Braxton, a loader at Waste Management Inc. in Southfield, Mich., woke up the morning of Jan. 30, he had no idea that his regular work shift would mean a brush with death. Ice- and snow-covered roads painted the nearby Farmington Hills residential streets that morning, which started ...

By Sean Griffey • March 12, 2012

PSC Metals joins iScrap network

PSC Metals Inc. is the latest scrap recycler to join the iScrap App network database. With the app, more than 53,000 iScrap users can locate Mayfield Heights, Ohio-based PSC Metals locations in northern Ohio, view prices of prospective materials and send pictures of questionable material, acco...

By Sean Griffey • March 12, 2012

´The Love Boat´ is destined for the scrap heap

The former Pacific Princess, the boat from "The Love Boat" TV series, is being scrapped. A Turkish demolition company bought the vessel for a little more than $3.3 million (2.5 million euro), according to USA Today. The 19,903-ton, 600-passenger ship was built in 1971 for Flagship Cruises and dubbed the "Sea Venture." 

By Sean Griffey • March 9, 2012

Fake bomb shuts down Waste Management facility

A prank gift, made to look like a bomb, shut down a Waste Management Inc. site in Hillsboro, Ore., on March 8, according to a local news report. Hillsboro police said the item, described as flares taped together and attached to a clock, was discovered in a bag by a worker sorting through garba...

By Sean Griffey • March 9, 2012

WM: Still no update from feds on remains in landfill

More than three months after the controversial federal government practice of dumping ashen remains of war heroes in a landfill was uncovered, the solid waste management company that unknowingly was on the receiving end continues to search for answers. Efforts by Waste Management Inc. to reach...

By Sean Griffey • March 6, 2012

Is seaweed the future of biofuel?

The problem with environmentally friendly biofuels is the ever-increasing amount of farmland necessary to produce these crops diverts it from food production. Now researchers are exploring common seaweed as a viable alternative.

By Sean Griffey • March 5, 2012

Packaging companies look to solve green challenges

As global demand for rigid plastic packaging is rising, environmental awareness is increasing. In response, many manufacturers and retailers are moving towards greater sustainability, targeting both effectiveness and environmentalism with their rigid plastic packaging. Pira International Ltd.,...

By Sean Griffey • March 1, 2012

Progressive´s stock hit after taking impairment charge

Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. took an impairment charge in the northeastern United States that severely impacted its earnings and led to its stock being down more than 9% this morning. Progressive took a noncash goodwill impairment charge of $360.6 million against earnings during the fourth...

By Sean Griffey • Feb. 29, 2012

WM workers help woman from car stuck on train tracks

Two Waste Management Inc. employees saved a woman on Feb. 23 after her car got stuck on train tracks as a train approached in Newark, Del. Monique Dyton was in the driver's seat while passenger, Christina Johnson, tried to push the car from the tracks, according to NBC 10 in Philadelphia. ...

By Sean Griffey • Feb. 24, 2012