Waste

Neighborhoods in the City of St. Louis will soon be able to track their recycling and solid waste thanks to a geospatial sensor developed by a Saint Louis University researcher. Orhun Aydin, Ph.D., assistant professor in Earth and Atmospheric Science at SLU’s School for Science and Engineering, received a $149,791 planning grant from the National ...

Geographic information systems (GIS) provider Esri Ireland has been chosed by Dublin Urban Rivers Life (DURL) project to help prevent preventing circa 13 million litres of polluted wastewater from entering Dublin rivers annually. DURL is a joint venture between South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Councils, with funding received from the EU Life Programme. It ...

Track-a-Truck is a pilot program with the City of Hendersonville. This online application available on the City’s website shows the near real-time location of garbage and recycling trucks as they drive along their collection routes. It is also a way to see what day of the week your garbage will be collected in an interactive ...

Responsible recycling in Allegheny County just got easier. County officials this week launched the Recycling Drop-Off Finder, an online database and map that identifies drop-off locations, including places to take hard-to-recycle items. The site, a collaboration between county health, sustainability and information technology departments, is now live. The tool will also be helpful for residents ...

In a step towards making Srinagar city garbage and dumpster free, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has added 150 new C&T vehicles and starts its path-breaking GIS based and real time GPS monitored 100% door to door Segregated Waste Collection system and initiated removal of dumpsters from the city. All vehicles have been enabled with ...

East Lansing is taking a direct approach to what it said is an effort to educate residents about recycling by using cameras to monitor what residents are putting in their recycling bins. Saskatchewan, Canada recycling technology company Prairie Robotics has installed cameras on the city’s recycling collection trucks that capture an image of what is ...

In mezzo a luoghi incantevoli come l’arenile di Pantanagianni, è nato in Puglia, nel 2018, Archeoplastica, un progetto di sensibilizzazione sull’inquinamento del mare i cui protagonisti sono volontari che raccolgono i rifiuti presenti sulle spiagge di questi territori. Tutto è cominciato grazie a Enzo Suma – guida naturalistica e «cercatore di ulivi secolari e antichi ...

Plastikmüll ist weltweit mittlerweile fast allgegenwärtig. Das wird in der Forschung immer deutlicher. Ob als „Great Pacific Garbage Patch“ oder in Form von Mikroplastik in Fischen und anderen Lebensmitteln – immer mehr wird klar, wie groß das Problem wirklich ist. Selbst im Hochgebirge findet sich Plastik mittlerweile. Die Universität Innsbruck nimmt sich diesem Problem jetzt ...