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Waste collection and management is a critical component of a sustainable and healthy environment. ...
Solid waste management is the process of collecting, storing, treating, and disposing of solid materials that are discarded by society. ...
Imagine you could collect waste the same way you do now while getting automatic records of all actions made during the waste collection process! What if you could identify the bins or bags authorized for waste collection, verify the collection service, update waste inventory, be notified about asset misplacement data – and have it all done automatically? This is no longer a ...
Many certified compostable materials require the higher temperatures of industrial settings to biodegrade quickly enough, or in some cases at all. Few areas in the U.S. have curbside collection for industrial composting, which is why certified compostable products are best utilized in closed systems such as amusement parks, stadiums and schools, where ...
Now that summer sunshine and beautiful blooms have been replaced by colder temperatures and morning frosts, it’s time for households across the country to get their garden ready for the winter. The work amateur gardeners put in now will keep their green space in good shape for next spring. However, this end-of-season tidy up often results in extra refuse for local authorities to dispose of ...
Under this system, trash collectors will collect designated trash bags, which residents can buy from typical local supermarkets or convenience stores. ...
Sometimes our customers tell us they were able to get their recycling or waste management equipment partially paid for by a grant. The grants that are available vary greatly by state and need, but there are a number of grants and state assistance programs available if you put the time into researching and applying. The grants may be part of a regional effort to get people to beautify their ...
Many reports give rather futuristic visions of the last mile delivery of goods to the households by automated vehicles and drones and as an option to home delivery, we see local pick-up hubs, where the consumers collect their ordered items in the vicinity of their homes or where they do their regular grocery shopping. ...
ByOrwak AB
They then went on to contract the manufacturing of refuse collection vehicles for a small U.S. producer, which ultimately led to the Labrie deal. ...
Although paper, cardboard, cans and bottles have ready markets and collection infrastructure; computers, mattresses and other items did not. ...
These operating realities mean that “gas collection doesn’t work when the gas is generated, and it does work when no gas is being generated,” said Anderson. ...
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A senior adviser on waste issues for the Local Government Association (LGA) has suggested that councils will be resistant to measures to enforce a ‘consistent collection system’ across England. The cautionary note over consistency came from LGA adviser Hilary Tanner during a debate titled ‘Localism vs Consistency’ at the LARAC – Local Authority Recycling Advisory ...
CUSTOMER HPR Limited creates high quality plastic feedstock materials, by sorting co-mingled commercial, industrial and post-consumer waste into separated polymer streams of high purity since 2011. HPR Limited process 40,000 tonnes/year of mixed kerbside collected plastic material. SITUATION HPR were looking for a solution to sort efficiently transparent HDPE (milk bottles) from coloured HDPE ...
Challenge: To identify opportunities to increase profits within the MRF operation. Axion Solution: Axion Consulting and 360 Environmental carried out site visits to MRF operations at Greenock and Alexandria over a two day period. Following the structured approach of the site 'health check' procedures, key issues were discussed with the Greenlight team and significant areas for ...
The company provides recycling and trash-related curbside collection to about 700,000 homes throughout the Colston area of VA, through the central part of the state, and in and around the Richmond marketplace. ...
REDWAVE - sensor based sorting machines - optimise the separation of recyclable plastic materials: Upon customer request the separation of transparent and white HDPE bottles has been realized for the first time in a sorting plant. It is a challenging task as hardly any difference can be detected in the colour spectrum between transparent and white bottles. In spite of these challenging ...
The $5 million, 34,000 square-foot facility built by the CP Group will process single-stream materials collected curbside from approximately 100,000 households in the region. ...
Many towns and cities are offering curbside collection or open-call recycling days for storm debris (check your municipality’s Web site to see if this is offered in your area). ...
Over the last decade a great deal of progress has been made in making recycling ‘the norm’; England now has a municipal recycling rate of 40 percent with the top municipalities achieving 70 percent diversion through curbside recycling and composting programs. This rapid improvement in performance is a reflection of municipalities having learned from one another— ...
Greatly improving collection speed and reducing crew size to a single person are a couple of reasons to consider making the switch to a semitrailer refuse and recycling collection service. ...