- Building a Strong Contract for Recycling Services: Tom Outerbridge, Sims Municipal Recycling. Building a Strong Contract for Recycling Services: Jared Rhodes, Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation. Lithium Batteries in the Recycling Stream: Todd Ellis, Call2Recycle. Scope of Waste & Recycling Facility Fires in the US & CAN: Ryan Fogelman.
- A study undertaken by Ryan Fogelman, vice president of business development for Southfield, Michigan-based Fire Rover, has uncovered more than 280 recycling or waste facility fires in the United States and Canada in a 12-month period spanning parts of 2016 and 2017. Fogelman says 41 percent of those.
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A study undertaken by Ryan Fogelman, vice president of business development for Southfield, Michigan-based, has uncovered more than 280 recycling or waste facility fires in the United States and Canada in a 12-month period spanning parts of 2016 and 2017. Fogelman says 41 percent of those fires occurred at waste facilities such as transfer stations, while another 27 percent occurred at scrap metal locations.
In to his LinkedIn page, Fogelman writes, “For the rolling 12 months from March 2016 until February 2017, U.S. And Canadian waste and recycling facilities have experienced 282 reported fires.” Fogelman says the data was compiled by searching news articles for the keywords fire, plus recycling, shredder, transfer station and other recycling- and waste-related terms. Fogelman says the actual number is probably much higher, since numerous incidents may go unreported. “In the United Kingdom, the CFOA (Chief Fire Officers Association) reported 250 fires in 2015 at waste and recycling companies,” he writes. “The equivalent number in the U.S. Would be well over 1,500 fires annually, based on an extrapolation of population.” A breakdown of the reported fires by facility type depicted by Fogelman in an email shows the following percentages: waste facilities, 41 percent; scrap metal facilities, 27 percent; paper recycling plants, 9 percent; organics recycling facilities, 6 percent; rubber or tire recycling locations, 4 percent; C&D materials facilities, 4 percent; plastics recycling plants, 3 percent; electronic scrap facilities, 1 percent. Fogelman also writes that he welcomes additional data on recycling-related fires in North America and that he can be contacted through his LinkedIn page.
In February 2017, Fire Rover and Miramar, Florida-based announced that U.S. Shredder is products and services to the scrap recycling industry in North America. Waukesha, Wisconsin-based and its subsidiary have announced their new LadderLink modular access system. The companies say LadderLink provides “an affordable and rugged framework of five core bolt-together components that will allow users to easily create a customized access solution for distribution centers, warehouses and manufacturing operations.” The LadderLink Modular Access System will be displayed for the first time at the ProMat 2017 exposition, April 3-6, 2017, at McCormick Place in Chicago.
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“We listened to our customers’ requests for a more affordable, safe and highly adaptable access solution,” says Ladder Industries General Manager Tim Gonzalez. Cordele, Georgia-based has announced that is now a distributor for the states of Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The distributorship includes sales, parts and service of all Harris vertical, horizontal and two-ram balers, including Centurion and HRB brand balers.
“Our staff at Plum Creek is delighted to partner with Harris Waste Management to bring the acknowledged premier recycling machinery manufacturer to our southern states’ customer base,” says Jim Wamble, president and CEO of Plum Creek Environmental. “Our dynamic growth is predicated on providing the finest and most productive equipment on the market, and Harris certainly fills that bill,” he adds.
Plum Creek Environmental Technologies recently relocated its corporate headquarters to West Point, Mississippi. Harris designs, manufactures and supports scrap processing, recycling and waste handling equipment. Two Maine municipalities are preparing to launch the state’s first municipal food waste collection programs, which will offer free, weekly curbside pickup of food scraps,. The goal of both projects is to reduce the amount of waste sent to an incinerator or landfill.
Select South Portland and Scarborough residents will be able to divert their bread, coffee grounds, dairy products and meat by sending it to, a Portland-based waste processing company collectively owned by more than a dozen towns and cities, the report says. The processed waste is then sent to, an anaerobic digester in Exeter that converts organic waste and cow manure into electricity, compost and animal bedding.
According to the report, ecomaine began accepting food waste in September 2016 in exchange for reduced tipping fees. South Portland is testing the project for one year on 600 households in the Knightville and Meetinghouse Hill neighborhoods, the report says. The homes will receive a white, 6-gallon lidded bucket in the beginning of May to dispose of their food waste.
The buckets will be collected on the same day as trash and recycling. Residents are able to put the food scraps in a clear plastic bag before disposing of it in the bins. Scarborough’s pilot project will last for nine months and will include around 180 homes in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. According to the report, residents will be given green, 35-gallon bins that will also be collected every week alongside either trash or recycling. Garbage-to-Garden won the bid for the new service in South Portland and will be paid $43,700 for the service, including the cost of the bins and outreach and education services. South Portland will also open large compost bins to the public at its transfer station.
Pine Tree Waste, the company that provides trash collection services for Scarborough, uses a dual-body truck and can only pick up two types of material at a time, the report says. Compost bins will also be provided at transfer stations in Scarborough for residents who are not part of the pilot program. South Portland is expected to get closer to its goal of 40 percent diversion by 2020 if the program is implemented, the report says. Travis Wagner, an environmental policy professor at the University of Southern Maine, will analyze the data produced by the two programs with the goal of coming up for the best practices for municipal organics recycling based on participation and cost. A provider of water treatment solutions based in Los Angeles, has entered into a Master Research Agreement (the agreement) with (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida.
The agreement establishes a cooperative framework for further scientific research and validation projects pertaining to OriginClear's technology, electro water separation with advanced oxidation, when applied to landfill leachate treatment. 'OriginClear's electrochemical oxidation process shows great promise in reducing effluent concentrations of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia in leachate with very short reaction times,' says Dr. You got served movie. Dan Meeroff, associate chair and professor at FAU's Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering. 'New advances in anode technology make this process even more exciting and less expensive, as it has the potential to achieve excellent removal of a range of organic and inorganic constituents.'
'Known as 'black water,' landfill leachate is a major challenge worldwide,' says Jean-Louis Kindler, president of OriginClear's Technology Division. 'We are making commercial progress in China and Malaysia, and with this partnership, we look forward to bringing our high-speed leachate process to North America.' When rain or ground water flows through municipal and industrial waste landfill, leachate drains from the landfill as 'black water.' This leachate is a highly contaminated and complex industrial effluent.
Untreated leachate can contaminate nearby soil, groundwater and surface water and lead to a health risk for local communities. China as well as other countries are implementing increasingly drastic discharge regulations for this effluent. Additionally, there is a growing awareness in the United States of the potential risks linked to leachate contamination. As part of this newly established relationship with FAU, OriginClear has started the first laboratory tests on leachate originating from the Eastern United States, and will correlate these with results obtained so far from tests in East Asia.