Today's landfills have full-scale look

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Granger Companies of Lansing, MI, offers a full range of services from refuse collection to recycling to composting and fuel recovery from landfills. Resource conservation, energy demand, environmental legislation and growing consumer needs are inducing waste management firms to expand and provide innovative and environmentally-friendly services. Granger first began operations as a construction firm in 1959. By 1992, the company had grown to include two sanitary landfills and other waste management facilities, including gas recovery operations and a yard waste composting business.

Services, Pollution control industry, Environmental services industry, Sanitary landfills, Granger Cos.

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MSW recovery in the south of Spain

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The Montemarta-Conica environmental complex in Los Alcores, Andalucia, Spain, recycles and composts municipal solid wastes, and has a landfill and educational center. The plant is enclosed, has six centrifugal blowers and 12 biofilters. A two-stage composting process uses fermentation to destroying pathogens and then windrow composting of the organic feedstock at a maturation area. There is a degasification facility as mandated by the Spanish government and landfilling with organic materials is allowed. The complex was designed and built by the Edifesa engineering firm.

Spain

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New generation of solid waste plans

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New York City developed a comprehensive waste management plan in 1989 to stop using the landfill practice and embark on a better and cost-efficient waste management strategy. The plan was formally approved under The New York City Comprehensive Waste Management Plan and Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Oct 1992 bythe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The plan is expected to cut the city waste stream by half and make New York City the best example of solid waste management in the whole world.

New York, New York, New York, Recycling (Waste, etc.), Recycling, Resource recovery facilities

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