These ticking time bombs are becoming a global health emergency, and the International Solid Waste Association and the Solid Waste Association of North America urge that they be closed.
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China's imports of solid waste fell more than half between January and mid-November compared with the same period a year earlier, as the country tightened a ban on solid waste imports.
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In Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v.
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All told, only 13% of municipal solid waste is recycled globally.
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Authorities recently have spotted sludge and solid waste during another investigation.
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Japan already incinerates up to 60 percent of its solid waste.
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Advanced Disposal, based in Ponte Vedra, Florida, is the fourth-largest solid waste company in the United States and provides non-hazardous solid waste collection, transfer, recycling and disposal services in 16 states and the Bahamas.
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She and her husband owned and operated a commercial solid-waste business.
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Much of the solid waste is emptied into rivers, lakes and ponds untreated.
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Puerto Rico's solid waste management system has been on the brink for years.
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He previously served as an assistant administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
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In the 1970s, New York produced 26,000 tons of solid-waste every day.
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Solid waste can be anything from contaminated tools, to clothing, or broken equipment.
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ANTONIS MAVROPOULOSDAVID BIDERMAN Mr. Mavropoulos is president of the International Solid Waste Association.
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Mr. Biderman is executive director of the Solid Waste Association of North America.
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California Pollution Control Financing Authority, $215 million of solid waste disposal revenue bonds.
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California Pollution Control Financing Authority, $220 million of solid waste disposal revenue bonds.
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Beijing aims to reduce imports of solid waste to zero by end-2020.
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"The part that is not as advertised is the solid waste disposal," he says.
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CHINA SCRAP: China aims to cut solid waste imports to zero by next year.
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West Virginia Economic Development Authority, $65.4 million of solid-waste disposal facilities revenue bonds.
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In the airless underground "biogas digester" bacteria eventually convert the solid waste into fertilizer.
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Almost 140 million tons of solid waste was sent to US landfills in 2017.
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San Antonio sent 45 solid waste removal trucks to the hard-hit Kingwood neighborhood.
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Food loss and waste is the single largest component of disposed U.S. municipal solid waste.
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The accident occurred near the 200 East Area, the home of several solid waste sites.
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Beijing's ultimate goal is to reduce imports of solid waste to zero by end-2020.
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Some 40% to 50% of the world's solid waste is estimated to be construction materials.
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The assistant administrator for solid waste and emergency response is the national manager for Superfund.
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In 2016, China imported about $18 billion worth of what the government calls solid waste.
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Even, today solid waste workers still have one of the riskiest jobs in the country.
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It will also look in the future at transport, water, electricity, solid waste and tourism.
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It aims to banish "solid waste with major environmental hazards" and thus prevent "intense public reaction".
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Just 2200% of 2600m tonnes of solid waste discarded each day the world over is plastic.
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China has issued the first of four batches of imports quotas for solid waste in 2018.
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The regulation at issue is a 2016 guideline developed to help solid waste landfills reduce emissions.
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There are multiple designs of the toilet but all work by separating liquid and solid waste.
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The company issuing the debt was working to generate electricity by converting solid waste into gas.
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China's steady tightening of its "solid waste" import regulations has already upended global flows of copper scrap.
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Mathy Stanislaus, the assistant administrator of the agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, will testify.
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The typical person produces, according to Lawson, an average of one pound of solid waste per day.
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Drink bottles, food wrappers and the like account for nearly a fifth of U.S. municipal solid waste.
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The World Bank estimates that about one-third of solid waste is dumped in landfills or burned.
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Fulcrum BioEnergy uses a proprietary thermochemical process that turns municipal solid waste into jet fuel or diesel.
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The process uses both gasification technology and a Fischer-Tropsch fuel process to convert the solid waste.
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The committee also projected the Olympics will result in nearly 19,000 tons of food scraps, garbage and solid waste — equal to five times the amount of solid waste that Rio de Janeiro's 20163 million residents produce in a year, according to estimates by the United Nations Environment Program.
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The Asian economic giant reportedly has plans to add 8 more categories of solid waste to that ban.
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But just over five miles away, a dump housing 4,500 tons of solid waste is swallowing the land.
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On top of that, solid waste (the only type that this report will discuss) is a visible eyesore.
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Currently 8503% of solid waste goes to landfill worldwide, 2850% to open dumps, 21.15% to incinerators (see chart).
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Narendra Modi's government has earmarked $9.5bn for solid-waste management in its $30bn Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission.
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Bridges, ports and solid waste all received C+ grades, implying more effort has been made in these segments.
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Jim Bunchuck, the solid waste coordinator in Southold, New York, experimented with leaf bags that were labeled biodegradable.
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Chinese customs data for the first quarter of 2018 showed that the country's solid waste imports dropped 54%.
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Such material would still be allowed to enter China even when all solid waste imports are off-limits.
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According to National Geographic, 3.5 million tons of plastic and "other solid waste" is generated worldwide every day.
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The plant's planned power capacity is 8 megawatts of electricity, which will be generated using biogas from solid waste.
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That's why the argument within China over whether copper scrap is "solid waste" or a valuable resource is important.
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But more typically, laws that regulate pollutant discharge apply to pollutants like solid waste in general, not nurdles specifically.
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The Punjab government says it has taken several emergency measures, including a ban on burning crops and solid waste.
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Those goals include reducing nonrenewable and water usage as well as solid waste and greenhouse gas output by 10%.
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And only China classifies copper scrap as "solid waste", placing it in the same noxious category as single-use plastics.
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"He did acknowledge, however, that some people will have stress responses that lead to "production of liquid or solid waste.
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It also vowed to bring in less of other kinds of solid waste and adopt tighter impurity thresholds on imports.
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One of its plants in Cape Town, worth $30 million, aims to consume 560 tons of solid waste per day.
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Landfill gas (LFG) is generated during the anaerobic bacterial decomposition of organic material contained in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills.
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"We're looking at aviation, bridges, roads, transit, dams, levees, schools, parks, solid waste, drinking water, waste water," he told CNBC.
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And only China classifies copper scrap as "solid waste," placing it in the same noxious category as single-use plastics.
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The plant also produces biogas from solid waste in the sewage, and in turn uses that gas to generate electricity.
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China imported 22.6 million tonnes of solid waste last year, down 47 percent from a year earlier, the ministry said.
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DAVID BIDERMANSILVER SPRING, MD. The writer is executive director and chief executive of the Solid Waste Association of North America.
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Jacquelyn A. OttmanNew YorkThe writer is founding chair of the Residential Recycling Committee of the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board.
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Ms. Enck, who calls herself a "solid waste geek," was heavily involved in debris removal after Sandy hit the Northeast.
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Now, nearly 50 percent of food waste gets composted, according to Hans Van Dusen, the city's solid waste contracts manager.
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Advanced Disposal is the fourth largest solid waste company in the United States, serving customers across 16 states and the Bahamas.
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An explosion of plastic and rubber solid waste now litters virtually all parts of the globe, particularly in the developing world.
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Only when they see that proper handling of solid waste can aid prosperity will the global tide of rubbish be stemmed.
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"We're at the mercy of oil prices and markets like everybody else," said Blair L. Pollock, Orange County's solid waste planner.
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Just 2 percent of the non-incinerable solid waste and the ash from the incinerator plants are buried in the landfill.
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Why it matters: It's Waste Management's largest-ever acquisition, uniting the country's number one and number four solid waste management companies.
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This includes pesticides, toxic dyes, solid waste, and fabric offcuts, all of which add up to a colossal amount of waste.
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The solid waste in the sewage water will be used to make biogas, while the liquid part is purified, Tsuma said.
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The MEP also asked traders to prove they are end-users of solid waste if they want to import the material.
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After your cat does their business, the crystals absorb some of the wetness and dry-out some of the solid waste.
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Only about 15 percent of textiles were recycled, meaning landfills received 11.2 million tons of municipal solid waste textiles that year.
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Today, half of Everbright International's business comes from waste-to-energy, or the burning of solid waste and converting it into energy.
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Experts predict that at current growth rates, the human race could generate 11 million tons of solid waste each day by 2100.
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He said the charges against Ojaamong centered on procurement practices linked to a solid waste management system in Busia, which borders Uganda.
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The same day, he Senate Environment and Public Works committee is scheduled to look at changes to the Solid Waste Disposal Act.
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Solid-waste processing facilities are allowed under the IRS rules for tax-exempt private activity bonds that can be issued by states.
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However, the scrap industry is lobbying for a recategorisation of high-quality scrap from "solid waste" to "resource" to ensure continued supply.
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Houston's director of solid waste management, Harry Hayes estimated that just 5 percent of the city's debris had been cleared by Sept. 20.
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They are the heart of the Freshkills Park project, allowing wildlife to grow and continue to exist above the municipal solid waste landfill.
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That's down to China, the world's largest buyer and processor of copper scrap, or "solid waste" as it is officially classified in China.
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The country faces a solid waste treatment backlog of around 60-70 billion tonnes, putting it under huge pressure to boost recycling capacity.
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Emissions: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward with new emissions guidelines for municipal solid waste landfills where communities dispose of trash.
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Fishermen are already battling industrial effluents and solid waste that drains into the sea, pollutes the mangroves and washes up on the beach.
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The activists say the government should focus instead on managing the disposal of solid waste so that the boars do not eat it.
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The government is also trying to persuade producers to make use of alternative fuels, including municipal solid waste, tyres or methane from landfills.
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Operation Green Fence, as China has called it, bans the import of 24 varieties of solid waste, including certain plastics and unsorted paper.
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But they see incinerators as essential to tackling what the World Bank predicts could be a 50% rise in China's solid waste by 2050.
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After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, the cleanup took about a year, said Hugh Kaufman, a retired EPA solid waste and emergency response analyst.
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected several challenges to federal regulations of boilers and solid waste incinerators brought by industrial and environmental groups.
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Bridges, ports and solid waste got a C+."While our nation's infrastructure problems are significant, they are solvable," said ASCE President Norma Jean Mattei.
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In the U.S. alone, clothing and footwear contributed an estimated 11.9 million tons of solid waste in 2015, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The fifth-largest solid waste company in the United States had postponed a plan to go public in February due to stock market volatility.
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Copper and aluminum raw materials meeting relevant national standards would not be considered solid waste, and can be imported as regular goods, it said.
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"The water with the fish waste goes through several filters because we want the nutrients, not the solid waste for the plants," explains Hofman.
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Human solid waste has been trucked up from South Florida and dumped on farms near Lake Okeechobee, also upping nutrients to even higher levels.
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"Then I can make a sustainable cycle: solid waste generates gas, I bake the bread and it comes back to the community," Barros said.
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Among those are a solid waste plant, parking lots and a multibillion dollar tunnel along the European shore of the Bosporus, Mr. Balyali said.
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"We are all aware that we have a solid waste crisis and that Washington is doing very little to nothing about it," he said.
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A report released last month by the Ministry of Environment blamed the problem on the lack of affordable alternatives for disposing of solid waste.
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In the United States, packaging as a whole — that is, for food, beverages, cosmetics, and medications — accounts for 30 percent of municipal solid waste.
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The solid waste is most important to keep away from humans, to prevent against the spread of diseases like cholera, E. coli, and more.
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But it's also prioritizing the right of Angelenos employed in the solid waste industry to have good jobs, the kind that are safe and fair.
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"It features a new catheter design for extended use in microgravity, combined with a mechanism that compresses, seals and sanitizes solid waste," Shelley tells NPR.
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Federal funds have been essential in helping people manage solid waste, shipping out hazardous materials for proper treatment, hiring landfill operators and educating local residents.
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Specifically, I checked what happened in California, Florida, Minnesota, North Carolina, and South Carolina, five states with the best annual county-level solid waste data.
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Gamgort said the program is a part of its commitment to reduce its use of energy, water and solid waste, and use more recyclable products.
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But if you're going to be buying liquids to drink, it's actually better, from a solid waste perspective, to buy them in cans or glass.
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The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) also published new measures on Tuesday to crack down on the illegal transportation and dumping of solid waste.
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A megacity of 224 million people and growing, Lagos generates at least 22018 million tonnes of solid waste each year -- little of which is recycled.
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The state news agency, citing a government document, said late on Sunday that imports of 32 types of solid waste would be banned from Dec.
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Some risks can be mitigated by upgrading infrastructure including solid waste management, as well as boosting open spaces to manage surface water runoff, he said.
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A replaceable bag containing solid waste coated with a biodegradable nano-polymer which blocks odour will be collected periodically by a local operator, it says.
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Hanford had different processes for different wastes — slightly contaminated liquids went into ponds, solid waste was buried, and some gases were released into the air.
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The environment ministry also said it would urge local governments to deal with solid waste issues, undertaking a special campaign to crack down on violations.
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Climate-resilient infrastructure for drinking water, wastewater, and solid waste disposal will also have to be built in order for communities to maintain self-sufficiency.
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The key question is whether Chinese zinc smelters can actually process more concentrates, given many are scrambling to comply with new solid-waste emissions regulations.
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A Keurig brewer generates 10 times the solid waste that would be generated from a standard drip brewer and most of that waste isn't recyclable.
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According to the Federal Aviation Administration, almost 20 percent of an airport's total municipal solid waste (trash or garbage) comes from deplaned waste after flights.
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The slope reminded him of the unlamented Fresh Kills landfill, where New York City dumped its solid waste until the landfill closed in March 2001.
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"All of those things that people expect to be handled by a big agency — whether the phone company or solid waste — it's us," she said.
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MATHY STANISLAUS, WASHINGTON The writer is a circular economy fellow at the World Resources Institute and former solid waste chief for the Environmental Protection Agency.
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But solid waste management and modern, compliant landfills are an essential service every bit as vital for the Commonwealth's economic recovery as its balance sheet.
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Pruitt decided to reconsider the provisions after requests from industry interests like Solid Waste Association of North America and the National Waste and Recycling Association.
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I caught one of these presentations the previous year at a meeting of the Brooklyn Solid Waste Advisory Board, which convened at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
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Mr. Hardter, who is originally from Germany, came to the islands in 2006 to build a solid waste recycling center with the World Wildlife Fund.
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"We really do need to prioritize reduce and reuse over recycling," said Anne Krieghoff, solid waste and recycling program coordinator at the University of California Irvine.
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The checks will focus on 26 environmental aspects, including potable water protection, solid waste imports, urban sewage renovation and water pollution improvement alongside Yangtze River regions.
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That's one where waste gases and solid waste sources that were previously considered to be un-recyclable are converted into chemicals by LanzaTech's genetically modified microbes.
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Craigslist is the best-known website for buying and selling, or simply giving away, used stuff — and could help slow the pace of solid waste growth.
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ASTICOM CEO Leah Tsuma said the plant will be the first in Africa to both purify sewage into clean water and convert solid waste into power.
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Total solid waste imports fell 48 percent on the year in 2018, and China eventually aims to block all imports that have readily available domestic replacements.
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Cleanup crews and officials have removed about 3 million gallons of liquid and 600,000 gallons of solid waste from the plant since then, according the EPA.
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It also has helped refurbish Manger Square, where tourist buses park, start a small museum and finance a strategic solid waste management plan for the area.
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And if business continues as usual, by the end of the century it will be an unfathomable 10 million metric tons of solid waste a day.
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After decades, less than a third of municipal solid waste is recycled — and much of that is contaminated with garbage, which diminishes or destroys its value.
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Dan Wesonga, a community mobiliser who coordinates the collection of solid waste at Kianda village in Kibera, said new sites had been designated for waste disposal.
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Ms. Bray suggests following the mantra of "leave no trace" when visiting a destination, as the creation of solid waste — particularly plastic — has significant environmental impacts.
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"Everything that is happening in my field right now is ballooning in its impacts, be it carbon emissions from aircraft or solid waste from aircraft," she says.
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Houston-based Waste Management provides waste management environmental services, and owned or operated 247 solid waste landfills and five secure hazardous waste landfills as of December 2018.
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The continent's municipal solid waste generation, currently 125 million tonnes annually, is expected to double by 2025 due to changing purchasing habits and rapid urbanization, she added.
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All aluminium smelters generate a combination of air and solid waste pollutants but it is the power source that is the real arbiter of the carbon profile.
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But Beijing stunned the recycling industry last year with its ban on imports of 24 varieties of solid waste, including many plastics, which it extended in 2018.
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In the past year, 22019,410 new federal regulations covered everything from a 122-page definition of the term "solid waste" to energy standards for walk-in freezers.
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Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said the island's sewerage system needed upgrading, it needed solid waste management facilities and the demolition of illegal structures in forests and wetlands.
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All aluminum smelters generate a combination of air and solid waste pollutants but it is the power source that is the real arbiter of the carbon profile.
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An even larger crisis is erupting in Puerto Rico's solid waste landfills, but the EPA has still been notably silent about the scale of the threat there.
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Direct intervention by the EPA, where it seizes the initiative to lead a comprehensive emergency solid waste reform in Puerto Rico, is already in the agency's power.
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"During housing construction, debris from the SWDAs [solid waste disposal areas] was mixed with clean soil and dispersed across the housing area," a 2014 Navy report found.
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The fund called on Zagreb to invest more in physical infrastructure such as railways or solid waste and waste-water treatment, but also in upgrading technological infrastructure.
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White conservatives from the opposite side of the city pushed to reopen the closed White Street Landfill to municipal solid waste, calling it a cost-saving move.
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Under the new revolving credit facility, the interest rate will be linked to Dreyfus's performance on CO2 emissions, electricity consumption, water usage and solid waste sent to landfill.
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China, the world's biggest metals consumer, is tightening restrictions on imports of scrap metal, regardless of its origin, as part of an environmental campaign against foreign solid waste.
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China's 246 large- and medium-sized cities produced 1.9 billion tonnes of solid waste in 0003, spurring government plans to cut landfill and step up recycling and incineration.
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"If the solid waste ... meets the requirements of China's import standards and doesn't contain any hazards, then it can be treated as common commodities, not waste," he said.
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Luckily, the solid-waste function still worked, and a Soyuz spacecraft that was attached to the station at the time also had a toilet (but with limited capacity).
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India generates about 25,940 tons of plastic and more than 97,000 tons of solid waste per day, according to the country's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
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The Philippines, which ranks among the world's worst ocean polluters, has a law on solid waste but it is poorly enforced and it does not regulate packaging manufacturing.
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China last year banned imports of 24 varieties of solid waste, including types of plastic and unsorted paper, putting pressure on Europe to deal with its own waste.
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The majority of those exports once went to China, said David Biderman, the executive director of the Solid Waste Association of North America, a research and advocacy group.
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As cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata grow, their citizens generate ever increasing amounts of solid waste, which often ends up in poorly located, designed and operated dumps.
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At a public hearing held by the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management in November, 2014, to discuss bill 209, the City Hall council chamber was packed.
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VICE News spent the day with the City of San Antonio's solid waste management department as they were deployed to the neighborhood of Kingwood to clear the streets.
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Almost all of Singapore's non-recyclable waste is incinerated, with the ash and some solid waste shipped to a man-made island nearby that doubles as a nature reserve.
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The land-scarce Asian city-state generated about 8,400 tons of solid waste a day in 2015, but has just one offshore landfill space to bury all its trash.
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The port of Sanshan, which is near Foshan and under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou customs, is one of only 18 seaports in China authorized to handle solid waste imports.
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Two drainage canals running through the slum will channel waste water to the plant, while young people will be awarded contracts to supply solid waste, said project leader Tsuma.
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It was the first month that imports of 32 extra types of solid waste, including lower-grade scrap copper, were banned as part of China's crackdown on foreign garbage.
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"China will resolutely tighten solid waste imports ... The MEE is working to revise related law and regulations, and will strive to publish it as soon as possible," Liu said.
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The port of Sanshan, which is near Foshan and under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou customs, is one of only 18 seaports in China authorised to handle solid waste imports.
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China has been gradually curbing imports of scrap, which accounted for 10% of its copper use in 2018, in a campaign against shipping foreign solid waste into the country.
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The rules, however, did not address power plants that had been retired, allowed unlined impoundments to operate indefinitely and regulated the ash as nonhazardous solid waste, Ms. Evans said.
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According to a new World Bank report, in 2.93 the world generated 2bn tonnes of municipal solid waste (household and commercial rubbish)—up from 1.8bn tonnes just three years earlier.
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According to a new World Bank report, in 2016 the world generated 2bn tonnes of municipal solid waste (household and commercial rubbish)—up from 1.8bn tonnes just three years earlier.
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The Yamuna has suffered mightily in recent years from the dumping of solid waste in its waters, said an environmental activist in Agra, India, the site of the Taj Mahal.
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It will also propose methods for controlling the avian populations, such as scaring them off with loud noises, according to a recently passed amendment to a solid waste management plan.
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Inspection teams sent out earlier this year to look at the enforcement of China's solid waste laws had found that local authorities were not taking enough responsibility for the problem.
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The rise in curbside cardboard waste coming from packaging is "the Amazon effect," says David Biderman, the executive director of the Solid Waste Association of North America, an industry group.
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After China's ban on solid waste imports, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia have sent garbage back to the countries, such as Canada and the United States, where it came from.
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For the last year and a half, his official title has been "solid waste worker" for the city of Berkeley, California, but he doesn't much care for that polite moniker.
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Energy Answers' proposed $860 million incinerator venture in rural Arecibo, which would produce energy from solid waste, has been opposed by environmentalists who claim it would emit pollutants such as lead.
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In Miami-Dade County, the Department of Solid Waste Management's Mosquito Control Section commonly sprays in response to state Department of Health investigations -- and when residents request the use of insecticide.
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Solid waste is collected in a canister as part of the waste hygiene component of the space station's toilet, and those canisters are disposed of during destructive reentry of cargo spacecraft.
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A third, working on the solid waste filtered from the water, transforms it into methane, which—via a special generator—provides part of the power that keeps the whole operation running.
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It said 50 new "comprehensive utilization" bases would deal with bulk solid waste and another 50 with industrial waste from sectors such as metals production, coal mining, construction, agriculture and forestry.
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The country's imports of solid waste, which include plastics, paper and metal, fell by 54 percent in the first quarter of 2018 following the January ban, according to Chinese customs data.
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"The human waste, the solid waste, the drugs, the tents — even when you have areas of poverty around the world, you don't see it all in one place," Chief Scoggins said.
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"As a result of China's waste import restrictions, we need to educate the public how to recycle properly," said David Biderman, executive director of the Solid Waste Association of North America.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Thursday published a tender for a billion shekel ($285 million) waste-to-energy facility that will significantly lower the amount of municipal solid waste landfilled each year.
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Exhibitors offered corrugated packaging solutions, boiler and pump solutions, ozone disinfection solutions, winery sanitation solutions, liquid and solid waste solutions, electro-technical solutions and labeling solutions, just to name a few.
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John Cataneo, an owner of Gateway Plumbing & Heating in Manhattan, said homeowners can avoid clogs by putting cooking grease in the refrigerator to congeal and throwing it away with solid waste.
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A number of modern cities, from Paris to Tokyo to Vancouver, BC, have district heating systems in use today, fueled by everything from biomass to sewer water to solid waste incineration.
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Taiwan now recycles about 55% of its municipal solid waste - the second highest rate globally, said Grayson Shor, a circular economy consultant to the U.S. government-funded American Institute in Taiwan.
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In its report, the Washington-based lender backed the excise duty plan while also suggesting that Jakarta invests more in solid waste management and water treatment to stem flows into the ocean.
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It operates 14 hazardous waste management facilities, 15 biomedical waste disposal facilities and over 28 municipal solid waste management facilities in India well as businesses in Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa.
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The weight of e-waste in 2016 was equivalent to about 4,500 Eiffel Towers, according the joint study by the U.N. University, the International Telecommunication Union, and the International Solid Waste Association.
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And worldwide, a report by U.N. scientists in 2014 estimated that only about 20 percent of municipal solid waste is recycled, about 13.5 percent used to generate energy and the rest dumped.
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Chinese government departments are studying the development of quality standards for scrap copper and aluminum material and attempting to have their designation changed to a "resource" instead of solid waste, Yang said.
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More than one-third of urban dwellers lived without access to municipal solid waste collection in 2013, and the number of people living in urban slums continues to grow across the globe.
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All told, the nation produced 258 million tons of municipal solid waste in 113, compared to 88 million tons in 1960, based on the most recent data from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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The World Bank confirms that donors' funds are used by the PA to support water and sanitation, solid waste management, electricity, municipal service delivery and a host of other critical government functions.
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The company provides non-hazardous solid waste collection, recycling and disposal services to commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers in 14 U.S. states and the District of Columbia and six Canadian provinces.
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Two billion tons of municipal solid waste is generated globally per year, according to the World Bank — equivalent to the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza, in trash, every single day.
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When Bodine was the assistant administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, she argued that Superfund sites needed more time, badly polluted sites that require long-term clean up.
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It not only removes an affliction (solid waste) but, unlike tackling smog, it also creates a tangible benefit at the same time, in the shape of the recycled materials that can be reused.
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Quotas for 2,670 tonnes of steel scrap were also granted in a list published by the China Solid Waste and Chemicals Management Bureau, which is part of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
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The steel sector is one of the country's biggest sources of smog and solid waste, but while standards in the industry are now among the world's toughest, regulators have struggled to enforce them.
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By contrast, in Miami-Dade County, the Department of Solid Waste Management's Mosquito Control Section commonly sprays in response to state Department of Health investigations -- and when residents request the use of insecticide.
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China's overall imports of solid waste – including waste paper, waste plastics and scrap metal – fell by 50.3 percent year on year in January to 153 million tonnes, customs data showed earlier this month.
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"There's no money in advertising or promoting the reuse of things that you already own," says Jacquie Ottman, chair of the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board, who has extensive experience in green marketing.
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Under new rules announced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday, solid waste landfill operators must begin capturing methane emissions from their sites at levels one-third lower than current standards permit.
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Republicans in Congress went even further, helping to override Nixon's veto of the Clean Water Act, and then, after Watergate, enacting laws to protect drinking water, regulate toxic chemicals and manage solid waste.
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Maruti Gouda learned about Bogribail's problems last year when he was in a nearby village conducting a workshop about the law governing management of solid waste, after an upstream landfill contaminated the water.
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By singling out and effectively silencing Mr Bormuth, calling him names (including "nitwit") and denying him a seat on the solid-waste board, the Jackson county commissioners, the panel ruled, leapt over that line.
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The state assemblyman who introduced the legislation in January, Ian Calderon, a Democrat from Whittier, has said providing straws only upon request will help the state meet solid waste goals and reduce plastic pollution.
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"Any solid-waste-management tool only works if there's a system to manage it," says Megan Epler Wood, director of the International Sustainable Tourism Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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These can be replaced with alternatives, from biomass to waste materials such as tyres and municipal solid waste (but not electricity, which at present cannot generate the high temperatures needed to produce the clinker).
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The massive steel sector is one of the country's biggest sources of smog and solid waste, but while standards in the industry are now among the world's toughest, regulators have struggled to enforce them.
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Solid waste has emerged as one of China's biggest environmental priorities as it tries to put an end to illegal dumping and rehabilitate land and water sources contaminated by hazardous chemicals or heavy metals.
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"Large volumes of solid waste are already impacting and restricting the high-quality development of the industrial economy," the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a policy document issued late last week.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that the environmental impacts can include greenhouse gas emissions, the production of solid waste — some of which may be hazardous — and the use of water resources.
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Wind projects, for example, are eligible for tax credits through 2019; other technologies, such as geothermal, biomass, hydropower and power from solid waste, are only eligible for credits through the end of this year.
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The affluent city's higher property taxes would amount to an increase of $2000 per thousand in taxable value or $500 to $1,000 annually for homeowners, in addition to $405 more for solid waste removal.
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"When the biggest export market is no longer willing to accept your material, there's an imbalance between supply and demand," said David Biderman, the executive director of the Solid Waste Association of North America.
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The Utility Solid Waste Activities Group, an industry organization, and power plant operator AES Puerto Rico asked the EPA to review sections of the rule, including its groundwater compliance and on-site storage provisions.
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A person close to the solid waste department at the environment ministry said targetting such waste is also more difficult than tackling direct air or water pollution, where devices can be used to monitor emissions.
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Using statistical techniques, I contrasted what happened with solid waste rates in counties in those states after they became Craigslist hubs with what was going on in comparable places where it had not arrived yet.
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Yet there are currently no restrictions on the release of treated wastewater in the Arctic and few ports in the far north have the infrastructure to adequately dispose of bilge water, sewage, or solid waste.
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With a budget of $2.5 billion at the start of 1971, the agency was tasked with researching, standard-setting, monitoring and enforcing five environmental hazards: air and water pollution, solid waste disposal, radiation, and pesticides.
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Scrap steel and aluminum would be moved from an unrestricted import list of solid waste products usable as raw materials to a restricted import list, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said in a statement.
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A person close to the solid waste department at the environment ministry said targeting such waste is also more difficult than tackling direct air or water pollution, where devices can be used to monitor emissions.
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"For solid waste, you can't send inspectors to monitor a company for 24 hours and see if they dump their trash illegally," he said, declining to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.
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"Given the aggressive goal just set forward by the city, every single piece counts," said Councilman Antonio Reynoso, a Brooklyn Democrat who is the chairman of the Council's committee on sanitation and solid waste management.
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Donohue said "essential infrastructure" should include public works construction, airport operations, water, sewer, gas, electrical, nuclear, oil refining, roads and highways, public transportation, solid waste collection and removal, internet, and telecommunications systems, among other areas.
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China's new policy, which once accepted 70% of municipal solid waste generated around the world, means that cities like New York, London, and Paris need to find a new way to deal with their dumps.
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The Utility Solid Waste Activities Group, an industry organization, and power plant operator AES Puerto Rico asked the EPA to review sections of the rule, including its ground water compliance and on-site storage provisions.
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Customs minister Ni Yuefeng said that Xi himself "pays great attention to not allowing foreign garbage into the country", a reference to China's ban on solid waste imports, part of the country's war on pollution.
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Last month China told the World Trade Organisation that by the end of the year, it will no longer accept imports of 24 categories of solid waste, as part of a government campaign against "foreign garbage".
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In 34 she founded Pearl Recycling, which remodels solid waste such as old tyres into furniture in Lagos, Africa's most populous city with 229 million people and home to one of the world's largest garbage sites.
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China has clamped down on scrap metal imports as part of an environmental campaign against "foreign garbage," tightening supply sources for metal producers, as it aims to cut solid waste imports by the end of 2020.
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ANSHAN, China/MANILA (Reuters) - China's self-styled war on pollution is extending to a new front: the solid waste that makes up thousands of slag heaps around the country, a byproduct of its record steel output.
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China, the world's biggest metals consumer, is restricting imports of eight types of scrap metal, including high-grade copper scrap, from July 1 in a crackdown on foreign solid waste to reduce pollution in the country.
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China has clamped down on scrap metal imports as part of an environmental campaign against "foreign garbage", tightening supply sources for metal producers, as it aims to cut solid waste imports by the end of 2020.
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Cities that address waste problems immediately have the best chance to avoid severe long-term consequences, says Ricardo Cepeda-Márquez, solid waste director for C40 Cities, a global network of cities committed to tackling climate change.
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For example, H.R. 848, the "Farm Regulatory Certainty Act," would amend the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) – a comprehensive statute passed in 1976 to address solid waste – to remove manure from the definition of waste.
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"We will move from cities to rural areas by shifting our focus from the treatment of solid waste and urban domestic waste to the treatment of waste in rural areas, including agricultural waste and straw," Chen says.
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China has tightened its list of solid waste imports several times in the past year and has previously announced plans to cut permitted waste imports to 18 types by the end of 2019 from 66 in 2017.
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Until Congress guarantees long-term, mandatory funding for PILT, counties will have great difficulty providing public services such as emergency response, law enforcement, solid waste disposal, health care and road maintenance to residents and federal lands visitors.
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Kaley McClachlan-Burton, who usually works in solid waste management for Clark County, is now working full-time online to monitor mentions of the outbreak on social media and correcting what health officials believe are erroneous rumors.
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China Solid Waste and Chemicals Management Bureau, a unit of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, also granted 16 quotas for aluminium scrap totalling 9,844 tonnes, and 170 tonnes of steel scrap, said a notice dated Tuesday.
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Under current solid waste classifications, all scrap metal imports will be banned in China by end-2020, but lobbying is under way to have high-grade material re-categorized to a resource that could still be allowed in.
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"Given the structure and conditions in the Benelux solid waste market, the board believes that the acquisition of Van Gansewinkel has the potential to transform and enhance the company's position in this market," Shanks said in a statement.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Beijing outlined new measures on Friday to improve the way it recycles and disposes of solid waste like bricks and concrete and prevent illegal dumping, in a bid to tackle one of China's biggest pollution problems.
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"China will further tighten restrictions of waste imports and eventually aims to realise zero waste imports by 2020," Qiu Qiwen, director of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment's solid waste division, said on the sidelines of a briefing.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has tightened a ban on solid waste imports, the official Xinhua news agency said, part of the country's "war on pollution" which has seen a series of measures to curb imports of scrap this year.
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This, plus the dicey situation into which the two EgyptAir employees unwittingly stepped, should make people think twice about taking trash, said City Councilman Antonio Reynoso, who is chairman of the committee on sanitation and solid waste management.
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Accra, Ghana's capital, has put money into a solid waste collection system and eliminated more than 40 informal waste dumps, improving health and lowering emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as well as creating jobs, Miller said.
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Singapore gets by with so little space for rubbish through an innovative waste management process, in which it recycles about 1203 percent of its solid waste and incinerates 38 percent of its total waste in waste-to-energy plants.
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The pumping stations are part of the larger $320m project aimed at setting up an effective flood protection plan for the city, as well as improving roads and solid waste disposal, under the Ministry of Megapolis and Western Development.
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Since I research how people are using the internet to reuse products, share resources and generally make more sustainable choices, I decided to see whether Craigslist might be helping to at least slow the pace of solid waste growth.
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The law targets enterprises and public institutions that discharge listed pollutants directly into the environment, and stipulates that companies will have to pay taxes for producing noise, air and water pollutants, as well as solid waste, according to Xinhua.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China aims to cut solid waste imports to zero by next year as it looks to reduce pollution and encourage recyclers to treat soaring volumes of domestic trash, a senior environment ministry official said on Thursday.
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"Environmentally superior technologies exist to handle animal waste, such as the Terra Blue technology, which separates liquid and solid waste, composting the solids," wrote Rick Dove, a founder of the Waterkeeper Alliance, in a recent Washington Post op-ed.
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Earlier this year, China introduced new rules aimed at improving recycling rates in key industries like electronics, plastics, textiles and household appliances, and it also banned imports of solid waste, which amounted to nearly 50 million tonnes a year.
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In that case, a local community successfully sued Cow Palace, a dairy CAFO operation, under RCRA for nitrate pollution of groundwater, arguing that the CAFO's field application of manure far exceeded usable nutrient levels and, consequently, constituted solid waste.
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"March 10 2019 — my lucky day," Mr. Mavropoulos, the chief executive of a waste management company in Athens and president of the International Solid Waste Association, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable consumption, wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday.
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SHANGHAI, July 14 (Reuters) - China's imports of solid waste fell 56.3 percent in the first half of 2018, the result of tough new restrictions and a crackdown on smuggling, state news agency Xinhua said, citing data from the customs authority.
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Cities worldwide generated more than 1.3 billion tons of solid waste in 2010, which is predicted to reach 2.2 billion tons a year by 2025 - equal to the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza, each day, according to UN Habitat.
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First, the waste will be treated with microbes that will decompose it, and then it will be filtered to remove solid waste (which will then get spun into compact, dry poop cakes that will be shipped back to Australia for disposal).
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On July 18th China told the World Trade Organisation that by the end of the year, it will no longer accept imports of 24 categories of solid waste as part of a government campaign against yang laji or "foreign garbage".
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A five-year agreement by British Airways to purchase all of the output from a facility that Solena Fuels planned to build outside London, to convert municipal solid waste to jet fuel, collapsed after Solena failed to raise enough money.
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Instead, mosquito control employees have conducted 621 property inspections there, treated 21 properties for mosquito breeding and used portable sprayers against adult mosquitoes on 100 properties, said Gayle Love, the spokeswoman for the Miami-Dade County Department of Solid Waste.
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" Pence's article is titled "The Politics of Solid Waste" and includes this secondary headline: "German Jews of the 1930s would know exactly what to call the Coats-Bayh assault on the private property of unpopular individuals engaged in an unpopular enterprise.
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The notice exempts the border infrastructure projects from complying with major laws like the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Solid Waste Disposal Act, among dozens of others.
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The company claims that while it may generate substantial solid waste, single-serve coffee makers actually use fewer grounds and less water than traditional drip machines, and that sending all those K-Cups to landfills isn't actually all that bad.
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Quotas for 7,544 tonnes of aluminium scrap and 3,180 tonnes of steel scrap imports were also awarded in a list published by the China Solid Waste and Chemicals Management Bureau, which is part of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
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The quotas are being closely watched amid concern that top metals consumer China - which tightened restrictions on scrap from July 2019 and wants to reduce solid waste imports to zero by the end of 2020 - could leave itself short of supply.
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And though we think of domestic labor and family dinners as personal and private, the history of the microwave oven has everything to do with government regulation, employment statistics, war-related scientific research, foreign trade, municipal solid waste and public health.
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Beijing has set a target of reducing solid waste imports to zero by the end of 2020 but scrap metal meeting the new standards, published by the State Administration for Market Regulation, will be classed as a resource rather than waste.
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But in late 2017, China banned the import of 24 types of solid waste, including paper and plastic, extending it in April last year to include dozens more types of recyclable materials, including steel waste, used auto parts and old ships.
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Bodine served as chief counsel at the Senate environment and public works committee from 2015 to 2017 and spent the last three years of the George W. Bush administration as assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's customs authority has already seized 110,000 tonnes (23,356.5 tons) of smuggled solid waste this year and smashed 25 smuggling rings, state media said on Tuesday, as the country works to enforce a ban on overseas trash imposed last year.
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"All the efforts we make and the funds we invest are to fill the gap of garbage classification, as it takes time for residents to get used to sorting trash," said Jiang Yanyan, deputy manager of the Beijing Solid Waste Treatment Company.
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China relies on imports for around half of its scrap copper needs but told the World Trade Organization last year that it would stop accepting certain types of foreign solid waste, including metals, from 2520 if they did not meet stricter impurity thresholds.
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The proposed amendment would cut both carbon production and solid waste generation favored by the Left while (a) repealing of the Sixteenth (income tax) Amendment (b) prohibiting new income taxes, and (c) capping all consumption, carbon, and flat taxes at specified rates.
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In a release issued ahead of a press briefing, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) said local environmental bureaus were working with government pricing departments to establish new mechanisms for solid waste collection and sewage treatment as well as water and electricity.
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"We will spare no effort in addressing solid waste-related environmental issues by strengthening inspections and improving disposal capabilities for dangerous waste," the Ministry of Ecology and Environment told Reuters by email in response to questions about the push against such pollution.
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The beginning of the first-base line, the Nationals' clubhouse and the right-field wall are taking shape, not far from a machine being used to sort the tires, metal and other garbage being sent to a solid waste site a mile away.
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The agency is also extending delays on new emission standards for municipal solid waste landfills and planning to propose a rule to withdraw the Clean Power Plan, which ordered a 85033 percent cut in the power sector's carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - New restrictions on imports of scrap metal into China come into force on Monday, nearly two years after Beijing told the World Trade Organization it would stop accepting shipments of solid waste as part of a sweeping campaign against "foreign garbage".
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The Hotel RL chain and Clean the World announced such a partnership in April, citing market statistics that estimate the hospitality industry generates about 440 billion pounds of solid waste every year, with "a great amount" of it soap and bottled amenities.
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China classes scrap metal as solid waste but changes will be introduced this year that will see high-grade copper and aluminium scrap meeting new standards reclassified as a resource, the recycling branch of the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association said in November.
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BEIJING, June 216 (Reuters) - New restrictions on imports of scrap metal into China come into force on Monday, nearly two years after Beijing told the World Trade Organization it would stop accepting shipments of solid waste as part of a sweeping campaign against "foreign garbage".
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The SEC in 2015 found that Lorenzo violated the anti-fraud provisions by sending emails in 2009 seeking investors for a debt offering by a startup company that was in financial trouble because its technology to generate electricity from solid waste did not work.
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"Millions of tons of spent coffee wind up in landfills every year, so the proposed method not only reduces the solid waste stream but removes dangerous heavy metal pollutants from water," mechanical engineer Constantine Megaridis of the University of Chicago told Chemical and Engineering News.
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The relocation of battery manufacturers is similar to China's scrap copper sector, where new restrictions on imports of solid waste and a need for importers to prove they are end-users of the material, prompted scrap companies to set base in South or Southeast Asia.
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"This might have been a different experiment had there been labeling on a lot of these boxes sort of specifying 'maybe dispose of these with solid waste and please avoid having them go down a drain'; maybe it would be a different story," he said.
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One of the biggest cases involved the smuggling of 313,500 tonnes of steel slag by an unnamed Shanghai company, as well as a 200,000-tonne shipment of plastic and other solid waste intercepted by customs inspectors in Shantou, near China's recycling town of Guiyu.
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The quantity and variety of industrial waste being dumped in 12 sand mining pits selected at random by inspectors was described as "shocking" by the ministry, which in May unveiled new measures to crack down on the illegal transportation and dumping of solid waste in China.
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The FDA said consumers should wash their hands and other body parts that have come in contact with products that contain mercury, contact their health care professional and check with their local environmental, health or solid waste agency about how to property dispose of the product.
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It said it was unclear what type of material was being transported, but the relatively small size and number of casks on the railcars suggested outbound shipment of small quantities of irradiated liquid or solid waste, contaminated equipment, or movement of fissile material to facilities outside Yongbyon.
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Once the animals calm down, they open up and naturally filter out harmful bacteria, ammonia waste, solid waste, heavy metals, and microorganisms, which means you can eat that oyster without the fear of hugging the toilet bowl the next day—or worse, getting infected with nasty diseases or viruses.
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Underscoring the government's ramped up drive against steel waste, it this year began imposing a blanket 25 yuan ($3.64) levy for every tonne of solid waste generated by industrial companies - that runs to 13 million yuan ($1.82 million) for a mill that produces 500,000 tonnes of slag a year.
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An editorial published on Monday in The People's Daily, a mouthpiece of China's Communist Party, said the nation's ban on solid waste imports will have a "temporary impact" on countries that have waste recycling industries, but that it will eventually lead to better global standards in the long run.
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" In September, Pruitt responded to petitions from a lobbying organization, the Utility Solid Waste Activities Group, and a power company called A.E.S. Puerto Rico, which complained that even the weak 2014 coal-ash rule was causing "adverse impacts on coal-fired generation," because of "the excessive costs of compliance.
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Details of the new standards, which take effect on July 1, have been highly anticipated by metals traders eager to know if they will still be able to ship their scrap into China, the world's biggest metals consumer, as it bolsters its environmental crackdown on imports of solid waste.
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BEIJING, April 23 (Reuters) - China's scrap metal imports in March fell by 24.6 percent from the same time a year ago as new curbs on foreign solid waste came into effect for the first time, while waste paper imports slid by 54.2 percent and the country imported zero plastic.
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North American plastic scrap has long been shipped to China but the world's most populous country has been overwhelmed by its own waste and environmental problem and banned not only polyethylene terephthalate (or PET) commonly used in water and soda plastic bottles, but 24 different types of solid waste.
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A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld most of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2015 final rule on the Definition of Solid Waste (DSW), but agreed with industry group the American Petroleum Institute that two of the rule's provisions represented regulatory overreach.
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But after Waste Management, the nation's largest solid-waste handler, bought a controlling interest in the plant six years ago, its compost quality declined — it contained too many shards of glass and pieces of plastic — and neighbors began to complain that the yard smelled like the bottom of a garbage pail.
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The EPA argued that there was insufficient evidence to prove that the community, which is 90 percent black and has a median income of $14,000, was targeted by the landfill, a sprawling area that's twice the size of New York's Central Park and holds millions of tons of coal ash and solid waste.
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In July 2017, the trial court judge, Robert W. Titus of the District of Maryland, held that it was the military's decision to dispose of solid waste in burn pits, not KBR's, and that federal courts have no power to second-guess the executive branch's wartime decisions, a precedent known as the political-question doctrine.
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Whereas such enforcement responsibilities had previously been scattered across 21993 other federal organizations—water pollution under the Department of Interior, air pollution and solid waste under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and pesticides under the Department of Agriculture, to name a few—the Environmental Protection Agency would consolidate the authority over specific areas under one umbrella.
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David Biderman, the executive director and chief executive of the Solid Waste Association of North America, said that when the price for cardboard peaked a few years ago, his cellphone rang nonstop with messages from New York City trash carters complaining that they had arrived at pickup sites to find not a single flattened box in sight.
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In recent years, environmental groups such as Upstream and the international movement #BreakFreeFromPlastic, which Froilan Grate helps lead, have argued for what's become known as "extended producer responsibility"—the idea that the manufacturers of products that become waste must bear the burden of cleaning it up, especially when they send those products to developing countries that have little solid-waste disposal or recycling infrastructure.
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