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Florida, Missouri Take Steps in Favor of PACE Financing

October 13, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

Last week, the law firm of Bryant Miller Oliver said that at the beginning of October the Florida Supreme Court ruled that municipalities in the state can issue bonds funding property assessed clean energy (PACE) programs. The decision came in an appeal of a bond validation judgement that was decided in ... Read more »

CES to Provide Demolition, Recycling Services at Navy Air Station

July 10, 2015July 9, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

CES Synergies, a full-service environmental, asbestos abatement and demolition company, has been selected to remove three Navy hangers located at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida. The scope of services consists of the entire removal of the above grade portions of the hangers, which are constructed of structural steel. CES ... Read more »

Waste-to-Energy Plant Cuts Landfilled Waste 90%

July 1, 2015June 30, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A Babcock & Wilcox waste-to-energy facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, is now online. The company says it is the cleanest and most-advanced power plant of its kind in North America, providing power for about 44,000 homes and businesses while processing more than 1 million tons of post-recycled municipal solid ... Read more »

Verizon Diverts 2 Million Pounds of E-Waste, Sets New Goal

May 14, 2015May 14, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Verizon today achieved its goal to collect 2 million pound of electronic waste, reaching its 2010 target eight months early. The company also set a new goal: to collect another 2 million pounds of e-waste by 2020. Verizon met its earlier five-year e-waste goal during today’s e-waste recycling rally in ... Read more »

Fabric Buildings Double Composting Facility’s Capacity

April 21, 2015April 20, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Legacy Building Solutions has installed three of its tension fabric buildings at a composting facility in Florida as part of an expansion project that will double the operation’s production capacity for recycling biosolids and yard waste. The fabric buildings at the Lee County Composting Facility (LCCF) in Felda, Florida are ... Read more »

CES Remediates Hotel Complex, Removes Hazardous Waste

April 3, 2015April 2, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

CES Synergies’ subsidiary Cross Environmental Services (CES) has received a contract to remediate and demolish a 73,500-square-foot hotel complex in Vero Beach, Florida. CES will first remediate the buildings by removal of asbestos-containing material within a portion of the complex by means of strip and removal and wet method. Once ... Read more »

Florida Water Authority Selects Sedaru Smart Water Software

March 19, 2015March 18, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

IDModeling, a provider of smart water network software and services, has been selected by Toho Water Authority, Florida (TWA) to pilot test its flagship smart water and wastewater enterprise software, Sedaru. The software connects organizational data, systems, and people across the water enterprise. The company says Sedaru leverages proven hydraulic, ... Read more »

Single-Stream Recycling Increases Collections More than 50%

February 17, 2015February 17, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A Florida county increased its recycling by more than 50 percent after switching from dual residential recycling collections to single-stream recycling last May, Waste Mangement World reports. As it made the switch St. Lucie County also constructed a new material recycling facility and hired recycling equipment manufacturer Machinex to make ... Read more »

Covanta Assumes Operations of Waste-to-Energy Plant

December 16, 2014December 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Covanta has assumed operations of the Pinellas County Resource Recovery Facility located in St. Petersburg, Florida. In addition to operations, Covanta has also commenced a number of capital projects to improve operations of the waste-to-energy facility. The Pinellas County Resource Recovery Facility provides sustainable waste management services to residents of ... Read more »

Florida Goes Backwards on Energy Efficiency

December 1, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

In a 3-2 vote, Florida’s Public Service Commission (PSC) last week approved new goals for utilities that it says will “keep customer rates in check,” while at the same time saying, “The near term impact should slightly reduce all customer bills.” Commissioners also agreed to hold a workshop inviting public ... Read more »

Water Use Hits Lowest Level Since Before 1970

November 7, 2014November 5, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Water use across the US reached its lowest recorded level in nearly 45 years, according to a US Geological Survey report that says about 355 billion gallons of water per day (Bgal/d) were withdrawn for use in the entire US during 2010. This represents a 13 percent reduction of water ... Read more »

E-Stewards Launches Online E-Waste Trading Platform

October 23, 2014October 22, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Basel Action Network has launched an online trading platform that will allow businesses to recycle used electronics with e-waste recyclers certified to the e-Stewards Standard. The launch of the e-Stewards Marketplace, developed in cooperation with industry leaders and Retrace, a Seattle-based technology company, coincides with E-scrap 2014, the largest electronics ... Read more »

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