Category: Waste and Pollution Management

Waste and Pollution Management

Richmond expansion is dead

Ontario’s Environment Minister has refused Waste Management’s request to expand the Richmond Landfill. The reason, it is sitting on fractured limestone and she wants to protect water. I am attaching the article which appeared in the Belleville Intelligencer.
I find it very disturbing none of the local residents will admit or deal with the local farms, including a mega hog farm which sits on the shores of Hay Bay, and on that same fractured limestone. All of that contamination makes its way into Lake Ontario.
Environment Canada’s, Environmental Protection Branch has tried to bring the matter to the forefront in their efforts to protect fish habitat. Why isn’t the provincial environment minister looking at agriculture pollution? Do we really need all of these farms?

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High Tech Trash Issues Call to Action on Electronic Waste and Toxics

The Digital Age was supposed to usher in an era of clean production, but as Elizabeth Grossman reveals, digital may be sleek ? but it?s any-thing but clean. Just think of the more than 3 million laptop batteries Dell and Apple recalled this summer out of fear they might explode. If you want to find out where those batteries go, the answers are inside High Tech Trash. Called ?eye-opening? and ?alarming,? High Tech Trash is the first book to examine the tech industry?s envi-ronmental and health impacts. Grossman investigates what becomes of the 35 million tons of electronics that we discard each year and the resulting toxic pollution. She exposes the damage caused by mining and chemical use in manufacturing high tech products, and offers solutions to what the Wall Street Jo u rn a l has called the ?world’s fastest growing and potentially most dangerous waste problem.?

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