Article: On-campus composting gets the right fit

Article: Food residuals composting
BioCycle;  July 1, 1999 ;     185 words ......will begin composting food residuals this summer through a...program is located at Middlebury College. Vermont Natural Ag Products...four to seven wet tons of food residuals each week. "We're getting...and marketing manager. Food residuals already are being ...

Article: Food residuals management in Korea
BioCycle;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......source reduction and recycling goals for food residuals by 2001, an integrated approach will...consisted of approximately 32 percent food residuals and 24 percent paper. It was apparent...achieve a 35 percent recycling rate, food residuals and more of the paper stream would...

Article: Assessing food residuals recycling potential in New Jersey
BioCycle;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......ventures are recycling some of the food residuals generated annually in the state, and...in the 1700s. ON A national basis, food residuals constitute 21.9 million of the roughly...Department of Agriculture (USDA). Of the food residuals generated in America, reportedly only...

Article: Food residuals recycling makes a great circle
BioCycle;  May 1, 2002 ;     511 words ......we had statistics on the quantity of food residuals in the national waste stream. Her daughter...reported in August 2001 Bio Cycle, food residuals comprise 21.9 million tons of the estimated...000 tons - 2.6 percent of the total food residuals - were diverted to recycling options...

Article: The economics of recycling food residuals
BioCycle;  April 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......value-added approach of converting food residuals to useful end products has led to utilization...value of about $25 per ton FOB, some food residuals with a high protein content have a...Environmental Protection Agency estimates that food residuals account for nearly seven percent ...

Article: WANTED: LANDFILL BAN ON FOOD RESIDUALS
BioCycle;  July 1, 2005 ;     608 words ......for residential and commercial food residuals. As reported in the January 2004 EwCycle...product marketing. A ban on landfilling food residuals would have the same impact. And steps...and commercial generators to recycle food residuals. Added Tim Croll of Seattle Public...

Article: Food residuals diversion in Florida
BioCycle;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......states, Florida is a large generator of food residuals. A growing population, thriving tourist...production of well over 1. 2 million tons of food residuals annually. This figure is modest because...waste generation or disposal numbers. Food residuals generation will continue to ...

Article: Collecting commercial food residuals to reach 60 percent diversion
BioCycle;  December 1, 1999 ;     324 words ......19 percent of the waste stream, the food residuals sector looks inviting. That's why the...last year to mandate separation of food residuals by July 1, 2001 for certain businesses...nine- to 12-month pilot project for food residuals and nonrecyclable paper collection...

Article: Using wastewater digesters to recycle food residuals into energy
BioCycle;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......airport's 16,000 tons/year of food residuals. THE LOS ANGELES Department...manages a significant quality of food residuals originating from commercial...employees. Recently a joint food residuals study was completed for municipal...

Article: Measuring capacity for food residuals composting
BioCycle;  August 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......sites in New York State that accept food residuals or have an interest in expanding their...the state's capacity for composting food residuals from the institutional/ commercial...interested in expanding to start handling food residuals or to expand the volume currently being...

Article: Composting prison food residuals
BioCycle;  August 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Correction (DOC) has begun a three-year food residuals composting demonstration project designed...The correctional facilities diverting food residuals for the pilot have a combined inmate...one of the four prisons diverting food residuals to the project. The wood frame building...

Article: Mapping the density of food residuals generation
BioCycle;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......areas, commercial and institutional food residuals represent one of the best targets for...the nearly 900,000 tons of commercial food residuals generated each year are currently diverted...result, DEP has identified increased food residuals diversion as a priority over the coming...

Article: STATE ESTIMATES ON FOOD RESIDUALS GENERATION AND RECOVERY
BioCycle;  May 1, 2004 ;     312 words ......Environmental Protection (DEP) estimate that food residuals make up 11.4 percent of the MSW stream...that less than five percent of all food residuals in Massachusetts are diverted to composting...facilities are not located near primary food residuals sources, while some are not ...

Article: FOOD RESIDUALS RECYCLING IN THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED STATE
BioCycle;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......state seemed poised for a revolution in food residuals recycling since it had a variety of...right to compost vegetative and bread food residuals, largely from supermarkets, in open-a...perfected in New Jersey to convert food residuals into pelletized animal feed. Tests...