Latest Waste Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Waste Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
$79k EPA Fine for Nevada Company’s Hazardous Waste Facility
Dec 2 2011 // Federal environmental regulators have fined a Nevada company $79,500 for mishandling the storage of hazardous waste at a facility in Fernley. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the fine late Wednesday...
Five Star Specialty Launches Breakdown Service for Bus, Waste Hauler Vehicles
Sep 23 2011 // Five Star Specialty Programs, a division of Crump Insurance Services, Inc., and part of Crump Group, Inc., has launched a new breakdown service to buses and waste hauler vehicles insured through 5Star, the exclusive...
XL Insurance Creates Electronic Data Destruction Coverage for E-Waste Recycling
Apr 5 2011 // XL Insurance, the global insurance operations of XL Group plc, has unveiled a new Electronic Data Destruction coverage enhancement developed exclusively for e-waste recyclers. “In the US alone, an estimated 400...
80 Nearby Residents Sue Delaware Steel Recycling Plant
Aug 20 2010 // At least 80 Claymont, Delaware residents have joined a damage and personal-injury lawsuit targeting a long-troubled steel recycling plant there, in a case that claims owners failed for years to control “poisonous...
Willis Programs, Krause and Butt Launch RecycleGuard in Ontario
Jun 23 2010 // Willis Programs of New Hampshire, Inc., a unit of Willis Group Holdings, announced that it has signed an agreement with Krause and Butt Insurance Brokers Limited of Barrie, Ontario, Canada to offer the RecycleGuard program...
Earth Day: How Insurance Works with Recyclers
Apr 22 2010 // Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and this year the Environmental Protection Agency turns 40 as well. Earth Day, the EPA and activists have been catalysts for one industry’s growth, in particular. The...
New York Teen Dumping Garbage Falls in Sewage Pit, Dies
Mar 4 2010 // A snow plow might have jarred loose the cover of a sewage pit where a teenager doughnut shop worker fell and died while taking out the trash, investigators said Monday. Amiri Zeqiri, 17, slipped into an open cesspool...
Recycle a Retiree to Evangelize Your Agency
Feb 21 2010 // Old Folks Are Finally Good for Something Aging is a fatal disease that is venerated in some cultures and dissed by others. In ours, it is clearly the latter. Too many post-baby boomers believe that honoring one’s...
State of Ohio Awarded $14.7M Judgment for Waste Facility
Oct 19 2009 // After a protracted legal battle, Ohio has been awarded a $14.7 million judgment against four defendants stemming from a hazardous waste treatment facility that was not shut down properly. Attorney General Richard...
Forklift Accident Kills Man at New Hampshire Recycling Plant
Sep 21 2009 // Fire department officials say a worker died in a forklift accident as employees prepared to leave for the day at a metals recycling plant in Concord, N.H. An emergency call at about 5 p.m. Tuesday indicated the employee...
Owners of Former Landfill in Pennsylvania Sued for Cleanup
Aug 28 2009 // The state Department of Environmental Protection is suing the owners of a former landfill in western Pennsylvania to recover more than $3 million in hazardous waste cleanup costs. The Boldan Landfill operated in an...
Seized California Insurer Golden Eagle to Pay for Landfill Cleanup
Aug 28 2009 // The Golden Eagle Insurance Co. will pay $400,000 to cover environmental investigation costs that the insolvent BKK Corp. was required to perform at its closed hazardous waste landfill in West Covina, Calif., the U.S....
Sloan Mason Offers Trash Haulers, Landfill Operators Package
Jun 2 2009 // Sloan Mason, based in San Diego, Calif., has introduced coverages for garbage/trash haulers and landfill operators, available nationwide. The A XV rated carrier provides general liability, pollution and auto coverage....
Cleanup Agreement Reached for Massachusetts Landfill
Dec 15 2008 // Environmental officials say a settlement has been reached to complete the cleanup of the Shpack landfill in Norton and Attleboro, Massachusetts The landfill is a federal Superfund site contaminated with chemical and...
High Car Stacks Blamed in Rhode Island Recycling Yard Fire
Aug 22 2008 // Officials in Johnston, Rhode Island say firefighters struggled to douse a large recycling plant fire over the weekend because cars there were stacked too high and were piled too close to each other. The blaze at the Metals...
‘Garbage In, Gospel Out’
Jun 2 2008 // Catastrophe Modeling Pioneer Clark Analyzes an Industry She Helped Create Karen Clark, former CEO of AIR Worldwide, now heads her own firm Karen Clark & Co. (www.karenclarkandco.comwww.karenclarkandco.com). She made...
Recycling Plant Fire in South Carolina Creates Environmental Hazard
May 1 2008 // State environmental officials say runoff from the thousands of gallons of water sprayed on a fire at a South Carolina recycling plant may have killed hundreds of fish. The facility where plastic bottles and cardboard are...
Virginia Landfill Now One of Nation’s Most Hazardous Sites
Mar 21 2008 // A Loudoun County, Virginia landfill blamed for contaminating drinking wells is being added to a federal registry of the nation’s most hazardous sites. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added the Hidden Lane...
