Waste

Waste

Recycling continues become easier and more widespread, especially as governments are encouraging the practice. Growing consumer preference for socially and environmentally responsible companies is also incentivizing companies’ desire to recycle waste and/or produce their products from recycled materials.

A small but growing number of businesses is seeking to move toward closed-loop systems, in which all waste is recycled as part of a new product or converted to energy that fuels the plant. In addition to providing environmental benefits, closed-loop systems allow enterprises to avoid dealing with waste pits and the regulations that come along with waste disposal.


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Whitepapers

  • Why Activated Carbon Makes Sense for PCB Remediation

    Activated Carbon White Paper

    For about 50 years, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were commonly used in industrial materials including, caulking, cutting oils, inks, paints and as dielectric fluids in electrical equipment such as transformers and capacitors. Concerns over health effects led to a North American ban of manufacturing PCBs in 1977. By the mid-1980s, an initiative was started to clean up contaminated areas and to phase out PCB-containing equipment and products that were still in use. This cleanup effort continues today. more

  • Adventus Field Profile

    Groundwater at an industrial site in Texas is impacted with Chlorinated Volatile Organic Carbon’s (CVOCs), primarily PCE and TCE, from historical waste disposal. The topography at the site slopes steeply towards a small channel where the groundwater discharges. Depth to groundwater ranges from approximately 20 ft bgs at the source area to 1 ft bgs close to the channel. more