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Written by Amber Reed When a massive windstorm struck Bountiful, UT, the magnitude of the greenwaste to deal with was overwhelming. Teaming up with a local tree service and woodwaste processing company, Bob’s Tree Service Inc., the City of Bountiful Landfill quickly developed a plan to clear out and process the excessive amounts of waste, relying on both organizations’ recycling operations to speed the cleanup efforts. The Storm Hits In the early morning hours of Thursday, December 1, 2011, residen...... continue reading
From: MSW Management Topics: Environment, Outreach, Recycling
Written by Corrine Daniels Consider this: Using native species—grasses and wildflowers—as landfill cover is more cost-effective than using conventional vegetation strategies and provides benefits that go a long way in gaining public acceptance. Going native is the right decision when it comes to landfill cover for a number of reasons. Reason 1—Natives work well in poor soils . Because natives are adapted to hang on in tough conditions—drought, flood, heat, cold, and heavy rains—they tend not to be...... continue reading
From: MSW Management Topics: Environment, Landfill, Outreach
By Kim Chapman There are many negative ideas about landfills—dirty, dangerous, unfriendly to nature, and the like. Some of this stigma is warranted—photos of Staten Island’s Fresh Kills landfill from the 1970s and 1980s come to mind. Picture this, then. In Dallas, a closed landfill near a low-income minority community is now capped, revegetated, and is giving urban children a taste of wild nature. It is the Deepwood Landfill, featuring 6,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest, wetlands, grassland...... continue reading
From: MSW Management Topics: Environment, Landfill, Outreach
By Namju Cho and Tiffany Jonick In 2009, S. Groner Associates partnered with the Zero Waste Communities of San Bernardino County program and the City of San Bernardino, a suburb about 60 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles, on a social marketing campaign to reduce contamination in the residential sector. The pilot campaign lasted six months including a pre- and post-waste assessment as well as several mailers. The pilot project resulted in a 25-percentage-point increase in recycling and...... continue reading
From: MSW Management Topics: Management, Outreach, Recycling
By Jason Dremsa
The next time you need a sedimentation basin, consider adding more benefits than just trapping eroding sediment. Instead, think about vegetating the banks and waterline with native plants that will attract interesting wildlife, add aesthetic value, green up your footprint…and save you money. The Zona Rosa system includes sediment trap plunge pools, aquatic vegetation filters, emergent plants, and basin slopes with native vegetation. A typical landfill sedimentation basin falls short of its...... continue reading
From: MSW Management Topics: Environment, Operations, Outreach
By John Trotti
I remember with great clarity going to USEPA’s landfill methane outreach conference (LMOP 2003) in Washington, DC, where I listened with genuine astonishment to presentation after presentation that came to what, at the time, was the somewhat unexpected conclusion that the future for landfill gas was more than good…it was hot! Keep in mind that these were presentations to an audience composed of people who had grown ancient watching various governmental bodies hem and haw over how to deal with political,...... continue reading
From: MSW Management Topics: Environment, LFG, Outreach
By Judy Usherson
Ours would not be a civilized society without waste management services. But if a waste facility’s neighbors are offended by odors, noise, dust, litter, or a negative appearance, there can be hell to pay. Thankfully, there are great technologies and best practices to help facilities be good neighbors. Odor Avoidance is Primary Smell is our most primitive sense and is located in the same part of the brain that effects emotions, memory, and creativity. Because we are so sensitive to smell, there’s nothing...... continue reading
From: MSW Management Topics: Landfill, Odor Control, Outreach
By Peter Hildebrandt
“I’m Dan, the Recycling Man!” may sound a bit cheesy, according to Daniel Ruiz, who came up with the jingle, but it’s helped bring Brooklyn Park, MN, continuing success with its recycling efforts. Ruiz is the support services recycling manager for Brooklyn Park. He has his own page, “Talking Trash with Dan” in the city newsletter. “At every community event we attend, people approach my table and say ‘Dan! You’re Dan the Recycling Man!’ The same thing happens when they phone me. Schools want me to come a...... continue reading
From: MSW Management Topics: Outreach, Recycling, Wastes
By Kathryn Sandoe
As a young professional, both in respect of my career and recent plunge into the solid waste industry, I eagerly anticipated WASTECON 2011 in Nashville, TN. It was to be my first. With no baseline for comparison, I struggled to set an expectation for the conference. To summarize, WASTECON surpassed my expectations. The investment of time and financial resources necessary to attend the conference proved an excellent decision and returned many times over. Although I inherited more work (hence my writing o...... continue reading
From: MSW Management Topics: Human Resources, Management, Outreach
From the “all-in-one” venue accommodations to the buzz of innovative new events, WASTECON 2011 offered attendees a change from the more traditional WASTECON conferences of the past. Held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, attendees enjoyed the convenience of the sprawling property that offered everything—from the exhibit hall, technical sessions, training, and exams to housing, restaurants, special events, and entertainment, all under one roof. With close to 3,000 in attendance and more than 2...... continue reading
From: MSW Management Topics: Human Resources, Outreach, SWANA
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