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Just in case members of the Board of Orange County Commissioners didn't already know it, a group of 40 to 50 people had a very visible way of putting them in the loop. They hoisted signs of defiance during the board's meeting Tuesday night saying, "No Waste Transfer Station on Millhouse Road." Although discussion of the siting of a waste transfer station was not on the night's agenda, about nine people spoke against the possibility of siting the transfer station on Millhouse Road near the Chapel Hill  

Every night, Wang finds herself shuttered in her northwest Beijing apartment because of the stench from the nearby dump. "For at least one hour, we don't open our windows as the smell from the rubbish tip is horrendous," said the frustrated young mother, standing outside her son's school in a city in the midst of a garbage crisis. China's capital still relies heavily on burying its garbage - in 2008, 90% of the more than 6.7mn tonnes of domestic waste in Beijing was put in landfills.  

Coverworld Limited yesterday (19 November) pleaded guilty at Chesterfield Magistrates' Court to four offences, relating to a period from 2004 to 2007, and asked for a further eight offences to be taken into consideration. The company, of Mansfield Road, Bramley Vale, Chesterfield, should have been registered with the Environment Agency and was obliged to recover and recycle a portion of its packaging waste, as well as filing a certificate at the end of each year to confirm it had met these obligations.  

The amount of discarded electronics equipment piling up at properties managed by the J. Walter Michel Agency was growing so much that it spanned generations. "Some of it's probably from the '70s; some of it's from five to 10 years ago," said David McDaniel, who works for the local property management company. So he loaded four computer monitors and other past-its-prime electronics gear into a van Friday morning and drove it to the Mississippi Farmers Market, site of Business E-Waste Day, during which

Some of it's probably from the '70s; some of it's from five to 10 years ago   -David McDaniel

 

The Knoxville News Sentinel reported Saturday that some liquid waste shipments contained more mercury than anticipated and had to be burned at a slower rate to stay within the incinerator's emission requirements. The incinerator closing was scheduled for the end of last month, but officials say it will now be Nov. 30. The Department of Energy has discussed shutting down its Oak Ridge incinerator for several years, but extended its lifetime a couple of times to treat additional waste from nuclear clean  

Our lives are filled with electronics. Most modern American families own several electronic devices – TVs, cell phones, computers, mp3 players, GPS, video game platforms and more – designed to simplify our lives, entertain us and keep us connected with the ones we love and the world in general. It seems like every year, one or more of these convenient and essential devices, however, becomes outdated.

Computers sent for recycling are kept secure until they reach the recycling facility   -Robert Hunter

 

Riverside County residents can drop off up to 50 pounds of household hazardous waste at a collection point in Pinyon Pines today. The county operation will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Pinon Flats Transfer Station, which is at the south end of Pinon Flats Road, said Diane Christensen, administrator of the county's Waste Management Program. Used motor oil, old paint, antifreeze, batteries, pesticides, cleaning products, fluorescent lamps, computers, VCRs and telephones are among the types of waste  

MILLIONS of plastic shopping bags being touted as biodegradable in IGA supermarkets around Australia have failed to decompose as advertised during independent tests, raising serious questions over green marketing claims. About 60 million of the plastic bags, bearing the brand name Goody and produced by packaging company NuPak, have been distributed through shopping centres, cafes and other stores. But tests done in September by Belgian company Organic Waste Systems show that the bags were "completely

I am calling for the ACCC to begin an investigation into Goody bags based on these tests. If they find it doesn't biodegrade according to the national standards then it should clearly be removed from the market   -Jon Dee

 

Plans for a kitchen waste composting centre north-east of Norwich have been given the green light. TMA Bark Supplies, based at Weston Longville, was granted planning permission yesterday for a new plant at The Runway - a former airfield at Woodforde Farm in the village. It would see more than 40,000 tonnes of local authority and commercial kitchen waste a year composted.