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Industrial Waste

Gains in Plain Sight: The Common Sense of Cooperative Resource Management

Marian Chertow | Posted 07.16.2012 | Business
Read More: Kalundborg Denmark, Industrial Waste, Innovation, Resource Management, Industrial Symbiosis, Private Sector, Business News
Marian Chertow

Waste is no longer an unavoidable liability, but a potential asset: power plants might sell their coal ash to the cement industry; pharmaceutical manufacturers might offer their slurry outflow as fertilizer to farms.

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China Seizes 77 Million Capsules In Crackdown Of Tainted Pills

AP | Posted 04.23.2012 | World
Read More: Industrial Waste, Tainted Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, Tainted Gel Capsules, China, World News

BEIJING -- Chinese state media say police have arrested nine people and detained 54 others in a crackdown on chromium-tainted gel capsules made from i...

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New Orleans Tap Water Beats Odds, Meets All Regulatory Standards

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Industrial Waste, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Petrochemicals, Baton Rouge, U.S. Coast Guard, Lower Ninth Ward, La. Dept. Of Environmental Quality, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pollutants, Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, La. Dept. Of Health & Hospitals, Bp Spill, Mississippi River, Business News
Susan Buchanan

Residents worry about spills in the river, and wonder if oil lapping at the coast has affected their faucet water. Local, state and federal authorities, however, say the city's tap water meets and, under some criteria, exceeds their standards.

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Europe Burns Trash For Cleaner Energy, U.S. Lags

The New York Times | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Alternative Fuel, Landfills, Industrial Waste, Clean Energy, u.s. Waste Energy, Green Energy, Waste to Energy Plants, Waste-Energy, Industrial-Waste-Energy, Denmark Trash Plants, Green News

Denmark now regards garbage as a clean alternative fuel rather than a smelly, unsightly problem. Across Europe, there are about 400 plants, with Denma...

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Risky Runoff: From Fish-Roe to Ritalin (My Reaction to "Poisoned Waters," a Recent PBS Frontline Story)

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Margaret Meade, Thinking Mindfully, Cleaning Supplies, Rachel Carson, We?Re All Polluters, Industrial Waste, Acting Safely, Baking Soda, Flora and Fauna, Run-Off, Respecting All Manner of Life, Fresh Lemon, Chlorine Bleach, PBS Frontline, Ground Water, Lawn Care Products, Cosmetics-Industry, Agricultural Pollution, Health, Home Waste Treatment Systems, Micro-Particulates, Silent Spring, Poisoned Waters, Rivers, Water, Green News
Michael DeJong

The particulates from our own medicated bodily fluids are so fine that there are no water processing plants in the world that can trap them.

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