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So That's Why the Bay is Green Billions of gallons of raw sewage flow into Great Lakes annually, report says		29 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
So That's Why the Bay is Green Billions of gallons of raw sewage flow into Great Lakes annually, report says The Great Lakes, subject of our favorite mnemonic device (HOMES), is being contaminated by homes -- and other places where people poo. According to a report released today, 20 cities release billions of gallons of raw sewage into the lakes every year, enough to fill 37,000 Olympic-size pools. Th ...
Topics: Great Lakes, news, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

A Heap of Sorrows A controversial New Orleans landfill is set to close, but eco-disaster still looms	Wayne Curtis	10 Aug 2006	Main Dish
The logistics of cleaning up New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina are almost beyond comprehension. Louisiana's Department of Environmental Quality says some 15,000 houses are slated to be torn down, and demolition is the likely fate of 80,000 more. As a result, DEQ estimates, the city will ultimately truck off and dispose of some 20 million cubic yards of ...
Topics: Louisiana, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

You're Only Humanure On composting toilets, again	Umbra Fisk	21 Nov 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm attempting to "green" my home, room by room. I've heard of low-flow toilets, but someone just told me about composting toilets. Do they smell bad? Will my grandmother use it or ask for an outhouse? Thanks for your wisdom! Moira Providence, R.I. Dearest Moira, Excellent, manageable room-by-room plan. What in tarnation?! Composting toilets are basically the technology we should have adopted inst ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, solid waste treatment and disposal, waste (all these topics)

Nuke Rest for the Wary Lawmakers slash funding for Yucca Mountain nuke dump		09 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Nuke Rest for the Wary Lawmakers slash funding for Yucca Mountain nuke dump In a season of setbacks for President Bush, Congress delivered yet another this week, cutting funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump well below the amount requested by the White House. House and Senate negotiators working on a funding bill for energy and water projects allotted $450 million for Yucca Mountain i ...
Topics: Nevada, news, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Dumping to a Conclusion Louisiana officials and enviros clash over disposal of hurricane debris		01 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Dumping to a Conclusion Louisiana officials and enviros clash over disposal of hurricane debris The pressure on regional officials to cleanse New Orleans of the trash and debris left by Hurricane Katrina is intense -- so intense that eco-groups say they're cutting corners, sending garbage to areas not equipped to handle it, and on the verge of creating a Superfund-sized toxic problem. Illegal dumping in ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

The Trash Money Crew New Orleans garbage will fill at least 3.5 million truckloads		17 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
The Trash Money Crew New Orleans garbage will fill at least 3.5 million truckloads We'd hate to be the ones tasked with separating out the recycling: Cleaning up New Orleans will involve hauling 22 million tons of garbage and waste that have been moldering in the heat and damp since late August's Hurricane Katrina, including rotting food, ruined furniture, carpeting, metals, chemicals, and more. It's the ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Hog Heaven Indiana burg to become 'BioTown'		13 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Hog Heaven Indiana burg to become "BioTown" The small farming community of Reynolds, Ind., is gearing up to take advantage of its ripest renewable resource: vast amounts of stinky hog poop. Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) and the Indiana Department of Agriculture have designated the one-traffic-light burg as the world's first "BioTown." The plan is for i ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Indiana, news, renewable energy, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Trash Talk In Garbage Land, Elizabeth Royte talks dirty	Jim Motavalli	28 Jul 2005	Arts and Minds
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte, Little Brown and Co., 320 pgs., 2005. Our soda man delivers. He comes bounding up the steps, easily cradling an ancient-looking wooden crate under one arm. The contents are 24 seven-ounce bottles of cola and birch beer, for which we hand him $7, and last month's crate. The thick, wavy glass bottles bear an old-fashioned logo that reads, "Castle ...
Topics: green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

Beyond the Pail Dealing with big-city garbage is big business for small towns		13 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Beyond the Pail Dealing with big-city garbage is big business for small towns As landfills top off and shut down near big U.S. cities, taking in the trash is becoming a profitable enterprise for smaller towns hundreds of miles away from metropolises. Despite local concerns that landfills may cause long-term environmental problems, trash-industry execs insist communities are taking few risks when they ...
Topics: news, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

You've Come a Long Way, Maybe Stats on how far we've come (or haven't) since the first Earth Day	Todd Hymas	22 Apr 2005	Counter Culture
Photo: NASA. 3.7 billion -- world population in 19701 6.4 billion -- world population in 20051 1,535 billion -- kilowatt-hours of electricity used in the U.S. in 19702 3,837 billion -- kilowatt-hours of electricity expected to be used in the U.S. in 20053 6.0 -- percentage of electricity in U.S. consumed in 1970 produced from renewable sources4 6.7 -- percentage of electrici ...
Topics: climate, energy, GMOs, oil, placemaking, population, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

Blending the Rules EPA plan would spew under-treated sewage into U.S. waterways	Susan Boni	10 Mar 2005	Main Dish
Like clean water? Then you'll love Rep. Bart Stupak. Swimming in sewage just isn't this fun. For the last year, Stupak has been fighting a U.S. EPA proposal that would allow inadequately treated sewage to be "blended" with fully treated waste during rain and snow events. The messy mix would then be released into the nation's rivers, lakes, and coastal waters. If blending is permitt ...
Topics: politics, solid waste treatment and disposal, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Berate and Barrel Open-barrel trash burning becoming a hot issue for states		07 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Berate and Barrel Open-barrel trash burning becoming a hot issue for states Not interested in paying the $1- or $2-per-bag fee for trash disposal? Just throw it all in a barrel in your backyard and burn it. That's what thousands of upstate New Yorkers -- and millions of rural Americans -- do, and it's making some environmental activists hot under the collar. But a bill t ...
Topics: food and agriculture, New York, news, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Regular Folk Human compost boosts harvests in Mozambique		17 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Regular Folk Human compost boosts harvests in Mozambique The more than 2,500 residents of Mozambique's impoverished village of Matimangwe have harnessed the power of their poo to fertilize their crops, and the village is now on the road to sustainable food production and development. Thanks to a human-waste compost latrine system called EcoSan, villagers have seen a major difference in the size of their harve ...
Topics: Mozambique, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Doo-lemma On doggie-doo bags	Umbra Fisk	29 Nov 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, For years, I faithfully brought my canvas bags to the grocery store, leaving plastic bags for the environmentally uninformed. A few months ago, though, I adopted a dog, and I now find myself with a dilemma. I need to pick up all of his solid excrement, and having no compost or any other area for it to go (I live in the city), I need to use plastic bags to take care of it. I hope you have another suggestion for something I can use ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, solid waste treatment and disposal, waste (all these topics)

Scrap Happy San Francisco food-composting program is a hit		04 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Scrap Happy San Francisco food-composting program is a hit In 1996, a company called Norcal Waste found that 19 percent of landfill matter in San Francisco consisted of discarded food scraps -- and it sensed a market opportunity. Now the city boasts a popular and growing composting program, with discarded food collected and processed into organically certified "Four Course Compost, ...
Topics: California, food, San Francisco, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Poo-Poo Power Wastewater has lots of energy potential		07 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Poo-Poo Power Wastewater has lots of energy potential The wastewater that courses down drains and into municipal water-treatment plants around the world contains a substantial amount of organic material, or "biosolids," or, well, "poop" and such. When this organic matter breaks down, it generates "biogas," a methane-rich fuel that some plants use to heat the water and buildi ...
Topics: solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Eww De Toilette Canadian Cities Dump Lots of Doo-Doo in Waterways		10 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Eww De Toilette Canadian Cities Dump Lots of Doo-Doo in Waterways Port cities in Canada dump thousands of tons of virtually untreated sewage into bodies of water every year, according to a new report compiled by the Sierra Legal Defense Fund on behalf of three enviro groups. Montreal, it seems, dumps 950 million gallons of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River every year. If you think that's g ...
Topics: Canada, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Waste Makes Haste Answers about thermal depolymerization	Umbra Fisk	10 Jun 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, What is thermal depolymerization? Ann Freehold, N.J. Dearest Ann, A polymer is a large group of linked molecules. We're made of polymers such as protein, eat polymers such as starch, and wear polymers such as leather and nylon. Thermal depolymerization is a heat-driven process that breaks down or transforms polymers into the shorter chains from whence they came: oil. Our planet's automatic transforma ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, oil, solid waste treatment and disposal, waste (all these topics)

Same #$%@, Different Use Scientists Turn Excrement Into Electricity -- Really		11 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Same #$%@, Different Use Scientists Turn Excrement Into Electricity -- Really Scientists in the U.S. have developed a method to convert raw human waste -- or as the scientists call it, "number two" -- into electricity, putting a brown spin on the green-power movement. Oops, did we say "movement"? Okay, okay, we'll try to be serious: The process works by feeding the ... material ... int ...
Topics: solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Doubt of the Benefit On the benefits of recycling	Umbra Fisk	09 Mar 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Some time ago, the public radio program This American Life, hosted by Ira Glass, was about recycling. Glass reported, "Experts agree that we have plenty of landfill space for the foreseeable future." He proposed that recycling therefore did little more than make us feel good. The hapless person he interviewed came up with no better response to that than, "Well, what's wrong with feeling good?&q ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, waste (all these topics)

Burn Me Up, Scotty Super-Hot Trash Zapper May Yield Hydrogen		27 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Burn Me Up, Scotty Super-Hot Trash Zapper May Yield Hydrogen This just in: The future is now. "Plasma torch technology" is gaining acceptance among corporations and governments, and may soon show up at a waste facility near you. Here's how it works: Trash -- anything from municipal garbage to toxic waste to PCBs -- is zapped (at least we think that's the technical term) with a ...
Topics: green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Garbage Cans and Garbage Can'ts Federal Court Rules EPA Incineration Emission Standards Insufficient		25 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Garbage Cans and Garbage Can'ts Federal Court Rules EPA Incineration Emission Standards Insufficient Federal standards governing emissions from garbage incinerators are inadequate and must be rewritten by the U.S. EPA, ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., yesterday. The controversy over incineration emissions began in the 1980s, when garba ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Google Gaga Google Bans Ads from Environmental Group		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Google Gaga Google Bans Ads from Environmental Group The popular search engine Google is facing accusations of censorship after it refused to carry ads from an environmental group that is protesting a major cruise line's sewage-treatment methods. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Oceana paid Google to run an ad that read &qu ...
Topics: business, Florida, green living, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, Washington DC (all these topics)

Kid Commando On diaperless parenting	Umbra Fisk	12 Feb 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I have a baby on the way. Due to prodding by my wife, I have begun to think about things such as diapers. Babies make a lot of boom-boom, and wrapping it all up in a bundle of plastic diaperness, tossing that in a plastic sack, and then tossing the lot in a landfill seems eco-unfriendly. And reusable diapers are definitely parent-unfriendly, insists my wife. I have seen some all-cotton and paper disposable diapers, but at ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, parenting, solid waste treatment and disposal, waste (all these topics)

The Sludge Retort		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
The Sludge Retort Microbiologist and former U.S. EPA employee David Lewis testified to Congress yesterday that the agency had knowingly used unreliable data when denying a petition to stop the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer. The petition, from 73 labor, environmental, and farm groups, was denied last December based on data from two Georgia dairy farms that Georgia officials had already rejec ...
Topics: Georgia, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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