Waste News articles from December 2007

Waste News archives from December 2007

Stock Report.(At Your Disposal)
December 10, 2007... 3 graphs: Waste News Stock Index * Calvert Social Index Fund * Dow Jones Industrial Average * table: Percentage Change by Market Segment: see print copy.

Commodity Pricing.(Book of Lists)
December 10, 2007... 5 tables: Steel Cans * Plastics - PET * Natural HDPE * Colored HDPE * SFP Paper Stock Trends: see print copy.

Municipal Solid Waste.(Book of Lists)
December 10, 2007... 5 tables: Generation And Recovery Of Products In MSW, 2005 * MSW Management Study * Materials Recovery Facilities, 2005 * Materials Recovery, 2005 * Landfill Facilities, 2005 * graph: Number Of Landfills In U.S. 1991-2006 * pie chart: 2005...

Water/Wastewater.(Book of Lists)
December 10, 2007... pie chart: Total Modeled Needs For Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution Control * table: Number & Type Of Wastewater Treatment Facilities * info box: Documented Water/Wastewater Needs: see print copy.

Hazardous Waste.(Book of Lists)
December 10, 2007... table: Hazardous Waste Generated & Managed * pie chart: Distribution of TRI Disposal Or Other Releases, 2005 * info box: Toxic Chemical Releases By State: see print copy.

CAPITAL BRIEFS; A summary of recent developments in federal and state environmental legislation and regulation.(Briefs)
December 10, 2007... LEGISLATION SOLID WASTE Massachusetts: House Bill 2404 facilitates homeowners arbitrating heating oil spills. Sent to Ways and Means Committee Nov. 19. New Hampshire: Senate Bill 124 institutes a reuse and recycling rate for...

Coming Events.(Calendar)(Calendar)
December 10, 2007... Jan. 14-16 - North American Environmental Field Conference and Exhibition, Tampa, Fla. Call (575) 532-5535 or visit www.environmentalconference.com. Jan. 15-18 - Solid Waste Association of North America Manager of Landfill Operations...

At Deadline.(Late News)
December 10, 2007... House approves reworked energy bill Washington - A presidential veto threat didn't prevent the House from approving a revamped energy bill Dec. 6 that raises fuel economy standards for the first time since 1975, boosts biofuels, and...

Creation care's unusual pairing.(Opinion)(Brief article)
December 10, 2007... The term "creation care'' began popping up in the media a few years ago to denote a budding movement within the evangelical community of Christians who were beginning to embrace environmental concepts. That movement is now nearing critical...

New Products & Technology.(Products)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
December 10, 2007... HAWK MEASUREMENT has introduced the Sultan Series nonintrusive acoustic wave transmitter. Designed to withstand harsh environments, the Sultan series is suitable for measuring difficult-to-measure vapors, dust, solids and liquids in a variety...

Climate window is closing, United Nations reports.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Bruce Geiselman The world must act within a narrow 10-year window of opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or catastrophic reversals in health, education and poverty reduction will be inevitable, according to a new United...

Feeling lucky; Google to spend tens of millions on green energy.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Joe Truini Google Inc. has mapped the Earth, and now it wants to power it. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company wants to dethrone King Coal as the cheapest form of energy and has launched a program to develop cheap renewable...

Fed copiers offer 'releaf'.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth McGowan At 70 million sheets, the volume of copy paper cycling through the House of Representatives annually is enough to make pine trees shudder. But that quaking can refrain now that the government is branching into...

Firms build sites to tap wind-energy market.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Roger Renstrom Plastics News With global demand for wind energy skyrocketing, two companies are building new plants in the Midwest to make composite wind-turbine blades for Atlanta-based GE Energy. TPI Composites Inc. is...

Divine alliance; Christians move to embrace green way of living.
December 10, 2007... Byline: Jim Johnson There was a time when being green was more or less associated with the granola-eating left, far from those on the conservative right side of the aisle. But a funny thing is happening on the way to global warming....

DLJ Merchant Banking acquires Deffenbaugh; Equity investor vows to invest, expand business.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Jim Johnson One of the larger independent solid waste management companies has been bought out by a private equity investor that is promising to invest in and expand the business. DLJ Merchant Banking Partners bought...

Waste Industry Briefs.(Briefs)(Macon Iron & Paper Stock Co. and SP Recycling Corp. are joining)(TransLoad America Inc. has opened a new company)(Philip Armetta owner of Connecticut sentenced)
December 10, 2007... Solid Waste L.A. sanitation trucks start using LNG Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts recently started using five garbage trucks operating on liquefied natural gas, a move that will cut nitrogen and particulate matter emissions by...

GHG bill moves to full Senate.(greenhouse gases)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth McGowan After the Senate environment committee voted last week to advance major cap-and-trade climate change legislation to the full Senate, Democrat Barbara Boxer received two congratulatory calls. One, not...

U.S. EPA inches toward renewable fuel standard.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth McGowan An updated renewable fuel standard issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for next year pushes the country closer to reaching a mandatory 7.5 billion gallon target by 2012. Environmental Protection...

Carpet standard seeks sustainability.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Jim Johnson Carpeting is heavy, difficult to handle and often hauled off to landfills once it's been ripped up. But a new national sustainable carpet standard aims at making the floor covering greener regardless of its actual...

EPA Contacts.(Book of Lists)(Environmental Protection Agency)(Directory)(Brief article)
December 10, 2007... Headquarters U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20460 (202) 272-0167 Regional Offices Region 1 (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) 1 Congress St., Ste....

Waste Generator Briefs.(Briefs)
December 10, 2007... Energy N.C. utility to boost efficiency programs Progress Energy Inc. has filed a plan with North Carolina and South Carolina to meet the states' growing energy needs by expanding its energy efficiency programs. The Raleigh,...

Blue Cross gets decked out in green.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Daniel Duggan Crain's Detroit Business The nine-story Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan parking deck in Detroit may be the only parking structure in the country to be certified by a national green building program. And getting...

A Look Back.(At Your Disposal)
December 10, 2007... 10 years ago: Honda Motor Corp. ranks first in a study of least air polluting automobiles, while DaimlerChrysler Corp. ranks last. 5 years ago: According to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, public support for recycling...

Dollar dialogue; Benefits of recycling to be discussed at Waste News Capitol Hill Summit.(News)
December 10, 2007... The economic benefits of recycling is one of the fundamental environmental issues that will be addressed at Waste News' Capitol Hill Summit next February. Speakers representing a range of perspectives will talk at the session, titled...

Associations.(Book of Lists)(Directory)
December 10, 2007... Air & Waste Management Association One Gateway Center, 3rd Floor 420 Fort Duquesne Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Phone: 412-232-3444 Fax: 412-232-3450 www.awma.org Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers 1298...

Inbox.(At Your Disposal)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Pete Fehrenbach Sign of the Times: The Ecology Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., has released a Consumer Guide to Nontoxic Toys, timed to coincide with the Christmas shopping season. "At www.healthytoys.org,'' the center says in an...

Solid Waste Contacts.(Book of Lists)(Directory)
December 10, 2007... ATLANTA, GA Public Works Dept. 68 Mitchell St. S.W., Ste. 47 Atlanta, GA 30335 David Scott - Commissioner www.atlantaga.gov (404) 330-6240 AUSTIN, TX Solid Waste Services P.O. Box 1088 Austin, TX...

Letter.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
December 10, 2007... Separating made easy I liked your editorial on curbside recycling (Oct. 15 issue). There remains, nevertheless, one very effective approach that could force "all y'awl'' all-the-time recycling. The city involved issues very small,...

Google Inc. goes green.(Opinion)
December 10, 2007... At first, it might elicit a cynical smirk: Google Inc., the megapopular search engine company, wants to get into the energy business. Not only that, but it wants to generate renewable energy at a cost cheaper than the dominant means, coal, in a...

D.C. green roofs win accolades.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth McGowan Two new green roofs on municipal buildings in the nation's capital are drawing praise for reducing stormwater runoff and offering job training for area youths. "We are setting an example that hopefully will...

States sue over toxic program reform.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Bruce Geiselman A dozen states are suing the U.S. EPA over changes to the Toxics Release Inventory program that they say reduce the public's access to information about toxic chemicals in their communities. New York Attorney...

Correction.(Correction notice)
December 10, 2007... In the story "The heat is rising'' in the Nov. 26 issue, the subheadline should have read, "Climate bill debate likely in early '08.''

Report: Nuke technology needs to play catchup.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Joe Truini The federal government needs to scale back its quest to develop a nuclear waste recycling program to give technology a chance to catch up, according to the National Research Council. The U.S. Department of Energy's...

Mollusks help rebuild bay.(At Your Disposal)
December 10, 2007... Oysters once reigned so abundantly in southeastern Virginia's Tidewater region that their protective coverings were dismissed as trash. But with the Chesapeake Bay now teetering on the edge of an ecological meltdown, conservationists...

Casella vows GHG cuts.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Jim Johnson A solid waste management company operating in the Northeast is pledging to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent, in part by building landfill gas-to-energy projects at six landfills. Casella Waste Systems...

Paper giant gets paper cut; Weeks after merger, Abitibi declares production cut to save costs.(News)
December 10, 2007... Byline: Jim Johnson AbitibiBowater Inc., a major recycled paper collector and user, plans to cut new paper production by 1.1 million tons as the company looks at ways to reduce costs. News of the production cut comes just weeks after...

Year-end reflection.(Opinion)(Brief article)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Allan Gerlat It's the end of the year, a time when we tend to take a larger look at what's been accomplished and what hasn't. Well, at least journalists do. But in many cases, it's not enough time to make any judgments. While...

Geocycle to double amount of waste handled.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Jim Johnson Geocycle US has lofty plans to double the amount of waste the company handles during the next five years or so. And the company is now launching its own transportation services business to help move that material...

CAPITAL BRIEFS; A summary of recent developments in federal and state environmental legislation and regulation.(Briefs)
December 24, 2007... LEGISLATION SOLID WASTE Michigan: Senate Bill 513 specifies authorized sites for composting of yard clippings and requires haulers to verify use relating to farm operations, garbage, water runoff and solid waste. Passed by the House...

PERSONNEL.(People)
December 24, 2007... AMERICAN PAPER RECYCLING CORP. - Mark Smith promoted to vice president of sales. ASSOCIATION OF WATER TECHNOLOGIES - Matt Copthorne named president. ATRO ENGINEERED SYSTEMS INC. - Tom McDermott promoted to national sales manager. ...

EPA denies California tailpipe emissions waiver; End-of-the-year flurry in D.C.
December 24, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth McGowan By denying California its long-sought, tailpipe emissions waiver, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson allowed the energy bill's new national fuel economy standard to trump states' attempts to set the...

Inbox.(At Your Disposal)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Pete Fehrenbach Drama in Bali: News accounts of last week's wrap-up of the two-week U.N. climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, make interesting reading, to say the least. An exchange that took place during the conference's closing...

A Look Back.(At Your Disposal)
December 24, 2007... 10 years ago: Rumpke nears the completion of a rebuild of its Colerain Township, Ohio, landfill, dubbed Mount Rumpke by locals, after a massive collapse in March 1996. 5 years ago: The new Clean Water Act is put into effect, leaving...

Energy laws tighten up.(Opinion)
December 24, 2007... The United States got a tougher energy policy for Christmas. The new law signed by President Bush last week is a significant piece of legislation, raising fuel economy standards for the first time in 32 years, boosting biofuel use and...

Tailpipe quest up in smoke.(Opinion)
December 24, 2007... While the new energy law got generally favorable reviews, it already has claimed a victim. California's quest to get a tailpipe emissions waiver was rejected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on the grounds that the new energy law...

Cereplast expands operations.(News)(Brief article)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Joe Truini Cereplast Inc. is expanding its operation to produce an additional 500 million pounds of bio-plastic annually. The Hawthorne, Calif.-based company will locate a logistics processing center in Seymour, Ind., within...

Ohio needs to up alternative energy ante; Financial and legislative assistance cited as needs to move development forward.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Joe Truini Ohio must get on board with more progressive alternative energy policy to attract manufacturing to the state, or it will be left behind. "Collectively, we need to fan the flames and open doors that will separate the...

Careful collection; Program focuses on teaching drivers to slow down around trash trucks.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Jim Johnson A couple of new efforts are being launched next year to help keep the country's trash collection workers safe while they're on the job. A new program will train up to 384 drivers in a dozen cities while a new radio...

Clinching clean coal; Illinois city beats out competitors to host cleanest coal-fired power plant that can power up 150,000 homes.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Joe Truini A small Illinois city has beat out three other finalists to host the world's cleanest coal-fired power plant. FutureGen Industrial Alliance Inc. has chosen Mattoon, Ill., as the site for FutureGen, a $1.5 billion,...

Shell partners with petrol firm for algae-fuel efforts.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Bruce Geiselman Royal Dutch Shell PLC is building a pilot facility in Hawaii to experiment with turning algae into a cleaner burning fuel. Shell has partnered with HR Biopetroleum, a Hawaii-based company, to grow marine algae...

GHG, emissions rise to top at WN summit.(News)
December 24, 2007... The issue that everyone's talking about, greenhouses gases and global warming, will be a prominent topic at Waste News' Capitol Hill Summit. Kicking off the second day of the two-day program Feb. 12-13 will be a discussion on the...

Protests abound over mercury cuts.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Lauren Mikolay A cascade of protests took place in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Dec. 6 concerning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's and Bush Administration's plan to sidestep mandatory cuts in...

Coming Events.(Calendar)(Calendar)
December 24, 2007... Jan. 15-18 - Solid Waste Association of North America Manager of Landfill Operations Training, Aberdeen, Md. Contact Stephen Lippy (410) 887-2009 or visit www.swana.org. Jan. 20-22 - Platts Aluminum Symposium 2008, Marco Island, Fla....

Special E redirects leftovers from landfills.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Chrissy Kadleck At this year's Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, Special E LLC was on elevated trash duty. The company's "Rescue Squad'' gathered up pieces of broken balloons along the parade route where...

EPA clears up Clean Air Act reporting questions.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth McGowan The EPA has issued a final rule to clarify when industrial facilities making changes to equipment might need to retain records documenting their emissions even if the changes do not trigger Clean Air Act New...

Ohio firm squeezes out all of grapes' goods.(Technology)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Tracy Hayhurst From grapes come wine, juice, raisins and more. Now an Ohio firm is squeezing hydrogen from the fruit. Scientists have known for decades that certain kinds of bacteria, when fed a sugary base, produce hydrogen....

TOP 10 STORIES.(News)
December 24, 2007... 1. Senate OKs climate bill It isn't just rhetoric to claim the entire planet was paying attention Dec. 5 when a U.S. Senate environment panel gave a thumbs-up to groundbreaking global warming legislation. Indeed, eyeballs from here to...

Waste Industries plans switch to private sector.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Industries USA Inc. plans to go private sometime during the first half of next year in a $544 million deal approved by the company's board. The buyout, lead by company founder Lonnie C. Poole Jr. and CEO Jim...

President Bush signs scaled-down energy bill; End-of-the-year flurry in D.C.
December 24, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth McGowan President Bush signed a slightly atrophied but still-muscular energy bill into law Dec. 19 that raises fuel economy standards for the first time in 32 years, mandates an almost sixfold boost in biofuels and...

At Deadline.(Late News)(Brief article)
December 24, 2007... W.R. Grace to pay $34 million cleanup W.R. Grace & Co. has agreed to pay $34 million to cleanup 32 Superfund sites across the United States, according to a federal bankruptcy settlement. The EPA said W.R. Grace contributed to the...

Ohio waste plant promises improvement.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Jim Johnson An industrial waste processing facility in Southwest Ohio will spend nearly $1 million in improvements and penalty to resolve problems at the site. Perma-Fix of Dayton Inc., a subsidiary of Perma-Fix Environmental...

Waste has place in farm bill.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth McGowan The $286 billion version of the farm bill that passed the Senate 79-14 Friday includes a provision to generate power with chicken droppings. At the behest of Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, ranking Republican on...

'Green Exchange' opens.(News)(Brief article)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Bruce Geiselman The parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange - which trades commodities futures and options - has formed the Green Exchange, which will allow companies to trade carbon credits, carbon-based contracts and...

Merck agrees to pay federal penalties.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Bruce Geiselman Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. has agreed to pay more than $20 million in penalties and environmental improvement projects to charges filed by the federal government that it violated the Clean Water Act...

Waste Industry Briefs.(Briefs)
December 24, 2007... Recycling Company partners across the border American Retroworks Inc. will celebrate the kickoff of its Mexican partnership with an electronics recycling event in Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 5. Retroworks de Mexico is located in the...

Waste Generator Briefs.(Briefs)
December 24, 2007... Water Senators unveil drinking water bill Three Midwestern senators introduced a bipartisan bill last week geared to assist smaller communities in complying with federal drinking water standards. The proposed legislation also...

Evergreen efforts; Capital to have a carbon-offset Christmas.(At Your Disposal)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Bruce Geiselman Congress and the White House so far haven't reached agreement on how to control greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, but they are cooperating on making Christmas a little greener in Washington. Both...

Supplier News.(Briefs)
December 24, 2007... New partnership benefits customers Cascade Asset Management and Software Success Partners have announced a new partnership. Software Success Partners helps companies manage and track their assets through business process consulting and...

U.S. yields to United Nations; Politicians cooperate at final hour of global climate talks.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth McGowan Congressional Democrats and at least one Republican are relieved U.S. negotiators finally yielded at the just-concluded United Nations climate talks - even though the reversal came at the eleventh hour. "In...

Ways to resist consumption frenzy.
December 24, 2007... Byline: Joe Truini 'Tis the season to generate more trash, rack up higher electric bills and throw out the old to replace it with the new. "The holidays have increasingly gained a reputation for the theme of conspicuous consumption,''...

Utility buys first wind site.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Joe Truini An Alliant Energy Corp. subsidiary has bought its first wind development site, an Iowa location that could produce 200 megawatts of electricity. Interstate Power and Light Co. bought the wind energy site from Wind...

Company reaches for the ceiling; Armstrong continues 8-year ceiling tile capture and recycling program.(News)
December 24, 2007... Byline: Jim Johnson A program allowing businesses to capture and recycle their old ceiling tiles, instead of dumping them in the trash, continues to grow and has passed a milestone. Armstrong World Industries Inc. has been recycling...

New WN survey is online.(News)(Survey)
December 24, 2007... It's time once again for Waste News to begin collecting information for the 2008 Municipal Recycling Survey, which will be published in the March 3 issue of the magazine. The survey is available online now, on the home page of our Web...

Stock Report.(At Your Disposal)
December 24, 2007... 3 graphs: Waste News Stock Index * Calvert Social Index Fund * Dow Jones Industrial Average * table: Percentage Change by Market Segment: see print copy.

New Products.(Products)
December 24, 2007... WASTEQUIP has introduced an environmental waste roll-off container constructed with fewer seams and designed for double end hook up. Other features include a door with side or top hinges, a flat or slanted front, and liner hooks welded inside...