Yucca Mountain: Home of Long Lost Nuclear Waste?
…nation’s nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain from so many distant locations where it now sits. The waste would arrive by truck, and six to seven shipments of the hazardous material…
…nation’s nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain from so many distant locations where it now sits. The waste would arrive by truck, and six to seven shipments of the hazardous material…
…via brokers and processors,” says Diane D”Arrigo, a co-author of the report. Tennessee licenses the largest number of nuclear waste processors to relocate, incinerate and recycle radioactive waste. In 2000,…
…a useful field guide outlining different approaches builders can take to managing waste. Of course, the best way to prevent waste in the first place is good planning. Design should…
…Packaging Waste,” putting the responsibility of waste reduction and reclamation on manufacturers instead of on retailers, consumers and local governments. The program, popularly known as “Producer Pays” or “Extended Producer…
…include electronics, batteries, hazardous materials, mattresses, packaging and other items. The waste from products and packaging represents three quarters of the stuff in landfills. This waste pollutes our air, ground…
…consumption every year—approximately 1.3 billion tons—gets lost or wasted, according to the FAO report Global Food Losses and Food Waste, which was released this past May. The U.S. Environmental Protection…
A Watery Grave? When, in 1983, the London Dumping Convention banned the disposal of high-level nuclear waste into the oceans, there was no shortage of protests. High-level nuclear waste presents…
…tons of electronic waste, or e-waste, every year. That’s roughly equal to throwing away 1,000 laptops every second of every day. According to the EPA, only about 12.5% of that…
Dear EarthTalk: Why don’t we reprocess and re-use our nuclear waste like France does? Would it be possible for us to start doing so? —Albert Jukowsky, Silver Spring, MD Reprocessing…
A Look Inside The Environmental Industrial Complex Bill St. John was once a rising star in the environmental cleanup marketplace. Now he claims that offering effective, lower cost toxic waste…