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10 Things You Need to Know For the Waste & Recycling Industry Today (March 24, 2014)
2014-03-24 17:00:00| Waste Age
Demonstrators protesting a waste-transfer station on New Yorks Upper East Side confronted Mayor Bill de Blasio. The city of Marion, Iowa, is providing financing for a $15 million waste-to-biofuel project. Delaware is slapping $8.3 million in fines on a Camden recovery and recycling facility. A pilot program in Vermont will recycle farm plastics for free. And Minneapolis explores going zero waste. These are all among todays 10 things you need to know from around the waste and recycling industry. Content Classification: Curated read more
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Water Scarcity Drives U.S. Communities Toward Smarter Use, Recycling
2014-03-24 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Virtually all of the water flushed down toilets and sent down drains in U.S. homes and businesses goes to wastewater treatment plants where it is cleaned up and then discharged into rivers, lakes, streams and oceans. Only a small percentage is directly reused. A conservation push spurred in part by drought, and expectations of greater shortages in the future, could change that. Soon, consumers could be irrigating their lawns or washing their cars with water that has come directly from a wastewater...
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March 18, 2014 - Roark Capital Buys Central Jersey Waste and Recycling
2014-03-22 00:41:00| Waste Age
Private equity firm Roark Capital Group has purchased Central Jersey Waste and Recycling Inc. for an undisclosed amount. read more
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Recycling of Plastic Packaging in Canada Rises 10 Percent in 2012
2014-03-21 17:04:00| Waste Age
Canadians recycled about 10 percent more plastic packaging in 2012 compared with the previous year, according to a new report. read more
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10 Things You Need to Know For the Waste & Recycling Industry Today (March 21, 2014)
2014-03-21 16:34:00| Waste Age
Duke Energy received a citation for dumping 61 million gallons of coal ash in North Carolina. An explosion at a U.K. waste-to-energy plant sends 17 workers to the hospital. A plan to mine a New Mexico landfill for lost ET Atari cartridges gets temporarily halted. Houston takes steps towards adopting a single-stream recycling plan. And a California county approves a plan to borrow $7.1 million to expand a septage bioreactor system. These are all among todays 10 key stories from around the waste and recycling industry. read more
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