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Tag: waste

  • Maryland, Maryland, Quite Contrary-land

    Since 2011, Mary­land has been noto­ri­ous for being the only state to clas­si­fy trash as equiv­a­lent to wind pow­er in a renew­able ener­gy man­date. Over half of the “renew­able” ener­gy used to meet the man­date still comes from smoke­stacks at paper mills, land­fills, trash, and bio­mass incin­er­a­tors in 12 states span­ning New Jer­sey to Wis­con­sin to Tennessee.…

  • Waste Done Right

    - by Ruth Tyson, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network In 2012, Amer­i­cans dis­posed of 251 mil­lion tons of trash, accord­ing to the U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA). The Sto­ry of Stuff Project neat­ly lays out the way mate­ri­als move through our econ­o­my from extrac­tion to pro­duc­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion, con­sump­tion, and dis­pos­al. Most con­sumers don’t think beyond the “con­sump­tion”…

  • Unforeseen Dioxin Formation in Waste Incineration

    - by  Ingrid Söder­bergh, Sep­tem­ber 18, 2014, Phys.org Diox­ins forms faster, at low­er tem­per­a­tures and under oth­er con­di­tions than pre­vi­ous­ly thought. This may affect how we in the future con­struct sam­pling equip­ment, flue gas fil­ter­ing sys­tems for waste incin­er­a­tion and how to treat waste incin­er­a­tion fly ash. These are some of the con­clu­sions Eva Wei­de­mann draws…

  • Marcellus Shale Drillers Under-Reported Waste

    - by Anya Lit­vak and Maxwell Rad­win, August 31, 2014, The Post-Gazette EQT Corp. told the Penn­syl­va­nia Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion that it sent 21 tons of drill cut­tings from its Mar­cel­lus Shale wells to area land­fills in 2013. But land­fills in south­west­ern Penn­syl­va­nia told a dif­fer­ent story. Six facil­i­ties in this part of the state report­ed receiv­ing near­ly 95,000…

  • Zero Waste Hierarchy

    You’ve prob­a­bly heard the term Zero Waste before, but not been sure about what it meant The peer-reviewed def­i­n­i­tion of Zero Waste by Zero Waste Inter­na­tion­al Alliance involves “design­ing and man­ag­ing prod­ucts and process­es to sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly avoid and elim­i­nate the vol­ume and tox­i­c­i­ty of waste and mate­ri­als, con­serve and recov­er all resources, and not burn or bury them.” Notice…