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Recycling Facility Shipping Container Explodes at Port of Los Angeles

November 5, 2018November 2, 2018 by Alyssa Danigelis

A 40-foot shipping container from a recycling facility in LA that was bound for Taiwan exploded at Port of Los Angeles. Investigators say the container arrived along with 11 others from a recycling facility on Terminal Island carrying scrap metal, according to port officials. The explosion occurred right before 6 ... Read more »

AEG and the LA Kings Deploy Water- and Energy-Saving Ice Technology

May 18, 2018 by Alyssa Danigelis

Global sports and entertainment company AEG and its National Hockey League franchise the LA Kings are working with BluEco Technology Group on deploying efficient ice technology at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Called BluEco Liquid Crystalline Turbex (LCT), the proprietary technology is a molecular level environmental airflow management system that ... Read more »

Owners of Older Concrete Buildings in LA Must Start Planning Seismic Retrofits

December 4, 2017December 1, 2017 by Alyssa Danigelis

In Los Angeles, the owners of older non-ductile concrete buildings have known about a law requiring seismic retrofits for two years. Now, the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety is sending them compliance notifications, Engineering News-Record reported. Owners must get the compliance ball rolling with engineers within three years. ... Read more »

LA Approves Franchise Zones to Drive Zero Waste Plan

October 5, 2016December 5, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

As part of its zero waste plan, the city of Los Angeles has approved a $3.5 billion waste hauling contract that will divide the California city into 11 commercial waste franchise zones served by seven haulers.

UCLA Creates The L.A. Energy Atlas

October 1, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

UCLA has unveiled The L.A. Energy Atlas. It is a free database that, according to the university, combines energy utility data with public records to detect patterns in the use of energy by people and buildings in Los Angeles County. The database, which was created by the California Center for ... Read more »

Cleaner Streets, Lower Collection Costs with Bigbelly Smart Waste, Recycling System

September 2, 2015August 31, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Los Angeles’s Downtown Center Business Improvement District (DCBID) has expanded its use of the Bigbelly smart waste and recycling system for broader waste management coverage across the district. Thirty-six new Bigbelly waste and recycling units will replace traditional trash bins on the southern California streets. According to the smart waste ... Read more »

Paddle Dryer Reduces Biosolids Volume Up to 80%

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

International technology Group Andritz has received an order from Kore Infrastructure to supply a paddle dryer for a biosolids recovery plant currently under construction in Rialto, California. In the plant, biosolids from wastewater facilities in Los Angeles that have normally gone to landfill will be converted into biodiesel and biochar. ... Read more »

Xylem Provides Water Reuse AOP Technology for Indirect Potable Reuse

June 4, 2015June 3, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Water technology company Xylem has been commissioned to deliver a water reuse system to help increase the supply of purified, recycled water in Los Angeles. Xylem’s Wedeco MiPRO photo Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) will ensure that the City of Los Angeles Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant complies with California’s groundwater ... Read more »

LA Sets Building Energy Efficiency Goal

April 10, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti unveiled the Los Angeles Sustainable City Plan, a document that covers diverse environmental topics related to housing, to transportation, to waste & landfills. The document also includes a section on energy-efficient buildings. Within that section, the plan calls for long-term reductions in energy use per square ... Read more »

$1.8 Million Settlement in Recycling Fraud Case

February 18, 2015February 18, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A Los Angeles-area recycling business will pay $1.8 million in restitution to California’s beverage container recycling program as part of a settlement agreement resulting from illegal claims for refunds on out-of-state bottles and cans. As part of the agreement with the CalRecycle, Action Sales and Metal and owner Bruce Falk ... Read more »

99 Cents Only Pays $2M to Settle Hazardous Waste Disposal Violations

January 8, 2015January 7, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Los Angeles-based 99 Cents Only Stores will pay more than $2 million to settle retail hazardous waste disposal violations in California. Under the settlement, approved Jan. 6 by a San Joaquin County Superior Court judge, the company must pay $1.8 million in civil penalties, $312,500 in costs and $250,000 in ... Read more »

Coca-Cola, NRG eVgo Partner to Cut Emissions

December 3, 2014December 2, 2014 by Ken Jennison

The Coca-Cola Company has partnered with NRG eVgo, a subsidiary of NRG Energy, to assist in the effort to have 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles on California’s roads by 2025, an initiative championed by Gov. Jerry Brown. Coca-Cola will provide electric vehicle charging at seven of its facilities across California, and ... Read more »

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