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In February 1999 the DOE announced that because it was unable to receive nuclear waste for permanent storage, it would take ownership of the waste and pay temporary storage costs with money the utilities have paid to develop the permanent repository.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) became the world's first deep depository for nuclear waste when it received its first shipment of waste on March 26, 1999.
In A Social History of Trash (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1999), Susan Strasser notes that more and more things today are being made and sold with the understanding that they will soon become worthless or obsolete.
According to Needs Assessment for Industrial Class 1 Nonhazardous Waste Commercial Disposal Capacity in Texas (2000 Update) nearly 83 million tons of Class 1 waste were generated in Texas that year.
In 2001 the engineering group was staffed to create innovative new ideas in sound and grind technologies.
The EPA's Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 2001 Facts and Figures reported that 55.7 percent of MSW goes to land disposal, while 29.7 percent is recovered and 14.7 percent is incinerated. (See Figure 4.7.)
The number of DOE shipments of low-level waste is projected to decrease throughout the remainder of the decade. (See Figure 4.14.) According to the DOE, shipments of low-level radioactive wastes accounted for less than 0.5 percent of all hazardous material shipments in 2001.
In April 2002 the Bush administration announced plans to convert all of the plutonium to MOX fuel.
By 2002 research and development was concepting the Evolution Series.
In 2003 the EPA proposed 14 new sites be added to the NPL based on preliminary investigations.
By 2004 market presence had expanded to 80 countries and new subsidiaries were opened in Mexico, Japan & China.
monies needed for the Superfund Program in EPA's fiscal year 2004 budget.
By 2006 the high-performance Evolution line was launched with its revolutionary sound and grind technologies.
In 2006, the greenhouse-gas emissions from landfills in the United States were 147 million metric tons.
Ashley has been an Emerson employee for 30 years and was appointed InSinkErator EMEA GM - Managing Director in 2012.
In 2013, Ashley Munden was appointed Managing Director for Europe in a move that would see us rapidly develop in the hot water tap market.
Tarr, Joel A. "Waste Disposal ." Dictionary of American History. . Retrieved June 21, 2022 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/waste-disposal
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