DIGESTER TANKS AND WINDROWS CREATE WATTS AND COMPOST

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Oregon's Port of Tillamook Bay uses digesters, generators and turners to sell electricity to its local utility and organic fertilizer to the nursery industry.

Laura Swanson

STATE POLICIES SET MANDATES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY

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Market-based policy standards guarantee demand for renewable electricity from a diversified portfolio of energy resources.

J.R. Drabick

PRIVATE FIRM CONVERTS LANDFILL GAS TO ENERGY

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Massachusetts company finds that producing electricity from LFG fits in well with its other recycling/composting projects.

ENERGY FROM FOOD PROCESSING WASTEWATER

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Anaerobic technology systems can offer two valuable by-products to companies that generate large volumes of high concentrated carbohydrate waste.

Steven Van Ginkel

BIODIESEL ON THE TRANSPORTATION FUELS HIGHWAY

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Fuels from biomass like biodiesel have come a long way to gain marketing and technical acceptance, but challenges still persist.

Bill Holmberg

SOIL QUALITY FUNDAMENTALS

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How can benefits of recycled organic products be maximized, and undesirable effects be minimized? First step is understanding soil science, formation and physical properties. Part I

Richard Stehouwer

EVALUATING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES

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Morton A. Barlaz, P. Ozge Kaplan, S. Ranji Ranjithan and Robert Rynk

A computer model provides a basis for comparing landfilling and organics recovery options for municipal MSW. Part II.

COMPOSTING ACTIVITY IN ITALY

BioCycle October 2003, Vol. 44, No. 10, p. 57

This report from the Consortium of Italian Composters shows the great progress being made in the nation's organics recycling sector.

David Newman

USING MECHANICAL - BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT FOR MSW IN EUROPE

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With the first target date for decreasing landfilling set for 2006, more waste managers are looking for systems, concepts and projects that offer organics recycling solutions.

Claudia Heermann

GOLF COURSES FIND VALUE IN COMPOST TEA PROGRAMS

BioCycle October 2003, Vol. 44, No. 10, p. 22

San Francisco turf (and golfers) benefit from applications of compost tea that minimize need for toxic chemicals.

Karin Grobe

BUSINESS TRENDS

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BIOPLASTICS KNOW NO BOUNDARIES
Examples of the tremendous progress taking place with compostable plastics abound. The Toyota Motor Corporation announced plans last month to construct a pilot plant to produce bioplastics made from vegetable matter. The new facility - to be built within an existing manufacturing plant in Japan - is

REGIONAL ROUNDUP

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PROPOSALS UNDER REVIEW FOR NEW BIOSOLIDS
MANAGEMENT FACILITY
What started in the 1970s with denial of Philadelphia's request to renew its permits for ocean disposal has evolved into a multifaceted biosolids management program that includes composting, land reclamation and landfilling. “Early lessons were painful,” recalls William Toffey, biosolids marketing manager for the city of Philadelphia Water Department, in the Summer-Fall 2003 newsletter of the Mid

BIOCYCLE WORLD

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BIOCYCLE, EARTH ENGINEERING CENTER COLLABORATING
ON STATE OF GARBAGE IN AMERICA 2003
BioCycle is collaborating with the Earth Engineering Center at Columbia University in New York City on its State of Garbage in America survey for 2003. Nickolas Themelis, director of the Earth Engineering Center, wrote an article for BioCycle last January that compared findings of the 2001 State of Garbage report with Franklin Associates' annual survey that is used in EPA's Municipal Solid Waste Characterization reports (see “Analyzing Data in State of Garbage in America, EPA Reports,” January 2003). One of the most significant discrepancies between the two (Themelis compared State of