Sentences with phrase «of incinerator»

Another example from years ago when they successfully stopped the installation of an incinerator designed to burn PCBs as it might cause pollution [denied by the developers], without proposing an alternative way of disposing of PCBs.

A New York Times article tells the story of an incinerator in China, financed by Europeans buying carbon credits.

After snapping some pictures of the incinerator site, Destiny and I began walking back to the school — a meeting with Free Your Voice was about to start.

THE FACT that Bill Donegan voted on something he says he didn't know about - Orange County's purchase of an incinerator for dead stray animals - does not inspire great confidence in his abilities as a county commissioner.

After almost 10 years of petitioning, Congress agreed in 1993 to delay funding some of the incinerators while calling for a report on safer methods of weapons destruction.

An elementary school teacher, Rossano Ercolini began a public education campaign about the dangers of incinerators in his small Tuscan town that grew into a national Zero Waste movement.

The pledge means that WM, our nation's biggest recycler, promises to keep e-waste out of incinerators and landfills, will not export e-waste to developing countries or prisons for recycling, and will recycle and track e-waste through the entire recycling stream.

Rossano Ercolini, an elementary school teacher, was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2013 for his work to lead a public education campaign about the dangers of incinerators in his small Tuscan town that grew into a national Zero Waste (ZW) movement.

Not exact matches

It includes instances in which bodies were used without donor or next - of - kin consent; donors were misled about how bodies would be used; bodies were dismembered by chainsaws instead of medical instruments; body parts were stored in such unsanitary conditions that they decomposed; or bodies were discarded in medical waste incinerators instead of being properly cremated.

Tom Szaky, TerraCycle's founder and chief executive, said the two companies share a vision of diverting more materials from landfills and incinerators and his company is «excited and ready to accept Progressive Waste Solutions» challenge to scale our operations and impact using their vast infrastructure.»

Recent Projects: research on how to design an incinerator to avoid chemical reactions (two and a half hours, $ 100); history of a bill on child custody; helping a small company build a corporate library.

* Meeting or exceeding Zero Waste International Alliance business recognition program requirements, which include adoption of ZWIA definition of Zero Waste and achievement of 90 per cent or more diversion of all discarded resources from landfills, incinerators and the environment.

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

Local B.C. Liberal MLAs dismissed concerns raised by doctors, local representatives and the public from the very start, and instead of listening to the community and ordering a full environmental assessment of the creosote incinerator, their government issued permits and announced taxpayer - funded grants for the company.

The valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) was outside the walls of Jerusalem, for a time thesite of idolatrous worship, including child sarcrifice, In the first century Gehenna was being used as the incinerator for the filth of Jerusalem.

The Alabama - Coushatta tribe of native Americans in East Texas, for example, has proposed building a waste incinerator on its land.

In the last thirty - four years we've done a great deal of discarding; about forty - eight million little American bodies have gone down garbage disposals, into incinerators, and into landfills.

«At least some of the food being sent to the incinerator should be used as a force for good to help [the poor] out of the rut in which they find themselves,» he said.

Well, before I was a Christian, when I was a kid, and before we had garbage disposals, garbage was collected in a bucket under the sink and at the end of the day it was taken out and thrown in the incinerator to be burned: it was one of my chores to do that little task and I disliked it.

Unemployment in the South Bronx was at 45 percent; of the 1,900 to 2,000 children enrolled at Morris High School, only about 65 graduated each year; and, many of the children were afflicted with asthma, something Kozol associated with the neighborhood's incinerators for discarded medical supplies.

Recently, FPA attended a public hearing on the EPA's proposed rules to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from existing and new industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators

FamilyFarmed began as part of Sustain, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit launched on the heels of a successful campaign to shut down an incinerator releasing 150,000 pounds of lead into the air annually.

Last year in the UK only a third of plastic packaging was recycled, with the remaining two thirds being buried in landfill sites or burnt in incinerators.

In the United States, EPA estimates that more food reaches landfills and incinerators than any other single material in our everyday trash, about 21 percent of the waste stream.

Even then, I know, the shoes won't be consumed in some great final incinerator fire but will eternally appear and reappear in my neighborhood on the tired, shuffling feet of drifters and derelicts, who sample each house's garbage as though it were the best bargain counter in town.

Sure new technologies exist to manage our waste (like incinerators) but these technologies only move the pollution for the ground to the air and the ash left from trash being burnt still needs to be disposed of.

There is no need to turn your house into an incinerator while taking care of your miniature lava ball on top of the erupting volcano we call Earth just to have a tasty and relatively healthy treat.

Meanwhile, Nixon also endorsed legislation taking the construction of garbage incinerators out of an expedited siting process.

«I applaud the bi-partisan support for the new bill that would take garbage incinerators out of the article ten power plant siting process and urge the State Legislature to pass this vitally needed legislation before they adjourn in June,» Nixon said.

As opponents of a proposed trash incinerator in the Finger Lakes region rallied at the state Capitol, Cuomo announced he is not in favor of the project and is confident a state siting board will reject it.

Trying to convince a community that having an incinerator near them will be far harder, and in the end, it will be up to local politicians to make the case in the interests of the greater good.

They're also seeking for Cuomo to prompt the Public Service Commission to regulate terms of cell phone service and for recyclable materials and yard waste to be banned from landfills or incinerators.

«California Governor Jerry Brown would never, ever allow a giant garbage incinerator to be sited in the middle of Napa Valley,» Nixon said.

Winemakers, farmers, residents and local officials have long called on Cuomo's administration to disallow the incinerator, which is proposed for the town of Romulus.

So now we must rely on Covanta's yearly air purity test, to insure the purity of the emissions from the incinerator,» he said.

Among other things, residents are worried about the health impacts of adding Cortland County's trash to the incinerator, suggesting dioxins coming from the plant have already had adverse health effects on residents.

They are also worried that the plant is outdated, with other communities abandoning the incinerator model of trash disposal.

Donnelly says the deal also means updated pollution control and monitoring, and gives local officials control over the source of trash for the incinerator, something county officials have emphasized in the past.

Onondaga County is hosting the first of several public hearings on a plan to import trash from Cortland County to burn at Onondaga County's incinerator in Jamesville.

If this were the case, then those of us who live in less salubrious areas wouldn't have the municipal dump or waste incinerators on our doorsteps.

Cortland County lawmakers are expected to vote tonight on a resolution that would end consideration of plans to swap trash for incinerator ash from Onondaga County.

The administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is unveiling a new proposal that will require the largest generators of food wastes here to arrange for composting of those materials, rather than sending them to landfills or incinerators.

They were greeted at the state capitol by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua), State Sen. Tom O'Mara (R - Big Flats), chair of the Senate's Environmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environmental goals.

In response to Cuomo's Tweet, Knauf says Circular enerG may be open to moving the site of the trash incinerator to another location in the state.

Both are part of a team pushing a bill that would give the town of Romulus more authority to decide the fate of the trash incinerator project.

The trash - burning incinerator plant was notorious for blackening the snow of lawns with falling ash.

If you're a green governor you should kind of know better than to bring fracked gas to a low - income minority community in downtown Albany that's already suffered years ago with the Albany ANSWERS garbage incinerator.

The release also warned that the city was considering creating «waste to energy» facilities, which would use incinerators and «whose siting may be restricted to environmentally overburdened communities of color» — like Hunts Point.

Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, is de facto insolvent, and vulture advisers are circling overhead, recommending that it sell off not only its parking system, water, and sewer services, and incinerator, but sell off an island, just like Greece.

They also want Cuomo to prompt the Public Service Commission to regulate terms of cell phone service and for recyclable materials and yard waste to be banned from landfills or incinerators.