Receiving centers, says Hadley, charge as much as 8 cents to 13 cents to treat a liter of waste, processing it either chemically or mechanically to be dumped in a landfill.
Receiving centers, says Hadley, charge as much as 30 cents to 50 cents to treat a gallon of waste, processing it either chemically or mechanically to be dumped in a landfill.
In view of the radioactive nature of thorium, a hazard is posed from waste produced in the processing of rare earth oxides, which contains it.
Britain, meanwhile, has started taxing landfills so heavily that local officials, desperate to find an alternative, are investing in all manner of unproven waste-processing technologies.
In February, prosecutors accused the director of Mayak, Russia's main waste processing plant in the Ural Mountains, of allowing tons of radioactive nuclear waste to flow into a nearby river.
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.
Sanergy employees empty the toilets each day, taking an air-tight container of waste to a Sanergy processing facility where it is converted to biogas and fertilizer that Sanergy plans to sell to commercial and small farmers.
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Competition for the job of processing the sorted waste is coming not just from other waste companies but also from technology companies that think they can transform this trash into higher-value materials.
The Department of the Environment has ordered an internal investigation into why the public was not informed of planning approval for a major waste processing plant near Londonderry.
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Colombia restricts foreign investment in toxic waste processing, essentially to prevent the dumping of toxic waste.
Since the early 1980s, the EPA has included waste created from zinc phosphate processing on its list of FO19 hazardous wastes, which requires expensive additional treatment.
In New Zealand Scion Research works to convert the waste stream from pulp and paper processing into a blend of microbial cell wall debris and plastic called polyhydroxyalkanoate, or PHA. Plant a PHA flower pot into the ground and and it biodegrades.
Its services include engineering, decontamination, radioactive waste processing, and removal, transportation, and disposal of waste for closed nuclear power plants and former weapons sites.
When fully operational the plant would be capable of processing all domestic and non-hazardous commercial waste generated in the counties of Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend.
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Consultation on plans to build a nuclear waste processing plant on the Romney Marsh has seen 63% of residents and 50% of businesses reject the idea.
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