Friday, January 06, 2006

 

Michael Recycle says...


BE LIKE MIKE!

Give your kids a cleaner, greener, HEALTHIER tomorrow!




 

Jackson Township residents have no excuse for not recycling

Friday, January 6, 2006

I was appalled by the amount of trash sitting at the curb for pickup by the trash haulers in Jackson Township this Christmas season. So much of the boxes and paper could have been recycled.

I would hope that everyone would stop and consider what this waste is doing to the land. Ask anyone who lives within several miles of these “mountains of trash” what they think. Would you like to have a landfill in your backyard? Does the state of Ohio have to be the garbage capital of the East? . . . Read more

 

Recycling takes little time but will pay off in a big way for future generations

Friday, January 6, 2006

Let’s keep America beautiful. It’s a simple, yet seldom heard, phrase these days. The Repository’s Daily Poll on recycling appalled me, for the percentage of individuals who wouldn’t recycle was 64.7 percent, to 35.3 percent who would. This is an outrage, not to mention selfish and lazy! . . . Read more

 

The "adventures" of "Landfill Larry"



"Landfill Larry" is the friendly non-threatening cartoon spokesman for some landfill products company based in New York. When he's not busy giving an "attaboy" or the "thumb's up," he's having, ummm, "adventures." Here's one...

 

Kimble's J&J gets Dover trash-hauling price hike

By Joe Mizer
T-R Staff Writer

Dover residents will see an increase in their trash disposal bills, starting with their next utility billing cycle. .Read more

 

It's the public face that counts!

Thursday, January 05, 2006

 

Massillon American Legion recycles cell phones for charity

Printer cartridges, cell phones sought by American Legion

MASSILLON - The American Legion is seeking empty inkjet printer cartridges and used cell phones to help support its veterans charity programs.

Legion Post 221, at 427 Lincoln Way East, Massillon, Ohio, is the local collection point for the items.



Did you know Massillon has a Freecycle chapter? Click here. American Legion

 

OEPA gives Envirosafe another decade of dumping

Oregon landfill license extended for ten years

By Tom Henry
Toledo Blade Staff Writer
Thurs., Jan. 5, 2006

Ohio's only landfill with a commercial license to bury hazardous waste will be able to keep its gates open through at least the end of 2015. . . Read more

 

BCS? PVC.

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Click here to review an estimated trend of PVC tonnage discarded in U.S. landfills (1966-2007). The states that landfill the most PVC Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) are featured in the PVC rankings. What does any of this have to do with college football? Compare these rankings yourself and see if you don't notice more than a little resemblance to the 2005 BCS.

Businesses: willing to take the corporate PVC-reduction pledge?

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

 

People countersuing corporations using SLAPPS against them

By Tim Jones
Chicago Tribune via
Myrtle Beach Online
Sun, Dec. 25, 2005

ST. LOUIS - A year ago Tom and Barbi Diehl were sweating a $5 million libel and slander suit, filed against them by a company that objected to Tom Diehl's public opposition to a proposed garbage holding pen in his suburban St. Louis neighborhood.

The lawsuit was tossed out by Missouri courts this year and now the Diehls are suing the garbage company for damages, arguing that the suit against them was malicious. . . Read more

 

Local citizens victorious against Waste Technologies Industries (WTI) in notorius SLAPP suit

WTI's Suit Against Opponents "Suspended"
Friday, March 26, 2000 via greenlink.org

Washington, DC -- Citizens in Ohio and West Virginia who for three years have been victims of a vicious and unfounded Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) filed by the owners and operators of a hazardous waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio have learned that the suit has been "suspended." The incinerator is located 1100 feet from an elementary school..Read more

 

Landfill owners pay $400,000 for filing SLAPP suit

Associated Press
12.14.01

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In the 1990s, Nancy Hsu Fleming was relentless in complaining to state officials about a landfill in her town. She irked its owners so ferociously, they ended up suing her.

On Dec. 12, three days into a counter-lawsuit she filed against the landfill's owners claiming that they had tried to intimidate her and had violated her constitutional rights, they agreed to pay her $400,000 to settle the matter. . . Read more

 

Limits on landfills - As restrictions expire, monitoring is crucial

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Club 3000 monitors Dick Harvey (L) and Tom O'Dell (R) inspect a 60mil landfill liner membrane in Nov. 2005. Club 3000 has inspected the Countywide landfill for more than 15 years, and during that decade and a half, Club 3000 has revealed the dumping of radioactive waste, lead, and whole tires, as well as apparent working condition violations, dust releases, solid waste odors, and a host of other potential environmental violations. Club 3000's inspection rights remain a matter for the Ohio court system because the 1989 settlement which created those inspection rights has been challenged by the landfill operator, Republic Services.

Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer Editorial
Jan. 4, 2006

The new year brought an end to Michigan's tight restrictions on development of new landfills. Up until this past weekend, landfill construction in Michigan was banned unless an existing landfill was set to reach capacity within less than five years. Even then, construction was contingent upon the approval of state and local officials. . . Read more

 

Girard Mayor keeps his eye on Ohio C&DD landfill

By Jennifer Kovacs
Tribune Chronicle

GIRARD - As he fights to keep a second construction and demolition debris landfill out of Girard, Mayor James J. Melfi said he's keeping his eye on the first one as well.

While Total Waste Logistics (TWL) was approved Dec. 28 for a one-year renewal of its license for its C&DD landfill on Salt Springs Road by the city's health board, Melfi said he wants to have more information to review to make sure the site is up to codes, especially any new standards recently placed by the state on C&DD landfills. . . . Read more

 

Barstow, Calif. woman keeps tons out of landfills

Lending a hand with Freecycle

By Adrienne Ziegler
Desert Dispatch Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 3, 2006

BARSTOW -- Barstow resident Anne Crawford spends a lot of her time keeping garbage out of landfills -- 100 million pounds of it since February, actually. .Read more

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

 

Landfill fire rages on, forces evacuations

Residents asked to stay inside their homes

WVNS-TV Story by Martina Bills Bio
Posted 1/3/2006 6:10 PM

Folks in the Cannonsburg, Kentucky area are being asked to stay inside their home[s] with the windows and doors closed.

A fire was first reported just after six o'clock Tuesday morning at the Cooksey Brothers Disposal landfill. A massive black plume of smoke billows from the landfill in Cannonsburg, Kentucky.

More than an acre of trash is burning and emergency officials say the smoke may be filled with toxins and has the potential to be dangerous. . ........One of many past New Jersey landfill fires
Read more

Monday, January 02, 2006

 

Arsenic levels in leachate among factors affecting new contract for treatment


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Evan Brandt
Pottstown (Penn.) Mercury
01/01/2006

POTTSTOWN -- Over the past 10 years that polluted water leaching from the Pottstown Landfill has been treated at the borough’s sewer plant, the level of arsenic permitted in the leachate has been exceeded at least six times, but no fines were ever levied, an analysis of monthly reports has revealed.

The permit which governs the limits on dangerous substances in the leachate -- there are many other than arsenic -- is issued by the Pottstown Borough Authority, which operates the wastewater treatment plant on Industrial Boulevard.

The permit allows the borough authority to issue violations that "may result in the imposition of civil and/or criminal penalties of up to $25,000 per day per violation."

However, since 1990, when the current leachate treatment contract between Pottstown and Waste Management Inc., was enacted, only two notices of violation were ever issued against the landfill, and both those were later retracted at the request of the landfill’s owner, Waste Management Inc., the reports show. . . Read more

 

Trash collectors do the can't-can

San Lorenzo residents in the dumps about where emptied containers are put

By Michelle Beaver
Daily Review Staff Writer

San Lorenzo, Calif. - It's a big problem. Or isn't, depending on whom you ask. Either way, an issue in San Lorenzo has cost an international company almost $200,000, to the benefit of the local agency that fined them.

The issue revolves around the question: Where should bins for trash, recyclables and green matter be placed for pickup, and where should they be returned?

The San Lorenzo-based Oro Loma Sanitary District long ago hired the huge Waste Management Inc. to pick up trash in the city, and it has fined the corporation about $194,000 this year for failing to properly return trash cans, said Oro Loma board member Herbert Crowle. . . Read more