With the Dane County landfill working out of house, county officers are exploring a partnership with the town of Madison that will mix waste administration, renewable power, schooling and recreation. The plan entails utilizing a part of Madison’s Yahara Hills golf course for landfill and composting websites in addition to a “sustainability campus” that would […]

The 60-acre GEMS landfill in Gloucester Township, Camden County, was as soon as probably the most infamous Superfund websites in New Jersey, contaminating a close-by stream and soil with unstable natural compounds, arsenic, barium, lead, and pesticides. Though the positioning has been closed since 1980 and principally cleaned up since 2004, it nonetheless juts 100 toes […]

Ecore, an organization that transforms reclaimed supplies into efficiency merchandise, has achieved environmental declare validations from Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for 2 of its manufacturing services. Ecore just lately partnered with UL to finish a 2020 Zero Waste to Landfill audit for its Pennsylvania-based services in Lancaster and York. In consequence, UL has formally validated the next claims for these […]

In October, Republic Providers’ Otay Compost Facility on the Chula Vista, California, Otay Landfill opened for enterprise. The compost facility helps communities in San Diego County meet the necessities of California’s SB1383 regulation mandating the diversion of natural waste from landfills. The composting facility designed by SCS Engineers in collaboration with Sustainable Technology operates utterly off […]

Meridian Waste hosted its Fall Meals & Enjoyable Fest on Saturday, November 6, with raffle prizes together with a flat-screen TV and a drone. Meridian Waste held the Lunenburg Landfill Fall Meals & Enjoyable Fest to showcase the environmental facility and share the corporate’s appreciation for neighbors in surrounding communities. Greater than 60 members of the group […]

In response to rising public well being issues related to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the SWANA Utilized Analysis Basis (ARF) has issued a report summarizing and analyzing administration choices and therapy applied sciences that can be utilized to deal with PFAS chemical compounds contained in landfill leachate. PFAS are a gaggle of artificial chemical […]

The New Jersey Governor’s Workplace held an occasion on November 10th, 2021, on the positioning of a photo voltaic subject developed by CEP Renewables LLC on the Mount Olive Photo voltaic Farm positioned in Mount Olive, New Jersey. The occasion, attended by the Governor, the President of the Board of Public Utilities (BPU), the Commissioner […]

Orange County residents and companies efficiently diverted over 946,000 kilos of trash from native landfills over the past 12 months, in response to the county’s compost report printed in October. Orange County’s business meals waste assortment program contains 5 drop-off websites and is obtainable for free of charge to companies and eating places. About 50 companies […]

In 2018, UW Recycling set a aim of 70% waste diversion by 2020. Nonetheless, this system lately determined to shift to a brand new aim of 10% much less landfilled waste by 2025. Based on UW Recycling, the diversion fee is one indicator of how efficiently the college is maintaining supplies out of landfills. The speed […]

At present, landfill design isn’t solely how we’re going to construct it, but in addition why.By John Swenson Prior to now, greatest practices of landfill design primarily centered round technical engineered design points that met the minimal regulatory necessities. Nonetheless, that simplistic strategy is arising brief with respect to stakeholders’ expectations. Technical points of landfill […]

A couple of-third of meals produced in the USA is thrown out, based on a report from the U.S. Environmental Safety Company, which mentioned the nation is falling far wanting a 2015 purpose to cut back that waste by half by 2030. Meals waste represents billions of {dollars} in misplaced worth and poses a local weather […]

Metropolis Sustainability Specialist Kaeli Wells instructed the Flagstaff Metropolis Council this week that since August, employees have been piloting a program dubbed “Trash much less, save extra” within the Ponderosa Trails neighborhood. The pilot program implements volumetric pricing, which means that residents basically have the power to make use of smaller trash bins primarily based […]

SWANA) has launched a undertaking to develop a Canadian adaptation of its new Supervisor of Landfill Operations (MOLO) course and examination. This effort ensures managers of Canadian landfills can take a MOLO course that mirror the requirements and necessities for managing Canadian landfills at this time and are licensed in opposition to these requirements and […]

GFL Environmental Inc. introduced that its wholly owned subsidiary, GFL Renewables LLC has entered right into a three way partnership with associates of OPAL Fuels LLC for the event, development and operation of renewable pure fuel (RNG) services at 2 GFL municipal stable waste (MSW) landfills; the Arbor Hills Landfill in Michigan and the Sampson County […]

Saint-Gobain, by means of its constructing merchandise subsidiary CertainTeed, has put in recycling expertise at its gypsum wallboard plant in Silver Grove, Ky., that may enable the plant to recycle and reuse 15,000 tons of paper per 12 months that in any other case would have been despatched to a landfill. The mission is a […]

The New York Metropolis Division of Sanitation has put in 16 pioneering “Sensible Bins” to gather meals scraps in Astoria, Queens. Together with an identical pilot launched by Alliance for Downtown New York in Decrease Manhattan this week, these bins are the primary check of an effort to permit round the clock drop-off of compostable […]

PepsiCo Drinks North America introduced a $15 million funding in Closed Loop Companions’ Management Fund, a non-public fairness fund that acquires and grows firms, together with within the packaging worth chain, to strengthen recycling infrastructure and construct round provide chains that maintain supplies out of landfills. “The recycling panorama in America continues to be difficult, and […]

In terms of lowering and disposing waste, SWACO is all the time planning for the long run. Our aim is to divert 75% of waste from the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill by 2032, requiring motion from everybody in the neighborhood to satisfy that aim within the years forward.  This yr, the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill […]

An Ottawa-based firm is attempting to vary the way in which households throughout the nation eliminate meals waste with revolutionary expertise that accelerates the composting course of to a matter of hours. Meals Cycle Science has signed up about 20 municipalities throughout Canada to pilot its FoodCycler, a small meals waste recycling machine the corporate claims can scale […]

On December 30, 2021, Waga Vitality, a European knowledgeable within the manufacturing of Renewable Pure Fuel (RNG) from landfill fuel, signed a contract with Steuben County, New York for the event of an RNG venture at a municipal strong waste landfill positioned within the city of Tub. Waga Vitality will construct a landfill fuel upgrading unit […]