Waste commission executive outlines diversion programs, landfill gas-to-energy and user-fee model at Davenport management meeting Scott County Waste Commission executive director Bryce Stalcup briefed Davenport City officials on the commission's operations, including a landfill gas-to-energy project, recycling and hazardous-waste programs, and the user-fee funding model that keeps services from relying on local tax dollars.

Scott County's innovative waste management programs are not only saving cities money but also powering homes with clean energy—find out how!

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#DavenportCityScottCounty #IA #CitizenPortal #HazardousWaste #LandfillDiversion #SustainableRecycling #DavenportWasteManagement

Experto de Naciones Unidas insta a México a impulsar urgentemente acciones de justicia ambiental en materia de sustancias tóxicas Ciudad de México.- México ha demostrado un liderazgo crucial a nivel internacional en cuestiones sobre sustancias tóxicas y derechos humanos, pero debería abordar la brecha entre este liderazgo global...

#Mexico: On 20 March, the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics & Human Rights shared takeaways from his country visit at a press conference. He highlighted concerns about #HazardousWaste & outlined how the gov’t can adopt solutions to these issues.

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Your garbage, not mine: Thailand to return 284 tonnes of e-waste to America Thailand found 284 tonnes of electronic waste sent illegally by the United States, filled in 12 containers and is not preparing to ship it back to the country of origin. More of them are being checked...

Dump it on the #WhiteHouse lawn. #HazardousWaste
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Did you know that 70% of waste is incorrectly segregated, particularly in care homes? 🤯

To ensure your hazardous waste is handled correctly, you should make sure your team are trained and aware of the proper disposal methods.

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#HazardousWaste #WasteCompliance

#Mexico 🇲🇽: From 9-20 March, @SRToxics will conduct a country visit to Mexico to examine the #HumanRights situation related to the management & disposal of #HazardousWaste, including #Plastics. A press conference will be held on 20 March at 13:00 local time.

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Newfoundland Winds Expose Hazardous Fish-Sauce Factory, Evacuation Considered Newfoundland's abandoned fish sauce factory poses health risks as winds expose 100 vats. Mayor Ryan calls for federal intervention.

Newfoundland Winds Expose Hazardous Fish-Sauce Factory, Evacuation Considered

Read more: 👇
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#newfoundland #fishsauce #hazardouswaste #evacuation #healthrisks #federalintervention #environmentalconcerns

Verizon to Pay $7.7M in Settlement of Hazardous Storage Suit - MyNewsLA.com Verizon Wireless will pay $7.7 million to settle a civil enforcement action alleging widespread violations of California environmental laws. Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, had...

Verizon to Pay $7.7M in Settlement of Hazardous Storage Suit

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#HazardousWaste #EnvironmentalLaws #Verizon #HazardousMaterials #EnvironmentalRights

Anenta Urges Action To Protect Care And Nursing Home Staff From Dangers Of Hazardous Medical Waste A new academic report from the University of Oradea has placed a spotlight on the urgent need for the adoption of better prevention, training, and safer

Thank you to the team at The Carer for shining a light on the urgent need to protect care and nursing home staff from the dangers of hazardous medical waste. 🙏

Read the full article here: 👉 https://loom.ly/G8r7rLE

#TheCarer #HazardousWaste #MedicalWaste #WasteAudits

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We panicked. Now we're poisoned. 🧴☠️ We expose the #HandSanitizer hangover: how the FDA's deregulation led to Methanol contamination & a massive #HazardousWaste crisis. Did our hygiene obsession create alcohol-resistant superbugs? #TechTakedown.

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Podcast: Brett Christophers and Thomas Jones · Where does our waste go?

"Literal mountains of our rubbish are accumulating on the peripheries of cities such as Accra and Delhi. #Waste, like wealth, is unevenly distributed."

via @lrb.co.uk

#plasticWaste #wasteExport #hazardousWaste #electronicWaste #ecocide #environmentalRacism #environmentalJustice

Kingston Household Hazardous Waste facility closing for 2025 (Kingston, Ontario) The last drop-off days for the year at the Household Hazardous Waste facility will be Thursday, Nov. 27, and Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025.

#ICYMI
The last drop-off days for the year at the Household Hazardous Waste facility at the Kingston Area Recycling Centre, 196 Lappan’s Lane, will be Thursday, Nov. 27, and Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. #YGK #HazardousWaste

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Kingston Household Hazardous Waste facility closing for 2025 (Kingston, Ontario) The last drop-off days for the year at the Household Hazardous Waste facility will be Thursday, Nov. 27, and Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025.

The last drop-off days for the year at the Household Hazardous Waste facility at the Kingston Area Recycling Centre, 196 Lappan’s Lane, will be Thursday, Nov. 27, and Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. #YGK #HazardousWaste

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California Toxics: Out of state, out of mind **In summary** The University of California system says lifting tracking requirements will make managing hazardous waste more efficient. Hundreds of other waste handlers will benefit too, but the state hasn’t identified them. _Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up forWhatMatters to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State._ Just as consumers can track a package from a warehouse to their doorstep, California regulators keep tabs on the movement of hazardous waste, even on a short journey. Now the Department of Toxic Substances Control is considering whether to lift some of those tracking requirements in situations where companies transport hazardous waste within their own properties and along some public roads. The University of California system and large corporations say this change in what’s called the manifest rule would make hazardous waste disposal processes safer and more efficient. It could benefit car manufacturer Tesla, giant agribusiness in the San Joaquin Valley or industrial chemical manufacturers in the Los Angeles Basin. But environmental advocates say state regulators have no good reason to weaken California’s regulations, which are more stringent than federal rules. They fear the department’s proposal signals regulators’ intent to weaken regulations as a strategy to manage some of the state’s growing waste problem. “Certainly you don’t have to assume that everybody’s a bad actor, but you probably also shouldn’t assume that nobody’s a bad actor,” said Angela Johnson Meszaros an attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice. ## **Where does the waste go?** To track hazardous waste, businesses make detailed reports, including what toxic materials are in what containers, where the waste is coming from and where it’s going. This manifest protects generators of hazardous waste, helping them prove that they followed regulations. If there’s an accident on the road, the records help fire departments and other responders keep the public safe. According to the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the rule change would apply to about 235 hazardous waste producers. That includes the University of California system, which produces waste at every campus, in hospitals, in maintenance operations, and in research. At UCLA, if researchers have slides with chemicals on them, or vials that were used in experiments, that toxic waste is stored in the labs until it can be collected. 1. Just the right amount of news 2. Just the right amount of news 1. Get California’s most essential headlines without feeling overwhelmed. 2. Get California’s most essential headlines without feeling overwhelmed. Email address By clicking subscribe, you agree to the terms. Δ What happens next is expensive and inefficient, said Ken Smith, who directs environmental health and safety systemwide for the University of California. Every time waste moves from collection sites to disposal sites off campus, someone has to write a manifest. Large trucks come to labs to pick up the hazardous trash, no matter how small the load. “Imagine if you had to send a big dump truck just to pick up your individual waste container from your kitchen or bathroom. They’re going to charge you a trip every time,” Smith said. Since 1997, California’s manifest rule has demanded more information from more waste generators than the federal system. That’s when a federal rule change exempted other waste generators including the military from having to make detailed reports when waste is transported onsite. In announcing a proposal to adopt federal exemptions for waste that travels within a businesses’ property, state regulators wrote that the change would “increase overall public and environmental safety” because with fewer records to make, large, registered-transporter trucks like those for the UC system could collect waste at fewer central locations. “California has the most protective, rigorous requirements for hazardous waste management in the nation,” said department spokesperson Alysa Pakkidis, in an email. “The manifest exemption continues our state’s high standards and does not alter transporters’ obligations.” ## **Advocates seek answers** If the Department of Toxic Substances Control changes the manifest rule, it’s not just the UC system that benefits: according to regulators’ announcement, “miscellaneous chemical businesses,” military and other government businesses would qualify for the proposed exemption. But the department is sharing little information about exactly which facilities will stop reporting some information or how many miles hazardous waste may travel without being tracked. ## READ NEXT ### California Toxics: Out of state, out of mind January 25, 2023January 26, 2023 At the only public hearing on the rule change so far, regulators gave no presentation. Pakkidis said the department does not have a list of qualifying facilities and hazardous waste generators have no obligation to notify the department if they take advantage of the new rule. “DTSC regularly inspects hazardous waste transporters and generator facilities to ensure they follow all the rules, including manifesting when required,” she said. Without details, community advocates and skeptics for the rule say they’re left to speculate. Smith, the UC official, said chemical waste from a research lab at UCLA may travel miles along the perimeter of campus where homes and schools are located. If the rule applies at large agricultural farms too, said Johnson Meszaros, the Earthjustice attorney, hazardous waste might be transported multiple miles from one side of property to the other. “Just because it’s not going far doesn’t mean that it’s not vulnerable to an accident,” Johnson Meszaros said. Tesla and Pacific Gas & Electric Company say the exemption would benefit them. In a letter to state regulators, Tesla wrote that the proposal to lessen manifest requirements “is critical to provide operational flexibility when handling hazardous waste.” A spokesperson for PG&E said that the change would allow the utility to minimize truck traffic and centralize waste storage areas ”oftentimes to a location that is better suited for the surrounding community.” “This exemption is really setting everybody up for a lot of confusion and therefore a lot of noncompliance,” said Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez, an advocate with the Clean Air Coalition for North Whittier and Avocado Heights, at the August public hearing. “We’re entering into this period of just confusion and lawlessness, where anyone can decide that they’re not going to have to manifest the waste that they’re transporting.” Members of her coalition have raised questions about whether changing the manifest rule would change operations at Ecobat, the only lead-acid battery recycling facility in California. Regulators have been considering an update to Ecobat’s permit, which was expected in July this year after some delays. A spokesman for Ecobat says the rule does not apply at its City of Industry facility. The DTSC has not clarified whether Ecobat is one of the 235 facilities that would benefit from a changed manifest rule. ## California’s toxic trash problem The Department of Toxic Substances Control characterizes the manifest proposal as a “clarification.” But advocates fear it’s a harbinger of weakening hazardous waste laws, one potential strategy to deal with California’s toxic trash problem. In the last 25 years, the amount of hazardous waste generated in the state has decreased by more than 40%, even though the number of hazardous waste generators has doubled, according to the department. But the waste stream is changing, and the state lacks the capacity to handle certain kinds of waste; specifically, lithium-ion batteries that are critical to clean energy plans. A 2021 state law, recognizing that problem and its complexity, directed the Department of Toxic Substances Control to reform how it manages hazardous waste. Just two landfills can accept the state’s most toxic trash; a CalMatters investigation in 2023 found that, even two years ago, nearly half of it is driven to states that have weaker environmental protections. DTSC estimates the landfills will reach capacity by 2039. In March, DTSC recommended weakening hazardous waste disposal rules for contaminated soil, one of the state’s largest streams of toxic waste. The department removed the recommendation after the Board of Environmental Safety – recently created to oversee the department – raised concerns. The latest draft of the state’s hazardous waste plan has three goals: to reduce the amount of waste that is burned or goes to landfills, to manage waste in a way that protects peoples’ health and the environment, and to use data “from cradle to grave” to help manage the state’s hazardous waste sustainably. Johnson Meszaros said she thinks these recommendations leave room for weakening regulations, including those that protect people from exposure to contaminated soils. DTSC, for instance, is planning to review other federal exemptions that the state could adopt and evaluate how harmful waste is, when it’s considered hazardous under California law but not federally. “There’s nothing in this revised version that suggests that DTSC has stepped away from their deregulatory approach, and in fact, they continue to speak directly to a desire to do that,” said Johnson Meszaros. ## READ NEXT ### California exports the risk from its hazardous waste. One neighborhood in Mexico shows the consequences December 20, 2023 ### Toxic trash: California’s aging hazardous waste sites have troubling safety records August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 Read more from CalMatters Text Get breaking news on your phone. Download Keep up with the latest via our app. Sign up Receive free updates in your inbox. ## Nonpartisan, independent California news for all We’re CalMatters, your nonprofit and nonpartisan news guide. 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CPH Daily Bulletin 10/30/2025

Why a small change in paperwork is generating a big fight over hazardous waste in #California

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#Waste #HazardousWaste #PublicHealth #Environment

Boots in the Basin: Shrub steppe dreams "Through art and action, we can cultivate respect and admiration for the shrub steppe, creating a cultural vision of ecological interconnectedness that we can actualize together."

BOOTS IN THE BASIN

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By: Jenny Rieke, Mickie Chamness, Lora Rathbone, Jenni H, Miguel Symonds, and The National Association of Conservation Districts

#ecologicalrestoration #tricitieswa #localcommunity #outdooradventures #stateparks #hazardouswaste #conservation

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When you get recognized for knowing too much in #pharmacy #science #robot #tlyn #vulcan #lowerdecks #startrek #startreklowerdecks #covidtesting #hazardouswaste #snafu #fubar #logic #roboticmemory #elf #covid #insurancebilling #dataentry #techsupport #informationtechnology #administration

The world has a #hazardouswaste problem, nuclear waste is not part of this problem, it is a solution to #waste
#spentfuel has never hurt anyone, but all of these other forms of waste do hurt people and the environment
#nuclearpower #nuclearpowernow #cleanair

The world has a #hazardouswaste problem, nuclear waste is not part of this problem, it is a solution to #waste
#spentfuel has never hurt anyone, but all of these other forms of waste do hurt people and the environment
#nuclearpower #nuclearpowernow #cleanair

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I went from #casino #benchwarmer keeping my mouth shut for the first 3 years to #theintern in #pharmacy #damagecontrol #snafu #fubar #robertdeniro #administration #covidtesting #covid #hazardouswaste

Matuzalem Sukete of Angola Environmental Serviços talks about how the company has adapted to uncertainties in #Angola’s #drilling industry. theenergyyear.com/articles/an-...

#wastemanagement #wastevalorisation #sustainability #energysector #mining #hazardouswaste

Ireland’s infrastructure for #HazardousWaste requires investment, says EPA - Engineers Ireland share.google/E3KxpoNJiqdQ...

Household Hazardous Waste Collection scheduled this Saturday in Barnstable MARSTONS MILLS – The Barnstable Department of Public Works Solid Waste Division is conducting its next Household Hazardous Waste Collection this Saturday, August 23, 2025, from 9 am to noon a…

Barnstable Department of Public Works is conducting its next Household #HazardousWaste Collection this Saturday. Those without a current Transfer Station Permit sticker may participate by showing proof of residency
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California Enforces Environmental Laws Against Atlas Metals and Chiquita Canyon Landfill California authorities prosecute Atlas Metals and address Chiquita Canyon Landfill environmental hazards

California is cracking down on environmental violators like Atlas Metals and Chiquita Canyon Landfill to protect community safety and health.

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#CA #CitizenPortal #EnvironmentalEnforcement #HazardousWaste #CommunitySafety

Advocates Urge DTSC to Take Bold Action on Hazardous Waste Reduction Activists call for proactive measures against toxic exposures and hazardous waste in California.

Advocates are demanding urgent action from the DTSC to tackle hazardous waste and protect public health, stressing that it's time for bold measures, not just discussions.

Learn more here!

#CA #ToxicExposures #CitizenPortal #PublicHealth #HazardousWaste

Cartoon of a man in a full hazmat suit walking a dog also dressed in protective gear. The man holds a can labeled “Tick Spray.” Text above reads, “Enjoying the great outdoors…” The scene humorously exaggerates concerns about ticks and pesticide use.

When outdoors...🐾

#PesticideDisposalProgram #SafeHawaii #HawaiiAg #ProtectOurʻĀina #HazardousWaste

A cluttered storage area filled with stacked bags of pesticides, some appearing old or deteriorated. Several handheld sprayers and pesticide containers are scattered on the floor in front of the piles. Shelves in the background hold additional boxes and supplies. The space looks poorly maintained and potentially unsafe.

🚚⚠️ Transporting Leaking Dry Pesticide Materials⚠️🚚
✔️ Wear PPE
✔️ Place bag in a leakproof plastic bag, then into sturdy box or bucket
✔️ Secure bag
✔️ Attach label if available
✔️ Keep upright & brace to prevent shifting

#PesticideCleanup #HazardousWaste #PesticideSafety #FarmSmart #EnvironmentalHealth

A septic company is facing charges after allegedly dumping hundreds of gallons of waste into a storm drain near a residential area. #septic #dump #illegal #pollution #waste #hazardouswaste #Texas cw39.com/news/local/s...

A person in green rubber gloves, jeans, and rubber boots cleans up a pesticide spill on a paved surface. They are placing a white container into a black plastic garbage bag lined with absorbent powder. A metal tool is used to assist in handling the container. Nearby are a white 5-gallon bucket, orange traffic cone, and spilled white absorbent material on the ground.

Spilled pesticide? Use kitty litter or vermiculite—not paper towels.
🧂 Absorb it.
♻️ Bag it.
🚛 Transport it safely.
#PesticideSpill #CleanupTips #HazardousWaste #AgSafety

A retro VHS-style graphic featuring two side-by-side images. On the left, a person wearing a yellow rubber glove holds a leaking white pesticide container over a black bucket partially filled with milky liquid. On the right, a bright 80s-themed graphic with a neon sunset reads: “DAMAGED PESTICIDE? TRANSPORT IT SAFELY” in bold pink and cyan text against a purple grid background. Stylized VHS elements like “PLAY,” “SLP,” and a timestamp (0:00:00) are overlaid in rainbow-colored text.

🧤 Leaking pesticide container? Don't panic—prep it for transport the safe way:
✔️ Wear PPE
✔️ Use a bucket or sturdy box
✔️ Seal with a thick, black, garbage bag
Help protect the ʻāina 🌱💧
#HDOAPesticideDisposalProgram #HazardousWaste #SafetyFirst

Wanna know the 5 types of pesticide waste? This quick video breaks it down.
🎥 Watch below.
#PesticideSafety
#HazardousWaste #FarmSafety #hdoapesticidedisposalprogram

Boxes of vintage pesticide sanitizer packets dumped on the ground at a city bus stop. The packets are labeled “Disinfectant, Sanitizer, Deodorant.” The scene highlights the improper disposal of hazardous chemicals in a public setting.

Found: pesticide dumped at a bus stop.
Not the kind of ride-or-die we had in mind🚍

Disposing of chemicals in public spaces is illegal — and dangerous. There are safer ways.
#PesticideDisposal #IllegalDumping #HazardousWaste #HDOAPesticideDisposalProgram