BIOREM Inc. announces $500,000 order for a
biological-based VOC abatement system Ensyn Corporation
announces partnership with Tolko Industries to construct
world’s largest fast pyrolysis bio-oil plant
Xebec Adsorption Inc. will supply
air purification systems to Nevera Fuel Cells FTSE Group
launches new stock indices designed to track companies’
ability to manage climate change risks Global desalination
investment predicted to double from to $16.6 billion per
year by 2016.
Program launched in Ontario to provide
community-based power projects with 90% of development costs
CO2 Solution Inc., achieves significant technical results
towards validating the impact of its enzymatic process on
reducing the cost of carbon capture at commercial scale.
The Climate Change Industry (EBI, 2010)
Biofuels Strategic Production Report (USDA, June 2010)
Robert Simone joins PNC Equipment Finance Kirk Davis joins
Canadian Oil Recovery and Remediation Enterprises Ltd. Even
the greenest of consumers are fairly conservative.
Business News BIOREM Inc. (TSX-V: BRM),
based in Guelph, recently announced that it has received an
order for its advanced biological-based volatile organic
compounds (VOC) abatement system, totaling just over
$500,000. This system was chosen because it has the lowest
carbon footprint of any current abatement technology. BIOREM
is a leading clean technology company that designs,
manufactures and distributes a comprehensive line of
high-efficiency biological-based air emissions control
systems.
Ensyn Coporation, a biofuels company
headquartered in Ottawa recently announced that it has
partnered with Tolko Industries Ltd. (a Canadian-owned
forest products company) to build the world’s largest
commercial fast pyrolysis bio-oil plant in High Level,
Alberta. When operational, this plant will be capable of
processing 400 bone dry tonnes of biomass per day into 85
million litres of bio-oil annually
____________________________ Waste Management and Disposal Bins Author: Michiel Van Kets
What is waste management?Simply put it is the collection of waste
materials produced by human consumption and activity, transporting it to a
facility that will treat it and then the recycling of the waste material, or if
it is not reusable, disposing of it for good.
Recycling products and materials
is becoming the norm due to the growing understanding of the effects it has on
our environment; concern about waste disposal practices to our surroundings and
is an important issue to companies and local governments.
Once, the management
of waste would have meant the dustbin truck taking your refuse and transporting
it to the local garbage dump. Fortunately landfills are no longer regarded as
an appropriate solution to dealing with waste; refuse, garbage, trash, rubbish,
scrap, however you want to name it, is now being accepted as a valuable resource
that shouldn't only be land filled but found many valuable and resourceful uses
for. Governments and private companies aim to control waste by offering
facilities to households and businesses to dispose of it, one of the main
methods used are the provision of disposal bins. disposal bins can be hired to collect a
variety of waste including food, plastics, metal, furniture, timber and
construction, garden and electronic waste.
The kind of disposal bin required will
depend on the type of materials you are planning on disposing of. For example,
green waste skip bins are used for anything from tree clippings to grass and hardfill
disposal bins for substances like concrete, soil, rubble and tiles.
Hazardous chemicals and contaminated waste can’t be put into disposal bins due to
the dangers involved and so for these materials it is necessary to call the
local council and they will advise on how to dispose of them, hazardous
substances include acids, solvents, cyanide waste materials, paints and oils.
There are also bulk bins and disposal bin hire solutions for the collection of
refuse from businesses such as building and construction sites, large size
developments and industrial companies.
As well as disposal bins, amenities are
provided to safely dispose of and destroy private documents such as quarantine
stock, computer hardcopy, tapes and microfiche and out of date products.
Electronic waste is also recycled these days and includes components from
disused computers and other IT equipment. Collection and treatment services
exist for clinical and medical waste from businesses and industries such as
laboratories, surgeries, veterinaries, dental surgeries, food processing plants
and hospitals.
The disposal hire industry and resource recovery facilities are
particularly essential for the future of the environment as they create an
awareness of how everyone can help in increasing the amount of waste recycled
and thus reducing landfill. Nations all over the world are joining in the
attempt to find ways of recycling waste, from using complicated methods to
change the calorific content present in waste into electricity or sorting
through landfills to remove recyclable materials and reduce the amount of waste
that needs to be disposed of. Waste management is an ongoing problem for
society, a problem that will never go away, but if managed effectively, can be
controlled.
Recycling is the reprocessing of materials that would
otherwise become waste in order to make them into new
products. This is in contrast
with reuse: collecting waste such as food containers to be
cleaned, refilled and resold. Recycling prevents waste
being landfilled or incinerated, reduces the consumption of
new raw materials, and is advocated by supporters to require
less energy than virgin production Commonly recycled
materials include glass, paper, aluminium, asphalt, steel,
textiles and plastic. These materials can be derived either
from pre-consumer waste (materials used in manufacturing) or
post-consumer waste (materials discarded by the consumer).
Recycling is a key concept of modern waste management and is
the third component of the waste hierarchy. To be recycled
waste has to be sorted and separated. Waste sorting can be
done by the waste producer, at curb side collection sites,
or at a materials recovery facility. In everyday speech the
word recycling often refers to the practice of waste sorting
done by consumers.
One of the main benefits of recycling comes from reducing
the amount of new material required. In theory, recycling
allows a material to be continually reused for the same
purpose, and in many cases this theory holds true, most
notably in the recycling of metals and glass.
Since less raw material is required, recycling creates
further benefits for materials where cost of the initial
extraction or production is high—either economically,
socially or environmentally. The recycling of aluminium, for
example, saves 95% of the CO2 emissions—an environmentally
harmful greenhouse gas—compared to refining new metal.
Concerns about limited resources such as raw materials and
land space for disposal of waste have increased the
importance of recycling. However maximum environmental
benefit is gained by reducing the amount of waste produced,
and reusing items in their current form, for example
refilling bottles. All recycling techniques consume energy,
for transportation and processing, and some also use
considerable amounts of water. Both of these resources have
an environmental impact which is why campaigners use the
slogan Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to indicate the preferred
order for waste management in the waste hierarchy.
