Composting your yard and food waste helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve soil quality, reduce the need for chemicals and fertilizers and save water. Acceptable Yard and Food Waste: Food Scraps: Meats, dairy products, fruits and vegetables, breads, eggshells and nutshells, coffee grounds, and tea bags. Food-soiled Paper: Pizza boxes, paper towels…
Fort Worth provides residential curbside garbage pickup one time per week in the residents choice of three brown cart sizes. The city also offers weekly collection of recycling in the blue carts and yard waste in the green carts. All weekly collections take place on the same day. All garbage must be contained in garbage bags within the brown cart. The lid must…
Hole 16 is the most exciting hole on the PGA TOUR. Follow play from tee to green while enjoying an elaborate buffet and cocktails. The exclusive Skybox Village provides one of the most valued opportunities for the corporate participant. Seating overlooks the 16th hole and provides a breathtaking panoramic view of the action. This unique experience enables participating…
Education and Training: Varies—see profile Salary: Median—$15.90 per hour Employment Outlook: Good Definition and Nature of the Work Industrial societies generate a tremendous amount of hazardous waste material every day. For many years this waste was simply buried in the ground or dumped at sea. In time it became clear that careless disposal of hazardous waste…
Waste Management of Alameda County, Inc. is your partner in helping to achieve the City of Hayward’s solid waste diversion goals. By practicing the 4Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot - you can control the amount of waste sent to the landfill. Here are a few tips to help you reduce waste: Reduce: Buy products thoughtfully, only consuming items you will actually…
Sam Greenwood/Getty ImagesAt most PGA Tour events, you might find a player toss a golf ball or glove into the stands. At TPC Scottsdale, you never knew what you might walk away with at the par-3 16th hole. The PGA Tour put out a notice to players and caddies stating that for fan safety reasons, players and caddies are prohibited from throwing, kicking, or otherwise…
Waste Management of San Diego provides service in three local cities - El Cajon, Santee and San Diego - and several communities in East San Diego County. From our yard located in El Cajon, our employees provide residential, commercial and industrial trash collection, recycling services and dumpster rentals. We also operate a buyback center in El Cajon. We welcome…
Fort Myers is located on the west coast of Florida approximately 100 miles south of Tampa. Fort Myers was originally a United States Fort – a major defense against the Seminole Indian Tribe. Fort Myers is the seat of Lee County who strictly enforce health requlations of Medical waste and Biomedical waste disposal. MWaste is a locally owned and operated company…
USEPA, Environmental Protection Administration Taiwan (EPAT), and the Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA) co-hosted the fourth annual meeting of the International E-Waste Management Network (IEMN) from July 14-17, 2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam. In addition to officials from Vietnam, Taiwan and the United States, representatives from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia…
Spokane County residents have three clean, one-stop drop-off locations for recyclables, household hazardous wastes, yard wastes, and trash. The City of Spokane operates the Waste to Energy Facility Recycling & Disposal Site, 2900 S. Geiger Blvd. The facility is located west of downtown Spokane across from the Washington State Patrol office. The WTE recycling…
IDB’s Water and Sanitation Division, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), The Coca-Cola Company and AVINA, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, launched the first Latin American program to integrate waste collectors into the formal recycling market Various researchers estimate that between 400, and 4 million people in Latin America…
Entsorga West Virginia Announces U.S.’s First Resource Recovery Facility to Utilize Mechanical Biological Treatment Entsorga West Virginia today announced the groundbreaking of the U.S.’s first resource recovery facility utilizing Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT). The state-of-the-art waste-to-solid fuel plant will be located at 870 Grapevine Road, Martinsburg…
Challenges San Francisco has deployed its widely successful solid waste management programme based on the ambitious goal of zero waste by 2020. To ensure that no material goes to landfill or high temperature destruction, the city’s zero waste goal means that products are designed and used according to the principle of highest and best use. Zero Waste also means…
The Niagara Frontier Section of the Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA NFS) is a non-profit organization for people involved in the environmental profession consisting of individual and corporate members from the Western New York area. Members come from local universities, governments, NYS Department of Conservation (NYSDEC), local industries, environmental…
The Kern County Public Works Department operates seven landfills throughout the county. Landfills are located in Bakersfield (Bena Landfill), Boron, Mojave-Rosamond, Ridgecrest, Shafter-Wasco, Taft, and Tehachapi. A sanitary landfill, which used to be called a “dump”, is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial. It is the oldest form of waste treatment…
The City of Yorba Linda waste and recycling services are provided solely by Republic Services, formerly known as Yorba Linda Disposal, as part of a citywide franchise agreement. Republic Services offers residential and commercial customers a variety of options on their easy-to-use website at . The Republic website allows you to conveniently pay your bill, view…
Are you hiding something in your garbage? (On Vancouver Island and on the lower mainland) One third of the garbage in our landfills is organic material (food and yard waste). That material does not need to go to the landfill; it can be composted and put to better use. And did you know? Metro Vancouver, along with your municipality, will ban organic materials…
Residential Garbage Collection The City of Fort Wayne contracts with Republic Services to collect residential garbage. Garbage is collected one per week in your neighborhood. To determine your collection day click here or dial 311. The city will provide one 96 gallon or 48 gallon cart to each household for garbage collection. Additional carts are available and…
Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran Waste Management (WM), a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential…
The City of Fairhope Public Works Department announces the Holiday schedule for Garbage, Trash and Recycling pick-up: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. There will be no interruption in garbage service. Trash, & Recycling: No service. Service will resume on next scheduled pick up day. MEMORIAL DAY There will be no garbage, recycling or trash pickup for Independence…
