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                    [ArticleID] => 908266
                    [Title] => SMB donates sludge to push organic farming
                    [Summary] => 

With their mutual endeavor to encourage organic farming in communities, the private sector and the local government promoted the environment-friendly practice of dewatered sludge composting.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1342554 [AuthorName] => Grace Melanie L. Lacamiento [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 619923 [Title] => Communism left toxic legacy in Eastern Europe [Summary] =>

Abandoned mines in Romania leech waters contaminated by heavy metals into rivers. A Hungarian chemical plant produces more than 100,000 tons of toxins a year. Soil in eastern Slovakia is contaminated with cancer-producing PCBs.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-12 04:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 619654 [Title] => Officials: wall of Hungary sludge lake will fall [Summary] =>

The wall of a reservoir filled with caustic red sludge will inevitably collapse and unleash a new deluge of toxic matter that could ooze a half-mile (1 kilometer) to the north, wreaking further havoc in the wake of last week's disaster, a Hungarian official said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-11 04:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 619042 [Title] => 2 more bodies found in Hungary's red sludge [Summary] =>

The mighty Danube apparently absorbed Hungary's massive red sludge spill with little immediate damage Friday but laboratory tests heightened concerns about possible longer-term harm caused by toxic heavy metals in the slurry.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-09 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 618574 [Title] => Hungary: Toxic red sludge has reached the Danube [Summary] =>

The toxic red sludge that burst out of a Hungarian factory's reservoir and inundated three villages reached the mighty Danube on Thursday after wreaking havoc on smaller rivers and creeks, an emergency official said.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-07 21:23:29 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 618145 [Title] => Hungary sludge flood called 'ecological disaster' [Summary] =>

Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties yesterday after a flood of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant  engulfed several towns and burned people through their clothes. One official called it "an ecological disaster" that may threaten the Danube and other key rivers.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-06 02:19:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 430337 [Title] => Papermaking waste a good asphalt material [Summary] =>

Paper mill sludge, a waste derived from papermaking, is a good material in asphalt road pavement work.

[DatePublished] => 2009-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 358047 [Title] => Petron given 10 days to put up treatment site [Summary] => ILOILO CITY — Authorities gave Petron Corp. 10 days to put up an additional treatment site to accommodate the increasing oil sludge being collected in the ongoing cleanup operations in Guimaras.

Western Visayas Presidential Assistant Rafael Coscolluela, oil spill incident commander, said the barge provided by Petron as temporary storage for the collected oil sludge is about 45 percent full.

"It will take about another 10 days to fill it to capacity," Coscolluela said. "So they need to come up with the decision in 10 days."
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1711399 [AuthorName] => Ronilo Pamonag [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 354412 [Title] => Petron faces possible boycott [Summary] => The contamination of the town of Concepcion has alarmed mayors of other coastal towns in the province that the oil slick might also reach their communities.

In Tuesday’s meeting of local executives with Iloilo Gov. Niel Tupas, the Iloilo town mayors passed a resolution approving a possible boycott of Petron products should the fuel firm fail to salvage the sunken tanker or solve the environmental problem by the weekend.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136001 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1771372 [AuthorName] => THE SOUTHERN BEAT By Rolly Espina [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 275116 [Title] => Paper mill waste makes good cement-bonded board [Summary] => Paper mill sludge (solid waste) is a good material for making cement-bonded board (CBB).

This technology is now commerciable and its developers are looking for an investment partner to a joint venture for the product’s marketing.

The technology was generated by a research team of the UP Los Baños College of Forestry and Natural Resources (UPLB-CFNR) and UPLB Foundation, Inc.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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