WOOD RECYCLING EQUIPMENT TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS

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Interviews with manufacturers of grinders, shredders and chippers provide insights into the latest designs and innovations.

Nora Goldstein

COMPOST ON EPA MENU FOR MANAGING STORM WATER

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Compost blankets, berms and filter socks are now included on the U.S. EPA's national menu of best management practices for storm water management. Part I

CONNECTING COMPOST USE TO GREEN BUILDING “ECOSYSTEMS”

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Britt Faucette

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE WITH HELP FROM BIODIESEL

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Governor's plan would create new markets for crops grown in Washington state, while launching renewable energy enterprises.

INTEGRATED APPROACH TO DIGESTERS IN WASHINGTON STATE

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University team works with local farmers, designers and others to develop systems, improve process results to validate digester use.

NEW INCENTIVES FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

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Funds from private venture capital funds and innovative energy grants push some projects into the implementation phase.

USING COMPOST TO TREAT WASTEWATER EFFLUENT

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Penn State University moves ahead on spray irrigation project to demonstrate how constructed wetlands using compost in the soil media filters out nitrates.

Drew Mather

EMISSIONS AND AIR QUALITY COMPLIANCE - IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT ODORS

BioCycle January 2006, Vol. 47, No. 1, p. 37

Detailed report on quantifying air pollution emissions for new cocomposting facility in Virginia reviews state and federal criteria for calculating emissions and operating the site.

Craig Coker

WORM BREEDER ADVANCES TO LARGE-SCALE COMPOSTING

BioCycle January 2006, Vol. 47, No. 1, p. 36

Anecdotal report from Winnipeg, Canada composter offers personal experiences on worms and composting.

Terrill Rankin

SUSTAINABLE WATER SUPPLIES WITH WASTEWATER RECYCLING

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Treated water is in high demand in places that range from breweries in Boonville to mountain villages in New Mexico and reuse programs in King County, Washington.

Jerome Goldstein

PORTLAND BUSINESSES CONTINUE PUSH FOR FOOD RESIDUALS COMPOSTING

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Program works with haulers and commercial composter to reach over 50 companies that include supermarkets, restaurants and institutional kitchens - plus firms at the Portland airport.

Betty Patton

REGIONAL ROUNDUP

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Greater Toronto Area, Canada
GREEN BINS SERVICE ORGANICS RECYCLING NEEDS OF RESIDENTS
Green carts will roll across the Durham region of Greater Toronto when Miller Waste Systems completes its Ebara in-vessel composting facility by summer 2006 in Pickering, Ontario. When the

BIOCYCLE WORLD

BioCycle January 2006, Vol. 47, No. 1, p. 6

GM FORMS CONSORTIUM TO PROMOTE ETHANOL AS ALTERNATIVE, RENEWABLE FUEL
Earlier this month, General Motors (GM) announced it will lead a project with the state of California,

EDITORIAL

BioCycle January 2006, Vol. 47, No. 1, p. 4

LINKING SOLID WASTE WITH QUALITY OF LIFE

MORE THAN EVER, the 22nd Annual BioCycle West Coast Conference in Portland, Oregon March 20-22, 2006 makes the connections between waste management and quality of life issues abundantly