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The HRAP system operating at Peterborough in South Australia's arid north. Environmental health experts at Flinders University are...

Tue, 05/18/2021 - 5:01pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine The Agency of Natural Resources Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced today that Victor Superchi was fined $17,406 for burning a structure on his Chester, Vermont, property in violation of the Vermont Air Pollution Control Regulations and Solid Waste Management Rules. In December 2019, Superchi burned a derelict housing structure containing materials that are prohibited from being burned. DEC personnel inspected the re...

Date Time Epworth transforms its hospital waste Epworth HealthCare’s Nicole Waldron and Simon Mikedis with old staff uniforms set to be recycled Hospitals create large amounts of waste products, but Epworth HealthCare is doing its best to recycle sustainably and generate green power. The Victoria-based private healthcare provider has recycled almost 30 tonnes of food waste, medical PVC and employee uniforms in the past year, producing electricity, garden hoses and stuffing for exercise equipm...

Karen Leonetti Ashland County Park District School will soon be out for the summer. You’re probably dreaming of a fabulous family get-away. There is the typical vacation, but gas prices are beginning to soar and so many travel restrictions are still in place. Then there is the “staycation,” but we usually end up tirelessly working around the house; children are bored and you are exhausted upon returning to work. What are you to do? Plan a summer journey through each of the 18 Ashland Coun...

through its in-store recycling programs RICHMOND HILL, ON, April 22, 2021 /CNW/ - For almost 20 years, Staples Canada has been promoting environmental sustainability through its corporate initiatives and in-store recycling programs. To mark Earth Month, Staples Canada is celebrating its latest environmental accomplishments, helping divert more than 136,000 kilograms of used household batteries through its partnership with Call2Recycle, recycling more than 2 million kilograms of electronic waste...

Kroger Invites Customers to Mail In Flexible Plastic Packaging to Make New Recycled Products (Credit: Kroger Co.) The Kroger Co. is offering customers a way to recycle flexible plastic packaging in what the grocer says is the first program of its kind. The “Kroger Our Brands Recycling Program,” developed in partnership with TerraCycle, encourages customers to mail in flexible plastic Kroger-brands packaging. Once received, the collected packaging will be cleaned and melted into hard plasti...

Number of items fixed per session (held once a month): 30-60 Volunteer skill sets: At each session, we have about two to four sewers, three to four in electrical and two to three in general and mechanical (who fix items such as bikes and sharpen secateurs). Shortest fix – the shortest fix took just three seconds. A man brought in a chainsaw and wasn’t aware that it had a safety lock on it. Longest fix: the longest fix was a TV that took three hours. Our volunteers have incredible persistenc...

Malden news briefs Sidewalk repair work in Malden The Department of Conservation and Recreation will implement a lane shift and sidewalk closure along Mountain Avenue at the Lt. Dennis C. Holland Memorial Pool in Malden through April 16, excluding weekends, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to accommodate sidewalk repair work. Traffic patterns will be marked and a police detail will be onsite.  Mayor to hold webinar On April 8, Mayor Gary Christenson will hold a live question-and-answer webinar wher...

Date Time First of its kind worm farm in Australia in a North Kellyville The Hills Shire Council is running a worm farm trial in an apartment complex in North Kellyville. The ‘skip bin-sized’ worm farm is located in a carpark – just beneath the complex – and houses roughly 120,000 (30kg of) worms, which will produce both worm castings and worm tea for the building to use in their shared garden plots and on their balcony verandas. The worm farm, supplied by Worms Downunder, is the first ...

Date Time Amcor partners with McKinsey.org to build sustainable recycling systems in Latin America Amcor has partnered with McKinsey.org, a nonprofit founded by global consultancy McKinsey & Company, to develop recycling and waste management solutions that can be applied across communities in Latin America. Amcor is supporting McKinsey.org’s “Rethinking Recycling” initiative in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which has worked with 5,000 households, trained more than 120 workers and helped commun...