Your Questions About Recycling
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Ruth asks…
What should the top priority in solid waste management be?
The top priority in solid waste management should be
1.recycling
2.reusing
3.reducing
4.burning
5.burying
The Expert answers:
Again, in case you deleted the old question. The US Environmental Protection Agency ranks them in the following order:
1. Reduce / Reuse
2. Recycling / Composting
3. Combusion with energy production
4. Incineration and landfill without energy production
Charles asks…
How to make an waste recycling incinerator Model?
Hiii evry1!!! I hav 2 do a model on waste management for my science project!!! I chose 2 do an incinerator!!! Can U giv me sum ideas on how 2 do it??? Any other waste management models’ ideas will also b appreciated!!!
Thnk U!!!
The Expert answers:
If you want to do recycling model go to www.veoliaenviromentalservices.com.uk and follow links
Mary asks…
why did waste management (wm) take our recycling bin?
i don’t see why they took it. how do we get a new one?
they didnt take it:)
The Expert answers:
May not be wm, may be just a stupid neighbor, my neighbor stole one of my garbage cans and the wheels off another one.
Sandra asks…
solid waste management PhD?
Dear all,
I am looking for a good graduate school for my PhD. I am more interested in solid waste management (recycling program) in the U.S.A or any where else . Please if you know a good school in this field and this degree just let me know
Thanks so much
The Expert answers:
I’m not sure there is such a thing a PhD in Waste Management (be it solid or not…). I very well could be wrong, it is just something I have never heard of. Perhaps a PhD in Environmental Science would do the trick, then you could specialize in waste management? Better yet, perhaps civil engineering then specialize in waste management! I hope you find a program that fits. Good luck!
Steven asks…
Who ever works for waste management?
I am interested in working for waste management (mainly a recycling facility) is there a position that I can do instead of driving the truck
The Expert answers:
There is a wide variety of jobs in waste management beside driving a truck. Like any industry there are office jobs, gate attendants, sorters, drivers of forklifts and other heavy machinery. Go to your local recycling center and see what they have, if they don’t have any job you are interested in, they may be able to direct to someplace that does.
Carol asks…
Allied Waste curbside recycling in East TX – what’s the deal?
I signed up literally months ago for the curbside recycling program. Have never received a bin. Was told could put it out in a laundry basket. Sits there and the regular trash gets it the next day – and it goes in the landfill. Anyone else have this going on? Any suggestions what to do about it (city has contract with Allied Waste Management, so I don’t have the option of changing companies) would be most welcome.
The Expert answers:
Hi,
I don’t live in Texas, but experienced the same problem in my home town, Lee’s Summit, MO.
After many attempts to resolve the issue with the vendor directly I reached out to my city environmental coordinator. The result was a bin delivered to my doorstep the next morning by a manager. Turns out they were issued a citation for failure to comply with city ordinance.
By the way… Thanks for doing your part and recycling!
Nancy asks…
What would you ask Birmingham City Councils Head of Fleet and Waste Management if you had the chance?
I have a meeting with Kevin Mitchell, who is Birmingham City councils head of Fleet and Waste Management, I was wondering what the general public would like to ask this figure head if they were given the chance, here is an example; What is the councils official recycling policy? However big or small let me know what issues you would want to raise and I can feed back the results on my blog, if your interested!
The Expert answers:
I’d ask them “Instead of Managing waste, why don’t you eliminate it?”
Donald asks…
I am interested in promoting/increasing recycling at my campus I was just wondering what steps I should take?
I go to a community college (if that helps)
I want to have a variety of recycling waste bins on campus not just paper
Do I need to contact Waste Management?
I would like a response from someone who has experience with environmentally friendly programs and organizations.
The Expert answers:
Since you are at a community college it is most likely that students live nearby. I would recommend you start promoting recycling on campus by founding a club or group to attract other people that have the same interest as you. With a group of people that have a like purpose, you can then use all of you resources to gain support from school administration for placing recycling bins, etc… Around campus. Remember that these bins need to be emptied and physically taken to a recycling center…your group, or some department at the school, will have to be responsible for this. I would suggest that your group control the recycling program so that you will all stay in touch and build good relationships for the future. Start now and you might actually make a few bucks in the process while building your resume and having a positive impact on the environment in the process. Don’t know how to start a club? Maybe start a myspace page or a meetup group and make a lot of flyers to post on boards around campus. It will be some work but the world is worth it right?!
Thomas asks…
BFI, Waste Management Recyclers making money?
I think it is quite odd that trash haulers like BFI and Waste Management ask their customers to recycle and charge them for this recycling, especially when they in turn make money on those items. They should actually be giving money to customers for their recycling which in turn would be used as incentive. Does anyone agree?
There are limited independent recyclers based on these large trash haulers, hard to compete with them.
I worked for a city organization whose job was to pick up used tires and take them to BFI, they would charge $50 a truck load and in turn chop up those tires and sell it for fuel for a paper plant. The greed here is what I am questioning. It is like an oil company charging you to give it your fuel.
The Expert answers:
It probably depends on how much they really make after running second trucks with second cres to pick up the recycles. Of more intrest to me is why the Conshohocken trash to steam recycling center was supposed to make us money and instead we now have to pay them to burn the burnable collections.
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