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Migrating chemical reaction, fires from buried aluminum wastes...
2014-02-07 04:55:09| Waste Management - Topix.net
In fact, the chemical reactions at the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility are migrating to the west and north inside the 88-acre tract that has been sealed off from the rest of the landfill, said officials of Republic Services Inc., the company that owns and operates the landfill.
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Washing Hands in Hot Water Wastes Energy, Study Says
2013-12-13 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: It doesn't kill germs better than cooler water, but turning tap temperatures high, the U.S. burns carbon equal to the emissions of Barbados. People typically wash their hands seven times a day in the United States, but they do it at a far higher temperature than is necessary to kill germs, a new study says. The energy waste is equivalent to the fuel use of a small country. It's cold and flu season, when many people are concerned about avoiding germs. But forget what you think you know about...
On Organics: Food Wastes Next Top Model
2013-12-11 23:35:06| Waste Age
Stu Buckner Replicable models will help drive greater diversion of food waste residuals. read more
Oil drilling wastes, long buried under Canada's permafrost, leak into environment
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: For decades, companies exploring for oil and gas in the Arctic's remote southern reaches have disposed of their drilling waste in the cheapest and most convenient way possible: by digging massive pits to hold the waste and then capping them with frozen permafrost. And for decades, the waste harmlessly sat in the frozen tombs. Then climate change, which scientists say is caused by burning fossil fuels, set in, causing the permafrost to begin melting. A "sump" of oil drilling mud, supposedly...
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Symposium on Future of Energy Recovery from Wastes set for October 31, 2013
2013-10-15 18:07:00| Solid Waste & Recycling magazine Headlines
The Symposium on the Future of Energy Recovery from Wastes is set for October 31, 2013 at the Eaton Chelsea Hotel in downtown Toronto.
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