• Resource recovery is using wastes as an input material to create valuable products as new outputs. The aim is to reduce the amount of waste generated...
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    The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste...
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    from products and to generate the minimum amount of end waste; see: resource recovery. The waste hierarchy is represented as a pyramid because the basic...
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    1970s. Peter Karter established Resource Recovery Systems, Inc. in Branford, Connecticut, the "first materials recovery facility (MRF)" in the US. Cradle-to-cradle...
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    health or the environment."  Hazardous Waste falls under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).  Under the RCRA, the EPA has the authority to...
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    The following is a list of companies based in San Francisco, California. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses, based on the list of the Fortune...
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  • Resource recovery, the collection of recyclable materials Recovery truck or recovery vehicle, used to move or assist other vehicles Vehicle recovery (military)...
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    and Tinplate Co-mingled recyclables- can be sorted by a clean materials recovery facility Kerbside collection of recyclable resources is aimed to recover...
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    human illnesses. The recovery of nutrients from wastewater still continues in two forms: Wastewater reuse or resource recovery: Use of raw, treated or...
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    courses for urban planners. Sustainable sanitation that allows for resource recovery has the potential to contribute to circular economies and green cities...
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    and generated 310,000 of synthetic gypsum. The Montgomery County Resource Recovery Facility, a 56 MW generating incineration plant that burns municipal...
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    County Resource Recovery Facility, Newark, New Jersey Harrisburg incinerator, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Lee County Solid Waste Resource Recovery Facility...
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    "collaborative cluster of commercial businesses" including Orora, Adelaide Resource Recovery, Jeffries Group and Transpacific Industries. Between 1952 and 2004...
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    are designed for safe and effective recovery of resources can play an important role in a community's overall resource management. Recovering the resources...
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    insufficient to properly manage the nation's waste and enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Congress passed additional major amendments to...
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  • Spring Farm Advanced Resource Recovery Facility (or Spring Farm ARR Facility, formerly Macarthur Resource Recovery Park, and originally Jacks Gully Waste...
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    area is treated at one facility, the GLWA Water Resource Recovery Facility. The Water Resource Recovery Facility is located at 9300 W. Jefferson Avenue...
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  • Asset recovery, also known as investment or resource recovery, is the process of maximizing the value of unused or end-of-life assets through effective...
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    fourth reservoir), 2 drinking water filtration plants, and 6 water resource recovery facilities. It also collects wastewater which is treated at the Blue...
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  • The Essex County Resource Recovery Facility, also known as Covanta Essex, is a waste-to-energy incineration power station in Essex County, New Jersey...
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    customers. On July 6, 2021, the company announced the formation of the Resource Recovery Alliance (RRA) and an agreement to acquire Canadian Stewardship Services...
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    -83.051898 The Detroit waste incinerator, also known as the Detroit Resource Recovery Facility and as Detroit Renewable Power was an American waste-to-energy...
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    Penny; Jerry Powell (May 1999). "Gary Anderson has been found!" (PDF). Resource Recycling is Good: North America's Recycling and Composting Journal: 1–2...
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    materials into new materials and objects. This concept often includes the recovery of energy from waste materials. The recyclability of a material depends...
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    "ABout the Geelong Saleyards". Retrieved 25 August 2017. "Geelong Resource Recovery Centre and Transfer Station". www.geelongaustralia.com.au. Retrieved...
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    eds. (2014). Metcalf & Eddy Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery (5th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 978-0-07-340118-8...
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    A transfer station, or resource recovery centre, is a building or processing site for the temporary deposition, consolidation and aggregation of waste...
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    called a trash-to-energy, municipal waste incineration, energy recovery, or resource recovery plant. Modern waste-to-energy plants are very different from...
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    friendly. The Kirie system is one of the first to use wastewater for heat recovery and provides the MWRD with the opportunity to evaluate both open and closed...
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    is composed of natural resources (at its fundamental level). A natural resource may exist as a separate entity such as fresh water, air, or any living...
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