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Wacker Neuson SE (formerly: Wacker Construction Equipment AG) with headquarters in Munich, Germany, is a manufacturer of construction equipment and compact machines for concrete and construction site technology listed on the stock market. The group includes the product brands Wacker Neuson, Kramer and Weidemann.
A WM trash collection truck in Toronto, Ontario. Video clip of WM trash removal operation, Ypsilanti Twp., MI A WM rolloff container in Durham, North Carolina. Waste Management, Inc., doing business as WM, is a waste management, comprehensive waste, and environmental services company operating in North America.
In the United States, 50% of homes had disposal units as of 2009, [12] compared with only 6% in the United Kingdom [13] and 3% in Canada. [14]In Britain, Worcestershire County Council and Herefordshire Council started to subsidize the purchase of garbage disposal units in 2005, in order to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and the carbon footprint of garbage runs. [15]
A solar trash compactor on a residential corner in Jersey City, New Jersey. Example of a larger mechanical compactor. In the United States, there are also trash compactors, hydraulic or manual, designed for residential use. Likewise, they reduce the volume of garbage. For example, some compactors reduce the volume of polystyrene to 1/30.
The first system was created in Sweden in the 1960s, designed by the Swedish corporation Envac AB [2] (formerly known as Centralsug AB). [3] The first installation was in 1961 at Sollefteå Hospital. The first vacuum system for household waste, was installed in the new residential district of Ör-Hallonbergen, Sweden in 1965. [4]
The waste is compacted inside the 79,000-square-foot (7,300 m 2) facility into sealed 12-foot-high (3.7 m) by 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal shipping containers. These containers are then loaded, four containers each car, onto flatbed rail cars to be hauled by rail to a Republic Services landfill in South Carolina .
Wacker began producing bioengineered products in 1990, which led to multiple acquisitions and the establishment of Wacker Biotech GmbH in 2005. [3] On 10 April 2006, Wacker shares were traded for the first time on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. [10] [11] Wacker celebrated its 100th anniversary in Munich 2014 [3] and in 2015, Siltronic AG made ...
A 0.75 HP bore-well submersible pump which had been used to pump groundwater One style of submersible pump for industrial use. Outlet pipe and electrical cable not connected. A submersible pump (or electric submersible pump (ESP) is a device which has a hermetically sealed motor close-coupled to the pump body. The whole assembly is submerged in ...