December 2000 BioCycle Contents



DECEMBER 2000
Vol. 41, No. 12

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  26 CASE STUDY IN WISCONSIN
MANAGING FAST GROWTH AND RESIDUALS IN FOX VALLEY
Leslie Cooperband
New project will help waste generators in Northeast Wisconsin find alternatives to direct land spreading and landfilling of organic residuals.
28 DIVERTING 40 TONS/DAY
BUILDING HUMAN RESOURCES INSTEAD OF LANDFILLS
St. Vincent de Paul of Lane County, Oregon creates marketable products and jobs from wood, glass, and other discards removed from the waste stream.
   
    MARINE RESOURCES
30
ADDED REVENUE STREAM
CHITIN RESEARCH OPENS UP CRAB SHELL PROFITS
Dave Block
Government grants and entrepreneurial spirit help crab composter on Maryland’s Eastern Shore start a second business that extracts and sells chitin.
 
32
COMPOST MENU
By blending such seafood residuals as crab chum and shucking leftovers with pine bark and poultry litter, many compost products are made.
 
34
TREATING PROBLEM EFFLUENT
USING SEAFOOD PROCESSING WASTE TO CLEAN UP WASTEWATER
Natural polymers extracted from lobster, crab and shrimp shells can be more effective than activated carbon in removing phosphate and dye residues.
 
34
OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS WITH SEAFOOD BY-PRODUCTS
New publication shows how to gain “fullest use and highest value from our marine resources.”ß
   
  35 BOOSTING PARTICIPATION
YARD TRIMMINGS BAN PROMOTES BACKYARD COMPOSTING
Suzanne LaLonde
Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency in New York uses workshops, advertising campaigns and bin sales to bring rate of residents who compost and/or grasscycle up to 64 percent.
 
38
EDUCATIONAL ENTHUSIASM
SCHOOL MODELS COMPOSTING FOR THE COMMUNITY
Bunny Goodwin
Backyard composting program for cafeteria food residuals captures imagination of students, teachers and the rest of this upstate New York community.
   
    TIRES ON A ROLL
 
42
DIVERSIFIED MARKETS
CALIFORNIA PROMOTES REUSE, RECYCLING OF SCRAP TIRES
Marketable products such as playground mats, track surfaces, septic tank filter media and levee reinforcement are made with recycled rubber.
 
46
ASPHALT-RUBBER TECHNOLOGY
WASTE TIRES CUT COSTS OF BUILDING NEW HIGHWAYS
Serji Amirkhanian
South Carolina’s Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling awards a $6 million grant to the city of Clemson and Clemson University to help solve the state’s tire disposal problem.
   
 
48
WOOD RECOVERY ANALYSIS
ON-SITE GRINDING AND RECYCLING OF HOME CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS
Pilot project in Atlanta area will determine whether cost of size reducing and reusing wood residuals and wallboard scrap is competitive with disposal at landfills with low tipping fees.
50
BIOCYCLE NATIONWIDE SURVEY
THE STATE OF BIOSOLIDS IN AMERICA
Nora Goldstein
The BioCycle 2000 survey provides new insights on beneficial use trends, biosolids quality and challenges to biosolids recycling programs.
 
57
SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS
COMPOSTING ANIMAL MORTALITIES IN NORTH CAROLINA
Rhonda Sherman-Huntoon
Animal and Poultry Center at N.C. State University evaluates different approaches to achieving economical, environmental solutions.
   
    FORUMS
60 COMPOST OPERATORS
PLUGGING INTO THE COMPOSTING PROCESS
Nora Goldstein
A composting facility in Washington State, where both high throughput volumes and high quality end product are critical, manages by process optimization using maximum information and state of the art equipment.
 
64
COMPOST USERS
INCREASING GOVERNMENT PURCHASE OF COMPOST PRODUCTS
Michele Young and Karin Grobe
A turfgrass comeback at a soccer field gives momentum to policies designed to boost compost sales by city agencies.
   
    BIOCYCLE INTERNATIONAL
  67 ITALY
PUBLIC POLICY, PRIVATE TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATE COMPOSTING PACE
Alberto Carrera and Pat Poelzer
Dynamic growth of Rome company reflects the great recovery potential for organic feedstocks.
 
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EUROPE
MICROBIOLOGY, ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING OF EUROPEAN COMPOSTING PLANTS
Marco de Bertoldi, Ulrike Schnappinger and Evagelos Kapetanios
Research, design and planning professionals provide significant insights to advance organics recovery in Europe. Part l
 
72
SPAIN
ANALYZING CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF MSW COMPOSTS
R. Canet, F. Pomares, R. Albiach, F. Tarazona, M.A. Ibañez and F. Ingelmo
Staff at Spain’s Valencia Institute of Agricultural Research analyze 74 composts from regional facilities for use on farm fields.
     
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