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Waste Managers Weigh Climate Warning

Posted November 30, 2007 8:24 AM

Solid waste managers may want to consider the climatic implications of their operations and assess opportunities to curb greenhouse gas emissions. While solid waste management systems are sources of such emissions, they can also provide offsets and sinks through fuel substitution and recycling. A carbon-neutral management plan reduces emissions through landfill gas recovery, waste-to-energy, recycling, and waste reduction initiatives. Early adoption of such proactive measures is expected to dovetail with pending state regulatory programs, including legislation recently implemented in California. What can your company do to take the carbon out with the trash?

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Re: Waste Managers Weigh Climate Warning

12/01/2007 4:11 PM

I beg your pardon, sir!

We prefer to be called: "Waste Creating Design Engineers".

Your article is incorrectly titled and therefor makes little sense, at all.

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Re: Waste Managers Weigh Climate Warning

12/03/2007 12:40 PM

How is the burning of the natural gas generated as wastes decompose carbon neutral? Doesn't the burning process generate carbon dioxide emissions?

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Re: Waste Managers Weigh Climate Warning

12/10/2007 6:54 PM

It is the lesser of two evils. A volatile gas with carbon bound to hydrogen will do more damage to the atmosphere than will carbon bound to two oxygens.

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Re: Waste Managers Weigh Climate Warning

12/10/2007 10:28 AM

Does anybody seriously believe in that "Global warming thing"? So far, there is no proof at all. It's all about assumptions and mathematical theories. Also, if the time of weather recording is put into relation to the time our planet is existing, it sounds quite rediculous to make such assumptions like global warming, based on such a small data base.

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Re: Waste Managers Weigh Climate Warning

01/13/2008 11:35 PM

rediculous the global warming?

it is fanny -such expresion- and seems that you are a marsiano or moonman that have non of your 5 sence tuned to live in earth.

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Re: Waste Managers Weigh Climate Warning

01/14/2008 12:24 AM

What a waste "of engineers brains" too

A well managed wastes program must rescue 100% of them -avoiding them firt, if possible- which none should ever end in landfills, nor exhausted to air, neither drained to rivers or oceans------then, non methane or CO2 gas is genetated at all there -a real zero artificial carbon emission plan- only gases that we animals exhall or exhaust.

That`s the challenge for any city mayor and its engineering support involved in efforts to improve enviroment -by programs that avoid harfull wastes- as follows:

A SUMMARY OF MAIN HUMANS WASTES AND THE IMPACT:

1) SOLID TRASH & GARBAGE .......2billion tons/day......................POLLUTING EVERY CITY, TOWN, RANCH, and LAND FIELDS.

2) ELECTRONIC GARBAGE............100million tons/year..............NEW HUGE POLLUTION TO HABITAT EVERY WHERE

3) LIQUID DRAINAGE ......................1.2billion -solid tons/day-........POLLUTING EVERY RIVER, LAKE, DAM, SHORE AND OCEANS

4) GASES AND BURNT FUELS.......9billion ton of CO2/year....... POLLUTING AIR, OVERHEATING ATMOSPHERE, CHANGING CLIMATES, DEICING

5) NUCLEAR WASTE........................?tons/year.............................DEVASTING EVERY THING AROUND -AS POLLUTION OR as WEAPOON-

6) DEFORESTING HUGE AREAS....1billion TREES/year................REDUCING NATURE CAPABILITY TO RESTORE O2 AND OZONE LEVELS

OBVIOUS DEDUCTION:

WE WILL EXTINGUISH OUR SELVES WITH OUR OWN WAISTS -NOE SPACESHIP WILL MOVE TO MARS SOON -to start over again- and could be Mr Brandson GranSon last expedition.

REVERTING it by ELIMINATING CAUSES IS THE ONLY SOLUTION:

1) REDUCING AMOUNTS OF TRASH TO CERO, BY:

A) AVOIDING DISPOSABLES PRODUCTS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE -

B) REUSABLE -PRODUCTS AND PACKS-,

C) REMANUFACTURING -TO BE REUSED-

D) RECYCLING REMAINING TRASH –100% USEFULL IF PRE-SELECTED AT HOMES, INDUSTRY OR INSTITUCIONS- OTHERWISE IS GARBAGE WITH 0 VALUE.

E) EVEN USING LEFTS OF GARBAGE TO MAKE COMPOSTABLES -TO NOT DISPOSE THEM OFF ANY WHERE-

2) FOR OBSOLETE AND DAMAGED ELECTRONICS GARBAGE -A HUGE NEW PROBLEM- THE SOLUTION IS THE SAME:

A) REMANUFACTURING AS POSIBLE -MUCH FOR THE POOR PEAPLE-

B) RESCUING USEFULL COMPONENTES AND MATERIALS FOR RECYCLING, AND

C) PULVERIZING LEFTS TO BE USE AS FILLERS, FOR BLOCKS AND PLAQUES FOR BUILDINGS, ETC.

3) RECYCLING 100% OF DRAINAGE -TO NOT DISPOSE THEM OFF TO THE RIVER- BY PROPER PROCESSING:

A) SEDIMENTING, DECANTING AND PURIFYING LIQUID WATER BY MEANS OF SUN HEATING & EVAPORATION UNDER VACUM

B) AS WELL AS SUNDRYING THE SOLID MATTER PLUS PAUSTERIZING TO MAKE ORGANIC FERTILIZERS IN PELLETS.

4) USING SOLAR ENERGY AT MOST, INSTEAD OF BURNING FUELS -BESIDES, HARVESTING HIDRO, WIND AND TIDE ENERGY TOO-

5) AVOIDING USE OF ELECTRO-NUCLEAR PLANTS -OR MAY BE THORIUM POWERED PLANTS ONLY-

6) HOWEVER, GLOBAL WARMING COULDNT BE RESTORED WITHOUT:

A) HARVESTING THE UNIVERSE OF EARTH VEGETABLE -WHICH WILL DO THE CO2 CLEANING ACTION TOO-

B) A MASSIVE REFORESTING CAMPAIN OF ALL DEFORESTED LAND WORLDWIDE -TO RE-INSTALL BILLIONS OF THOSE CHEAP FACTORIES -CALLED TREES- THAT PRODUCE O2 FROM CO2 PLUS ITS GREEN MATTER -

HELP EARTH TO HELP US ------- IN OTHER WORDS WE MUST CHANGE OUR WAY OF LIVING -BEYOND GREEN CULTURE- TO ECO-CULTURE.

- It is not impossible -but feasible- although peaples change resistance, as welL as political and industry reluctance have to be overcome jet.

WE MUST NOT SIT AND IGNORE THE WASTE.

- A WISE MINISTER RECENTLY FELT THE NEED TO WRITE A LETTER, WHICH INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING WORDS:

"THE EARTH, LOVINGLY CREATED AS AN ENVIRONMENT FOR LIFE TO FLOURISH, SHUDDERS IN DISTRESS BECAUSE CREATION'S NATURAL AND LIVING SYSTEMS ARE BECOMING EXHAUSTED FROM CARRYING THE BURDEN OF HUMAN GREED AND CONFLICT. HUMANKIND MUST AWAKEN FROM ITS ILLUSION OF INDEPENDENCE AND UNRESTRAINED CONSUMPTION WITHOUT LASTING CONSEQUENCES."

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