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NAPLES, Italy — Giovanni Marchitelli has something to show Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi when Italy's leader arrives Wednesday: a month's worth of garbage piled next to his pizzeria. Perhaps worse than the smell and the flies, he says, is when vigilantes burn garbage at night, leaving an acrid...
The minister has also proposed an increased recycling target of 36% Plans for a smaller energy-from-waste plant for Jersey have been revealed. Transport and Technical Services (TTS) Minister Guy de Faye said it was the cheapest and most reliable solution to replace the Bellozanne incinerator. The...
One of China's leading soil cleaning experts Chen Tongbin uses a home-grown fern to accumulate heavy metals, mainly arsenic (As), out of contaminated soil near mines, which is encouraging to a country which has about 280,000 mines and heavy-metal polluted soil near those mines. Chen, principal...
Proximity of human, pet cremation services shocked Pentagon, led to loss of contract By KRISTIN HARTY • The News Journal • May 17, 2008 DOVER -- "That's always been a priority -- to be very discreet," said Bill Torbert, president of the funeral home, located just a few miles from Dover Air Force...
Kevin Spradlin Cumberland Times-News CORRIGANVILLE - Robert Fisher, of District 6, said he received an inquiry from Delegate Wendell Beitzel about two sites in Allegany County where state highway workers were dumping road kill in pits and violated procedure by not burying them properly. Evans...
AFTER a period of relative quiet, sewage smells could be wafting across the area in the coming days. Thames Water, which operates the Crossness sewage sludge incinerator in Belvedere Road, Abbey Wood, has closed the two incinerator streams for essential maintenance. The shutdown began on May 6...
Residents aim to stop incinerating trash BY ERIC D. LAWRENCE • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • May 14, 2008 Dan Sordyl remembers when his view of Detroit's 20-year-old incinerator changed. It was this winter, and he was outside shoveling snow. "When I smelled it and I looked up, it was coming right...
WASTE firm Viridor has unveiled plans for a new incinerator in the Lothians two months after withdrawing its original proposals. The company wants to build an "energy from waste" processing plant near Dunbar capable of handling 300,000 tonnes of waste – 150,000 tonnes less than its previous...
With Dubai witnessing a never-ending boom in the construction industry, the construction and demolition waste generated also has touched a record high. According to the annual report of the Waste Management Department in Dubai Municipality, the construction and demolition waste generated in Dubai...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a review of the handling of the remains of US war dead and apologized after learning that some were cremated in a commercial facility that also cremates pets, the Pentagon said. ... Pentagon press secretary...
