Thursday, May 29, 2014
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Jena Asciutto named American Idol runner up
Detroit After all the votes were counted, Jena Irene Asciutto, the 17-year-old singer with ties to Waste Management, was voted runner up on American Idol. During the show’s season finale on May 21, Caleb Johnson was named the winner of season 13. For the second year in a row, WM was closely connected with an American Idol finalist. Last year, Candace Glover, daughter of WM Driver Ricky Glover from Hilton Head, N.C., was the season 12 winner.
Despite losing out on a record deal the show promises to winners, Asciutto, known professionally as Jena Irene, walked away with a Ford Mustang. She also will join the top 10 contestants on a 41-concert tour this summer. Ascuitto has four relatives in Michigan who have a combined 150 years of experience at Waste Management.
http://wmlogistics.wm.com/index.jsp
Despite losing out on a record deal the show promises to winners, Asciutto, known professionally as Jena Irene, walked away with a Ford Mustang. She also will join the top 10 contestants on a 41-concert tour this summer. Ascuitto has four relatives in Michigan who have a combined 150 years of experience at Waste Management.
http://wmlogistics.wm.com/index.jsp
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Friday, May 23, 2014
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Giant Sorting Machine Will Reduce Commercial Waste Material
The people who handle the garbage and recycling at the foot of Davis Street unveiled their latest contraption and it looks like some kind of garbage-eating monster from a cartoon.
But the facility isn’t just a Mickey Mouse operation. It’s a $10 million series of conveyor belts that gobbles up waste material from construction and sorts it out to be recycled.
The material recovery facility (MRF) will double the sorting capacity to 1.6 million pounds per day at the Davis Street Resource Recovery Complex, owned by Waste Management.
Of course, the machine only does so much. It’s the people working in it that do the good part of the sorting.
Several speakers first talked about the new material recovery facility, touting their foresight at putting Alameda County on the cutting edge of the recycling front.
The waste material travels by conveyor belts through a series of magnets, blowers, vibrators and optical scanners – each step sorting out specific material – so that all that construction debris can be recycled instead of dumped.
“When the original project was dreamed up in the early 1990s, we couldn’t get anybody to think the project was a good idea, let alone fund it,” said Jack Isola, senior district manager of the complex.
The facility will add 25 more jobs to the complex, in addition to the current 300 workers, Isola said.
Isola recalled Jerry Brown, then mayor of Oakland, coming to the opening of a smaller sorting facility years ago and saying it was too small.
http://wmlogistics.wm.com/index.jsp
With more facilities like this, Alameda County will never need another landfill, said Gary Wolff, executive director of StopWaste, the county’s waste management agency.
People from all over visit Northern California to see what it’s doing in recycling, said Dan Grieger, executive director of the Green Building Council (Northern California Chapter).
“People from around the country and the world come here to see what we’re doing,” Grieger said. “The things you see here are innovative. It’s really important.”
City Councilman Jim Prola said there were a lot of concerns a few years ago but he now believes what Waste Management is doing at the facility is good for the environment and good for the city.
“They’ve (Waste Management) absolutely convinced me and turned me around since 2006 on what a great corporate giant they are,” Prola said.
After the speeches, the officials hit the switch to turn on the sorting machine. It almost didn’t go according to plan, because the workers who man the facility had decided to work. But the labor dispute was apparently worked out, at least temporarily, as the workers took their stations and began sorting for the benefit of the ceremony.
A call on Wednesday to Teamsters Local 70 which represents the workers was not immediately returned.
Source:http://ebpublishing.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7904:giant-sorting-machine-will-reduce-commercial-waste-material&catid=1:latest&Itemid=28
But the facility isn’t just a Mickey Mouse operation. It’s a $10 million series of conveyor belts that gobbles up waste material from construction and sorts it out to be recycled.
The material recovery facility (MRF) will double the sorting capacity to 1.6 million pounds per day at the Davis Street Resource Recovery Complex, owned by Waste Management.
Of course, the machine only does so much. It’s the people working in it that do the good part of the sorting.
Several speakers first talked about the new material recovery facility, touting their foresight at putting Alameda County on the cutting edge of the recycling front.
The waste material travels by conveyor belts through a series of magnets, blowers, vibrators and optical scanners – each step sorting out specific material – so that all that construction debris can be recycled instead of dumped.
“When the original project was dreamed up in the early 1990s, we couldn’t get anybody to think the project was a good idea, let alone fund it,” said Jack Isola, senior district manager of the complex.
The facility will add 25 more jobs to the complex, in addition to the current 300 workers, Isola said.
Isola recalled Jerry Brown, then mayor of Oakland, coming to the opening of a smaller sorting facility years ago and saying it was too small.
http://wmlogistics.wm.com/index.jsp
With more facilities like this, Alameda County will never need another landfill, said Gary Wolff, executive director of StopWaste, the county’s waste management agency.
People from all over visit Northern California to see what it’s doing in recycling, said Dan Grieger, executive director of the Green Building Council (Northern California Chapter).
“People from around the country and the world come here to see what we’re doing,” Grieger said. “The things you see here are innovative. It’s really important.”
City Councilman Jim Prola said there were a lot of concerns a few years ago but he now believes what Waste Management is doing at the facility is good for the environment and good for the city.
“They’ve (Waste Management) absolutely convinced me and turned me around since 2006 on what a great corporate giant they are,” Prola said.
After the speeches, the officials hit the switch to turn on the sorting machine. It almost didn’t go according to plan, because the workers who man the facility had decided to work. But the labor dispute was apparently worked out, at least temporarily, as the workers took their stations and began sorting for the benefit of the ceremony.
A call on Wednesday to Teamsters Local 70 which represents the workers was not immediately returned.
Source:http://ebpublishing.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7904:giant-sorting-machine-will-reduce-commercial-waste-material&catid=1:latest&Itemid=28
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
WM Logistics Indore Abhishek Jain
WM Logistics Indore Solo Singing Competition Abhishek Jain's performance " Hai apanaa dil to aawaaraa, naa jaane kis pe aayegaa"
Sunday, May 18, 2014
WM Logistics Indore Gautam & Kapil
Singing Competition at WM Logistics Indore- Gautam & Kapils performance on "Kya Karoge tum akhir Kabr par meri aake"
Friday, May 16, 2014
WM Logistics Indore Gaurav Chaturvedi
Solo Singing Competition at WM Logistics Indore Gaurav Chaturvedi's Performance "Paani da.. Rang vekh Ke"
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Waste Management making diesel, wax from landfill gas in Oklahoma [The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City :: ]
May 03--Waste Management Inc. on Friday trumpeted the results of a pilot project to turn landfill gas into diesel fuel while celebrating the site's removal from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list.
The dual celebration drew a host of city, county and state leaders to the East Oak Landfill, which was placed on the feds' cleanup list in 1992 because contaminants such as benzene and vinyl chloride were found in ground water.
Carl Edlund, director of EPA's Superfund division, said the east Oklahoma City site is the 375th one to be removed from the Superfund list. It is the seventh of 14 Oklahoma sites to be cleaned up.
Edlund praised Waste Management for its innovative approach to use the available energy at the site.
"This represents a new level that we want others to try," he said.
Edlund presented company official with a certification of appreciation he called a "green-ovation award."
Pete Schultze, Waste Management's senior district manager, credited state and federal regulators with helping the company achieve success with natural gas collection technology first pitched to it about a decade ago.
"It is a prime example of what can happen when all of these entities work together," he said.
Schultze said Waste Management approached other states about the gas-to-liquids pilot project, but only Oklahoma regulators were willing to proceed with it. The state even provided grant money to get the project started.
He said the company learned to use the Fischer-Tropsch process developed during World War II to convert methane from decaying waste into clean-burning diesel and high-grade wax that can be used in cosmetics or lubricants. The wax also can be distilled into other petroleum products.
Schultze said 120 wells have been drilled into the 105-acre landfill to access the gas, which is moved to the surface with a vacuum. The wells generally produce their most gas in the first two years, but the flow can continue for up to 30 years.
He said it is difficult to estimate how much diesel and wax the plant will produce now that the pilot project is over, but the output of each product can be adjusted as the market dictates.
Schultze also said he is optimistic the technology can be used at other Waste Management facilities.
Source:http://investing.businessweek.com/research/markets/news/article.asp?docKey=600-201405031812KRTRIB__BUSNEWS_24305_19215-1
The dual celebration drew a host of city, county and state leaders to the East Oak Landfill, which was placed on the feds' cleanup list in 1992 because contaminants such as benzene and vinyl chloride were found in ground water.
Carl Edlund, director of EPA's Superfund division, said the east Oklahoma City site is the 375th one to be removed from the Superfund list. It is the seventh of 14 Oklahoma sites to be cleaned up.
Edlund praised Waste Management for its innovative approach to use the available energy at the site.
"This represents a new level that we want others to try," he said.
Edlund presented company official with a certification of appreciation he called a "green-ovation award."
Pete Schultze, Waste Management's senior district manager, credited state and federal regulators with helping the company achieve success with natural gas collection technology first pitched to it about a decade ago.
"It is a prime example of what can happen when all of these entities work together," he said.
Schultze said Waste Management approached other states about the gas-to-liquids pilot project, but only Oklahoma regulators were willing to proceed with it. The state even provided grant money to get the project started.
He said the company learned to use the Fischer-Tropsch process developed during World War II to convert methane from decaying waste into clean-burning diesel and high-grade wax that can be used in cosmetics or lubricants. The wax also can be distilled into other petroleum products.
Schultze said 120 wells have been drilled into the 105-acre landfill to access the gas, which is moved to the surface with a vacuum. The wells generally produce their most gas in the first two years, but the flow can continue for up to 30 years.
He said it is difficult to estimate how much diesel and wax the plant will produce now that the pilot project is over, but the output of each product can be adjusted as the market dictates.
Schultze also said he is optimistic the technology can be used at other Waste Management facilities.
Source:http://investing.businessweek.com/research/markets/news/article.asp?docKey=600-201405031812KRTRIB__BUSNEWS_24305_19215-1
Monday, May 12, 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Waste Management Turns Trash Into Dividends, Energy
Waste Management (WM) isn't just taking out the trash — it's turning trash into renewable energy as well as steady earnings and dividends for investors.
On April 24 before the open, the Houston-based garbage hauler reported a first-quarter profit of 49 cents a share, up 23% from the prior year and above views. That marked its best quarterly growth in years. Revenue grew 2% to $3.4 billion, in line with forecasts.
Its three- and five-year Earnings Stability Factor is 2 and 3, respectively, on a scale of 0 (calmest) to 99 (most erratic). Annual profit fell slightly in 2009 and 2012, but otherwise it has increased 3% to 14% since 2004. Analysts expect 9% gains this year and next.
Waste Management in February increased its quarterly dividend to 37.5 cents a share, doubling the amount from 2004. It works out to $1.50 for the year, or a 3.4% yield on an annualized basis, outpacing the S&P 500's 1.9%.
While that payout makes income investors happy, Waste Management's "think green" initiative may appeal to environmentalists. It takes naturally occurring landfill gas from disposal sites and converts it to energy that can power homes and businesses.
In fact, CEO David Steiner last week told CNBC that Waste Management generated 9.82 million megawatt hours (mwh) of energy in 2013. The solar industry produced 9.25 million mwh last year, according to Energy Information Administration data.
The refuse hauler estimates that the renewable energy that it generates from its landfills can power some 1.2 million homes, and aims to produce enough to power more than 2 million homes by 2020. A California plant even converts landfill gas into liquefied natural gas, used to power its trucks in certain areas.
The stock rose 2% in heavy volume after its earnings report, rising above its 200-day moving average to start the right side of a shallow cup base with a potential 46.48 buy point. It's 4% off its high.
Source:http://news.investors.com/investing-the-income-investor/050114-699259-waste-management-turns-trash-into-dividends-energy.htm?ven=rss
Monday, May 5, 2014
Friday, May 2, 2014
Earth Day: Go Behind The Scenes At Recycle Facility
TOPEKA, Kan.
(WIBW)_ April 22nd is Earth Day, a day to demonstrate support
for
protection of our environment.
for
protection of our environment.
Tuesday, the Rolling Meadows Materials
Recovery Facility showed visitors and 13 News a behind the scenes look at what
happens to your recyclable materials.
Waste Management's Lisa Disbrow says in 2013
they recycled 15 million tons of commodity materials and wants the community's
help to break
that record.
to break
that record.
Inside the facility, safety is a priority
all workers and visitors must wear a high visibility vest, safety goggles, a
hard hat and ear protection.
.
"This is the first line of material that
they have and they are picking up anything that does not belong," says Disbrow
as she leads the tour and points to the conveyor belt.
Workers sift through recycled materials to
discard items that don't belong, like tires and car parts.
Recycled cardboard, newspaper, plastics, and
scrap metal is separated by using magnets and screens. This process lowers
emission by reducing the number of vehicles for collection, a vital reminder its
never too late to recycle.
"It's really important. We want people to
recycle often, but we want them to recycle right. We can save trees by
recycling our paper," says Disbrow.
trees by
recycling our paper," says Disbrow.
"We have limited natural resources and one of
these days they are going to be gone so we want to make sure we can recycle
everything that we possibly can," says Philicia McKee from Keep America
Beautiful.
and one of
these days they are going to be gone so we want to make sure we can recycle
everything that we possibly can," says Philicia McKee from Keep America
Beautiful.
To learn more
helpful Earth Day reminders about recycling, visit Waste Management's website at
www.wm.com.
more
helpful Earth Day reminders about recycling, visit Waste Management's website at
www.wm.com.
Source:http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Behind-The-Scenes-Look-At-Recycle-Facility-For-Earth-Day-256234221.html
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