Ms Murray tabled an amendment to the government motion, calling attention to the concerns raised by Audit Scotland who have said councils needed additional waste management facilities to meet national and landfill recycling targets.

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It said it would also take any additional bags of waste.

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The collaborative work of the EPA, General Services Administration (GSA), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the dozen additional agencies represented on the e-waste task force that developed the National Strategy over the past eight months is an example to all who manufacture and distribute electronic products.

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Lin said that the biorefinery process could be used for all kinds of food waste and could be commercialized on a large scale with additional funding from investors, according to the ACS press release.

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Additional key priorities in her role included organizing aggressive cleanups of hazardous waste sites with a goal of redevelopment, new jobs and urban revitalization as well as ensuring the long-term protection of drinking water supplies.

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An average of 97 percent of waste products are either reused or recycled at these 76 facilities with an additional three percent converted to usable energy.

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Therefore, additional aid may do little more than prolong the issue and prove to be a waste of money, but it should remove a major source of volatility over the next year or so.

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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.

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