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Computer equipment, televisions to be banned from landfills by new State law effective July 1st.

Beginning July 1, 2011, computer equipment and televisions will be banned from disposal in North Carolina landfills, under a law passed last year by the General Assembly. Catawba County will provide four one-day electronics recycling collection events in fiscal year 2011-2012, free of charge. All residents of Catawba County will have access to these electronics recycling events, including those who live in the cities and towns in the county.




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Are App Stores the digital landfills of modern society?

What are your pet peeves when it comes to finding quality apps? App stores wield great responsibility, but it's time to remind them to do a better job.



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How Trash Goes From Garbage Cans to Landfills

Every day New York City picks up 12,000 tons of refuse and recycling. How does all this trash go from the garbage can to its final destination? Former New York City Sanitation Commissioner Ed Grayson is here to explain.




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Biothermica cuts GHG emissions at landfills and coal mines



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Volume of leachate and environmental impact from landfills reduced — but legacy effects remain

Landfill leachate is the liquid that seeps through or out of waste deposits in landfill sites. EU regulations, such as the Landfill Directive1, have significantly reduced the volume of leachate produced, a study on leachate management in Ireland has found. Leachate, mainly from younger landfills in Ireland is, however, stronger since implementation of the legislation, and the researchers say the future treatment of leachate under stricter environmental protection regulations will continue to be a long-term concern for landfill operators and regulators.




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Let's feed people instead of landfills

USDA and EPA aim to cut food waste in half. But how will they get that food to the hungry?




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Midwest Utility Turning to Cows, Landfills for a Gas Alternative

CenterPoint Energy Inc. wants to introduce a pilot program in Minnesota offering customers access to a renewable form of natural gas recovered from dairy farms and landfills.




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UPS bets on renewable gas from landfills in largest deal ever

United Parcel Service Inc. has agreed to buy the equivalent of 170 million gallons of renewable natural gas from Clean Energy Fuels Corp. over the next seven years in what the company described as the biggest-ever deal involving the alternative fuel.




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UPS bets on renewable gas from landfills in largest deal ever

United Parcel Service Inc. has agreed to buy the equivalent of 170 million gallons of renewable natural gas from Clean Energy Fuels Corp. over the next seven years in what the company described as the biggest-ever deal involving the alternative fuel.




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U.S. Sues 32 Individuals, Alleging $30 Million Tax Credit Scam Based on Sham Sales from Non-Existent Methane Production Facilities at Landfills

The United States has sued four Certified Public Accounts (CPA), 27 tax preparers and one other individual, seeking to bar them from promoting an alleged tax scam involving bogus income tax credits claimed for sham sales of methane from landfills.



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Federal Court Acts to Stop Alleged $30 Million Scam Involving Tax Credits Based on Fictitious Methane Production at Landfills

A federal judge in Tampa, Fla., has permanently barred eight men – including five tax preparers and two Certified Public Accountants (CPA) – from promoting an alleged tax fraud scheme involving bogus income tax credits.



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Court in Texas Bars 12 Sub-Promoters of Alleged $30 Million Scam Involving Tax Credits Based on Fictitious Methane Production at Landfills

A federal judge in Beaumont, Texas, has permanently barred 12 people from promoting an alleged tax fraud scheme involving bogus income tax credits.



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Texas Federal Court Bars Two Men from Promoting Alleged Tax Scam Involving Fictitious Methane at Landfills

A federal court in Beaumont, Texas, has permanently barred two men from promoting an alleged tax fraud scheme involving bogus tax credits for the production of methane gas from landfills.



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Spring Back Now Recycles What Landfills & Other Recyclers Don't Want: Mattresses

Mattresses have plenty of reusable materials, but most recyclers don't want them. Landfills don't like them either. But a Tennessee nonprofit does.




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Surprise! Americans send twice as much trash to landfills as we thought

A new study shows a major difference between EPA estimates and actual landfill numbers.




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Delhi firemen struggling with capital's burning landfills

The Capital generates 10,000 metric tonnes of trash a day. Pollution is a major problem across all life and sites in Bhalswa, Ghazipur and Okhla have created a unique challenge to the city's fire service.




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Need for a standardized approach to characterizing, permitting, and constructing landfills in karst geologic settings




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Letters to the editor: Not by landfills