Targeting maximum diversion rates

Article Abstract:

The recycling centers established by the US Naval Air Station at Seaplane Base and Ault Field have reduced the disposal cost and the tipping fees, and made the surroundings cleaner. Materials collected from naval households and station factories are dumped at these two facilities. A vehicle picks up the waste and materials such as tube glass, paper, plastic, aluminum are separated by army men and kept in different bins. Then all materials are processed and recycled to make new products. The neighboring towns such as Town of Oak Harbor also benefit form recycling programs as the center allows the community people to participate in them and provides incentives to them. Welfare programs and fund collection for the base are conducted with the money received by selling the recycled products.

United States, Recycling (Waste, etc.), Recycling

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Technology improves for composting toilets

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Changes in the Environmental Code and improvisations in ecosystem design and engineering have increased the acceptance and the market potential of composting toilets in the US. Innovative and alternative technologies provide substitutes or cost effective upgrades. The National Sanitation Foundation International has laid down the standards for structural soundness, liquid holding capacity, and odor testing for composting toilets. Composting toilets models, such as Clivus Multrum, the AlasCan Organic Waste and Wastewater Treatment System, and Washwater Garden are described.

Innovations, Equipment and supplies, Compost, Sewage disposal, Toilets

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Combining duckweed and high rate anaerobic treatments

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Viet Ngo has discovered a way of using natural biological processes in place of the traditional chemical and mechanical treatments for wastewater facilities. His discovery that the high protein aquatic plant, duckweed or Lemnaceae, is capable of absorbing nitrogen, phosphorous and heavy metals led him to establish the Lemma Corp in 1983 and to patent his technology. The grid has the ability to contain odor, stop algae growth and remove 90 to 95% of Biological Oxygen Demand and Total Suspended Solids from wastewater.

Management, Usage, Product information, Pollution control industry, Lemnaceae, Ngo, Viet, Lemna Corp.

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