ISSUE CONTENTS: JULY 2003

TEXAS MODEL FOR EROSION CONTROL

TEXAS TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT ACCELERATES HIGHWAY USE OF COMPOST Rhonda Sherman In FY 2003, the Texas Department of Transportation will specify a whopping 400,000 cubic yards of compost, making the agency the largest market for compost in the nation. p24

CONTRACTOR COUNTS ON COMPOST FOR SLOPE STABILIZATION Don Legacy and Scott McCoy Compost/mulch berms and blankets are used to revegetate one-to-one slopes with about ten percent vertical walls and no topsoil. p29

ADDING VALUE TO “WOOD WASTE”

TAKING INVENTORY OF WOODY RESIDUALS David McKeever USDA Forest Service analysis finds 104 million tons of woody residuals available for recovery in the U.S., with wood in MSW and C&D debris streams comprising 28 million tons. p31

BUILDING STRONG MARKETS FOR MULCH AND COMPOST PRODUCTS Dan Emerson Around the country, wood and yard trimming processors tell the same story — to take the volume on the front-end, the mantra on the back end is “markets, markets, markets.” p36

EVOLUTION OF A MULCH MARKETER Kent Ennis Challenged by the lack of options for giving free chips away, an Atlanta area tree trimming service successfully ventures into mulch production and sales. p41

HOW THEY STARTED — AND GREW — A WOOD RECYCLING BUSINESS Jerome Goldstein The annals of BioCycle are filled with stories of companies that saw and seized an opportunity to process wood into high value end products. p43

SINGLE STREAM MRF COMES TO NEW ENGLAND Molly Farrell A solid waste district in Vermont switches over to single stream recycling, making its retrofitted MRF the first in New England to process commingled paper and container streams. p46

INNOVATIONS IN WINDROW TURNERS Robert Rynk Windrow turners have adapted to the changes and trends within the composting industry — such as different feedstocks, higher product standards and more demanding regulations. p50

BIOCYCLE ENERGY

ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENCY FOR NEW BIOSOLIDS DIGESTION AND DRYING FACILITIES Richard S. Hogan, Michael M. Garcia, Jeffrey R. Pinnette and Michael W. Thaye Wastewater treatment plant captures energy from anaerobic digestion to produce a value-added biosolids product. p55

RENEWABLE ENERGY FIRMS GET MAJOR BOOST IN MINNESOTA The Agricultural Utilization Research Institute provides hands-on support for the creation and marketing of biobased industrial products. p61

CALIFORNIA CONTINUES PUSH FOR DAIRY POWER George Simons and Zhiqin Zhang Projects funded by the California Energy Commission seek to increase numbers of anaerobic digestion recovery sites on farms as well as at wastewater treatment plants. p63

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