ORGANICS RECYCLING PROGRAM SHOWS CONTINUED GROWTH

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Cart-based food waste collection program brings savings, environmental benefits to program participants.

Andrea Allston

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OUTLOOK FOR MSW STREAMS

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With successful operating experience in the 20,000 tons/year capacity range, more cities and project developers are moving forward with large-scale AD projects.

Maria Kelleher

BIOENERGY AND SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION

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David Huggins, Hans Kok and Chad Kruger

PARTNERSHIPS MOVE COMMERCIAL ORGANICS COLLECTION FORWARD

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Cooperation in Cambridge goes long way to reducing hauler service fees, identifying high-volume generators and developing collection efficiencies.

Molly Farrell Tucker

PLANET POLICE ROUTES OUT THE HEAVY ORGANICS

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Recycling firm takes critical steps to separate compostables by weight and get generators to save money via more careful collection.

COMMUNITY-BASED SOCIAL MARKETING

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Why current recycling program designs may be based on faulty assumptions about human behavior, leading to mediocre participation instead of those that foster major change.

Jennifer J. Tabanico and P. Wesley Schultz

WHAT'S NEW? Baggers And Blenders

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Product blending and packaging equipment can be an essential part of multiple product offerings at a composting facility.

Craig Coker

NEW BIOENERGY - PROFIT MEETS WASTE REMEDIATION

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Mark Jenner

TURNING LIMBS AND CHIPS INTO ENERGY BIOMASS, HUMUS

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Biomass is converted to bundles as part of strategy to economically recover logging residues.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPOSTING INDUSTRY IN CHINA

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While composting processes and equipment are relatively undeveloped now, their improved technologies would have a major role in the future of Chinese waste management.

Ji Li and Zhi Xu

A PERSPECTIVE ON POULTRY MANURE FOR ITALIAN FARMERS (ITALY)

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A 2006 Directive limiting the quantity of manure that can be landspread leads to new examination of anaerobic digestion, composting and thermal-chemical conversion.

R. Chiumenti, A. Chiumenti and L.F. Diaz

REGIONAL ROUNDUP

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Ontario, Canada
$9 MILLION INVESTMENT HELPS FARMERS
TURN WASTE INTO CLEAN ENERGY
The Ontario Biogas Systems Financial Assistance Program is a $9 million investment that will help farmers and rural businesses develop systems that produce clean energy from farm wastes. “Developing renewable energy in the agri-food and rural sectors is an important part of the

BIOCYCLE WORLD

BioCycle August 2007, Vol. 48, No. 8, p. 6

7TH ANNUAL RENEWABLE ENERGY FROM
ORGANICS RECYCLING CONFERENCE
BioCycle is holding its 7th Annual Conference on Renewable Energy From Organics Recycling, October 1-3, 2007 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The complete conference program is on pages 15-18 of this issue, and on-line at www.biocycle.net (click Conferences link). The conference highlights renewable

EDITORIAL

BioCycle August 2007, Vol. 48, No. 8, p. 4

FOOD “WASTE” BY ANY OTHER NAME IS ...

IT'S time for a frank discussion with you, our BioCycle readers. The subject is the “w” word. Okay, we'll say it - Waste. Most of us in the recycling and composting industry have struggled with this word for years. The struggle has to do with the fact that what we really are talking about are “resources” in the