The 50 Capstone MicroTurbine systems atop the Lopez Canyon landfill comprise the most microturbines installed at a single site to date. This array, purchased and installed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power LADWP, can export up to 1.3 megawatts of electricity net, enough to power about 1,300...
Never did Antioch Community High School think that residing next to this landfill would be an advantage. RMT led the design and construction of this landfill gas-to-energy project, which includes a 360-kilowatt kW microturbine plant that will be powered by landfill gas that is currently collected from the nearby landfill....
The warming effect has many side effects, such as the melting of polar ice caps, changes in weather patterns, and increases in sea levels. However, burning fossil fuels is not the only way in which greenhouse gases end up in the atmosphere. As stated above, burning fossil fuels is not...
If you think taking out the garbage is a real drag, think again. Waste Management raked in more than $13 billion in revenues last year, making it the largest provider of waste management services on the continent. Its core business is your garbage, which it retrieves and transports to one...
Anyone who has ever walked through a construction site knows that building a structure creates a surprising amount of wood waste. In fact, building a 2,000-square-foot house generates 1.7 tons of it, on average. Some of the construction waste is from engineered wood products EWPs, such as oriented strand board...
In Waste Strategy 2000, Government has set ambitious targets for drastically reducing household waste going to landfill and increasing the recycling of used materials. A key element of the strategy is that producers are being made responsible for the recovery, reuse and recycling of products after they have fulfilled their...
Microturbines are an emerging landfill gas LFG energy recovery technology option, especially at smaller landfills where larger electric generation plants are not generally feasible due to economic factors and lower amounts of LFG. This fact sheet provides an overview of microturbine technology and its applications, as well as the economic...
The current approach to landfill in the UK is to promote methods of design and operation in order to achieve environmental protection and subsequent beneficial after-use. All this has to be carried out within the aims and objectives of sustainable development. In the context of landfill management, this means attaining...
Around Wisconsin, many industries are turning to paper pellets for their fuel needs. Paper pellets are made of industrial waste paper headed to landfills. This article shows, how with the help of modern palletizing techniques, it can be recycled to provide an excellent fuel for co-burning with coal or wood.
Home News IN BRIEF *Householders could be paid 25 a month to recycle waste under plans to be outlined today by George Osborne, the shadow Chancellor. The scheme began in the US, and an American company is now working with Tory-controlled councils to bring the scheme here....
Baltimore-based power generation company Curtis Engine & Equipment Inc. and Worcester County have teamed up to prove the age- old idiom that one man's trash is another man's treasure by opening the Eastern Shore's first methane power plant -- a structure that converts landfill gases into viable electricity. ...
When Mike McLaren, CEO of W2 Energy(PINKSHEETS: WTWO) sees landfills, he doesn't see garbage... he seesopportunity. "Landfills, sewage sludge, it may not be pretty to look at or to smell, butthere is money in them thar hills," says McLaren. "That garbage is full ofhydrogen atoms, carbon atoms. We can turn...
By Jan Biles THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL CHAPMAN - Tina Holliman is tired. You can see it in her eyes and hear it in her voice. Nearly a month has passed since an EF-3 tornado ripped through Chapman and demolished her home. Since...
By Jan Biles THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL CHAPMAN - Tina Holliman is tired. You can see it in her eyes and hear it in her voice. Nearly a month has passed since an EF-3 tornado ripped through Chapman and demolished her home. Since...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Reconnect, a free drop-off program to recycle unwanted computers, was introduced today by Dell and the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ABVI-Goodwill of Greater Rochester, Inc. * Reconnect offers consumers in the greater Rochester area and surrounding counties free recycling for any brand...
Sales milestone reflects concern for environment MELROSE PARK, Ill., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Jewel-Osco, a leading Midwest food and drug retailer, announced today that it has surpassed the sale of 1 million green reusable shopping bags, reflecting the public's concern for the environment. "We are...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The waste-pickers of Delhi, India, forage through garbage for anything that can be recycled into cash. A new incinerator that turns trash into electricity will change all that. Because it will reduce the amount of methane off-gassed by landfills, it will generate carbon credits under the...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- On Monday, the Law Offices of Daniel Feder filed a racial discrimination and harassment lawsuit against the County of Sacramento on behalf of four African-American employees of the County's Kiefer Landfill. According to the lawsuit, the employees discovered a black mannequin with a noose around its neck...
- More than 500 people participated in community e-waste recycling event to keep hazardous electronic waste from local landfills and contribute to a greener Denver - - Supporting sponsors Planet Green and City and County of Denver and e-waste recyclers GRX and Waste Management contributed to event's success...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AMERICANS DRINK a huge amount of bottled water--2.5 million bottles every hour--and most of those containers end up in landfills. We found some simple ways to use bottled water more responsibly and reduce our dependence on it. RECONSIDER TAP WATER. Tap water is just...
