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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PAYS COMPOSTING FACILITY MORTGAGE

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Officials symbolically shredded a $3.7 million mortgage for a Gallatin County, Montana composting facility that processes waste from Yellowstone National The West Yellowstone-Hebgen Basin Composting ...

ORGANIC TOMATOES RANK HIGH IN FLAVOR

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Researchers at the University of California (UC) Davis have found that organically grown tomatoes are richer in flavonoids than those that are conventionally grown. A news report on National Public Radio described research at the University of California Davis that has been comparing organic and ...

TRASHING THE CLIMATE

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Source reduction, recycling and composting took on even greater significance with the release of a new research study, Stop Trashing The Climate. Issued on June 5th - World Environment Day - the study concludes that increased recycling and composting are easily-achievable and essential measures ...

COMPOST - THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

Jun 01, 2008; Goldstein, Nora ... AT LEAST one pop song includes the phrase, "love is the universal language." Well, after a recent trip to Argentina, I am going to rewrite the lyrics - compost is the universal language! My only trepidation when making this recent journey was that I don't speak Spanish. My plan was to ...

GREEN RIBBON AWARD FOR NEW ZEALAND COMPOSTER

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The New Zealand government recently gave Envirocomp, owned by Karen and Karl Upston, the Green Ribbon Award for their system to compost disposable diapers using a hotRot in-vessel composting unit, made by R5 Solutions. Approximately 450,000 used diapers were successfully composted in a ...

FOOD WASTE MANAGEMENT COST CALCULATOR

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Food Waste Management Calculator, which evaluates the competitiveness of alternatives to traditional food waste disposal, such as composting, source reduction, donation and recycling of fats, oils and grease (FOG). It determines a new ...

NAME CHANGE FOR UK COMPOSTING ASSOCIATION

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Composting Association in the United Kingdom announced a name change. As of August 1, 2008, it will be known as the Association for Organics Recycling. "This change reflects our response to, and evolution of, the changing nature of waste management and reinforces our role as the leading UK ...

MIGHTY MUSHROOM TACKLES DIOXIN

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A former lumber mill in Fort Bragg, California, 130 miles north of San Francisco, is infested with dioxin. The bioremediation method being proposed, according to a recent New York Times article, involves using mushrooms that have successfully treated oil spills. Fort Bragg was home to the ...

CHINA BANS USE OF DISPOSABLE PLASTIC BAGS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... On June 1, 2008, China officially banned plastic bags. China's 1.3 billion people use about 3 billion bags each day, which take approximately 37 million barrels of oil per year to manufacture. So far, shopkeepers are barred from handing out free plastic bags, ...

ANNUAL CONFERENCE FEATURES BIOSOLIDS PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Northwest Biosolids Management Association is hosting its 218t Annual Conference, September 7-9, 2008 in Skamania, Washington. This year's theme is Biosolids "Pride & Prejudice," highlighting the pride in the vital work the biosolids profession does - treating wastewater and recycling ...

CALIFORNIA DROUGHT COMPOUNDS WATER CRISIS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... California's already strained water supply is being worsened by a drought. Water pumped from the Sacramento San Joaquin River-Delta has been cut by one-third in an effort to protect endangered fish species in the Delta. This is approximately 660,000 acre-feet less water than last year, ...

HIGHER OCCUPANCY, HIGHER RATES FOR GREEN BUILDINGS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Buildings that carry the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED or the federal Energy Star certifications have higher occupancy rates and lease for more dollars per square foot than similar conventional buildings, says the CoStar Group, an information service provider for commercial real estate ...

GRANTS HELP EXPAND STATE'S COMPOSTING INFRASTRUCTURE

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Katherine McGinty, Secretary of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, announced a total of $400,000 in Compost Infrastructure Development grants for 2008. "By diverting useful materials from landfills, we can create jobs and save money," said ...

FARM POWER AND PUGET SOUND ENERGY TO DEVELOP DAIRY DIGESTER

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Bellevue, Washington A dairy digester to produce electric power from manure will be built by Farm Power Northwest, of Skagit County, Washington. The technology holds the promise of both an environmentally friendly energy source and a benefit to local dairy farmers and the Skagit County ...

SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT CONNECTS GENERATORS TO COMPOSTING

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Florida City, Florida The South Bade Soil and Water Conservation District (SDSWCD), a nonprofit governmental subdivision of the state of Florida, has developed a program for large producers of organic materials to start composting, in some cases using the compost on their property ....

INTERVALE COMPOST REMAINS OPEN, AT LEAST FOR NOW

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Burlington, Vermont Intervale Compost Products (ICP), Vermont's largest composting facility, will continue operations, at least until the end of this month. ICP processes 9,000 tons of organic materials annually, including food scraps and yard trimmings. The nonprofit Intervale Center, ...

CAMPUS CLOSES FACILITY, SUPPORTS LOCAL COMPOSTER

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Ithaca, New York Ithaca College began a campus composting program in 1993 as a means to divert food scraps. The program became a service offered by the Facilities Department, but was only tangentially connected to the college's educational mission, because it is not an agricultural ...

FUNDING ADVANCES FOR DIGESTER PROJECTS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Fresno, Kings Counties, California Anaerobic digester projects in California's Central Valley received an allocation from the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee (CDLAC) for $65.35 million to support financing of renewable natural gas (RNG) facilities. Microgy, Inc., a subsidiary ...

RECYCLING VOLUME INCREASES 17 PERCENT

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Baton Rouge, Louisiana The city of Baton Rouge implemented a single-stream recycling program in early 2006, providing households with 64-gallon carts. While recycling increased 35 percent, it wasn't close enough to the city's goal of a 50 percent increase over the 2005 rate. To improve ...

A MOTHER CREATES AN ECO-FRIENDLY ROLE

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Nazareth, Pennsylvania Sarah Ruppert, a native of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, was recently profiled on a website that recognizes people who are going to extraordinary measures to help the environment. She is one of 12 founding "PA iCons" in a program designed by the Pennsylvania Department ...