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Garbage -- Hazardous Waste The waste was shipped to centralized sorting plant; often the wastes would mix during shipment, making the sorting process difficult. In addition, waste generators are required to reduce the volume of waste sent to incinerators or landfills by introducing new technologies, processes, or recycling measures. Hazardous waste must be separated from waste meant for incinerators or landfills and must be either recycled or treated at specialized facilities. www.learner.org /exhibits/garbage/global.html   (331 words)

Card Sorting: How Many Users to Test (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) Much of the value from card sorting comes from listening to the users' comments as they sort the cards: knowing why people place certain cards together gives deeper insight into their mental models than the pure fact that they sorted cards into the same pile. Because card sorting uses no technology, this photo of a 1995 card sort looks the same as one conducted today. The main quantitative data from a card sorting study is a set of similarity scores that measures the similarity of user ratings for various item pairs. www.useit.com /alertbox/20040719.html   (1591 words)

Zero Waste A zero waste co-ordinator with a small payment to act as an incentive could be hired 3-4 weeks before the, and 1-2 weeks, to help with the final sorting of resources and their transportation. Zero waste is a goal, which can focus creativity and resources on getting closer and closer to zero in a continuous journey. As the waste began to be sorted it became clear that many people were using plastic bags to put their rubbish in the non-recyclable bin, even though the bag itself could be recycled. www.visionz.org.nz /zerowaste.html   (5094 words)

Municipal Solid Waste - Recycling Recycling is a series of activities that includes collecting recyclable materials that would otherwise be considered waste, sorting and processing recyclables into raw materials such as fibers, and manufacturing raw materials into new products. While recycling has grown in general, recycling of specific materials has grown even more drastically: 42 percent of all paper, 40 percent of all plastic soft drink bottles, 55 percent of all aluminum beer and soft drink cans, 57 percent of all steel packaging, and 52 percent of all major appliances are now recycled. Collecting and processing secondary materials, manufacturing recycled-content products, and then purchasing recycled products creates a circle or loop that ensures the overall success and value of recycling. www.epa.gov /epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/recycle.htm   (5094 words)

A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste We cannot waste the opportunities that surround us daily- by creating opportunities regularly we will develop more independent children with full rich lives. The grocery store, for example, is an excellent place to teach children about sorting, counting, selecting, colors, working with coupons, a thousand possibilities-although I would recommend those teaching outings when you have just a few things to buy! A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste www.dsaoc.org /articles/mind.html   (5094 words)

WM Services - Recycling Waste Management has had a history of leadership in the recycling industry - as the first major company to offer private homes paper and metal recycling or as the company testing the latest in innovative sorting technologies to make single-stream recycling programs easy and cost effective for commercial accounts. Single-stream is made possible through the use of various mechanized screens and optical sorting technologies used in many of Waste Management's Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) or recycling plants. Waste Management Recycle America (WMRA), Waste Management's dedicated group for recycling, is focused on our role as an industry leader - offering communities and businesses more effective and affordable recycling options as well as providing manufacturers and end users with the secure, consistent stream of high-quality raw materials they need to maintain operational efficiency. www.wm.com /WM/services/recycling.asp   (346 words)

Sutco RecyclingTechnik GmbH & Co. KG - The environment relies on us. The implementation of the Delitzsch waste preparation plant increases the sorting and recycling capacity in the district, providing an environmentally compatible disposal on the basis of sustainability principle according to the waste management policy of the free state of Saxony. The waste management concept of the Delitzsch district specifies the sorting of the industrial waste, mixed rumble, bulk waste and other suitable refuse containing recoverable material. The project is a requirement for increasing the use of suitable waste components, the saving of raw material as well as a reduction of the required refuse dump as a reduction of the required refuse dump capacities and thus the preservation of the environment. www.sutco.de /uk_plantinstallations/sekundaerbrennstoff_beispiel_1.php   (447 words)

Planning and Highways Sub-Committee Retention of use of land as a waste transfer station including grading and sorting of waste and temporary on site storage of waste prior to disposal. Deletion of planning condition 11 imposed on permission WD/176/CM which states that: “no vehicle entering the Waste Transfer Station carrying waste materials shall have a maximum weight – including payload – in excess of 7.5 tonnes”. Deletion of Condition 11 imposed upon WD/176/CM which states that "No vehicle entering the Waste Transfer Station carrying waste materials shall have a maximum weight – including payload – in excess of 7.5 tonnes". www.eastsussexcc.gov.uk /yourcouncil/agendasreportsminutes/othercommittees/planningandhighways/default.aspx   (447 words)

RIVM Rapport 736201023: Sorteeranalyses met gescheiden ingezameld huishoudelijk afval uit Lemsterland. Deelrapportage proef 5, oktober 1992 This interim report presents the results of sorting analyses with household waste, collected after separate collection at source in the municipality of Lemsterland. The main purpose of this pilot project in Lemsterland is to achieve an extended reduction of the amount of household waste by a system of separate collection at source. Also Lemsterland is mentioned in the Packaging Convention, an agreement between the Government and packaging industry to reduce the amount of packaging waste. www.rivm.nl /bibliotheek/rapporten/736201023.html   (230 words)

nolanITU.doc Kerbside recycling has captured the imagination of the community and is the vehicle by which community awareness can be focused on environmental issues and ways to achieve the waste reduction targets. This estimate is based on: continued mechanisation of recycling systems in the GSR and the provision of larger recycling bins for households, the availability of substantial quantities of recyclable still in the domestic garbage stream, increasing incomes and increased demand for recycling services by households, and increased government funding and promotion of waste minimisation initiatives. Proportion of recyclable material in the garbage stream The total domestic waste stream in 1996 for the Greater Sydney Region was 1 700 000 tonnes of material, of which 283 000 tonnes, or 16.6% was recycled. www.planetark.org /recycling/pics/nolanITU.doc   (12358 words)

NCDOT Environmental Excellence: 3R Program Recycling at NCDOT consists of the collection of recyclable materials that would otherwise be considered waste, sorting and processing recyclable materials, sending recyclable materials to companies who will convert these materials into new products, and finally NCDOT "buying recycled" products through its Purchasing Department. After source reduction, reusing and recycling (and composting) are the preferred waste management options because they reduce the amount of waste going to landfills, conserve resources and have a direct bearing on reducing cost associated with waste materials. Currently source reduction is NCDOT's top solution to reducing its waste stream because it actually prevents the generation of waste in the first place. www.ncdot.org /environment/3R   (281 words)

AVANCE DE INVESTIGACIÓN One of the survival strategies developed by the residents of urban settlements in the department of Montevideo, is the collection and sorting of household solid waste (organic and inorganic). Pig farming in squatter settlements implies a significant reuse of household solid waste as feed, although commercial (bakery leftovers) and industrial waste (remnants of slaughtered animals from cold storage houses) are also used. While inorganic waste is sorted and sold to the local recycling industry, organic waste is used in most cases as animal feed (mainly for pigs). www.ruaf.org /1-2/29-31.html   (281 words)

On-Line Sorting Technology for CCA-Treated Wood The study will be conducted at a mid-sized wood waste recycling facility (Florida Wood Recycling) located within the Town of Medley, Florida. The proposed technologies, and in particular the x-ray method, are new and innovative and have not been implemented within other wood waste recovery facilities in Florida. The purpose of the proposed project is to evaluate the use of two innovative technologies for identifying and removing CCA-treated wood within recovered wood waste. www.eng.miami.edu /%7Ehmsolo/medley   (296 words)

Written Questions with answer In theory a sorting centre for waste with a biomethanation plant should not be built in this area. ITRADEC (a body covering several administrative areas in Belgium) has submitted an application for a subsidy under the Objective 1 programme for the Hainaut region to build a sorting centre for household waste which would, at a later stage, incorporate a biomethanation plant for the treatment of organic waste. According to the Directorate-General for Land Planning in the Walloon Regional Authority, an exception to this rule could only be granted if the incidence study gave all the necessary guarantees to the local authorities and the local inhabitants that the plan would not be detrimental to the environment or the landscape. www.europarl.eu.int /dg7/questions/qe/97/qr/C373/en/E-1237-97.htm   (290 words)

Gasification The process involves initial sorting of the waste to remove recyclables and sterilise the waste. Gasification involves the conversion of the organic fraction of the waste by thermal energy to produce electricity. Fact: A Gasification facility treating 100,000 tonnes of waste would produce sufficient electricity to power and light 20,000 Perth homes each year. www.mrc.wa.gov.au /resources/gasification.html   (376 words)

Minnesota MSW Composition Study By sorting waste samples at eight locations around the state, the study offers a comprehensive look at the materials that are going to landfills, MSW composting operations, and incinerators. Minnesota has established itself as a national leader in the responsible managment of municipal solid waste — MSW or "garbage." The OEA's annual SCORE Report shows that Minnesota had a statewide recycling rate of over 46% in 1998. The publication describes the national wastestream based on data collected since 1960, and provides both an national overview and some historical perspective on trends in MSW generation and management. www.moea.state.mn.us /policy/wastesort.cfm   (663 words)

Selrico Incorporated Dyess Air Force Base, Texas Selrico initiates a program to reduce waste going to the landfill from Dyess by means of sorting, bailing, composting, recycling, and processing. Refuse and Recycling Service Contract at the military family housing, hospital, and base wide at DYESS AFB, including waste management, waste minimization, waste handling, collecting, composting, disposal, and sale services. www.selricoservices.com /projects/dyessafb.htm   (663 words)

New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development - Dedicated to making a difference. DAME SILVIA CARTWRIGHT, HON MARIAN HOBBS AND NZBCSD CEOS SORTING WASTE Dame Silvia Cartwright, Hon Marian Hobbs, Stephen Tindall (NZBCSD Chair), James Marshall (MD, 3M NZ), Kim Ellis (MD, Waste Management), Rob Fenwick (MD, Living Earth) sorted Government House's Waste at the NZBCSD Zero Waste Launch on 5 November 2002. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version. www.nzbcsd.org.nz /story.asp?StoryID=209   (100 words)

FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code New Jersey, 437 U.S. Although the ordinance erects no barrier to the import or export of any solid waste, the article of commerce here is not so much the waste itself, but rather the service of processing and disposing of it. New Jersey, 437 U.S., at 628, the State attempted to export the burden of conserving its scarce landfill space by barring the importation of out-of-state waste. Clarkstown agreed to build a "transfer station" where the town's trash would be brought for sorting out recyclable material and baling the nonrecyclable residue for loading into long-haul trucks bound for out-of-state disposal sites. caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=U10400   (13399 words)

Cadmium og DEHP i kompost og bioafgasset materiale, Miljøstyrelsen The existing guidelines for waste sorting in households should, in many cases, be more precise than today and furthermore recurrent campaigns of information and motivation of the citizens are probably indispensable to maintain an acceptable standard of sorting. In the case of DEHP certain processes or operational conditions in either the collection or the processing stage may enhance the migration of DEHP from the original material to the waste or raw compost matrix, or reduce the rate of biotic degradation of the substance (e.g. It seems that the greatest possibilities (at the municipal or composting plant level) for significantly reducing the levels of cadmium, DEHP and other undesired contaminants, lie the collection stage. www.mst.dk /udgiv/publikationer/1998/87-7909-084-2/html/helepubl.htm   (13399 words)

Cadmium og DEHP i kompost og bioafgasset materiale, Miljøstyrelsen The existing guidelines for waste sorting in households should, in many cases, be more precise than today and furthermore recurrent campaigns of information and motivation of the citizens are probably indispensable to maintain an acceptable standard of sorting. In the case of DEHP certain processes or operational conditions in either the collection or the processing stage may enhance the migration of DEHP from the original material to the waste or raw compost matrix, or reduce the rate of biotic degradation of the substance (e.g. It seems that the greatest possibilities (at the municipal or composting plant level) for significantly reducing the levels of cadmium, DEHP and other undesired contaminants, lie the collection stage. www.mst.dk /udgiv/publikationer/1998/87-7909-084-2/html/helepubl.htm   (13399 words)

Cadmium og DEHP i kompost og bioafgasset materiale, Miljøstyrelsen The existing guidelines for waste sorting in households should, in many cases, be more precise than today and furthermore recurrent campaigns of information and motivation of the citizens are probably indispensable to maintain an acceptable standard of sorting. In the case of DEHP certain processes or operational conditions in either the collection or the processing stage may enhance the migration of DEHP from the original material to the waste or raw compost matrix, or reduce the rate of biotic degradation of the substance (e.g. It seems that the greatest possibilities (at the municipal or composting plant level) for significantly reducing the levels of cadmium, DEHP and other undesired contaminants, lie the collection stage. www.mst.dk /udgiv/publikationer/1998/87-7909-084-2/html/helepubl.htm   (13399 words)

Report of the Berkeley Plastics Task Force - Plastics Recycling is a Misconception 8apr96 Shoppers who avoided elaborately wrapped goods not only reduced waste but sent a message to retailers that overpackaged goods were not acceptable.[63] The result is a new category of waste known as �residue.� Residue is a major cost problem for materials recovery operators, particularly those with multiple-materials recovery facilities. In all the cases they studied, taxpayers pay the costs of collection and sorting. www.mindfully.org /Berkeley/Berkeley-Plastics-Task-Force.htm   (13399 words)

Cadmium og DEHP i kompost og bioafgasset materiale, Miljøstyrelsen The existing guidelines for waste sorting in households should, in many cases, be more precise than today and furthermore recurrent campaigns of information and motivation of the citizens are probably indispensable to maintain an acceptable standard of sorting. In the case of DEHP certain processes or operational conditions in either the collection or the processing stage may enhance the migration of DEHP from the original material to the waste or raw compost matrix, or reduce the rate of biotic degradation of the substance (e.g. It seems that the greatest possibilities (at the municipal or composting plant level) for significantly reducing the levels of cadmium, DEHP and other undesired contaminants, lie the collection stage. www.mst.dk /udgiv/publikationer/1998/87-7909-084-2/html/helepubl.htm   (13399 words)

Plasma Gasification by Recovered Energy, Inc. Plasma gasification and pyrolysis processes allow for the virtual elimination of landfills, recycling without sorting, the complete thermal conversion of all types of waste to energy in the form of green electricity or ethanol. This is a true waste to energy system that goes way beyond the traditional incinerator and beyond standard gasification processes. Waste can be gasified to produce synthesis gas (syngas), which can be used to produce electricity. www.recoveredenergy.com   (1246 words)

Chiddingfold.org - Recycling Plan Waverley Borough Council is a Waste Collection Authority and is therefore responsible for the collection of household and commercial waste. Waverley also operates a special refuse collection service for bulky household waste, for which a subsidised charge is levied. Textiles are collected, in modular banks serviced by Sam Greenberg Ltd., from sites in Waverley, and transported to their depot in Knaphill, Woking, for sorting and baling. www.chiddingfold.org /page.php?ID=7   (1246 words)

JTR: Commodities - Electronics Electronics recycling is a labor intensive activity, and the economics favor larger firms that are able to make large capital investments in equipment for automated sorting and destruction of electronic components. Electronics waste may also contain hazardous materials and can contribute heavy metals to the overall waste stream if disposed of improperly. The eCycling Web site can also be valuable to the market professional by providing information on market trends in electronic waste generation and recovery, current regulatory requirements facing the electronics reuse and recycling industry, and links to publications concerning eCycling. www.epa.gov /epaoswer/non-hw/recycle/jtr/comm/electron.htm   (933 words)

Composting Typical materials suitable for composting include, green waste and putrescible wastes with pre-sorting and screening to remove non-compostables, plus other enriched organic waste streams (sewage sludge, agricultural, food processing wastes). Windrow composting is an established technology for dealing with green wastes in the UK, where the material is piled in elongated rows and aerated through either turning of the windrows or through air forced through the material. Composting processes for municipal waste management primarily fall into two categories: windrow composting, for green, or garden derived wastes and in-vessel composting for both garden and kitchen / catering derived organic wastes. www.mbt.landfill-site.com /Composting/composting.html   (803 words)

Case Study: Biogas as a source of renewable energy in Thessalonica, Greece on the ManagEnergy Website The municipality of Thessalonica decided to exploit the potential of biogas as an energy source at one of its landfill sites to demonstrate the capacity of local authorities to develop environmentally-friendly solutions and raise public awareness of its waste sorting programme. Biogas is produced by the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter (wood or agricultural waste, etc.) It can be captured in engineered landfill sites or be obtained by recovering the methane contained in sewage sludge or in fermentable agricultural, industrial or household waste. This case study was prepared by Energie-Cités in collaboration with the Association of Local Authorities of Greater Thessalonica. www.managenergy.net /products/R115.htm   (803 words)

Lithuanian Environmental Investment Fund Reception, sorting and treatment of construction waste (bricks and ferro-concrete) scrap. Management of medical waste in S.Kudirkos hospital, Alytus district. Collection of wood waste and its preparation for the secondary use. www.laaif.lt /index.asp?DL=E&TopicID=13   (803 words)

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