Latest Municipal solid waste Stories

DALLAS, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- City of Dallas Sanitation Director Mary Nix has changed her story. After telling council members that the waste disposal industry would absorb the cost of the city's proposed flow control tax she recently told council members that "the hauler will naturally pass that cost along to their customers." Nix said customers most heavily impacted will be those north of the LBJ Freeway, while she claimed that customers in Southern Dallas would save money...

HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced today that it has taken multiple steps to expedite the cleanup of flood- and storm-related debris. The requirement for a waste hauler to display an authorized Act 90 sticker on the hauling vehicle has been temporarily waived statewide to allow facility operators to accept flood and storm debris waste from vehicles without Act 90 authorizations. Act 90 requirements are...

Call for public policies to prevent generation of waste and abuse of dumping sites Waste is a term that has taken on new significance – a paradigm of the evolution that has taken place in this matter. Today there is more awareness about processing rubbish in the sense that the dumping site should be the last option. Ms Miren Artaraz, director of the Business Studies Faculty in the Basque City of Vitoria, not only shares this thesis, but also holds that, as important as managing the...

WIXOM, Mich., Aug. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Waste Management of Michigan announced today a plan to bring a single stream recycling facility (SSRF) to the Detroit metropolitan area. Single stream recycling collection programs are expanding in southeastern Michigan, and to meet customer demand, this planned facility would process the increasing volumes of recyclable material generated by Waste Management's commercial and residential customers across southeast Michigan. A single stream...

DALLAS, Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA) has proposed a plan for the City of Dallas to help Southern region development without the negative impact of flow control on the entire Dallas community. Under the plan the city would take the following steps to provide a proven revenue stream with no investment from the city: Raise the franchise fee charged to commercial haulersDedicate a portion of the McCommas Bluff tipping fee to development...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- GaiaRecycle(TM), LLC, an industry-leading global provider of organic waste recycling systems, today announced its plans to exhibit in the Organics Pavilion (Booth 881) at the WASTECON 2011 show, Aug. 23-25 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort, Nashville. GaiaRecycle will display one of its stainless steel modular recycling systems to highlight the "turn-key" operational features and robust design of the GaiaRecycle product line...

TULSA, Okla., July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) is partnering with the City of Tulsa and Covanta WBH, the owner/operator of the Energy-from-Waste facility in Tulsa to safely dispose of prescription drugs collected throughout the state. Since March 1, 2011, through the Safe Trip for Scripts Program, OBN has distributed nearly one-hundred (100) permanent drug disposal metal containers in police and sheriff department lobbies for the public to safely dispose...

DALIAN, China, May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- China Industrial Waste Management, Inc. (OTCBB: CIWT) ("China Industrial Waste Management" or the "Company"), a leading environmental services and solutions provider in China, today announced that its 70%-owned subsidiary, Dalian Zhuorui Resource Recycling Co., Ltd. ("Zhuorui") successfully completed its trial production period, and commenced commercial operations in early May 2011. Zhuorui is engaged in the separation and purification of...

APOPKA, Fla., May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM), today announced it is developing a new organics facility in Apopka, Florida. The facility will process yard, food and clean wood waste to create value added soil amendments. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090219/WMLOGO) "We want to extract the highest value possible from the materials we manage. Recycling organics through composting and the development of other technologies that may produce energy,...

KEARNEYSVILLE, W.Va., April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Apple Valley Waste, a provider of solid waste collection, recycling, and disposal services serving Berkley and Jefferson Counties in West Virginia and Washington County, Maryland, announces, in connection with the recent acquisition of the company, John Decker as Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer. John is a 20 year waste industry veteran who has held leadership positions with both public and private solid waste companies. Most...