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2. History of waste management - Wikipedia

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   The first occurrence of organised solid waste management system appeared in London in the late 18th century. [13] A waste collection and resource recovery system was established around the 'dust-yards'. Main constituent of municipal waste was the coal ash (‘dust’) which had a market value for brick-making and as a soil improver.

3. List of Superfund sites in Indiana - Wikipedia

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   Wayne Waste Oil Whitley: Wayne Waste Oil, a division of Wayne Reclamation and Recycling, Inc., deposited about one million gallons of oil-related wastes on site. Waste disposal operations contaminated soil and groundwater with hazardous chemicals. 42.33 Dec 30, 1982: Sep 8, 1983: Jun 30, 1995 – –

4. Recycling in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The Stanolind Recycling Plant was in operation as early 1947. Another early recycling mill was Waste Techniques, built in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania in 1972. [citation needed] Waste Techniques was sold to Frank Keel in 1978, and resold to BFI in 1981. Woodbury, New Jersey, was the first city in the United States to mandate recycling.

5. America’s landfills are ‘garbage lasagnas’—fetid layers of ...

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   America’s landfills—and the environmental havoc they create—are sizable. There are roughly 1,200 landfills currently in operation, and on average, each one takes up about 600 acres of land ...

6. Financing a pro soccer team would waste Indianapolis tax dollars

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7. Waste management - Wikipedia

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   This includes the collection, transport, treatment, and disposal of waste, together with monitoring and regulation of the waste management process and waste-related laws, technologies, and economic mechanisms. Waste can be solid, liquid, or gases and each type has different methods of disposal and management.

8. Indiana Department of Environmental Management - Wikipedia

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   The Indiana Department of Environmental Management was created an act passed by the Indiana General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Robert D. Orr in 1986. This act moved pollution control efforts (Indiana Air Pollution Control Board, Indiana Stream Pollution Control Board and the Indiana Environmental Management Board) from the Indiana ...

9. Waste hierarchy - Wikipedia

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   Waste (management) hierarchy is a tool used in the evaluation of processes that protect the environment alongside resource and energy consumption from most favourable to least favourable actions. [1] The hierarchy establishes preferred program priorities based on sustainability. [1] To be sustainable, waste management cannot be solved only with ...