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Allied Waste Schedules Third-Quarter Reporting Date

Phoenix-based Allied Waste has announced it will report its earnings for the third quarter, which ended on Sept. 30, 2007, after the market closes on Oct. 30, 2007. ...

SWANA Searches for Professional Achievement Awards Nominees

The Solid Wastes Management Association of North America (SWANA) is looking for nominees for its annual professional achievement awards, which are given to individuals and organizations for their contributions to the association and the industry. ...

Metro Atlanta Landfill to be Used as Energy Source

Jacoby Energy, Atlanta Gas Light (AGL), Houston-based Waste Management and Dekalb County, Ga., have reached an agreement to turn one of metro Atlanta’s largest landfills into an alternative energy source. ...

Waste Management Schedules Analyst Conference Call

Houston-based Waste Management has announced an analyst conference call to discuss third quarter 2007 financial results on Friday, October 26. ...

Casella Waste Systems Receives Expansion Permit for N.Y. Landfill

Casella Waste Systems, Inc., Rutland, Vt., has received an expansion permit for its Hakes construction and demolition landfill in Campbell, N.Y. ...

WCA Waste Announces Acquisitions

WCA Waste Corp., Houston, announced five acquisitions located in Alabama, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas. ...

Verizon to be Inducted Into the EPA WasteWise HOF

Verizon Communications will be inducted into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) WasteWise Hall of Fame on Nov. 14 in Washington. ...

Heil Announces Promotion

Heil Environmental, Chattanooga, Tenn., has promoted Bob McHugh to director of North American sales. ...

EPA Awards $2 Million in Funding for Foreign GTE Facilities

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded nine countries grants totaling $2 million to fund gas-to-energy facilities under the Methane to Markets Partnership, which is an international effort promoting methane gas-to-energy facilities. ...

Energis Announces Name Change

Energis, Dundee, Mich., has changed its name to Geocycle. ...

Allied Launches Biodiesel Fleet in Northern California

Phoenix-based Allied Waste has announced the conversion of its 225-truck fleet in San Mateo County, Calif., to biodiesel fuel....

Waste Pro Finalizes Three Florida Municipal Contracts

Waste Pro USA, Longwood, Fla., has announced municipal contracts with Jacksonville, Fla., Daytona Beach, Fla., and Quincy, Fla. ...

Rumpke Acquires Buckeye Valley Waste

Rumpke Consolidated Cos., Cincinnati, has announced the acquisition of Buckeye Valley Waste, Columbus, Ohio. ...

Allied Appoints New Executive

Allied Waste, Phoenix, has introduced Denise Danner as its new senior vice president and controller & chief accounting officer. ...

EPA Promotes Biosolids

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is revising the list of items designated in the Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines’ landscaping products category to promote the use of materials recovered from solid waste. ...

Covanta Acquires EnergyAnswers’ Operating Businesses

Covanta Holding Corp., Fairfield, N.J., has announced the $61 million purchase of two of EnergyAnswers waste-to-energy facilities in Massachusetts. ...

A&WMA Calls for Abstracts for its 2008 Conference

The Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) has called for abstracts to be submitted for its 2008 international conference on thermal treatment technologies....

Waste Connections Acquires Colorado Assets from U.S. Waste Industries

Waste Connections, Folsom, Calif., has acquired U.S. Waste Industries operations in Colorado that include four collection operations, three transfer stations and two landfills. ...

Federation of New York Solid Waste Associations Calls for Abstracts

The Federation of New York Solid Waste Associations is calling for abstracts for its 2008 conference, which will be held May 4-7, on Lake George, New York. ...

Boulder County, Colo., Announces Zero Waste Program

Boulder County, Colo., has launched a zero waste pilot program that combines new purchasing methods, reuse, recycling and composting to divert waste from landfills. ...

SWANA Announces Recruit-A-Member Contest

The Solid Waste Association of North America’s (SWANA) Recruit-A-Member contest ends Saturday, Sept. 1. ...

SWANA Urges Pesticide Container Recycling

The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), Silver Spring, Md., has sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urging the immediate publishing of a proposed pesticide container recycling rule. ...

Granger Announces “Green” Partnership

Granger, Lansing, Mich., has announced a partnership with the Lansing Board of Water & Light to provide the area with renewable energy from landfill gases. ...

Rumpke Wins Bronze SWANA Award

Rumpke Consolidated Companies, Cincinnati, has received the Bronze SWANA (Solid Waste Association of North America) Excellence in Solid Waste Management Award for its operations at the Rumpke Sanitary Landfill in Colerain Township, Ohio....