TOO GOOD TO THROW AWAY

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From coast to coast, building materials reuse stores provide markets that channel deconstructed lumber and other materials into homes and factories. It's resource preservation involving the local community.

Josh Wachtel

ENERGY-SAVING TECHNIQUES USED BY COMPANIES

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From Kyoto and Tokyo to Ontario, California, firms show commitment to curbing emissions and setting renewable energy targets.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER IN COMPOST PROCESS CONTROL

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Operator Forum examines new generation of process control equipment - from wireless data transmitters to software programs that optimize composting parameters.

Nora Goldstein

CONTROLLING ODORS, MAKING COMPOST AT NORTH LONDON CENTER

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Built in only five months, new facility with neighbors close by receives up to 140 metric tons/day
of green waste and kitchen residuals.

Harry Waters

SETTING THE STANDARDS FOR COMPOST (UNITED KINGDOM)

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As composting becomes more widely used, an updated standard sets the basis for feedstocks, stability tests, monitoring procedures and overall certification methods.

Sharon Russell and Lee Best

TRADING CARBON CREDITS FROM METHANE DIGESTER

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Credits are certified and sold on the Chicago Climate Exchange - the first established market for greenhouse gas pollution credits.

Amanda Bilek

ODOR CONTROL METHODS AT MANURE LAGOONS

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Dairy lagoons can be a storage facility and manure treatment option when properly sized and not used as a dumping ground for disinfectants and antimicrobial products.

Chuzhao Lin

SCREENING STRATEGIES TO OPTIMIZE COMPOST QUALITY

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Compost and mulch producers mix and match screening equipment to meet multiple markets
and finished compost variability.

WHAT GOES ON IN THE MARKET FOR COMPOST?

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Commercial composters need to understand how state agriculture departments can affect how they
do business - from tonnage fees to minimum (or maximum) product standards.

Ron Alexander

PLASTICS FROM PLANTS, NOT PETROLEUM

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This concluding report examines such issues as recyclability, life cycle analyses, retailer acceptance and industry outlook. Part II

Diane Greer

WAREHOUSE CHIC IS THE MANTRA

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Retail warehouse marries form and function with salvaged building materials and home furnishings.

Jesse White

HABITAT CHARLOTTE RESTORE EXPANDS WITH SELF-HELP FUNDS

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North Carolina community development banking group creates partnership loan fund to expand recycling related businesses in the region.

Matt Ewadinger

REGIONAL ROUNDUP

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Montpelier, Vermont
REGIONAL WASTE MANAGERS USE THREE-PART
PROGRAM TO REMOVE ORGANICS FROM WASTE STREAM
Writes Cathy Donohue of the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District: “Forty percent of the 'waste' Vermonters produce every day is organic material, and half of that is food scraps. With figures like that, we realized that getting organics out of the waste stream was a critical first step to working

BIOCYCLE WORLD

BioCycle June 2006, Vol. 47, No. 6, p. 6

EPA'S GREENSCAPES PROGRAM OFFERS HOMEOWNERS
BROCHURE ON COMPOST USE, HEALTHY SOILS
“GreenScaping: The Easy Way To A Greener, Healthier Yard,” is the title of a new brochure from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's GreenScapes Program. Step One in the “Five Easy Steps” to

EDITORIAL

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THE TOWN OF 533 THAT COULD
REYNOLDS, INDIANA in White County is starting a one-town rebellion to have homegrown local energy production with independence from foreign oil; solutions to its waste management issues; and