The biggest potential risks following an earthquake center around clean water, safe food, shelter, and disposal of waste.
Britain's tax on the disposal of waste at landfill sites is being used to pay for a small cut in payroll tax.
Its services include engineering, decontamination, radioactive waste processing, and removal, transportation, and disposal of waste for closed nuclear power plants and former weapons sites.
In line with the "polluter pays" principle, the EU plan also stipulates that producers would have to organize and finance the treatment, recovery and disposal of waste.
As such, Obama says that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to monitor certain aspects of shale gas production such as the disposal of waste water and the assurance of clean water supplies.
The permits cover the discharge and disposal of radioactive waste and cooling water.
Councillors voted 21 to 13 against formally expressing interest in the government's facility for the geological disposal of nuclear waste.
The Environment Agency permits cover the discharge and disposal of radioactive waste and cooling water and running of standby generators.
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Nuclear is dangerous because the disposal of radioactive waste remains unsolved and because it increases the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation.
The government is implementing a policy of geological disposal of nuclear waste and has invited communities' opinions on the planned facility.
The problem of waste disposal, which torments and troubles the municipalities and administrations of the major cities of the world, will vanish by overnight.
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Decades of improper radioactive waste disposal earned Hanford the notorious distinction of being most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere.
"Unfortunately this country has a culture of opposing every type of waste disposal centre, wherever it is, " he added.
Constable Simon Crowcroft said if all the other branches of waste disposal were bunched together there, it would mean all waste going to one site.
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The further cuts are needed because of changes in the council tax benefit scheme and increases in the cost of waste disposal and transport, it is claimed.
And it points out that other methods of waste disposal, like putting it in landfills, can pose health risks, and it urges more frequent monitoring of dioxins from incinerators.
In another report, on the public acceptability of incineration, the society says: "There remain concerns, both about other impacts of incinerators on the local environment, and about their place in the national waste hierarchy" (the choice of waste disposal methods).
Those are the very characteristics he finds in Republic Services, the No. 2 U.S. provider, behind Waste Management (WM), of solid-waste services, including collection, disposal and recycling of thrash.
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States not only employ some 4.7m people directly, but engage in a range of activities from waste-disposal to the provision of social services to business regulation covered by federal legislation.
"The outbreak is likely to continue as the water and sanitation situation is worsening, with severe shortages of potable water, sewage and waste disposal problems reported in most of the populated areas, " the statement said.
Britain needs to find a site for the long-term underground disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
"These days, it's more of a waste disposal problem, " said Ms Exelby.
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Britain needs to find a site for the long-term underground disposal of high-level radioactive waste as some if it stays dangerous for 100, 000 years.
And waste disposal, despite decades of research and politicking, remains a farce.
The Mountain Pass mine, which had been bought in 1977 by Unocal, the oil company, began running into all kinds of regulatory problems concerning waste disposal, just as it was losing market share to cheaper Chinese competitors.
Ninety percent of electronic waste currently ends up in disposal or shredding without any pre-treatment.
The NSCA says local planners should identify the optimum levels of recycling, composting and other waste disposal options.
Jersey could soon ship 4, 000 tonnes of ash waste to the UK for disposal, according to the island's environment minister.
EarthFirst, John Stanton's firm, claims to be at "the forefront of alternative energy sources, " according to its Web site, but still gets most of its revenue from moneylosing waste-disposal and biodiesel-import businesses, and recently filed to allow Laurus Capital to sell 76 million shares, whose proceeds would be used to retire convertible debt held by Laurus.
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