BIOMASS Waste First Then Fuel Dear MSW Professional, Biomass covers a wide range of organic plant-like matter and, depending on the viewpoint, is either waste material or a desirable fuel, but can also be both. When we speak of waste, we usually refer to man-made waste—unwanted or discarded matter. Then there is also natural waste: ... READ MORE
Today’s Compliance Requirements Demand Intelligent Odor Control Systems Dear MSW Professional, Odor emissions and their impact on air quality is one of the most significant factors of concern for MSW operations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency receives a significant amount of complaints about landfill odors, although oversight is conducted at the state and local level ... READ MORE
Free report details how to execute your big projects in less time and bring more profit to your bottom line. Dear Erosion Control professional, Innovation drives industries and hydroseeding is no different. With every great challenge, there’s an opportunity for industry leaders to develop solutions using innovative practices or equipment. These advances happen everywhere and every ... READ MORE
Product Test: See the Test Showing Volvo Excavators Deliver 20% Lower Cost Per Ton Dear Grading & Excavation Contractor, Moving materials on your job site can be costly. Our friends at Volvo CE provided this product test to show you how much inefficient excavators could be costing you in fuel, time, and hard cash. In ... READ MORE
Taking the Guesswork Out of Odor Control Dear Waste Professional, Nobody wants a stinky neighbor. And in today’s environment, you’re better off addressing odor issues sooner rather than later. But how can you maximize the impact of odor control and increase the impact of success without costly site visits and test installations? Pretesting! Our ... READ MORE
As of May 2018, all new vehicles with a GVWR of less than 10,000 pounds—including buses and on-road trucks—must be equipped with rear visibility technology to comply with the FMVSS 111 mandate. This final rule by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is part of an ongoing effort to reduce an average of 210 fatalities and 15,000 injuries caused by reversing vehicles each year. Along with other safety ... READ MORE
A backing accident happens much more than most trucking companies realize; although current insurance company estimates put the average repair cost at approximately $8,000 per incident, there is a darker and often more tragic cost when the object hit by a backing truck is a person. Five hundred people die and another 15,000 are injured every year from backing accidents. How do experienced truck drivers suddenly find themselves ... READ MORE
When it comes to clearing a site, wood and vegetative waste often represent significant volumes of materials. Disposing of wood and vegetative waste by landfilling simply does not make economic sense for most site clearing operations. Our friends at Air Burners, Inc. have provided this special report to discuss the challenges and opportunities for dealing with wood and vegetative waste for site clearing operations. Air Curtain Burners, also ... READ MORE
Boswell Oil Company serves the only locally owned, full-service waste solutions provider in the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia. The waste solutions provider serves residential, commercial, and industrial clients in the area. They operate 26 waste collection trucks. In late 2011 and early 2012, the waste provider was having a problem with their competitive brand hydraulic and engine oil not holding up. The hydraulic packer systems in their ... READ MORE
The waste organics industry is changing the way landfill supervisors and transportation managers are operating. With initiatives like the US EPA’s Sustainable Management of Food, the repurpose, reuse, and redistribution of organic material will pose a significant challenge to our industry. How to manage this change from a transportation perspective will be as critical of a component to the whole process as any other. ... READ MORE
Fires are a problem in the waste industry. Between June of 2017 and May of 2018, there were 368 reported fire incidents in waste and recycling facilities in the United States and Canada. That's more than one a day! With reasonable assumptions, we believe there are six times that amount of fire incidents occurring in waste facilities annually. According to Jim Olson, SVP of Safety at Republic Services, ... READ MORE
The construction industry has seen steady growth over the past decade, fueled by significant building and infrastructure projects. Finding skilled crane and heavy equipment operators is increasingly difficult. A 2017 poll indicated that over 75% of construction firms were having trouble finding skilled equipment operators. Operators need to be trained; however, training can be risky. Vehicle/equipment accidents are the leading cause of workplace deaths on construction worksites. Placing inexperienced ... READ MORE
While modern landfills are well-engineered facilities designed, operated and monitored to ensure compliance with federal regulations, fugitive malodors often persist. Incoming waste haulers and naturally produced landfill gas as well as organic decomposition exposed on the working face combine to release many different gases such as methane, CO2, ammonia, sulfides and various other unpleasant odors into the near, and often downwind, airspace. This report addresses how advances in odor ... READ MORE
Methane is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted by human activities in the United States. Nearly 20% of those emissions come from landfills. Landfill gas to energy represents an opportunity not just for improving air quality by capturing methane, but also an additional revenue stream that can be in place long after landfill operations cease. MSW Management compiled this special supplement to highlight key areas in capping landfills, ... READ MORE
Few people in the world these days thoroughly understand the federal government’s ever-changing, on-and-off soil erosion control regulations. Consider these contradictions, inconsistencies, and incongruities ... READ MORE