Waste Treatment Technology News articles from January 2003

Waste Treatment Technology News archives from January 2003

THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2002.
January 1, 2003... It's that time of year again, when WTTN provides our readers with a synopsis of the major news stories during the past 12 months. * Allied Waste Industries (Scottsdale, AZ) completed the sale of certain non-integrated solid waste...

PHYSICAL TREATMENTS: Membranes Clean Paper Mill Streams.
January 1, 2003... Researchers at the University of Ottawa (Geeta Chowdhury, Industrial Membrane Research Institute, University of Ottawa, 770 King Edward Ave., Ottawa on Kin, Canada; Tel: 613/276-4267) have found that ultrafiltration membrane supports coated...

CHEMICAL TREATMENTS: Concrete Neutralizes VX Nerve Agent.
January 1, 2003... Using a prototype IT-SIMS (ion trap secondary mass spectrometer) detector, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL, Gary Groenewold; Tel: 208/526-2803) researchers have discovered that concrete degrades the nerve agent...

BigSpark Breaks Down PCBs.
January 1, 2003... EarthFirst Technologies, Inc. (EFTI, John Stanton, CEO, 601 South Fremont Ave., Tampa, FL 33606; Tel: 813/258-1065, Fax: 813/258- 0915) has completed laboratory tests confirming that their BigSpark plasma technology converts PCB-laden liquid...

Eco Logic Completes CFC Destruction Tests.
January 1, 2003... Eco Logic, Inc. (143 Dennis St., Rockwood, ONT N0B 2K0, Canada; Tel: 519/856-9591, Fax: 519/856-9235) has successfully completed a demonstration destruction of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in its recently completed fourth-generation GPCR...

RECYCLING & MINIMIZATION: Green Solvents Made by Green Manufacturing.
January 1, 2003... Environmentally friendly, high-performance solvents based on renewable biological resources can now be fabricated by economical, efficient and non-waste-producing manufacturing technologies, say scientists from Vertec Biosolvents (1441...

Biodegradable Plastics Made from Food Scraps.
January 1, 2003... By harnessing the bacterium Ralstonia eutropha in a biological reactor, scientists at Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (HNEI, University of Hawaii, 1680 East West Rd., POST 109, Honolulu, HI 96822; Tel: 808/956-8890, Fax: 808/956-2336) are...

Forestweb Launches Paper Data Service.
January 1, 2003... Forestweb, Inc. (1801 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 520, Los Angeles, CA 90067; Tel: 310/553-0008, Fax: 310/553-0080) has launched a dynamic online price, news, and data service for professionals serving and working in the recovered paper...

TESTING & MONITORING: DOE Tries Out Passive Diffusion.
January 1, 2003... With more than 200 groundwater monitoring wells and a time horizon of nearly 30 years, testing groundwater at U.S. Department of Energy's (USDOE) Kansas City Plant (KCP) is a substantial activity, not only requiring time and money but-until...

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS: Sugar Tempts Bacteria to Consume Plastic.
January 1, 2003... Chemists in Pune, India, are sugaring plastics such as polyethylene, polystyrene, and polypropylene to make them more palatable to soil bacteria. The chemically altered plastics, which can survive for decades in landfills, begin degrading...

HAZWASTE: Strategy Puts Rocky Flats on Closure Path.
January 1, 2003... The Rocky Flats Closure Project has adopted a strategy for decontaminating, certifying, and disposing as low-level waste as many as 900 gloveboxes and other large equipment formerly used in plutonium processing and fabrication. ...

TVG Files for Polymer Encapsulation.
January 1, 2003... Technology Visions Group, Inc. (5950 La Place Ct., Carlsbad, CA 92008; Tel: 760/918-9168) has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Polymer Encapsulation Technology (PET). PET provides a method of...

LEGISLATION & LITIGATION Pennsylvania Fines Evergreen Landfill.
January 1, 2003... The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP, Harrisburg, PA) says Waste Management of Pennsylvania will pay $2.1 million in penalties as part of a settlement agreement for falsification of waste-receipt records discovered...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Safety-Kleen Execs Charged with Fraud.
January 1, 2003... Federal authorities have charged former executives of Safety-Kleen (1301 Gervais St., Suite 300, Columbia, SC 29201; Tel: 803/933- 4200, Fax: 803/933-4346) with orchestrating a massive accounting fraud that forced the hazardous waste firm...

Mercury Waste Deregisters Stock.
January 1, 2003... Mercury Waste Solutions, Inc. (302 N. Riverfront Dr., Suite 100A, Mankato, MN 56001; Tel: 507/345-0522, Fax: 507/345-1483) has filed a Form 15 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to terminate registration of MWS's common stock...

ARCA Receives 3-Year Contracts from L.A.
January 1, 2003... Appliance Recycling Centers of America, Inc. (ARCA, 7400 Excelsior Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55426; Tel: 952/930-9000, Fax: 952/930- 1800) says it has been awarded two, 3-year appliance recycling contracts by the Department of Water and Power of...

TurboSonic Receives $1 Million Order.
January 1, 2003... TurboSonic Technologies, Inc. (550 Parkside Dr., Suite A-14, Waterloo, ONT N2L 5V4, Canada; Tel: 519/885-5513, Fax: 519/885- 6992) has received a new order totaling approximately U.S. $1 million. The order, from a pulp mill in Michigan, is...

Gundle/SLT Reports on Lawsuit Verdict.
January 1, 2003... Gundle/SLT Environmental, Inc. (GSE, 19103 Gundle Rd., Houston, TX 77073; Tel: 281/443-8564, Fax: 281/875-6010) says a jury has returned a verdict of an indicated $12 million against Serrot International, Inc. (125 Cassia Way, Henderson, NV...

EARTH (Canada) Receives Financing.
January 1, 2003... EARTH (Canada) Corp. (1210 rue St-Antoine, E., Montreal, QUE H2L 2R1, Canada) says that, subject to final regulatory approval, the Fonds de solidarite des travailleurs du Quebec (The Quebec Labor Fund, Montreal, QUE, Canada) and Innovatech...

Stericycle Shifts to Non-Incineration Technology.
January 1, 2003... Stericycle, Inc. (28161 N. Keith Dr., Lake Forest, IL 60045; Tel: 847/367-5910, Fax: 847/945-6583) has completed the acquisition of Micro-Med Industries, Inc. (5169 W. 12th St., Jacksonville, FL 32254; Tel: 904/693-3254) and its related...

Neozyme Concludes Distribution Agreement.
January 1, 2003... Neozyme International, Inc., a subsidiary of International Daleco Corp. (33 Journey, Aliso Viego, CA 92656; Tel: 949/360-4288, or 800/432-5326, Fax: 949/360-8774), has recently concluded an Exclusive Distribution Agreement for the New England...

Cabot, Ondeo Nalco Form Alliance.
January 1, 2003... Cabot Microelectronics Corp. (870 N. Common Dr., Aurora, IL 60504; Tel: 630/375-6631), a supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing slurries to the semiconductor industry, has formed an alliance with Ondeo Nalco (1601 W....

Waste Industries Goes Shopping.
January 1, 2003... Waste Industries USA, Inc. (3301 Benson Dr., Suite 601, Raleigh, NC 27609; Tel: 919/325-3000, Fax: 919/325-3013) says it has acquired three companies: Hammock Sanitation, a tuck-in to the company's Crossville, Tennessee, residential and...

Briefly Noted:.
January 1, 2003... * Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (Rutland, VT) reports earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization and minority interest (EBITDA) of $25.8 million for the second quarter of 2003, which ended October 31, 2002. Revenue for the...

CALENDAR.
January 1, 2003... March 23-27, 2003. The 225th ACS National Meeting, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, LA. Contact: The American Chemical Society; Fax: 202/872-6128; Email: natlmtgs@acs.org, Website: www.chemistry.org. March 30-April 3, 2003. The...