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BBB Column: Do homework before signing up with fitness center | News

11Jan

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Fitness

BBB Column: Do homework before signing up with fitness center | News

If this is your year to take control of your weight and fitness, more power to you. Most likely, you’ll need a commitment to exercise regularly.Better Business Bureau (BBB) has tips to help you determine which gym or health club is the best place to keep you on track.Make sure you’re healthy enough for an exercise program before you start. If you haven’t been active for a while, check with your doctor before starting anew. Before you sign up at a local gym or fitness club, take time to investigate the facility. Every year, BBB receives numerous complaints about health clubs or gyms that closed abruptly or refused ...

With landfill closure on horizon, ACUA explores waste-conversion technology

24Sep

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Technology

With landfill closure on horizon, ACUA explores waste-conversion technology

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — With the Atlantic County Utilities Authority landfill set to close in the next few years, officials are searching for a new way to handle waste, particularly through emerging “waste conversion” technologies.Among the new technologies available are processes that can convert the trash into energy either through the combination of electricity and high temperatures in plasma gasification, or a mechanical/biological treatment that sorts the trash, removing recyclables and then converting what remains, either through composting or an anaerobic digestion process that leaves behind a refuse-derived fuel. As part of the process, the refuse that remains can be as little as one-tenth of what now ends up in a landfill.All of these new forms of transforming wa...