EPA fails on coal ash recycling hazards
The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general reported this week that the EPA had improperly used an official website to promote ways of recycling the waste that’s left over when power plants burn coal, commonly known as coal ash. The inspector general’s report says the website didn’t tell the public that the EPA had decided that coal ash no longer should be dumped in empty pits and …
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URR to resume composting operations
WELLAND — Laid-off employees at Universal Resource Recovery are going back to work. Gerald Patt, URR’s general manager, said Wednesday afternoon that the Welland organic waste recycling company will open again in early November.[…]
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Press barred from Troy solid waste meeting
City, county and state officials, along with potential investors and regulators, got their first look Tuesday afternoon at a proposed solid waste plant on South Troy’s waterfront. KmX and Fiberight are working together to build a plant that would recycle municipal solid waste and liquid waste, with Fiberight’s technology turning that waste into biofuels and KmX ‘s membrane technology removing …
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Recycler to take electronic items
Extreme Recycling Inc. will recycle electronics for Lawrence residents and small businesses at an event hosted by the city of Lawrence’s Waste Reduction and Recycling Division on Saturday in Free State High School’s north parking lot. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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