Waste Treatment Technology News articles from October 2000

Waste Treatment Technology News archives from October 2000

CHEMICAL TREATMENTS: Electrons Neutralize Nuclear Sodium.
October 1, 2000... Commodore Applied Technologies, Inc. (150 East 58th St., New York, NY 10155; Tel: 212/308-5800, Fax: 212/753-0731) has turned its solvated electron technology (SET) to the treatment of radioactive sodium and patented the results. Since 1992,...

Gas Injection Keeps Chromium from Water.
October 1, 2000... PNNL (PO Box 999, 902 Battelle Blvd., Richland, WA 99352; Tel: 509/375-2121) researcher Ed Thornton has developed a method to do away with the large amounts of digging usually required in the remediation of chromium-contaminated soils....

Method Removes Chromium from Water.
October 1, 2000... DOE Hanford, Washington, site contains nine nuclear reactors and is located in the north-central portion of the site near the Columbia River. During reactor operations, chromium was introduced into the soil and groundwater. The groundwater at...

ION EXCHANGE: EPA, MPCA, and USFilter Collaborate.
October 1, 2000... Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), and USFilter Recovery Systems (USFRS) have signed an agreement to move forward with a project to recycle industrial waste. The goal of the project is...

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS Oak Ridge Peels Away Contamination.
October 1, 2000... The DOE cleanup program needs new and effective ways to decontaminate metal surfaces more economically. Current methods of stripping and power-washing metal surfaces contaminated with heavy metals and radionuclides are costly, partly because...

Chlorinated Solvents Transformed.
October 1, 2000... Chlorinated aliphatic compounds, particularly chlorinated solvents, have been widely used and inadvertently or casually released into the environment for many years. In fact, the chlorinated solvents are among the most common groundwater...

PHYSICAL TREATMENTS: Carbon Cloth Absorbs Cellphone Microwave.
October 1, 2000... Calgon Carbon Corp. (400 Calgon Carbon Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15205; Tel: 412/787-6700), a key provider of sorbent solutions for pollution control, has launched a surprising first direct consumer product WaveZorb. The small carbon cloth device...

Basalt Fibers Sorb Spills at Sea.
October 1, 2000... Developed by former Soviet scientists living in Israel, a mineral- based oil spill sorbent is slated for U.S. debut. Marketed in the U.S. by Eurotech (1216 16th St. NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036; Tel: 202/466-5448, Fax: 202/466-5591),...

MONITORING: Kit Determines Lead Levels.
October 1, 2000... Silver Lake Research (PO Box 686, Monrovia, CA 91017; Tel: 888/438-1942, Fax: 626/359-6601) has added lead detection to its Watersafe line of one-step home drinking water assays. Water Quality Association research reports an estimated 46% of...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Safety-Kleen Ordered to Close Landfills.
October 1, 2000... Safety-Kleen Corp. (1301 Gervais St., No. 300, Columbia, SC 29201; Tel: 803/933-4200, Fax: 803/933-4345) lost its federal appeals court bid to continue operating a landfill near Lake Marion while it challenges state closure of the operation....

Laidlaw Steers Away from Woes.
October 1, 2000... Laidlaw, Inc. (3221 N. Service Rd., PO Box 5028, Burlington, Ontario L7R 3Y8, Canada; Tel: 905/336-1800, Fax: 905/336-3976) is trying to drive its way back to firm financial ground. Laidlaw's recent financial problems came to a head in March...

Allied Waste Purchase Cleared by U.S.
October 1, 2000... U.S. Justice Dept. antitrust regulators have cleared Republic Services' $55 million purchase of Allied Waste Industries' hauling business with the stipulation that Republic divest an Ohio waste- collection unit. Joel I. Klein, chief of the...

Kinetico Signs 14 Wastewater Contracts.
October 1, 2000... Kinetico, Inc. (10845 Kinsman Rd., Newbury, OH 44065; Fax: 440/564-5025) has signed contracts for 14 wastewater treatment systems that will recycle several millions of gallons of water per year in the manufacturing of semiconductors, printed...

Vermont Gasifier Turns Biomass to Electricity.
October 1, 2000... As of August 11, the largest U.S. biomass gasification plant has begun commercial operation. Designed and built by Future Energy Resources Corp. (FERCO, 3500 Parkway Lane, Suite 440, Norcross, GA 30092; Tel: 770/662-7800, Fax: 770/662-7807)...

ASTD Selects Year's Projects.
October 1, 2000... The accelerated site technology deployment (ASTD) program is entering its third year with the competitive selection of 12 projects for expediting environmental cleanup at DOE sites. This year's projects emphasize deactivation and...

RTI Ramps Up Tire Recycling.
October 1, 2000... Tire Recycler Rubber Technology International, Inc. (RTI, 3185 E. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90023; Tel: 323/268-6842, Fax: 323/268-7328) is installing the Eldan heavy rasper, a tire shredding machine that will increase plant...

Rhodia Acquires HEAT.
October 1, 2000... Rhodia (26, quai Alphonse Le Gallo, 92512 Boulogne-Billancourt cedex, France; Tel : 33-1-55-38-40-00) has acquired, through a wholly owned subsidiary, all of the operating assets of Heat Energy Advanced Technology, Inc. (HEAT, 4460 Singleton...

WMI Will Reduce Service in NYC.
October 1, 2000... Waste Management, Inc. (1001 Fannin St., No. 4000, Houston, TX 77002-6711; Tel: 713: 512-6200) will drop 10% of its New York City commercial customers, the New York Times says, because hauling trash in parts of the city isn't profitable....

LITIGATION, LEGISLATION, AND REGULATION House Rejects Toxic Liability Bill.
October 1, 2000... The House of Representatives rejected a move to reduce the liability of small businesses to clean up toxic waste. Analysts say the move indicates Congress won't make major changes to the Superfund law. Under terms of the vote, it needed...

Waste Management to Settle 1993 Lawsuit.
October 1, 2000... Waste Management, Inc. (1001 Fannin St., No. 4000, Houston, TX 77002-6711; Tel: 713/512-6200) has won a judge's approval for a $5 million settlement of a 1993 lawsuit over acquisition of Brand Companies, Inc. Rust International, Inc. bought...

Prosecutors Sue to Clean Up Mercury.
October 1, 2000... Top state and county prosecutors filed a five-count lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court (Cook County Circuit Court 00CH12962) against Nicor, Inc. and two contractors in an attempt to compel a swift and effective clean-up of mercury...

RECYCLING AND MINIMIZATION Argonne Process Recycles Auto Foam.
October 1, 2000... Argonne Laboratories' (9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439; Tel: 630/252-2000) Bassam Jody has developed a recycling technique that could keep 300 million lb. of auto scrap out of landfills. Each year millions of cars are junked in the U.S....

Californians Ignore Container Law.
October 1, 2000... Eight months after a recycling law took effect, Californians are discarding millions of dollars of beverage containers rather than redeeming them for 2.5 cents each, largely because many people still don't know about a longer list of...

Armstrong Accepts Old Ceiling Tiles.
October 1, 2000... Armstrong World Industries (2500 Columbia Ave., Lancaster, PA 17604-3001; Tel: 717/397-0611, Fax: 717/396-2787), the world's largest manufacturer of acoustical ceilings, has announced a program that allows building owners to recycle their old...

CARE Cars Test Recycled Materials.
October 1, 2000... DaimlerChrysler (Auburn Hills, MI 48326-2766; Tel: 248/576-5741, Fax: 248/576-4742) has begun a five-month pilot project that will test the feasibility of recycling auto plastics, a technology that could render the company's products 95%...

ADVANCED CONTAINMENT Brookhavens' Bulb Barrier Gels.
October 1, 2000... A project supported by the subsurface contaminants focus area (SCFA) has achieved a major milestone-deployment in June 2000 at Brookhaven National Laboratory (2 Center St., Upton, NY; Tel: 631/344-8000). By installing a viscous liquid barrier...

INCINERATION AND EMISSIONS EEC Starts Up AOD.
October 1, 2000... Environmental Elements Corp. (3700 Koppers St., Baltimore, MD 21227-1022; Tel: 410/368-7000) has completed a successful startup of the company's ammonia-on-demand (AOD) technology, which EEC says represents a major solution for the control of...

HAZWASTE: Pantex Composts High Explosives.
October 1, 2000... Windrow composting is being successfully used at full scale to remediate soils contaminated with high explosives (HE) as part of the Pantex plant environmental restoration (ER) project (724 S. Polk St., No. 300, Amarillo, TX 79101-2393; Tel:...

CALENDAR.
October 1, 2000... November 11-12, Hazardous Materials Management Conference, Boston, MA. Contact: Cathleen Haggard; Tel: 301/585-2898, Fax: 301/589- 7068, Email: chaggard@swana.org. November 12-17, The AIChE Annual Meeting, Westin Bonaventure/Marriott...