Five hundred trucks carrying hazardous waste are fitted with vehicle-tracking devices in their dashboards.
San Francisco opened one of the first permanent household hazardous waste collection centers in 1989.
Not factoring the hazardous waste transport into solar's carbon footprint is an obvious oversight, analysts said.
Environmental crises surround us: global warming, hazardous waste, resource depletion, air pollution and many more.
Ilya Raskin of Rutgers University says plants can help clean up hazardous waste sites through a process of phytoremediation.
Wal-Mart says it has reduced hazardous waste by more than 30% since 2010 when it overhauled its hazardous waste compliance programme.
And it is not just people and computer traffic that is being watched -- trucks carrying hazardous waste are all monitored.
Heritage Crystal Clean is a company that provides hazardous and non-hazardous waste collection services to small businesses as well as parts cleaning tools.
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Developers are concerned that they would run into such issues as finding buried hazardous waste that increases the price of cleanup even more.
The Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off Facility, run by Norcal Waste Systems, is open three days a week and serves 10, 000 to 12, 000 customers annually.
Rising floodwaters bring debris, hazardous waste and gas leaks, and force snakes or other potentially dangerous animals from their habitats and into residential areas.
We will seek reauthorization and expanded funding for the Superfund program to continue cleaning up hazardous waste sites which threaten human health and the environment.
The Basel Convention regulates the export and import of hazardous waste.
While solar is a far less polluting energy source than coal or natural gas, many panel makers are nevertheless grappling with a hazardous waste problem.
The vast majority of solar companies that generated hazardous waste in California have not been cited for waste-related pollution violations, although three had minor violations on file.
New companies often send hazardous waste out of their plants because they have not yet invested in on-site treatment equipment, which allows them to recycle some waste.
But if the material is reclassified as a hazardous waste, coal groups say that coal ash would be irreversibly stigmatized and any ancillary use of it would evaporate.
Some 1, 885 delegates and observers participated in the first joint meeting of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions that govern chemicals and hazardous waste and are each headquartered in Geneva.
The union argues that its workers, having been exposed to uranium, hazardous waste and asbestos for more than 20 years, should expect Honeywell to pay for their health-care plans.
"Having this stuff go to ... hazardous waste sites, that's what you want to have happen, " said Adam Browning, executive director of the Vote Solar Initiative, a solar advocacy group.
The NAO report earlier this month found that hazardous waste was being stored in "run-down" buildings, and that the cost of decommissioning was spiralling out of control and was behind schedule.
Energy derived from natural gas and coal-fired power plants, for example, creates more than 10 times more hazardous waste than the same energy created by a solar panel, according to Mulvaney.
Prosecutors said the company also illegally stored and disposed of hazardous waste without a permit, instructing workers to mix coal tar sludge, a listed hazardous waste that contains benzene, on the ground.
First, electronic waste is currently hazardous waste in that it contains lead, mercury, cadmium, brominated flame retardants etc, which are integrally mixed into components and cannot therefore be easily separated from the non-hazardous components.
Additional key priorities in her role included organizing aggressive cleanups of hazardous waste sites with a goal of redevelopment, new jobs and urban revitalization as well as ensuring the long-term protection of drinking water supplies.
It also suggested EU law would be contravened on a few issues such as the lack of pre-treatment of waste and also too much hazardous waste being produced by the plant and disposed of to landfill.
Ma Jun, who I profiled in the New York Times yesterday, has compiled a database containing more than 97, 000 records of air, water, and solid hazardous waste violations by all kinds of companies operating in China.
These innovative solutions entail reusing most of the water to frack additional wells so that ultimately, contaminated materials are reduced to a tiny fraction by volume so that it can be safely delivered to hazardous waste disposal facilities.
Roughly 97 percent of it was taken to hazardous waste facilities throughout the state, but more than 1.4 million pounds were transported to nine other states: Arkansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Nevada, Washington, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.
While the Environmental Protection Agency would prefer to regulate the byproduct that contains arsenic, mercury and lead under stricter federal hazardous waste laws, the utility sector wants it to remain classified as a solid waste that the states now oversee.
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