Waste Treatment Technology News articles from July 2000

Waste Treatment Technology News archives from July 2000

CHEMICAL TREATMENTS: Encapsulation Traps Wide Range of Toxins.
July 1, 2000... A small Oklahoma company has developed mircoencapsulation processes to deal with common environmental cleanup challenges. Terra Environmental Products Co. (TEPCO, 6105 Nowata Rd., Bartlesville, OK 74006-6010; Tel: 918/331-0214), founded by...

Foam Targets Chem-Bio Agents.
July 1, 2000... A decontaminating foam made from surfactants and mild oxidizing agents found in common household products has the power to neutralize all known chemical and biological agents in minutes. Developed at Sandia National Laboratories (P.O. Box...

RECYCLING AND MINIMIZATION Liquid Co2 Greens Dry Cleaning.
July 1, 2000... Micell Technologies (7516 Precision Dr., Raleigh, NC 27613; Tel: 919/313-2102, Fax: 919/313-2103) has developed a liquid CO2-based solvent to green up the dry-cleaning industry with a technology it touts as friendly to "you, your clothes,...

TESTING AND MONITORING: GPR Detects Buried Hazards.
July 1, 2000... Geophysicists at Ohio State University (Columbus, OH 43210; Tel: 614/292-6446) have discovered that ground-penetrating radar is useful for detecting subsurface liquid hazardous waste. By changing the antenna configuration within a standard...

Colloidal Borescope Tracks Flow.
July 1, 2000... Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL, Grand Junction, CO; Tel: 970/248-6210) and R. J. Electronics, Inc. have developed a colloidal borescope that has been deployed more than 10 times at government and other sites, lowering the cost and...

USGS Robowell Monitors Groundwater.
July 1, 2000... USGS (10 Bearfoot Rd., Northborough, MA 01532; Tel: 508/490- 5055) scientists in Massachusetts have developed a robotic groundwater monitoring technology, nicknamed "Robowell," that automatically measures the water level and measures...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Waste Management Settles SEC Charges.
July 1, 2000... Waste Management, Inc. (1001 Fannin St., No. 4000, Houston, TX 77002-6711; Tel: 713/512-6200) has reached a settlement with the federal government over charges that it gave false and misleading forecasts for its 1999 second-quarter earnings...

Mercury Waste Solutions Settles with Wisconsin.
July 1, 2000... Mercury Waste Solutions, Inc. (302 N. Riverfront Dr., Mankato, MN 56001-3548; Tel: 507/345-0522, Fax: 507/345- 1483) has reached a settlement with the State of Wisconsin regarding alleged violations related primarily to an incident at its...

Titan Recycles Taiwanese Tires.
July 1, 2000... Titan Technologies (3206 Candelaria N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87107; Tel: 505/884-0272, Fax: 505/881-7113) is turning automobile tires into activated carbon at its third commercial recycling plant. The full-scale recycling operation built at...

Egyptian Agency OKs Reusable Sorbent.
July 1, 2000... After a year-long negotiation, Egypt's official oil agency, EGPC, has recommended EARTH Corp.'s (St-Antoine East, Montreal, Quebec H2L 2R1, Canada; Tel: 514/522-5550, Fax: 514/522-2643) reusable petroleum sorbent (RPA) technology for oil...

Landfills Swap Cleared by U.S.
July 1, 2000... Allied Waste Industries, Inc. (15880 N. Greenway Hayden Loop, No. 100, Scottsdale, AZ 85260; Tel: 602/423-2946) and Republic Services, Inc. (110 S.E. Sixth St., 28th Fl., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301; Tel: 954/769-6000, Fax: 954/769-6407)...

Waste Industries Swaps with Allied Waste.
July 1, 2000... Waste Industries, Inc. (15880 N. Greenway Hayden Loop, No. 100, Scottsdale, AZ 85260; Tel: 602/423-2946) has completed an asset swap with Allied Waste Industries, in which Waste Industries sold its collections operations in Ooltewah, TN, and...

American Soil Nets Remediation Contracts.
July 1, 2000... American Soil Technologies (9310 Friars Rd., No. C, San Diego, CA 92108; Tel: 408/421-2882, Fax: 619/521-8548) has received contracts for soil remediation in the San Diego area. In a project worth $300,000, the company will remediate...

ARCA Contract Continues Refrigerator Program.
July 1, 2000... Appliance Recycling Centers of America, Inc. (ARCA, 7400 Excelsior Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55426; Tel: 952/930-9000) has signed a two-year contract with Southern California Edison Co. to continue ARCA's refrigerator recycling program with...

KBF Inks JV with R.M. Jones.
July 1, 2000... KBF Pollution Management, Inc. (KBF Plaza, 1 Jasper St., Paterson, NJ 07522; Tel: 973/942-7700, Fax: 973/942-7527) has agreed to a joint venture with R.M. Jones and Co., Inc., an environmental services organization operating principally out...

IMCO Shuts Sikeston Aluminum Plant.
July 1, 2000... IMCO Recycling (5215 N. O'Connor Blvd., No. 940, Irving, TX 75039; Tel: 972/401-7200) says it is permanently shutting down its Sikeston, Missouri, secondary aluminum plant and redirecting output to its other, more efficient scrap processing...

Safety-Kleen Corp.
July 1, 2000... * The board of directors of Safety-Kleen Corp. (Columbia, SC) has elected board member David E. Thomas, Jr. as CEO, and Grover C. Wrenn as president and COO, effective immediately. Thomas joined the Safety-Kleen board in 1997, having served...

Waste Industries, Inc.
July 1, 2000... * Waste Industries, Inc. (Raleigh, NC) plans to begin a stock repurchase program whereby up to 1 million shares of its common stock may be purchased from time to time in the open market. Waste Industries' CEO Lonnie C. Poole, Jr. says the...

IMCO Recycling, Inc.
July 1, 2000... * IMCO Recycling, Inc. (Irving, TX) says its second-quarter earnings will fall well below analysts' estimates because of lower profit margins in its aluminum business. The company, which also issued a profit warning for the second quarter in...

LITIGATION, LEGISLATION, AND REGULATION Ross Makes Deal with Ohio EPA.
July 1, 2000... Ross Incineration Services, Inc., (36790 Giles Rd., Grafton, OH 44044-9752; Tel: 440/748-2171) says the company has reached a financial settlement with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that resolves outstanding compliance...

EPA Issues Draft Dioxin Assessment.
July 1, 2000... The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, 8601D, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC 20460; Tel: 202/564-3322, Fax: 202/565-0090) has released a draft reassessment of dioxin for...

INCINERATION AND EMISSIONS NOx Burner Has Broad Stability Range.
July 1, 2000... Coen Co. (1510 Rollins Rd., Burlingame, CA 94010; Tel: 650/697-0440, Fax: 650/686-5655) has developed an ultra-low NOx burner design that provides safe, reliable, and stable operation near the limits of flammability. Ultra-low NOx burner...

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS Microbes Wear Mouse Genes.
July 1, 2000... Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnologa (Departamento de Biotecnologa Microbiana, Campus Cantoblanco, 28049-Madrid, Spain) and Universitat de Barcelona (Departament de Gentica, Facultat de Biologia, Av. Diagonal 645,...

Herbal Remedies May Cure Soil.
July 1, 2000... Scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences Bakh Institute of Biochemistry (Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow 117071, Russia; Fax: (095) 954-2732) studied 52 species of medicinal herbs and found that some of them are capable of absorbing and...

Biocatalyst Desulfurizes Sans Degradation.
July 1, 2000... Through "directed evolution," Energy BioSystems Corp. (4200 Research Forest Dr., The Woodlands, TX 77381; Tel: 281/419- 7000, Fax: 281/364-6112) has created a bacterial biocatalyst that desulfurizes diesel without degrading essential fuel...

Metals, Nitrate, and Sulfate - Easy as ABC.
July 1, 2000... Hydrometrics (P.O. Box 1338, East Helena, MT 59635, Tel: 406/227-3341, Fax: 406/227-3364) has developed an anoxic biotreatment cell (ABC) process that provides enhanced biological treatment by maintaining a slight excess of phosphate...

HAZWASTE: DNAPL Continues Cape Testing.
July 1, 2000... The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Subsurface Contaminant Focus Area (SCFA) has continued the side-by-side demonstration and caparison of three SCFA-sponsored DNAPL technologies at Launch Complex 34 at the Cape Canaveral Air Station in...

Commodore Treats PCBs by the Ton.
July 1, 2000... Commodore Applied Technologies (150 E. 58th St., No. 3400, New York, NY 10155-0070; Tel: 212/308-5800, Fax: 212/753- 0731) has completed the first phase of PCB remediation using its S-10 solvated electron technology (SET) unit at a...

Sorbent Liners Solve Mortuary Problem.
July 1, 2000... National Sorbents, Inc. (NSI, 10139 Commerce Park Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45246-1335; Tel: 513/860-4144)) has developed products that will offer an inexpensive solution to a problem facing mortuary operators across the country. The casket and...

Glasses Vitrify Phosphates, Heavy Metals.
July 1, 2000... Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UM-Rolla, Rolla, MO; Tel: 573/341-4354) have developed a way to vitrify phosphates, heavy metals, and halides based on a family of iron phosphate glasses that may provide a low-cost and highly...

PHYSICAL TREATMENT: Radio Waves Enhance Contaminant Removal.
July 1, 2000... KAI Technologies (199 Constitution Ave., Portsmouth, NH 03801; Tel: 603/431-2266) has developed a radio frequency heating (RFH) process that loosens soil contaminants prior to conventional extraction, enabling the removal of up to 75% more...

CALENDAR.
July 1, 2000... August 13-17, 2000, Dioxin 2000, Hyatt Regency, Monterey, CA. Contact: Michael Denison; Tel: 530/752-3879, Fax: 530/752-3394; Email: msdenison@ucdavis.edu. September 11-14, 2000, Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Impact...