LandfillsNews and information about Landfills.Missourians Reduce Trash in Landfills- September 15, 2008 Missourians are doing their part to keep solid waste out of landfills through recycling and other diversion activities.http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/30641/ Missourians Reduce Trash in Landfills (Kansas City InfoZine)- September 15, 2008 Missourians are doing their part to keep solid waste out of landfills through recycling and other diversion activities. The department's annual report on waste diversion shows that Missourians kept an estimated 46 percent of their trash out of landfills in 2007.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Landfills/SIG=1225q7kco/*http%3A//www.infozine... Hospital-flushed drugs stir concern- September 15, 2008 U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water, according to an ongoing ...http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2008/09/15/pharmawater.html Bottling Up the Anger- September 15, 2008 There is something on our campus that scares me. It scares me more than my midterms, my chemistry professors and my friends combined.http://www.dailycal.org/article/102631/bottling_up_the_anger Controlled drugs dumped uncontrolled into water- September 15, 2008 Health facilities flush millions of pounds of drugs each year. Likely harm to humans and wildlife is raising alarms.http://www.twincities.com/ci_10464670 Controlled drugs dumped uncontrolled into water - Detroit News- September 15, 2008 MINNEAPOLIS -- In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs -- like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse -- are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste. Federal narcotics ...http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080915/NATION/809150351/1020/NATION DEQ: La. ready for Gustav - Baton Rouge Advocate- September 15, 2008 Hurricane Gustav created far fewer environmental nightmares than Katrina and Rita because state and local governments were better prepared and the storms were much different, state officials say. Im extremely proud of how our industries ...http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/28381819.html Tons of drugs being dumped into drains around the country- September 15, 2008 U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water, according to an ongoing Associated ...http://www.the-review.com/news/article/4396131 Tossing One's Cookies- September 13, 2008 Around 30 million tons of food go to American landfills every year, which is about a quarter of the food produced, and more than a pound of food per person per day! Besides the idea that some of it could have ...http://www.independent.com/news/2008/sep/12/tossing-cookies/ Tons of garbage being kept out of landfills - KSL-TV- September 10, 2008 Tons of garbage being kept out of landfillsKSL-TV, UT - 2 hours agoWe separate plastics and glass and pile up cardboard to keep it from piling up the landfill, but what about construction materials ...http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=Landfills&ie=ISO-8859-1 |