Household, electronics waste collection set - Nodaway News Leader

Household, electronics waste collection set
Published Online Oct 07, 2010 - 02:51 PM

The Northwest Missouri Regional Council of Governments announces a Household Hazardous Waste and Electronics Waste Collection to be held Saturday, October 9, in Nodaway County. The collections are open to residents of Atchison, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway and Worth Counties only.

On October 9, the Nodaway County HHW/E-waste Collection will be held from 8 am until noon at the Nodaway County Maintenance Barn located at 1516 East Halsey, Maryville.
There is a variety of acceptable wastes that will be collected at the event. Examples of Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) are: fertilizers and pesticides, household chemicals such as bleach, ammonia, cleaners, batteries, CFL bulbs, mercury, antifreeze, paint and varnish.
Do not mix HHW together. Keep HHW in original packaging.
Examples of E-waste to be collected are: computer monitors, computer hard drives, computer accessories, fax machines, televisions, microwaves and cell phones.
Changes in policies have been enacted this year disallowing motor oil, syringes, prescription medicines, compressed gas cylinders, smoke detectors, commercial waste, radioactive waste, explosive waste and unknown wastes.
For a complete listing of acceptable wastes, visit nwmocog.org. On the website there will also be proper disposal techniques described to dispose of the unacceptable wastes.
Minimal fees will apply for proper disposal of waste to help offset the high costs of recycling and proper disposal. Each participant must pay $5 to dispose of HHW.
Each participant is allowed one of the following: TV, computer monitor or microwave, free of charge. Additional quantities of these items require a $5 per unit fee. All other E-waste is free of charge.
Both collections are open to residents of Atchison, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway and Worth Counties. Photo identification is required. Businesses are not eligible for the program and are subject to the rules established by the Missouri Statues regarding HHW/E-waste Disposal.
Jerry Stanfill, solid waste planner for the Northwest Missouri Regional Council of Governments, emphasizes that ?Special collections are vital for our region because a typical home can contain many types of household hazardous products and electronic waste. In Northwest Missouri, there is no permanent facility that can handle the household chemicals that are collected during the one-day event in Maryville. The closest facility for residents to properly dispose of household hazardous waste is in the Kansas City Metro and disposal fees are charged.?
Hazardous products are used for cleaning, painting, beautifying, lubricating and disinfecting the house, yard, workshop and garage. The average American home accumulates 100 pounds of hazardous products by storing it in their basements, closets and garage. The health of the community and the environment is endangered when these types of products are discarded in storm drains, household garbage or sinks.
In 2007, the amount of electronic waste discarded, such as TVs, computers, peripherals, mice, keyboards and cell phones totaled about 2.5 million tons. The quantity of electronic waste that we are generating is steadily increasing. Lead, mercury, cadmium and brominated flame retardants are among the substances of concern in electronics. These substances are included in the products for important performance characteristics, but can cause problems if the products are not properly managed at end of life.
The collection is sponsored by county commissions and Northwest Missouri Regional Council of Governments and is funded by a grant through the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Northwest Missouri Regional Solid Waste Management District. If you have any questions or comments, contact Stanfill at 660.582.5121 or jerry@nwmorcog.org.
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Year round hazardous waste disposal - Lake Country Calendar

Published: October 12, 2010 7:00 PM

Black Press

Lake Country residents will soon be able to dispose of hazardous household materials year-round as the Regional District of Central Okanagan has contracted a permanent provider.

Regional district waste reduction facilitator Rae Stewart said this year’s hazardous waste round-up on Oct. 16 is the 20th annual event, and the final one.

“We’ve been looking for a permanent year-round facility for a while now,” she said.

Stewart said The Battery Doctors on Windsor Road in Kelowna have been awarded a contract to provide drop-off facilities six days a week for hazardous household materials.

The demand for hazardous household waste disposal is substantial in the region.

She noted the annual round-up day was a stop-gap measure.

People became accustomed to it as the chemicals could not be disposed of at the landfill or by way of the sewer system.

Stewart pointed out people want to do the right thing, but don’t have a lot of options for some of the more unusual materials.

Items accepted at the round-up are anything with a flammable, explosive or poisonous label.

The list includes solvents, chemicals, corrosive or toxic cleaners, pesticides and old gasoline. Automotive and household batteries, and propane tanks, are also accepted at the event.

“This is a much easier solution for residents,” Stewart said.

She said drop-offs can begin at The Battery Doctors starting the following week after the round-up.

She noted the annual waste drop-off is a steady event in terms of traffic.

Crews usually see close to 50,000 litres of chemicals and close to 1,000 vehicles arrive during the day.

The 20th annual Household Hazardous Waste Round-up will take place on Oct. 16 at the KLO campus of Okanagan College, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Access to the site will be off Raymer Avenue at Kelowna Secondary School.

For more information, visit www.regionaldistrict.com or contact the waste reduction office at 250-469-6250.

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The do's of household hazardous waste management

If you look under your sink, in your closet, or from your garage, there are products that will end once a hazardous waste, you can remove them. Some of you are dangerous in nature such as pesticides, cleaner, thin and paint. Others, however, on a relatively secure form of the battery and fluorescent light. Hazardous household waste (HHW) is that the corrosive, toxic, reactive and flammable as if improperly disposed of chaos in human health and the environment in General can create.

Pour it into the Lake and threatens to destroy the groundwater. If you sit can leave it on the common trash you, if you allow your material particles in the air to schweben.Sie add risk to the safety and health of sanitation workers will handle your HHW once you to the it.because of these risks have the effectiveness of domestic hazardous waste management.

Management of hazardous waste is nothing but a number of methods in the proper handling of HHW.to promote on a regular basis and to protect of human health and cleanliness and wellness environment. Here's what you can do:

1. Use the Produkte.Wenn you use, need to throw something; and reduzieren.produziert means that dispose of the amount of the HHW to your own little way many HHW all over the world every year.In the United States alone an average household produces about 100 pounds HHW, finally 1.6 million tonnes produced country every year help.

2. With someone you think share of the remaining products may need or find charities or groups, the donations accepted;You can change the excess products or to sell, if you want.

3. Never mix HHW with another HHW., some of these products can respond, explode or ignite when mixed. Save you in their original containers with still associated labels and position in areas where children cannot reach you.

(4) learn more about your HHW collection programs, community every year has many companies run a collection where HHW budgets ausgewählt.Auflistung days are premature, and some cities offer kits where bags, labels and instructions are included.

5. leave your HHW collection for local groups about your company not host-a collection of Programmen.Beispielsweise can your used batteries battery collection agencies for recycling geben.Einige battery retailers, in fact, participate in the battery recycling program and take batteries;same with fluorescent lamps retailers.

6. Check your medicine CABINET and see if there are old and expired drugs.Although some medications are not necessarily dangerous is cautious removal necessary because health-threatening elements and properties of the pill, you can crush and mix in the trash thrown, with coffee grounds and cat bedding and you liquid medicines, on the other hand, should from rags or paper towels in raised is absorbed in the trash can.Needles and sharps should be disposed of as the regular HHW.some cities accept medications when HHW listing expired this service should be claimed.

Management of hazardous waste are largely focused on the sale of HHW, but the amount of the reduction of waste processing should not be ignored, to reduce the HHW produced every year, it would help products with organic or non-toxic substances;use search head for these products the next time in the supermarket.

Why should we begin waste management

Waste management is something that every household, business, education and medical institutions should learn and implement. It is estimated that in the United States a study that every year about an American would produce 75 tonnes of waste by the environmental protection agency. Approximately 90% or 325-375 million tons of toxic waste is dumped every year from industrialized countries. THE United Nations 1992 had problems of around 60% of the countries of the World Summit reports on waste management.

It is not only the environment, we would need can cause waste disposed of properly to take care of that major health risks to humans or the communities that surround the area where the waste was disposed of. UNDP estimates that there are five million deaths per year due to incorrect disposal of waste.

Improper disposal of waste may reduce the risk of increased bugs or increase you can pests in the company distributed, dengue fever caused common mosquito element is very dangerous disease often water and stacking of garden waste associated with people can also for leptospirosis or infection get urine and faeces of pests can be disclosed. As broken glasses or scrap metals can cause also tetanus Hill.

Another danger of incorrect handling of waste, it would be hazardous substances and toxins that can affect the environment and societymedical or health and waste can radioactive isotopes that stick give the water and lead to have make dirty water where you can your child to schwimmen.Abgesehen medical waste also very dangerous if wrong, be released if you are coming from people who suffer from certain diseases, human waste;This would contaminate sources of water.

Unkempt yard and roads make would affect those who can regarding Leben.Es economy in the community an idea, it is unlikely that enterprises want to invest in a community that promotes security and security.

Most people believe that waste management is of considerable Summen.Es are actually not so sein.Nicht handle and waste irresponsibly tend to be more expensive, think dumping to income, by not trying to equipment and devices store lost.

Disposal of hazardous waste is a further important issue."hazardous waste" is actually very present in our Haushalt.Laut see EPA approximately 1.8 million tonnes of hazardous waste are each year;sold and the most homeowners are not even aware that you store hazardous chemicals in their closets.

Waste management can be summarized in three simple words: reduce, reuse and recycle.in the UK its recycling efforts could reduce 10-15 million tons of CO2, the each year;House and apartment owners and other institutions start by dividing the Recycle Bin, the monitoring of the quantities and types of waste that are sold, and to ensure that you correctly transported from your Web site may be.

Waste management training was provided successfully plan to employees, workers and workers with a waste management plan and people, the implementation.

Twenty eWaste depots by next October - Stuff.co.nz

By CLAIRE MCENTEE - The Dominion Post

Households and small businesses will be able to drop off their old computers and televisions at 20 electronic waste recycling depots around the country by next October.

E-waste disposers will pay a fee to use the service, designed to prevent tens of thousands of tonnes of hazardous materials from being dumped in landfills.

The Government has contributed $400,000 to the set up of the depots, which will be a joint venture between Auckland e-waste recycling firm RCN Group and the Community Recycling Network, which represents local recycling initiatives around the country.

The Government has also put $750,000 towards this year's eDay, a national electronic waste disposal event, after refusing an initial funding application.

Joe Capizzi, chief executive of the RCN Group, said it would set up recycling facilities in Wellington and Christchurch to join its Auckland facility in processing the waste collected at the 20 depots. "We'll be trying to cover most corners of the country."

The RCN Group and the Community Recycling Network would also help fund the development of the depot network.

The depots were intended for IT products but could also collect old televisions, he said. Materials collected, such as glass and copper, would be distributed to local recyclers where possible.

"We're finally getting to a permanent solution rather than just having the once-a-year eDay."

Laurence Zwimpfer, chairman of eDay New Zealand, said eDay would be held on November 6 and Wellingtonians would again take their e-waste to Westpac Stadium.

The Environment Ministry had been concerned eDay was not evolving into a longer-term solution.

The e-waste depots were a step in the right direction but could struggle to become financially sustainable if people balked at paying for the service, Mr Zwimpfer said.

Ultimately the Government would need to impose a product stewardship scheme in which manufacturers covered the cost of recycling their goods, for example by paying a $30 tariff on products.

"The end consumer has to pay somewhere and if you put it on the purchase price no-one notices."

He urged people to get together with neighbours and pool their e-waste before dropping it off on November 6. The ministry would now handle the recycling of all the products collected.

The company charged with exporting waste from last year's eDay was prosecuted by the ministry for trying to export hazardous waste without permits, and its director was fined $13,590 in the Auckland District Court in August.

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Waste management jobs

Waste management is about the collection, transportation and disposal of waste from households, industrial and other institutions. Waste management has become an industry own. There are companies that offer services and pull your junk-e removed. There are different jobs, different waste management companies.

Various waste disposal company job would offer as a seller, customer service representatives, drivers, pickup staff and field characterization specialist waste;They are very important when the type of waste management services to home and property owners and industry owners need.

Each waste management staff do what exactly do? As in any type of activity, konnte. Vertriebsmitarbeiter can sales staff that target customers reach the company services promote waste management services on the Web, on foot or via the email.Companies should also make sure that it customer service representative, who would readily available to assist customers. A number of customer service reps who could handle complaints, service changes and upgrades would have suppliers of large waste management and the company.

Mechanics, drivers and pickup service personnel are also necessary in a company, Abfallwirtschaft.besteht the need for the conservation of trucks and deal with repairs and inspections;again, the number of mechanics, drivers and other staff are depending on scope and size of the company and its coverage area.

It is waste management specialists who ensure that einzuhalten.Es activities are regional, State and national laws various provisions which ensure would waste management companies would dispose waste and would pose no risk to the environment and society.

Waste management jobs are not only available in Entsorgungsunternehmen.Einrichtungen such as hospitals, medical clinics and pharmaceutical laboratories would organize beschäftigen.Abfallwirtschaft officers an officer and manage waste would would also responsible for monitoring the volume of waste and sometimes lead to reduce a project and to recycle.

Authorities should waste management Offiziere.In USA approximately 75 tonnes of waste by an average American each year; in a city imagine how many tonnes of waste are generated every year? it is definitely a need for an official to perform training and waste management in communities programs.

An officer would knowledge in generating statistics and evaluate reports executives or Government authorities would be submittedhis task would with investigated by illegal dumping of waste even coverage could budget formulation and control for the disposal of waste, to deal all charges, share their responsibility is at the forefront of research and development of environmental technologies that would help to reduce waste.

This can sometimes difficult to find Western management jobs can start to find jobs in different waste management sites;Online employment sites are good places to look for jobs;You can also start contacting local waste management Department and wondering whether it all positions, waste management;You can answer questions on the attitudes of processes and the conditions for the position.

Tyres burned in China, not recycled in Brisbane - Sydney Morning Herald

More than 11 million used tyres were exported from Australia to China and Vietnam last year.

More than a million used tyres from Brisbane are being burnt in China's coal mines while local tyre recyclers struggle to source enough rubber to keep their businesses afloat.

Last year, more than 11 million used tyres were exported from Australia to China and Vietnam, with 1.5 million sent from Brisbane wharves.

Ipswich-based recycler Chip Tyre chief executive Dave Mohr said a loophole in government regulations, which listed tyres as "regulated" rather than a "hazardous" waste, had allowed their mass export.

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Mr Mohr said the practice was "unethical, if not illegal" under the Basel Convention, which prevents the exchange of hazardous waste between countries.

“One of the problems at the moment is that tyres are being baled and sent to China for dubious reasons,” he said. “They are not being recycled, they are being used to fuel kilns or power stations or whatever.”

Tyres are often collected from companies by the cheapest bidding firms, rather than rubber recycling businesses.

Queensland Waste Recyclers Association executive director Rick Ralph said stopping the export of old tyres was critical for local recycling businesses.

"We use the rubber in adhesives and we use it for all sorts of applications, for bitumen in roads," he said.

"If we don't do it, guess where will be importing the rubber back from? China.

"We have businesses now ready and wanting to invest, but because we can't close this loophole and support the local recyclers, there is a danger our local recyclers will go out of business."

The company appears to have won a sympathetic ear from the Queensland Government which is preparing to introduce a $35 a tonne waste levy on businesses storing wastes, including tyres.

Sustainability minister Kate Jones said exporting second-hand tyres would be discussed at a meeting next month of all Australian environment ministers.

"This is federal legislation. As a state minister I am not a signatory to it," she said.

However, Ms Jones said she had met several times with the QWRA and conceded there were obstacles for rubber recyclers.

"At the moment it is cheaper to put them to these carriers than to do something else with the tyres," she said.

Mr Mohr said his business could not compete with those that collected tyres and shipped them to China.

"It is two to three times more expensive for me to do what I am doing compared to what they are doing," he said.

"Everybody believes their tyres are being dealt with in a responsible manner, but they aren't."

Mr Mohr said the major problem was a non-governmental fee collected by tyre retailers for each passenger vehicle tyre they sold.

"At the moment what is happening is that they will collect the $2.50 [for each tyre] and then whoever is the cheapest to the back door to pick the tyres up gets the job," he said.

"So if they can get rid of the tyres for $1.50, or $1.10 each, as some people are talking about to get rid of the tyres, then they are letting the tyres go to whomever might be the cheapest, rather than whomever might be recycling."

Recycled tyre rubber can be turned into grout, playground softfall and mixed in with road bitumen.

Ms Jones said the new Queensland waste levy, to be introduced next July, would put a "price signal" into the waste market and force "cowboy" operators out of the industry.

However, she said the Environmental Protection Agency was already taking action against two tyre recyclers in southeast Queensland, including one business with a licence to store 3000 tyres that had collected 180,000 tyres.

A second tyre recycling business which operated without a licence and without a council development application had been fined $85,000.

Ms Jones promised tougher penalties and more inspectors to monitor Queensland's emerging waste industry.

"We will have to have increased regulation. I believe we will have to have additional officers," Ms Jones said.

Finding enough tyre rubber was one of a number of issues addressed in the new Queensland Waste Strategy 2010-2020, which was launched in July.

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