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Concord signs new agreement for trash disposal
2013-08-31 13:53:19| Waste Management - Topix.net
Casella Waste Systems will collect and dispose of the city's trash and recycling.
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Incineration Versus Recycling: In Europe, A Debate Over Trash
2013-08-29 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: For communities short on landfill space, waste-to-energy incineration sounds like a bulletproof solution: Recycle all you can, and turn the rest into heat or electricity. That's how it's been regarded in much of Europe, where nearly a quarter of all municipal solid waste is burned in 450 incinerators, and increasingly in the United States, where dozens of cities and towns are considering new, cutting-edge plants. But leaders of the international zero-waste movement, which seeks to reuse all...
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Trash Into Gas, Efficiently? An Army Test May Tell
2013-08-17 19:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: THERE is an indisputable elegance to the idea of transforming garbage into fuel, of turning icky, smelly detritus into something valuable. But big drawbacks have prevented the wholesale adoption of trash-to-gas technology in the United States: incineration is polluting, and the capital costs of new plants are enormous. Gasification systems can expend a tremendous amount of energy to produce a tiny amount of electricity. Up to this point, it hasn't seemed worth the trouble. Mike Hart thinks...
Fight Brewing Over a Plan to Build the Nations Largest Trash Incinerator
2013-08-13 18:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: Citizens in Logansport, Indiana, are fighting a proposal to build the countrys largest trash incinerator in their town. Logansport, population 20,000, is located in Cass County in the north-central part of Indiana, on the Wabash River, 76 miles north of Indianapolis. The City of Logansport has allocated $1.5 million to investigate, and prepare contracts for, the incinerator. The incinerator, to be operated by a company named Pyrolyzer LLC, based in Baco Raton, Florida, is supposed to generate...
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UK Bars Trash Cans from Tracking People with WiFi
2013-08-12 21:44:07| Wireless - Topix.net
Officials demanded Monday that an advertising firm stop using a network of high-tech trash cans to track people walking through London's financial district.
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