Sentences with phrase «of hazardous waste in»

Particularly effective in handling and transporting fragile material and disposing of hazardous waste in an environment - friendly manner.

Pyrolytic and chemical recycling of plastic wastes, utilization of biomass materials by thermal methods, environmental technologies, efficient utilization of solar energy, processing of hazardous wastes in thermal plasmas.

Materials chemistry, environmental chemistry; pyrolytic and chemical recycling of plastic wastes, utilization of biomass materials by thermal methods, research in environmental technologies, research on the more efficient utilization of solar energy, processing of hazardous wastes in thermal plasmas.

Not exact matches

They're proposing to get rid of Waste Diversion Ontario — which was created in legislation by the previous Tory government — as well as controversial eco fees on hazardous waste and electronics that are passed on to consumers.

Almost anyone in manufacturing is a producer of hazardous waste and must account for it at each step by keeping careful records: for example, that a hauler picked up x gallons of waste from your factory and that a disposal company received it, and so on.

Securing dangerous or controlled substances: Businesses in a wide range of industries use biometric devices — with hand - readers being a particularly popular option — to help monitor access to toxic chemicals, radioactive waste, narcotic drugs and other potentially hazardous materials.

Codinha: You might have 5,000 gallons of hazardous waste with the containers facing in the wrong direction.

With more than 3,000 employees, over 90 service locations and 17 waste management facilities in eight provinces, Clean Harbors is a leading provider of environmental, energy and industrial services and hazardous waste management services throughout Canada.

With more than 90 service locations and 17 waste management facilities in eight provinces, Clean Harbors is a leading provider of environmental, energy, industrial services and hazardous waste management services throughout Canada.

Our hazardous material handling experts safely transport waste in our Company - owned vehicles to one of our waste management facilities for disposal or recycling.

Clean Harbors Waste Disposal Services provide the widest range of recycling, treatment and disposal options in the industry for all of your hazardous and non-hazardous waste.

Household hazardous waste is transported in our own licensed vehicles to one of our facilities for recycling or disposal.

We operate the largest number of hazardous waste incinerators, landfills, wastewater and other treatment facilities, and treatment, storage and disposal facilities in North America.

In 2006, two years after Vedanta acquired the mine, the company dumped hazardous waste into the Kafue River, a major source of drinking water for the country, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of 2,000 residents.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.»

As the North American leader in environmental and hazardous waste management services, our success is critically dependent on maintaining a best - in - class vendor base, capable of furnishing products and services of superior quality and maximum value.

The Office of Technology Assessment estimates that at least 10,000 hazardous waste sites in the U.S. now pose a serious threat to public health and are in dire need of cleaning up.

Other hidden costs that you may not be aware of include pesticide regulation and testing, the costs that are associated with hazardous waste disposal and cleanup, and the cost to our planet in the way of environmental damage.

The movement away from a traditional aerosol can not only improves the user experience by increasing efficiency and lowering weight but also demonstrates responsible packaging by replacing a potentially hazardous can with a pouch that can be disposed of in the regular waste stream.

It is traditionally packaged in rigid aerosol canisters that spray upside down and do not evacuate fully, creating a high volume of hazardous waste that requires a special disposal method.

City officials said a ruling Monday by a judge in U.S. District Court means the city and its Park District «are not generating, storing or disposing of hazardous waste, or dumping waste» by allowing the shooting.

CWM Chemical Services, the only commercial hazardous waste landfill in the northeast, wants to expand its operations in the Niagara County Town of Porter.

A multi-pronged legislative package passed in honor of Earth Day aims to make New York State more environmentally friendly by banning the use of dangerous chemicals, setting clearer policies for disposing of hazardous waste and protecting New York's wetlands.

Overflowing sewers, runoff from chemical plants and seepage from toxic waste sites have created a hazardous stew in the waters covering much of the nation's fourth largest city, and officials are just beginning to grapple with the health problems looming.

At 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Assembly Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation, the Assembly Legislative Commission on Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes, and the Assembly Long Island Task Force will meet jointly at the William H. Rogers Building in Smithtown, Suffolk County for a public hearing to discuss the «impacts of the proposed federal offshore drilling authorization on New York.»

CANTON — The Development Authority of the North Country with its regional county partners and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, is sponsoring a free household hazardous waste collection day Saturday in St. Lawrence County to help residents properly dispose of certain hazardous materials.

(the first called «Flowback» and thereafter called «Produced waste»)(40 % of the hazardous waste remains underground going into aquifers, cracks, sideways, upwards, etc, etc, no one knows) Most of the first «Flowback» is stored in plastic - lined pits nearby.

The Times Union recently reported that DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos has been invested in the strike movement, warning Boss in a recent letter that he will soon cite the company's violations of chemical spill and hazardous waste handling

At an elementary school in Ithaca, one sample tested at 5,000 ppb of lead — the EPA's threshold for «hazardous waste.»

DEC spokesman Peter Constantakes says all of the state's hazardous waste facilities were inspected in 2012, and the decline in smokestack inspections was due to a change in the way the tests are conducted.

The Division provides planning and technical support for the County's inactive hazardous waste sites and participates in a number of coalitions organized to address these sites including the Coalition Against Nuclear Materials in Tonawanda and the West Valley Citizen's Task Force.

Senate Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran rejected the GOP claim that the parks / e-waste recycling bill includes new taxes, noting the proposed increases in civil and criminal fines for environmental conservation law violations are for crimes that already exist (estimated revenue generation: $ 1 million), and the same goes for the restructuring of fees for hazardous waste generation (estimated revenue generation: $ 2 million).

The EPA Wednesday announced that a two - mile long tidal portion of Wappinger Creek that includes locations in the Village of Wappingers Falls and the Towns of Poughkeepsie and Wappinger has been added to the list of the country's most hazardous waste sites.

He also wants to increase the state's Superfund program to expedite the cleanup of hazardous waste that may impact drinking water sources — an issue in the contamination crisis in Rensselaer County and elsewhere.

Electronic waste, or «e-waste» as it's called, is a growing problem in the United States and abroad, as obsolete or broken computers and other electronic equipment are taking up increasingly precious amounts of landfill space and potentially leaking hazardous substances into surrounding ecosystems.

In Los Angeles, air quality, particularly from traffic, is one of the worst, but other areas have different problems — coal - fired power plants, chemical factories, contaminated water, hazardous waste.

The findings of the studythe first to measure cumulative exposure to environmental hazards of all kinds in the stateare dramatic: communities in which people of color make up at least 15 percent of the population average more than four times the number of hazardous waste sites, compared with communities having less than 5 percent people of color.

He said formal collaboration on environmental issues in the region dates back at least as far as 1983, during the Reagan administration, when bilateral cooperation was called on to assure healthy air quality, develop appropriate management of hazardous and other waste, and control water - borne pathogens.

Specifically, MacCready helped corporate clients devise creative solutions to hazardous - waste problems (Sludge can be as exciting as anything else, he declares) and for other clients came up with various vehicle designs intended to move efficiently through the air — or, in the case of a one - man scuba propulsion unit, the water.

DOE has spent billions of dollars over several decades trying to prevent a hazardous stew of wastes produced during and after World War II and stored in dozens of underground tanks from leaking into the nearby Columbia River.

Because it is not classified as hazardous waste under Environmental Protection Agency standards, there is no federal supervision of its use in agriculture.

When the U.S. military abandoned Camp Century, a complex of tunnels dug into the ice of northwest Greenland, in the mid-1960s, they left behind thousands of tons of waste, including hazardous radioactive and chemical materials.

«The safe disposal of nuclear waste is a colossal problem,» said Renaud Gueroult, staff physicist at PPPL and lead author of the paper that appeared in the Journal of Hazardous Materials in October.

Experts who reviewed the concentrations of radioactive metals found in New York's wastewater said the leftover sludge is likely to exceed the legal limits for hazardous waste and would need to be shipped to Idaho or Washington State, to some of the only landfills in the country permitted to accept it.

A 1987 General Accountability Office review put the total number of cases in which waste had migrated from Class 1 hazardous waste wells into underground aquifers at 10 — including the Texas and Pennsylvania sites.

In fact, while Massachusetts is known for its ambitious environmental policies, Daniel Faber, an environmental justice researcher at Northeastern University and director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative, has found that the Commonwealth has some of the most dramatic inequities of any state in the U.S. Communities of color bear twenty times the environmental burden of predominantly white neighborhoods; that includes hazardous waste sites and polluting power plantIn fact, while Massachusetts is known for its ambitious environmental policies, Daniel Faber, an environmental justice researcher at Northeastern University and director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative, has found that the Commonwealth has some of the most dramatic inequities of any state in the U.S. Communities of color bear twenty times the environmental burden of predominantly white neighborhoods; that includes hazardous waste sites and polluting power plantin the U.S. Communities of color bear twenty times the environmental burden of predominantly white neighborhoods; that includes hazardous waste sites and polluting power plants.

Thus, WIPP's mission has been to demonstrate whether the federal government and its contractors, at the cost of unknown billions of dollars can: (1) safely operate WIPP to meet the «start clean, stay clean» standard; (2) safely transport plutonium - contaminated waste through more than 20 states without serious accidents or release of radioactive or hazardous contaminants; (3) meet commitments to clean up transuranic waste at about 20 DOE nuclear weapons sites; and (4) safely close, decontaminate, and decommission the WIPP site, beginning in 2030 or sooner.

A meeting was called of citizen groups and individuals in early 2002 as a result of shared problems and concerns regarding the approval of several solid waste and hazardous waste landfills by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) in 2001 and 2002.

Beginning in the 1950s, this included looking at the health and safety of food products, water toxicity, hazardous waste, and air pollution, along with many other topics that grew in importance over time, she recalled.

The EPA classifies nail polish as household hazardous waste (perhaps a hint we shouldn't be using it) and requests that it is disposed of in a proper hazardous waste disposal site.