The contract is to design and supply the liquid waste and solid waste processing systems.
"It's just a remarkable decrease, " says Bruce Walker, solid waste manager for Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability.
It works for solid waste collection, and it is working in a limited capacity with liquid waste collection.
In the United States, urban dwellers produce a whopping 250 million metric tons of solid waste every year.
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The remaining solid waste with the help of modern sophisticated machinery is treated in special plants constructed for that purpose.
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The proposed solid waste strategy for Guernsey is far from complete, according to one politician whose department is behind the latest plan.
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That includes bridges and roads, drinking water and wastewater pipelines, levees, power lines, solid waste systems, and a host of other things.
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Right now, coal combustion byproducts are categorized as a solid waste.
Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
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And the environmental impact does not stop there: in some countries, including the US, the report says, paper accounts for almost 40% of all municipal solid waste.
John Skinner, executive director of the Solid Waste Association of North America, expressed serious concerns regarding CFL dangers to workers who handle trash and recycling.
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They are in remarkable condition, or at least they were until the bats moved in and began spreading liquid and solid waste with gay abandon.
Watkins' one-person energy shop, Watkins Pencor , is a principal owner in Masada Oxynol , a Birmingham company that has devised a way to turn municipal solid waste into fuel-grade ethanol.
Habits the cities already hold that suck up groundwater and diminish land dumping solid waste in canals, eroding watershed soil, deforestation, etc may be increasing future damages from floods more than global warming would.
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The principal danger for people living near Jaduguda, say environmentalists, is a 40-hectare "tailing" pond used to hold liquid and solid waste produced in the processing of the ore into yellow cake.
The Canadian city of Toronto, which has shipped much of its muck to Michigan in recent years, began sending all its solid waste there on January 1st after its own landfill had, well, filled up.
In the verdicts returned Wednesday, the defendants were found guilty of several counts of misappropriating public funds through their roles overseeing the city's Solid Waste and Recycling Authority between the years of 2006 and 2010.
After the four-week trial, the other defendants were convicted of illegally taking money for sitting on Bell's Solid Waste and Recycling Authority, an entity they could not prove had been legally established or did any work.
Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality insists the issue is a tempest in a garbage bag, pointing out that 80% of solid waste going into landfills last year was Michigan's own and that total waste fell by 5% last year.
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.
For example, the facility at Pitsea in Britain, on the banks of the River Thames near London, accepts only solid municipal and commercial waste, because European law prohibits the mingling of liquid and solid waste, and of hazardous and non-hazardous waste.
But the most politically feasible path is for the agency to finalize a rule that permits coal ash to keep its solid waste status while also requiring new disposal methods a move that would be litigated by opponents, delaying its implementation.
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Cases in the court's upcoming session include two suits to determine the legitimacy of patents, a case that will help determine the scope of federal jurisdiction in civil lawsuits, and a challenge by Waste Management to a Mississippi ordinance limiting where it can dispose of solid waste.
The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.
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Those are the very characteristics he finds in Republic Services, the No. 2 U.S. provider, behind Waste Management (WM), of solid-waste services, including collection, disposal and recycling of thrash.
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This is a developing predicament: In both China and India, for example, solid-waste generation is expected to double in the next 20 years.
"What Portland is doing with organics is an area that we're very interested in, " says Nick Galus, a senior project manager with that city's solid-waste team.
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