This is a developing predicament: In both China and India, for example, solid-waste generation is expected to double in the next 20 years.
"What Portland is doing with organics is an area that we're very interested in, " says Nick Galus, a senior project manager with that city's solid-waste team.
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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For example, the facility at Pitsea in Britain, on the banks of the River Thames near London, accepts only solid municipal and commercial waste, because European law prohibits the mingling of liquid and solid waste, and of hazardous and non-hazardous waste.
Watkins' one-person energy shop, Watkins Pencor , is a principal owner in Masada Oxynol , a Birmingham company that has devised a way to turn municipal solid waste into fuel-grade ethanol.
The principal danger for people living near Jaduguda, say environmentalists, is a 40-hectare "tailing" pond used to hold liquid and solid waste produced in the processing of the ore into yellow cake.
Cases in the court's upcoming session include two suits to determine the legitimacy of patents, a case that will help determine the scope of federal jurisdiction in civil lawsuits, and a challenge by Waste Management (nyse: WMI - news - people ) to a Mississippi ordinance limiting where it can dispose of solid waste.
Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
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So while Stern might come with a good amount of built-in publicity and a solid fan base, he could turn out to be a big waste of money for the network that is now owned by Comcast.
After the four-week trial, the other defendants were convicted of illegally taking money for sitting on Bell's Solid Waste and Recycling Authority, an entity they could not prove had been legally established or did any work.
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