HB 3100 has all features of Atlas' other heavy duty breakers.

Atlas Copco is introducing its HB 3100, its newest model in its heavy hydraulic breaker line. With a service weight of 6,944 pounds, the HB 3100 is suitable for carriers in the 66,139-pound to 114,640-pound class.

The HB 3100 has all the proven features of Atlas Copco’s heavy duty breaker range:

• VibroSilenced System: reduces noise and protects the operator and carrier against vibrations;

• AutoControl: adapts the blow frequency and impact energy to the rock hardness;

• ContiLube II System: an integrated automatic lubrication system;

• StartSelect: allows the operator to choose the startup and shutdown process of the breaker to match the application at hand;

• DustProtector (optional): a two-stage seal system that protects the hammer unit and bushings against damage from dust and rock particles in the lower part of the breaker.

The HB 3100 features the PowerAdapt system that shuts down the hydraulic breaker when oil pressure exceeds the maximum input value. Self preservation features such as PowerAdapt protect your investment against costly mistakes from improper set up or incorrect operating mode choices made in the cab of the excavator.

In addition the HB 3100 features an improved box system for better stability and resistance. The dual retaining bar system, for example, provides better protection against wear and tear, especially in the lower part of the hydraulic breaker.

The HB breaker range was developed to get even the toughest and hardest jobs done. It’s a genuine heavy duty tool designed for millions of hits under the harshest conditions. In addition, Atlas Copco breakers are easy to service and maintain, which makes them suitable for a wide range of applications such as primary and secondary breaking, demolition and tunneling.

For further information, contact Kevin Loomis, product manager, Hydraulic Attachments, Atlas Copco Construction Equipment LLC, (330) 730-2366; Fax: 216- 520-0216, E-mail: kevin.loomis@us.atlascopco.com.

The American Forest & Paper Association has presented the Parkway School District of Chesterfield, Mo. with its 2010 American Forest & Paper Association School Recycling Award.

 The annual awards recognize outstanding school, community, and business, paper recycling programs across the country.

Parkway School District’s recycling program serves more than 18,000 students in 29 school buildings. The program began in 1990. Since that time, expanded efforts have resulted in an Environmental Services Department that oversees all district sustainability efforts. Results include the recovery of more than 1,031 tons of newspaper, magazines, catalogs, direct mail, office paper, envelopes, and brochures and more than 138 tons of paper-based packaging in 2009. 

The paper is collected and then recycled through the AbitibiBowater’s Paper Retriever program.

More than 1,700 organizations applied for grant money.

Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and The Coca-Cola Co. are awarding 82 programs with grant money through the two organizations’ Recycling Bin Grant program.

The 82 programs were chosen out of a list of more than 1,700 organizations that applied for grant money.

Grants were awarded for a diverse range of settings from 37 states, including 14 colleges and universities, 32 municipalities and other local government entities, 20 K-12 schools, 17 nonprofit organizations, and additional community groups and Native American tribes.

Recipients were chosen by KAB based on a number of criteria, including where bins are likely to have the most impact on recovering beverage containers from the waste stream, ability of recipients to sustain their program in the future, and intention to support collection programs with recycling education and promotion. The Bin Grant is sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company and is designed to promote and support community recycling in the U.S.

“Our company is committed to designing packages that are recyclable and resource efficient,” says April Crow, sustainable packaging manager, The Coca-Cola Company. “We also are focused on ensuring that there are strong end-markets for our packages by investing in commercial recycling and community collection programs like RecycleBank and the Recycling Bin Grant Program. We hope this program will encourage communities to expand recycling as we continue to close the loop for our products as well as other valuable recyclables.”

The Bin Grant Program provides recycling bins directly to recipients and leverages the purchasing power and recycling expertise of KAB. Since its inception in the fall of 2007, the Bin Grant program has placed more than 1,100 recycling bins in 225 communities in 48 states and the District of Columbia.

Collection program started on April 22.

Hawaii’s County of Maui Department of Environmental Management’s Solid Waste Division announced that its Central Maui Landfill recycling center has begun accepting small-sized, residential scrap metal for recycling purposes.

The county’s solid waste division requests that residents should separate their metal loads from other materials. Items that will be accepted include roofing, gutters, tubs, sinks, faucets, pipes, metal lawn furniture, blinds and fencing. Other items that will be accepted include: bicycles (rubber tires must be removed), push mowers (all fluid must be removed), cable and electric wires, small electric appliances, microwaves, hand tools (batteries must be removed), satellite dishes, solar panels and motor parts (all fluid must be removed).

Items that will not be accepted include commercial material, household appliances, television sets, computers, radios, tires, batteries, shower stalls, riding lawn mowers, air conditioners, PV panels, propane tanks, aerosol cans, asbestos, rubbish and items that do not fit in the container. Any item containing hazardous waste will not be accepted.

Residents are encouraged to sends larger metal items to the SOS Island Metals Recycling facility in the Central Maui Baseyard.

SOS Island Metals Recycling has been awarded the bid for a two-year pilot project, which comes at no cost to the county. The contractor provides the bins and hauling of the scrap metals at no charge, while retaining all profits from the sale of metals collected.

Alliance Recycling & Waste Inc., Smyrna, Tenn., has voluntarily filed for Ch. 7 liquidation.

The business, which opened in 2000, listed assets of $0 to $50,000 and liabilities of more than $1 million in its filing, including $2 million in secured claims and $842,000 in unsecured claims.

Edgar M Rothschild and Mary Beth Ausbrooks of Rothschild & Ausbrooks PLLC are handling the bankruptcy for owner Bryan Jay Kirkpatrick.

Among the creditors is MidSouth Bank, which is owed a total of $1.76 million, $533,000 worth of which is unsecured. Others include First Niagara, which is owed $70,700; Sovereign Bank, owed $126,000; Sterling National, $94,000; Town of Smyrna, $150,000; TriStar Capital, $90,000; and Wells Fargo Equipment Finance, $215,000. Nashville Business Journal