Tag: Waste Management
Fluorescent Lighting Fixtures, Pre-1979
The EPA has released recommended steps to take for schools with older lighting fixtures in order to reduce potential exposures to harmful levels of PCBs. The guidance — part of EPA’s efforts to address potential PCB exposures in schools — is based on evidence that the older ballasts contain PCBs that can leak when the ballasts fail,
Game Day Challenge To Reduce Waste
In October 2010, 77 colleges and universities took up the EPA's challenge to reduce waste at one of their home football games.
College Putting Food Waste To Use
Since Fall 2009, Elizabethtown College has been using a food waste treatment strategy that saves water and reduces waste hauling costs.
1,000,000+ Pounds Of Batteries Avoid Landfill
This past summer, Call2Recycle led the campaign to collect at least one million pounds of rechargeable batteries from Americans.
On The Road To Zero Waste, $20 At A Time
GAF’s Cobra® Ridge Vent plant, located in the northern Atlanta suburb of Cumming, GA, is a bright, highly automated, state-of-the-art facility — the type...
NEW SERVICE SPOTLIGHT: Waste Management, Recycling, and Diversion from IEA
The International Environmental Alliance (IEA) provides full service waste management, recycling, and diversion services for facilities of all types and sizes.
NEW PRODUCT FLASH: ID For Recycling Containers From MOD
Meese Orbitron Dunne offers permanent, molded-in company logos and other markings to promote cart security.
NEW PRODUCT FLASH: Dual Drive Scrap Chopper From Sweed Machinery
Sweed Machinery, Inc. has launched this latest product to help generators of scrap plastic banding.
NEW SERVICE SPOTLIGHT: Pharmaceutical Waste Management
MA-based Clean Harbors offers customized pharmaceutical waste management and removal programs for healthcare facilities.
NEW PRODUCT FLASH: Smash-It From Air Cycle Corp.
These pneumatic compactors enable facility management staff to compact waste into 55 gallon drums or cubic yard boxes.
NEW SERVICE SPOTLIGHT: Total Resource Management By Geocycle LLC
This service provides companies with a full suite of solutions focused on re-using, recycling and co-processing waste in the most beneficial manner.
Stronger Criminal Enforcement for Workplace Fatalities and Injuries
Change to Win Health and Safety Coordinator Eric Frumin called for stronger criminal sanctions for ignoring safety hazards that lead to a worker's death or serious injury.