When contractors and recyclers know both their obligations and their options, dealing with hazardous materials can be less intimidating.

The birth of mitigating our dependency on oil and coal is here. We are rapidly developing energy saving and renewable-energy solutions that are about to transform our lives for the better, bringing a new era of limiting our dependency on fossil fuel, and creating less wastes when generating electricity.

ABCOV® (New York, NY), the “World’s Asbestos Solution, provides an environmentally safe way to destroy asbestos with a non-thermal

Landfill diversion is becoming a must. If we continue to landfill asbestos-containing materials, consequently, we are burdening the future generation to deal with unpredictable cleanup costs and an infinite amount of asbestos-related deaths.

At the end of September, it was reported that the Manhattan Transit Authority (MTA) has asbestos contamination in its Brooklyn Bus Terminal. More recently it has been reported that Johnson & Johnson recalled 33,000 bottles of Baby Powder due to the concerns they contained asbestos.

Hazardous waste has properties that make it dangerous or capable of having a harmful effect on human health or the environment because it is generated from many sources and comes in many forms: liquids, solids, gases and sludges.

I get it; those who believe in the importance of recycling get it, and those who believe in innovative waste treatment technologies that reduce and convert waste to a reusable end-product get it, especially those that turn hazardous waste into reusable endproducts. However, Wall Street is not getting it

The waste industry should consistently and diligently work to solve the waste crisis by seeking out existing waste technologies or initiate research and development of new waste technologies to minimize the load on landfills.

By investing in and using inventive waste technologies, landfill owners will mitigate the liability, demonstrate good community social responsibility, and most importantly, add value to their bottom line by ensuring stakeholders’ environmental sustainable financial risk management.