by Associated Press Published: May 8,2013
Tags: board of supervisors, county, county government, environment, garbage dump, penalty, pollution, rubbish, state agency, supervisor, trash, waste
CORINTH — Alcorn County will pay a civil penalty to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality for violations at local rubbish site. The Daily Corinthian reports the board of supervisors agreed to pay $15,000 in two installments. The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality cited the county for failing to prevent disposal of unauthorized waste in [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: May 3,2013
Tags: board of supervisors, cleanup, county government, garbage, rubbish, supervisor, trash, waste, waste disposal, waste management
HERNANDO — DeSoto County has pulled some good numbers from the trash. Officials have reported 86.1 tons of rubbish collected from last week’s annual cleanup — a six-ton increase over the previous year — and a $190,000 refund to the county from disposal vendor Allied Waste Industries to correct a six-year billing error. “It shows [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 29,2013
Tags: air force base, award, environment, garbage, green, military, pollution, recycle, recycling, trash
BILOXI — Keesler Air Force Base has been named an environmental hero in Mississippi for its comprehensive recycling efforts. The Sun Herald reports the Mississippi Recycling Coalition chose Keesler as the recipient of its 2012 Environmental Hero Award as the state or federal government recycler of the year. The base recycled nearly 2,700 tons of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 30,2012
Tags: city, engineer, engineering, expansion, garbage, government, landfill, municipal, municipality, trash, water
COLUMBUS — Engineers have told the city of Columbus that its landfill will run out of space in three years. The Columbus Dispatch reports engineers say the city had three options: expand the landfill, close it and open a new one or get out of the trash dumping business. Neel-Schaffer Engineering project manager Steve Cockerham [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 19,2012
Tags: collection, garbage, health, health care, medical, medical sharps, medicine, milestone, public health, safety, sanitary, state agency, trash
JACKSON — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) reports the Household Medical Sharps Collection Program has collected more than one million household medical sharps since the beginning of the program in 2010. The program was developed by MDEQ to reduce the number of household medical sharps being disposed of in household garbage and toilets. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 24,2012
Tags: alderman, builder, building, building supplies, Business, city, cleanup, construction, contractor, debris, disaster preparedness, flood, flooding, garbage, government, Harrison County Young Lawyers, hurricane, law, municipality, ordinance, rain, stor, storm, surge, trash, tropical, wind
LONG BEACH — Alderman Mark Lishen says Long Beach should require businesses and construction sites to make sure their building materials, trash and trash containers won’t become battering rams in hurricanes. He tells WLOX-TV he wants an ordinance to make sure that such things are secured or removed before hurricanes arrive on shore. Lishen’s current [...] [...]
Reduce, reuse and recycle is the mantra we should all be preaching. If anyone has any doubt that we’re the trashiest people on earth, read – or just browse through – Edward Humes’ latest book. In Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash he lays out the statistics to document our wastefulness and trashiness. On [...] [...]
MADISON COUNTY — Homeowner Sylvia Thomas calls a proposed landfill in Madison County an “environmental injustice.” George French, a consultant for local businesses, calls it an economic development necessity. The Clarion-Ledger reported the two were among about 80 residents from Madison and Hinds counties attending a public hearing at Tougaloo College sponsored by the Mississippi [...] [...]
MADISON COUNTY — Homeowner Sylvia Thomas calls a proposed landfill in Madison County an “environmental injustice.” George French, a consultant for local businesses, calls it an economic development necessity. The Clarion-Ledger reported the two were among about 80 residents from Madison and Hinds counties attending a public hearing at Tougaloo College sponsored by the Mississippi [...] [...]
Plans to build a recycling and solid waste transfer facility at Meridian’s South Industrial Park have been scrapped. The Meridian Star reports officials of the Waste Pro company now are looking at the possibility of building the facility at Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park instead. Waste Pro, which performs residential garbage and recycling pick-up for the [...] [...]
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