IE511 app helps drivers find traffic details
The Desert Sun
Every day, Southern California residents waste 1.8 million hours stuck in traffic. Now, the Riverside County Transportation Commission has a solution to avoid those gas-guzzling — and stress-inducing — hours. It has launched a free smart phone app to …

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Basra welcomes plans for USD 100 million waste plants
SteelGuru
The company, which already has plants in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, will enter Basra and invest in water purification projects and will consider providing environmental solutions, professional consultation and technical services. Waste and …

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DRACT demands revised tax collection, permanent garbage solution
Times of India
THRISSUR: A host of civic issues are hurting Thrissur be it waste disposal or tax collection, said district residents' apex council, Thrissur (DRACT) general secretary T Achuthan. He was addressing DRACT's sixth annual convention at Kerala Sahitya …

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Nuclear waste fracas that just won't go away
Casey Weekly Cranbourne
Like a science fiction fantasy, the Yucca Mountain repository was intended as a permanent store for a small mountain of lethal waste accumulated in more than half a century of American nuclear activity, civilian and military.

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Letters: Don't fill aquifer with waste matter
Monterey County Herald
If it is Cal Am's intent and that of the sewage district to pump treated waste matter through the former Fort Ord and into the Seaside aquifer as a partial solution to the overpumping of the Carmel River aquifers, they had damn well put it on the …

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The Best | Cat-box solution is litter-perfect
Louisville Courier-Journal
We have three cats, which means a lot of litter sifting and a lot of trips to the garage with the waste bags. To be honest, there were times when the boxes should have been sifted but a trip to the garage was not appealing, so the cats had to suffer …

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A modern waste solution
Bega District News
TO COMPARE the old Bega tip and the new Central Waste Facility at Wolumla is akin to comparing apples with oranges. The Bega tip operated from the 1950s as a solid waste facility until 1994 with the majority of the solid waste being burnt.

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ZamRay Marks First Year Providing Solutions for Construction Waste
Green Building Elements
Construction waste surpasses 136 tons per year according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Kurt Fisher, founder of ZamRay, said, “We're providing a way for companies to connect and find a home for excess materials that might otherwise go into a …

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Landfill idea good; now let's improve recycling
Yakima Herald-Republic
Yakima County officials are to be commended for not letting waste go to waste — and, at the same time, extending the life of the Terrace Heights Landfill. But the effort highlights a longer-term solution that still eludes us. A Jan.

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Single Stream Recycling Facility Opens in Tennessee
Waste Management World
RockTenn's claimed that its recycling and waste solutions facilities partner with vendors across the US to provide ways to recycle items that are not mainstream and reducing the amount of materials that enters landfill. The company said that the …
Rock-Tenn Company : RockTenn Continues to Grow and Invest in Automated Sorting …4-traders (press release)

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