BioCycle back issues from April 2008:
NEW WAYS TO FIND SAFER CLEANERS AND COMPOST KITCHEN WASTE
Apr 01, 2008; ... At restaurants like the Savoy in Manhattan and less expensive chains, the search is on for safer cleaners and new ways to compost kitchen waste. "People are finally ready," says Michael Oshman who founded the nonprofit Green Restaurant Association in 1990. "A lot of owners are seeing this as ...
BUYING LOCAL FOOD FROM FAMILY FARMERS
Apr 01, 2008; ... Two years ago, Woodbury County, Iowa became the first to mandate that food purchased by the county for its jail, juvenile detention centers and other cafeterias be grown and processed within a 100-mile radius. As in many parts of the nation, family farms are folding and rural communities are ...
JAPAN REVISES FOOD RESIDUALS RECYCLING LEGISLATION
Apr 01, 2008; ... In Japan, the "Food Waste Recycling Law" was enacted in 2000 and implemented in 2001 to encourage the food industry - firms involved in commercial production of food - to recycle residuals. According to the February 2008 Warmer Bulletin, a five-year revision of the law led to three major ...
USDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS AND LOANS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS
Apr 01, 2008; ... USDA is making $220.9 million in guaranteed loans and grants available under its Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Program. USDA Rural Development seeks to help farmers and rural small businesses produce renewable energy or make energy-saving improvements to their businesses and ...
COUNTY LAUNCHES SINGLE-STREAM PAPER RECYCLING COLLECTION
Apr 01, 2008; ... Ocean County, New Jersey In January 2008, New Jersey's Ocean County accepted its first deliveries of single-stream paper at its recycling centers from commercial haulers. Single-stream paper recycling is defined as commingling junk mail, cardboard, newspapers, magazines, computer and ...
AMERICA'S LARGEST GARBAGE INCINERATOR UP FOR RENEWAL
Apr 01, 2008; ... Detroit, Michigan Within the next three months, Detroit must decide what to do about a local garbage incinerator, America's largest, which processes more than 700,000 tons/year of waste. "By some estimates, Detroit's decision to turn its garbage into smoke and ash will have cost $1.2 ...
SOLID WASTE PLAN UPDATE RATIFIED
Apr 01, 2008; ... Lorain County, Ohio Twenty-five years ago, Ohio faced solid waste problems that included declining landfill capacity, increasing waste generation and an influx of out-of-state waste. A legislative coalition was formed to create a comprehensive solid waste management program for Ohio to ...
GOOD GREEN JOBS
Apr 01, 2008; ... THE Pennsylvania primary is a couple weeks away, and the airwaves and mailboxes have been filled with ads and literature from the three candidates vying for their party's presidential nomination. The Clinton and Obama campaigns, in particular, continually highlight the role of "green jobs" in ...
SETTING UP GREEN CORRIDORS
Apr 01, 2008; ... As described in the March 2008 issue of Governing, the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are working with the mayors of Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and Emeryville to create a "Green Corridor" to attract and ...
EPA GUIDE ON PLANNING FOR NATURAL DISASTER DEBRIS
Apr 01, 2008; ... The U.S. EPA released an updated Planning for Natural Disaster Debris guide in March 2008, a document first published in 1995. It is designed for local communities that are interested in creating a disaster debris management plan, with recommendations, management options for various debris ...
"THE DEEPER PROBLEM MAY BE HOW - AND WHERE - WE LIVE OUR LIVES"
Apr 01, 2008; ... With popular awareness of global warming intensifying, the appeal of mixed-use, transit-accessible communities is on the rise, writes Philip Langdon in the January-February 2008 issue of New Urban News. Meanwhile, developers have increasingly incorporated environmentally advanced energy and ...
LAUNCH OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL TRACKING NETWORK OF NORTH AMERICA
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Center for Resource Solutions launched the Environmental Tracking Network of North America (ETNNA), the continent's first network organization for renewable energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions tracking. ETNNA is a voluntary association seeking to coordinate a renewable energy and GHG ...
FOUR LARGE-SCALE CARBON SEQUESTRATION PROJECTS
Apr 01, 2008; ... In a major step forward to show the promise of clean energy technology to confront climate change, the Energy Department's Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program awarded the first four (of seven) large-scale carbon sequestration projects in the U.S. The four projects - Plains Carbon ...
COMPOSTING AND OTHER ULTRA LOW WATER USE TOILETS
Apr 01, 2008; ... Using no potable water and producing organic mulch, composting toilets have been around since the 1970s, but maintain just a tiny market share in North America, reports Environmental Building News (Feb. 2008 issue). The need for extreme water conservation can also be satisfied by other ...
WHEN POLLUTION IS A BY-PRODUCT OF "CLEAN FUEL"
Apr 01, 2008; ... Moundville, Alabama The spills at the Alabama Biodiesel Corporation plant outside Moundville, Alabama are similar to others that have come from biodiesel plants in the Midwest. The discharges, which can be hazardous to birds and fish, come from an old chemical factory that had been ...
CURBSIDE FOOD SCRAPS COLLECTION PROGRAM
Apr 01, 2008; ... Dubuque, Iowa The city of Dubuque, Iowa is continuing its curbside food scraps recycling program, which works in conjunction with its existing yard waste and recycling programs. The program began as a two-year pilot in 2006, with 30 tons collected the first year, and 35 tons the second ...
USING WIND POWER AT WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Apr 01, 2008; ... Bellevue, Ohio Norfolk Southern is erecting a 50 kilowatt wind turbine at its Bellevue Yard to power a wastewater treatment plant. "We are assessing opportunities to use alternative renewable energy sources where practical," says Vice President ...
GOODYEAR GETS GREENER WITH NEW RECYCLING INITIATIVE
Apr 01, 2008; ... Benton County, Oregon Goodyear Tire & Rubber makes millions of tires every year, along with millions of pounds of waste. "We landfilled our last load on December 30th and we are all too happy to see that last load go," Jeff Sussman, Goodyear's environmental project manager told Scrap ...
COMPOSTING DAIRY MANURE CLOSE TO CHICAGO
Apr 01, 2008; ... McHenry, Illinois Midwest Organics Recycling (MOR), a composting operation located 40 miles north of Chicago, was established to compost manure as part of a solution to sustain one of the last dairy farms in a quickly developing county. MOR mixes dairy manure from Golden Oaks Farm with ...
WATER QUALITY MONITORING WORKSHOPS
Apr 01, 2008; ... Jefferson City, Missouri Missouri has more than 25,000 miles of streams that provide drinking water for people, livestock and wildlife. The state's Department of Natural Resources ...
PHILOMATH HIGH SCHOOL COMPOST PROJECT
Apr 01, 2008; ... Benton County, Oregon As part of a 2004 EPA Environmental Justice Grant awarded to the Benton County Health Department, three Philomath High School seniors conducted compost research as part of their senior projects. Working with the Benton Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and ...
EIGHTH ANNUAL WORM FARMING CONFERENCE
Apr 01, 2008; ... Raleigh, North Carolina The latest research on vermicomposting will be presented at the 8th Annual Worm Farming Conference, held by North Carolina State University (NCSU) May 19-20, 2008. Topics include the effects of worm castings and tea on plant ...
Climate Change Connections
Apr 01, 2008; ... DEVIL IN THE DETAILS WHEN I first moved to Seattle from the East Coast, I scoured the yellow pages in search of a butcher. I am not a vegetarian and I enjoy eating meat. Growing up I was in charge of the grocery shopping and I have very fond memories of going to Vinnie the Butcher in ...
FOOD SCRAPS RECOVERY IN OHIO
Apr 01, 2008; ... ADVANCING THE INFRASTRUCTURE An initiative last fall invited grocers, haulers and composters to a stakeholders' meeting to identify barriers to implementing regional programs. THE STATE of Ohio launched the Ohio Food Scraps Recovery Initiative in June 2007. Prior to the launch, ...
SETTING UP A COMPOSTING SYSTEM AT SCHOOL
Apr 01, 2008; ... SSO - STUDENTS SEPARATE ORGANICS Oregon Middle School provides a working model to recover food residuals, showing what can be accomplished and how. THE Portland, Oregon metropolitan area generates an estimated 280,000 tons per year of organic residuals - comprised of plants, food ...
CAFETERIA COMPOSTING IN SOUTHERN MAINE
Apr 01, 2008; ... MILK CARTONS & FOOD SCRAPS An idealistic fourth-grade student inspires a composting project in her elementary school. FOOD waste and milk cartons are being composted in three southern Maine schools, due to a fourth-grade student's initiative. The project, started at the ...
COMPOSTER, WOOD RECYCLER BUILDS SOILS BUSINESS
Apr 01, 2008; ... EROSION CONTROL MARKETS A Syracuse, New York company produces and blends soils on spec, servicing the state Departments of Transportation and Environmental Conservation, local agencies and area landscapers and contractors. TO THE layman, making a soil product capable of being ...
Storm Water Treatment
Apr 01, 2008; ... Segregating storm water flows at composting facilities to minimize generation of highly contaminated runoff goes a long way to reducing treatment costs. Part II WATER quality regulations have expanded from individual end-of-pipe point sources to include runoff-generated area nonpoint ...
BIGGEST BANG FROM THE BIOGAS PRODUCTION BUCK
Apr 01, 2008; ... GRID OR PIPELINE? Review of considerations and costs for selling biogas from on-farm anaerobic digestion systems through the electrical grid or the natural gas pipeline. WHEN Fennville, Michigan-based Scenic View Dairy decided to expand its anaerobic digesters, it faced a ...
REDEFINING AG WASTES AS COPRODUCTS
Apr 01, 2008; ... COPRODUCT UTILIZATION Once considered products of the waste stream, a nonprofit in Minnesota shows that agricultural residues and coproducts are powering the future. ALAN Doering doesn't have the word "waste" in his vocabulary. As the scientist heading up the Agricultural ...
FARM DIGESTERS FOR SMALL DAIRIES IN VERMONT
Apr 01, 2008; ... COW POWER Vermont dairy farmers work with a utility to diversify their incomes, using AD systems to generate biogas for electricity. THROUGH its award-winning Cow Power program, Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS), a Vermont utility headquartered in the city of Rutland, is ...
Western Australia Reaches For Zero Waste
Apr 01, 2008; ... Australia The five regional councils in the Perth metropolitan area are systematically rolling out a waste processing infrastructure, realizing the benefits of compost for soils and climate change. LOCATED in the southwest corner of Australia, Perth is the capital city of Western ...
Food Waste Management Options In The UK
Apr 01, 2008; ... United Kingdom Study provides guidance on the most cost-effective and environmentally sustainable ways of diverting household food waste. ACCORDING to a March 2007 report from the Waste and Resources Action Program (WRAP), food waste is one of the largest single fractions in the ...
THE BOOMING CLIMATE CHANGE INDUSTRY
Apr 01, 2008; ... A new publication, Climate Change Business Journal, estimates that the industry now exceeds $100 billion in the U.S. and three times that figure worldwide. Largest contributors are alternative ...
INTEGRATING COLORANT BULK TANKS
Apr 01, 2008; ... The "Heartland Enriched Bulk Colorant" storage tanks (5,500-gallon) will enable mulch producers to store more than a truckload of colorant for simple connecting and disconnecting. Tank ties directly into current ...
SHREDDING OPERATIONS USE NEW SORTERS TO IMPROVE NONFERROUS RECOVERY
Apr 01, 2008; ... Rising metals prices are leading recyclers to invest in additional downstream sorting. Manufacturers are using induction sensor separators and digital camera technology to seaparte nonferrous materials. Color sorting allows recyclers to program the system to look for a certain color, reports ...
CUMMINS POWER GENERATOR
Apr 01, 2008; ... Cummins is the first manufacturer to announce International Building Code (IBC) certification on all its production generator sets under 230 kW. The IBC addresses both the design and installation of ...
2008 STOCKHOLM WATER PRIZE AWARDED TO "VIRTUAL WATER" INNOVATOR
Apr 01, 2008; ... Professor John Anthony Allan of King's College, London was named the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. According to a March press release, Allan made a major breakthrough in 1993 in how to demonstrate the amount of water embedded in the production of foods and consumer products, calling it ...