Allied Waste Industries

After two years of attempted implementation of an ERP project. Allied Waste Industries pulled the plug on a 130 million... 

Human exposure to 1,1-dichloroethane is expected to be highest among certain occupational groups (e.g., chemical and allied products industry workers) and members of the general population living in the vicinity of industrial point emission sources (EPA 1985) and hazardous waste sites. The compound has been detected in both ambient air and water in low concentrations, with substantially higher concentrations in localized areas around industrial and disposal sites. No information was found regarding the number of people potentially exposed around hazardous waste sites. 

Companies also stnmbled in the implementation of information technology (IT) systems. One by one, over the course of 10 years, projects failed. No industry went unscathed. The reasons for failure were repeated. The stories are now legend. The list of failures includes great names Allied Waste, FoxMeyer Drugs, Hershey, Hewlett-Packard, Goodyear, Kmart, Nike, Sainsbury s, Waste Management, and Whirlpool. Here are excerpts from the news ... 

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Methods for complete utilization of by-products resulting from food processing on a large scale and at affordable levels should be developed. Active participation of the food and allied industries with respect to sustainable production and waste management is required... 

Chlorobiphenyls (CBs) are used widely by industry, including transformers and capacitors in the electrical industry and inks, paints and paper in the printing and allied industries. Unwanted polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) formulations and waste materials containing PCBs are normally incinerated. However, PCBs and waste products containing these materials are inadvertently or illegally disposed of at dump sites and landfill sites. Unsealed PCB sources are leached into the terrestrial and aquatic environment and incomplete combustion vaporises these compounds into the atmosphere therefore, they enter the wider global cycle of trace organic compounds and ubiquitous environmental contaminants that occur in bovine milk, milk powders and products as a result of intake via animal feed. 

Antimony and its compounds are listed among the most toxic elements of priority pollutants by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Antimony exists in several industrial and mining wastes, such as chemical and allied products, glass products, electrical and electronic equipment, lead acid storage batteries, and copper electrorefining solutions. 

MFFP2T allows the metal finishing industry to evaluate various process modifications to reduce the quantity and environmental impact of wastes generated. The environmental impact packages developed as part of MFFP2T can be used to analyze similar processes that support the CAPE-OPEN interfaces, expanding the applicability of these environmental impact packages to the chemical and allied industry. 

In looking at the life cycle analysis of surfactants based on renewable materials versus petrochemical feedstocks there are pros and cons to each side. Petrochemical processes use more energy but generate less waste whereas agricultural processes generate more waste and gaseous emissions. However, the opportunities for efficiency improvements are greater in the oleochemical and allied industries than in the petrochemical industry [40]. 

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