May 23, 2008

The Envirobiz Waste Business Update (formerly the Chartwell Waste Industry Update) is distributed weekly. The Update's purpose is to provide stakeholders with weekly summaries of important developments in solid waste management.

1. EPA RELEASES 2008 REPORT ON THE ENVIRONMENT

The federal EPA has released its 2008 Report on the Environment, designed to measure and report on overall progress toward protecting the environment and human health. The report is designed to provide valuable, quantifiable information on the condition of air, land, water, human health, and ecological conditions. The EPA hopes that in the future, it will be able to look to the trends of ROE indicators in a fashion similar to the analysis performed on 20 years of data in the Toxics Release Inventory.
To obtain a copy of the report, visit www.epa.gov/roe/

2. WASTE MANAGEMENT NAMED CLIMATE ACTION LEADER

Waste Management has been named a Climate Action Leader by the California Climate Action Registry. The company won the distinction by voluntarily gathering an dreporting its greenhouse gas emissions inventory with the organization. Members of the Registry, including Waste Management, voluntarily measure, verify, and report their greenhouse gas emissions. The California Climate Action Registry is a nonprofit private organization begun by the state of California.
For more information, visit www.climateregistry.org.

3. PERMA-FIX SELLS OKLAHOMA INDUSTRIAL TREATMENT FACILITY

Perma-Fix Environmental Services (Nasdaq: PESI) will sell substantially all of the assets of Perma-Fix Treatment Services, Inc., one of the company’s Industrial Segment facilities located in Tulsa, Okla. to A Clean Environment Company, Inc. for approximately $1.5 million in cash, along with the assumption of certain debts. ACE is an environmental services company located in Wilson, Okla. The company expects to complete the sale during the second quarter of 2008. This marks the third industrial facility within the company’s Industrial Segment that the company has sold this year.
More information: www.perma-fix.com

4. SWANA PURCHASES CO2 EQUIVALENTS

The Solid Waste Association of North America has purchased 100 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents on the Chicago Climate Exchange from Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County Solid Waste Authority. The credits will be used to offset the emissions from the association’s events in 2008.

5. NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL OVERRIDES MAYOR'S E-WASTE VETO

New York’s City Council has overridden a veto by Mayor Michael Bloomberg of the performance standards included in e-waste recycling legislation which the council adopted in March. Bloomberg opposes standards that call for manufacturers within the city to collect an amount of electronics that is based on how much they sold in the city during the previous three years. By 2012, they would have to recycle an amount equal to 25 percent of the tonnage sold; those totals would increase to 45 percent in 2015 and 65 percent in 2018.

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