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Oil Chem Owner Gets One Year for Dumping Leachate in Flint Sewers
2021-05-17 13:33:00| Waste Age
Robert Massey, owner of Oil Chem Inc, has been sentenced to one year in prison for dumping 47 million gallons of leachate in Flint, Mich. sewers. Over an eight year period, Massey directed workers to drain leachate from a tank into a sanitary s
Illegal Dumping Threatens Drina River Ecosystem in the Balkans
2021-03-15 07:00:00| Waste Age
Illegal dumping is threatening the wildlife and residents along the Drina river where Bosnia & Herzegovnia, Serbia and Montenegro meet. The Yugoslav Wars ravaged the region in the 90s. The area is still recovering and building the infrastructure
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Fairfield, CT Town Officials Charged for Dumping Hazardous Waste
2020-12-02 13:23:00| Waste Age
Current and former Fairfield, CT town officials were arrested for illegally dumping hazardous materials PCBs, lead and other hazardous materials and hiding the extent of the contamination. The town hired Osprey Environmental Engineering in 2016
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Law Firms Are Dumping a Significant Amount of Office Space
2020-10-26 12:43:00| National Real Estate Investor
The prevalence of remote working under COVID-19 and expected layoffs are leading law firms to downsize their real estate.
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Is Africa the Next Dumping Ground for Plastic?
2020-09-21 09:00:00| Waste Age
As the fossil fuel industry deals with dropping prices due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a climate crisis, theyre looking to Africa to reverse its limits on plastics. After China closed its borders to plastic trash, manufacturers are specifically lo
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