mummified human head found by workers at california recycling plant

7/28/2019 Mummified Human Head Found by Workers at California Recycling Plant

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Mummified human head found by workers at California recycling

plant

Employees at West Oaklands California Waste Solutions made the horrifying discovery

Wednesday morning. Police are treating the case as murder.

FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2013, 11:12 AM

Authorities are investigating the discovery of a human head found at an

Oakland recycling yard Wednesday morning.

A mummified human head has been found dumped at a California recycling

plant.

Shocked staff at California Waste Solutions, in West Oakland, made the

horrifying discovery in a load of refuse that was dropped off Wednesday

morning.

Cadaver dogs have been drafted to hunt for any other body parts that could

also have been thrown away.

Cops say the gender of the rotting skull, which showed signs of trauma, cannot

yet be identified.

Authorities scour through trash at Oakland recycling yard after a mummified

head was discovered by employees.

They are now trawling through dental records to see if there is a match.

But officers added they are treating the case as murder.

Investigators are now trying to locate from where the load that included the

head was picked up.

The firm services homes and firms across the Bay Area, reports the Contra

Costa Times.


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Shanks signs waste contract with Glasgow Airport

13 May 2013 by Susanna Prouse

Waste management business, Shanks Group plc (Shanks) announced today (13

May), that it has signed a five-year contract with Glasgow Airport in the hopes

of helping it reduce waste collections by 75 per cent.

It is hoped the contract will help Scotland reach its 2025 Zero Waste target of

recycling 70 per cent of waste, and sending a maximum of five per cent to

landfill.

Smart drum compactors

Under the contract, Shanks will replace Glasgow

Airports existing waste containers with

EcoCassette smart drum compactors.

The compactor, which can reportedly hold the

equivalent of 15 large mobile bins (15 cubic

metres), have been designed and developed by EcoVision, Shanks subsidiary in

the Netherlands and are swipe card operated to enable shared access.

According to Shanks, the compactors are fitted with GPRS enabled sensors,

which will automatically notify the transport depot when the compactors are

full, allowing maximum use before emptying.

The existing bin lorry will also be replaced with a crane-mounted vehicle that

can collect four compactors per visit, each with a different source-segregated

waste stream.

The compactors will not be emptied on site but will be exchanged for a washed

and empty container, which is expected to avoid any spillage or litter.

Any food waste collected from the airport will be processed at Shanks and

Energen Biogas anaerobic digestion plant in Cumbernauld. The residual waste

will be processed at Shanks mechanical biological treatment facility in

Glasgow, where it will be turned into refuse-derived fuel.

Shanks hopes that by increasing the number of waste streams per visit, as well

as only collecting full compactors, Glasgow Airport collections will be reduced

by up to 75 per cent.


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Ambitious sustainability targets

Peter Eglinton, Shanks UK Managing Director, welcomed the signing of the

contract, adding that by implementing the EcoCassette compactors [Shanks]

will greatly improve on site operations while increasing landfill diversion andreducing carbon emissions.

Gillies Crichton, Head of Assurance at Glasgow Airport, added: At Glasgow

Airport, we have set ambitious sustainability targets and are committed to

reducing the environmental impact of our business. Developing a sustainable

and cost effective approach to waste management is a clear priority and

Shanks solution enables us to do this whilst also reducing carbon emissions

and controlling costs.

Glasgow landfill to close

In related news, South Lanarkshire Council has unanimously denied Glasgow

City Council's application to continue using its Cathkin landfill site until 2016.

The site had been scheduled to close in August 2012, but Glasgow council

entered in a new planning application to continue to use the site.

South Lanarkshire has now issued Glasgow with an enforcement notice

demanding all operations end at the dump by 'mid-summer' 2013 and ordering

that all restoration should be completed by September 2014.

The landfill site has been a source of contention with South Lanarkshire

residents, who have in the past complained about smells emanating from the

site as well as heavy traffic leading to the landfill.

Glasgow's initial bid to open the landfill at Cathkin was refused by the council in

the 1990s. This decision was later overturned by the Scottish Executive.

A South Lanarkshire Council spokesman said: The decision was unanimous.

The original permission, granted by the Scottish Office in 1999, was for landfill

to be discontinued 13 years.

This expired last year and we do not feel it is appropriate to permit an even

longer period to allow the operations to continue.

However, a spokesman for Glasgow City Council said that they will now appeal

the decision.


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There will be no impact on waste collections in Glasgow", said the

spokesperson. The city is currently transforming the way it deals with waste

and, over the next few years, Glasgows use of landfill will decrease

dramatically as new recycling and renewable energy facilities come on line at

Polmadie.

In the meantime, the city still requires some capacity for landfill and has been

investigating options, including extending the operating life, but not the size, of

its existing site at South Cathkin."

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