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First reported 57 mins ago - Updated 57 mins ago - 2 reports

Greentree Authority reaffirms Lincoln County single vote

One vote per member was reaffirmed as the official action approach for the Greentree Solid Waste Authority board.Lincoln County commissioners and the county attorney previously asserted that based on the original joint powers agreement that formed the ... [Published RuidosoSearch.com - 57 mins ago]

Entities: Landfill, County Attorney, Joe Lewandowski, Jackie Powell, Solid Waste

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Plastics

Smoke Rises from Burning Bridgeton Landfill as Workers Dig

BRIDGETON, MO?(KMOX)?On a breezy, cool, overcast day ? workers continued the delicate task of digging up parts of a landfill where an underground fire has been burning since 2010. It?s Day Three of the dig that?s part of the court-approved action plan ... [Published CBS St Louis - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Landfill, Workers, Manhattan Project, Plastics, gamma ray

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 5 reports

Pennon Group Plc

South West Water turns in strong performance

font size decrease font size increase font sizePennon Group, owners of South West Water, said the utility is continuing to deliver strong performance in the current AMP5 period with the publication of its latest financial results.Ken Harvey, Chairman ... [Published WaterBriefing - 4 hours ago]

Entities: South West Water, Pennon Group Plc, Viridor, Landfill, Recycling

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 15 hours ago - 3 reports

Dunton brickworks to close

Michelmersh Brick is closing its Dunton brick-making plant in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. The brickworks is the companys oldest and smallest plant. It made two million bricks last year, but this was down on the 3.5 million it made in 2011.In 2012 Dunton ... [Published Construction Index - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Eric Gadsden, Michelmersh Brick Holdings PLC, United Kingdom, Landfill

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 23 hours ago - 2 reports

Portlanders to see slight decrease in garbage, recycling rates

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland City Council on Wednesday approved a rate decrease for residential garbage and recycling customers in Portland.Residents will see an average decrease of about 1 percent on their monthly garbage bills starting July 1, according ... [Published Katu.com - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Recycling, Landfill, COMPOST

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Republic Services Inc

Republic Services Opens New Landfill And Transfer Station

REPUBLIC SERVICES INC Symbol U : RSG Recent Sedar Documents La Gloria landfill and La Feria transfer station will meet needs of Rio Grande Valley ... [Published Stockwatch - May 22 2013]

Entities: Republic Services Inc, Landfill, Transfers

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Bridgeton landfill smell-fighting project begins

(KMOV.com) A Bridgeton Landfill project thats expected to make an already smelly situation worse began on Wednesday.The project was initially expected to begin Monday, but was delayed due to rain.The work will temporarily increase the noxious smell coming ... [Published KMOV.com - May 22 2013]

Entities: Landfill, Republic Services Inc, Don Hood, Lambert Airport, Chris Koster

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 7 reports

Councils to take legal action over withdrawal by DEFRA of PFI credits

Two local authorities are to bring a judicial review challenge over the Government’s decision to withdraw £65m in waste infrastructure credits for a long-term waste management contract.North Yorkshire County Council and City of York Council submitted ... [Published Local Government Lawyer - May 22 2013]

Entities: UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A..., Waste Management, Landfill

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 3 reports

Hong Kong to reduce waste by 40 percent in 2022

Hong Kong has launched an inclusive 10-year waste plan that aims to address the waste crisis in the region.As one of the most densely populated areas in the world, Hong Kong is faced with an imminent waste management problem. It generates around 6.4 million ... [Published EcoSeed - May 22 2013]

Entities: Hong Kong, Waste Management, Waste Reduction, Landfill

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Landfill Diversion Strategy award for CRUK

Carpet Recycling UK (CRUK) has won the 2013 Resource Revolution Awards Landfill Diversion category. The awards honour modern waste management initiatives and recognised CRUK’s achievements in discovering new ways in which waste carpet can be used. Carpet ... [Published Building Talk - May 22 2013]

Entities: Landfill, Recycling, Waste Management

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 4 reports

HC panel to scout for waste disposal sites

Taking exception to the delay on the part of the DDA chief in finding alternative landfill sites for disposal of municipal solid waste, the Delhi high court on Tuesday set up a panel to come out with a solution.Justice G.S. Sistani voiced unhappiness ... [Published Asian Age - May 22 2013]

Entities: New Delhi (India), Mercury, Environment

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Extra patrols planned in Bridgeton

BRIDGETON, Mo. --Extra police will be patrolling the area around the Bridgeton Landfill, where several hundred people are being evacuated over the next few weeks as the smell from the landfill is expected to temporarily worsen.The landfill owner is paying ... [Published South Carolina Enquirer-Herald - May 21 2013]

Entities: Landfill, Louis Lambert, Lambert Airport

Quotes

...director of Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles (SMART), a trade association for textile recyclers who said that because of this, about "85 percent of all the clothing sold each year ends up in landfills."

Wonder Where Your Donated Clothes End Up? Not Where You Think [Published Good Magazine - 42 mins ago]

"The wording in the JPA amendment is not clear on the subject of the one-vote-one-member issue," Lewandowski wrote. "So we have to proceed with investigating the intent of the members at the time of the adoption of the amendment. We went back and reviewed minutes of the entities and the (authority)."

Greentree Authority reaffirms Lincoln County single vote [Published RuidosoSearch.com - 57 mins ago]

...Otero County and the towns of Cloudcroft, Alamogordo and Tularosa are members of the Otero authority. "Basically, the landfill has two voting members, one vote for each authority" Lewandowski explained. "There is no tie-breaking vote."

Greentree Authority to receive reserve funds [Published RuidosoSearch.com - 57 mins ago]

"In this particular instance, the taxpayer has been leaned upon to get this cleaned up."

Oil spill cost Cobourg $28,000 [Published Northumberland Today - 1 hour ago]

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Blogs

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UK’s first Bio-LNG filling station opens [Published Green Car Congress - 8 hours ago] The UK’s first open-access Bio-LNG filling station, built by Gasrec, has opened . Gasrec’s new facility in Daventry will allow gas-powered or dual-fuel trucks to use Bio-LNG, and will operate in a similar way to a traditional filling station. Bio-LNG ...
UK’s first Bio-LNG filling station opens [Published Green Car Congress - 8 hours ago] The UK’s first open-access Bio-LNG filling station, built by Gasrec, has opened . Gasrec’s new facility in Daventry will allow gas-powered or dual-fuel trucks to use Bio-LNG, and will operate in a similar way to a traditional filling station. Bio-LNG ...
California Issues Precedent Setting Rules to Co... [Published Switchboard, from NRDC - May 22 2013] David Lennett, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. and Beijing Today, California is charting a path other states should follow to protect public health by adopting new rules promoting the recycling of old mercury thermostats that hang on the walls of ...
Carpet remnants recycled into unique Tessellate... [Published Treehugger - May 22 2013] According to statistics, about five billion pounds of discarded carpet goes to landfills each year. In order to help put a dent in this wasteful problem, Brooklyn-based designer Igor Siddiqui of ISSSStudio has an idea to put carpet remnants to good use: ...
WTF Wednesday: Manitoba’s worst case of animal ... [Published This.org feed - May 22 2013] The Victoria Day sun beckoned my five-year-old daughter and I to the park. While playing near the slide she was pushed over by a tongue-waging canine; looks like Bella was beckoned too. The kiddo laughed it off and the six-month-old puppy kept running ...

Audio/Video

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VIDEO: Landfill site becomes nature reserve [Published BBC News Video - UK - May 11 2013]
Source: Evidence links Tamerlan, drugs [Published CNN.com - Video - Apr 27 2013]
Dumped-on Bedouins' health hazard with Israeli ... [Published Russia Today - YouTube - Mar 17 2013]
Sweden turns imported waste into energy [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Dec 29 2012]
Rent-a-Goat [Published Wired Videos - Nov 07 2008]

Press Releases

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