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The City of Kissimmee along with Jay Wheeler, President of Underground Refuse Systems, presented an innovative way to overcome the challenge that so many cities and counties throughout the United States have to confront. Kissimmee is the first government agency to partner with Underground Refuse Systems, a local business that is part of the UCF Business Incubator ...
— Dumpster divers, beware. Trash is going underground in Kissimmee. Officials on Wednesday are unveiling the city’s first underground waste containers. The goal is to eliminate dumpster divers, both human and animal. There will eventually be 17 underground trash containers throughout Osceola County. ...
– People will no longer have to leave their trash at the curb to pick up in Kissimmee. The city launched its first underground waste containers Wednesday. The first one, for now, is located behind city hall. ...
— Dumpster divers, beware. Trash is going underground in Kissimmee. Officials on Wednesday are unveiling the city’s first underground waste containers. The goal is to eliminate dumpster divers, both human and animal. There will eventually be 17 underground trash containers throughout Osceola County. ...
Electric crane trucks are fitted with a special system that allows for underground containers to be emptied. Living lab project In addition to HVC, ROVA the municipality of Rotterdam, Cure and VDL, research institute TNO is also participating in this so-called living lab project. ...
The bins are built into 11-foot-deep pits in the ground, the product of businessman Jay Wheeler’s new company, Kissimmee-based Underground Refuse Systems. The containers will keep trash in Kissimmee’s public areas “out of view and clean for years to come,” said Wheeler in a news release. The city is rolling out 17 of the ...
The new RAL-GZ 951/3 for underground and semi-underground collection systems and depot containers for waste and recyclables with top lifting and bottom emptying (USD) has just passed the RAL approval procedure. ...
The complete solutions for waste by SOTKON, also known as "ecological islands", are increasingly sought by municipalities or entities managing waste and urban waste collection, not only for the many advantages they offer to citizens and the environment, but also as each SOTKON solution is a practical tool for the effective management of human and material resources involved in the collection of ...
With a long history of success in domestic and international market, SOTKON pioneered the development and commercialization of Underground Containerization Solutions and the development of associated technology. ...
Around 300 units of the SOTKON Standard 3m3 model of underground waste containers have already been provided for the first phase of the project of rehabilitation and urban redevelopment of Fine Futungo in Luanda, also called Tourism Development Pole Futungo Fine and Mussulo, and the installation has already begun and it is expected to become operational soon. ...
Two “Anaerobic Bio-Reactor” (ABR) systems have been developed. These are underground, contained, biological treatment beds where the native microbes consume chlorinated volatile organic compounds (cVOCs). ...
Virginia Uranium said the waste would have been secured in underground containment units that would keep it sealed even during floods or powerful storms. ...
About two years ago, SOTKON implemented an experimental project of underground container systems for the collection of municipal solid waste (MSW) in order to test the effective reduction of operating costs and improvement of health and safety conditions for the community. In a recent trip to this city, besides being able to see in situ the scenery and economic ...
The site, which was once used to manufacture gas from coal, contains hazardous substances, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that were produced as byproducts and disposed of on site. ...
In collaboration with EMARP (the municipal company for the management of water and waste in Portimão), SOTKON Portugal is testing the efficiency and response from the public to a set of containers equipped with a charging system by the deposited amount of solid waste, commonly known as Payas-You-Throw or PAYT system. It is an innovative method when applied to ...
It could take two years or more for the federal government to seal off hundreds of potentially dangerous containers at its troubled underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico, the U.S. ...
It recently launched its secondary level of electro-hydraulic underground waste container project, an initiative to collect waste in underground containers. ...
The site covers approximately seven acres and contains a variety of industrial buildings, some of which are vacant. In 2009, at the request of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, the EPA responded to an oil spill on the Passaic River that was eventually traced to the Riverside Avenue site. ...
It includes a section of Excelsior Avenue, a small green space containing the Old Red Spring well and pavilion and a section of a paved parking lot. The EPA will solidify and stabilize contaminated areas of soil in the Old Spring Well area with a cement-like material. Underground barriers will be installed to contain contaminated soil underneath ...
The result is that 70,000 metric tons of spent fuel now sits marooned at power plants, contained either in swimming pool-like structures or in metal or concrete casks. This waste contains nearly 40 billion Curies of radioactivity, hundreds of times the amount released from the Chernobyl accident and an amount expected to double by 2040. ...