Although the police and intelligence services accounted for the bulk of these queries, local authorities could also ask for data to identify criminals who had avoided paying taxes, illegally dumped waste, sold counterfeit goods or otherwise preyed on vulnerable members of the community.
The presence of inorganic arsenic in incinerator ash and pelletized waste sold as fertilizer creates opportunities for population exposures that did not previously exist.
Preliminary measurements of arsenic concentrations in pelletized waste sold as fertilizer showed levels between 18 and 22 mg/kg (Chesapeake Bay Foundation, personal communication), similar to those reported in unprocessed poultry waste (Jackson and Bertsch 2001).
They work at night, picking up newspapers and waste, selling on 2nd Ave .in morning.
At its most pragmatic, it is mainly about cutting costs — by reducing waste, selling recyclable components and reusing byproducts like rubber or plastic to create a new product.
Business records show that he runs at least two companies, Dauman Industries and Dauman Recycling, which haul waste, sell wood mulching and wooden pallets.
"The informal recycler breaks up waste, sells the copper to one guy, the plastic to another, the circuit boards to another etc.
Since 1978 Carl Icahn has been tormenting and infuriating corporate America by acquiring big enough stakes in bloated companies to overthrow management, slash waste, sell off deadwood divisions and, most important, drive up share prices.
He said if politicians are going to talk about cutting government waste, selling empty buildings is a good start.
Despite being vital actors in mining communities, women's roles are normally relegated to droumage (crushing, sorting and washing of minerals, sifting the crushed minerals, and processing the waste), selling the minerals, or to marginal support roles with minimal profitability.
Protoprint buys filament from SwaCH for 300 rupees (£3.50) per kg – if waste pickers sold the plastic waste directly to scrap merchants the pickers would receive around 19 rupees (23p) per kg, says Pai. "After factoring in the costs of production and the various other expenses, there is still a six to eight times multiplier per kilogram of filament," he says.
