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Lowes Canada Diverts Dangerous Products from Landfills
2020-06-24 09:00:00| Waste Age
Home improvement retailer, Lowes Canada, is focused on diverting dangerous products from landfills. The company has been recognition for its household battery collection and recycling efforts. In 2019, the company recycled more than 255,000 p
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How Will Landfills Gas-to-Energy Projects be Impacted by Californias Organics Diversion Law?
2020-06-16 09:00:00| Waste Age
The first deadline laid out in Californias SB 1383 is looming: 50 percent diversion of organics from landfill by 2022; by 2025, Californians must divert 75 percent of their organics. Many disposal sites will see a sharp reduction in incoming
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How Landfills Can Brace for Disasters
2020-05-27 09:00:00| Waste Age
Its been nearly eight years since one of the worst derechos in history reared its head in the Midwest, swiftly advanced east, and ripped through the Appalachians and the mid-Atlantic, but Billy Basham, who was Roanoke, VAs solid waste man
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Plastic Food Packaging Causing Problems for Landfills in Wisconsin
2020-04-28 09:00:00| Waste Age
As part of its Earth Day reporting, Dane County, Wisconsin ABC affiliate WKOW looked into how plastic food packaging is exacerbating the already troublesome plastic waste problem landfills are facing all over the state. John Welch, the direc
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Researching PFAS in Landfills
2020-04-10 10:00:00| Waste Age
Vermont, Michigan, New York, New Hampshire, California and Connecticut are some of the states testing and investigating PFAS in landfills.
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