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Product Stewardship: Whose Responsibility Is It Anyway?

November 30, 2015January 12, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws, which require manufacturers to fund and manage recycling and disposal programs for their products, are being implemented in many places around the world. Notably, Canada and Europe widely use EPR to manage waste and prevent pollution from hazardous waste. But EPR has been slower to ... Read more »

Sludge Treatment Recycles Phosphorous, Saves on Toxic Waste Disposal

November 13, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A new, efficient method of treating sludge from municipal waste treatment facilities or pulp and paper operations could improve phosphorous recycling efforts, reduce the problem of how to dispose of toxic waste sludge — and produce an economic benefit for industry, says Bio4Energy. The clean tech company’s researchers are developing ... Read more »

Durable Equipment Keeps Waste Management Costs Down, Productivity Up

November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 by Karen Henry

Case Construction’s F series wheel loaders and CX210B high rise material handler are competitively priced and deliver excellent performance, reliability and fuel efficiency for waste management companies, the company says. They also have low operating, service and repair costs and come with an aftersales service agreement. Case 721F XR, 821F ... Read more »

Gas Processing Plants Must Disclose Chemical Releases, EPA Says

October 29, 2015October 30, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

EPA rules will soon require companies to report on toxic chemicals released at natural gas processing plant. The agency, in response to a lawsuit by environmental and open government organizations, said in a letter that it will propose new regulations requiring these facilities to file Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reports. ... Read more »

Exide Battery Plant Cleanup Costs Pushing $400M

October 28, 2015October 29, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Another $2 million has been designated to clean up contaminated soil around the now-closed Exide Technologies battery recycling facility in Southern California. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved the $2 million funding request and blasted the state, which it says “continues to drag its feet” in ... Read more »

Proper Materials Storage Fundamental to E-Recycling

October 26, 2015April 4, 2017 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Proper storage of materials is a fundamental element of the electronics recycling R2 Standard that is addressed in Provision 9, according to SERI, which manages the R2 recycling standard. While the material storage requirements of R2:2013 are rooted in basic environmental, health and safety regulations in place in the US, ... Read more »

ACI Members Reduce Water Use 21%

October 23, 2015 by Karen Henry

Members of the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) have reduced the water used per ton of production by 21 percent between 2009 and 2013, according to the ACI’s 2015 Sustainability Report. Thirty-three ACI member companies submitted metrics data for the ACI’s 2014 Sustainability Metrics Program, which captured sustainability performance for 17.3 ... Read more »

Exxon, BP, 10 Others Pay $3.5M, Clean Up Hazardous Waste at Superfund Site

October 21, 2015October 22, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

ExxonMobil, BP, DuPont and Veolia are among the 12 private parties that will pay more than $3.5 million as part of a settlement with the EPA related to the Metro Container Superfund Site in Trainer, Pennsylvania. The 12 settling parties will pay an estimated $2.5 million for the investigation and ... Read more »

GE Cleanup Removes 300,000 lbs. of Chemicals from Hudson River

October 7, 2015October 7, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

In what it calls one of the largest environmental cleanup projects undertaken in the US, General Electric has completed dredging in New York’s Upper Hudson River. Since 2009, GE’s crews removed more than 300,000 pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from the river — more than twice as much as had ... Read more »

Hazardous Waste Shipment Rule Proposed by EPA

September 28, 2015September 28, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A new rule for hazardous waste shipments has been proposed by the EPA that the agency says will help ensure safe waste management of imported and exported hazardous wastes. The rule proposes consolidation of the regulations so that one set of protective requirements will apply to transboundary movements of hazardous ... Read more »

Recycling Universal Waste Made Easier with RecyclePak

September 24, 2015September 23, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

To increase recycling of universal wastes such as lamps, ballasts, batteries and other products that contain hazardous substances, Covanta and Veolia have partnered to make Veolia’s RecyclePak program available to businesses, consumers and cities. Universal waste is material designated as hazardous waste but containing materials that are very common. While ... Read more »

GE Decontamination Work at Hudson River Superfund Site to Begin Soon

September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The EPA has made a plan available for public review that outlines how General Electric will dismantle and decontaminate its 110-acre sediment processing facility that was built to support the dredging of the Hudson River PCBs superfund site. Some 200 miles of the Hudson River, contaminated by hazardous waste, is ... Read more »

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