SOURCE SEPARATED RESIDENTIAL COMPOSTING IN THE U.S.

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 27

Several counties report more communities joining their existing household organics composting programs, but nationwide, few new initiatives were started in 2007. Part II

Rhodes Yepsen and Nora Goldstein

ENCOURAGING SUSTAINABLE RECYCLING BEHAVIOR THROUGH FINANCIAL INCENTIVES

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 34

RecycleBank's rewards-based participation program began this year in Wilmington, Delaware, the company's first large-scale client. Wilmington's landfill diversion rate rose to 35 percent, with 90 percent biweekly participation.

Rhodes Yepsen

FINANCING AN ANAEROBIC DIGESTER

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 44

Michigan hog grower, via grants which enabled a loan, puts together a project to design and implement an anaerobic digester to process the farm's manure.

Diane Greer

CARBON CREDITS - 1040 EZ VERSION 1

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 19

CLIMATE CHANGE CONNECTIONS

Sally Brown

QUICK SERVICE FOOD CHAIN PUSHES THE SUSTAINABILITY ENVELOPE

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 20

Burgerville restaurants add composting to their list of green initiatives, with the goal of reaching 85 percent waste diversion.

Nora Goldstein

SUPPRESSING PLANT PARASITIC NEMATODES AND ARTHROPOD PESTS WITH VERMICOMPOST TEAS

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 38

Greenhouse trials confirm that the sooner a tea is used after it is brewed, the more effective it is in influencing plant growth and suppressing diseases.
Part II

Clive A. Edwards, Norman Q. Arancon, Eric Emerson and Ryan Pulliam

WHAT IS THE VALUE OF CARBON?

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 40

Biomass Energy Outlook

Mark Jenner

ANAEROBIC TREATMENT OF HIGH-STRENGTH WASTEWATER

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 41

A yogurt and cottage cheese plant in northern New York and a bourbon whiskey distillery in Kentucky install anaerobic wastewater treatment systems that reduce COD to regulatory discharge limits and significantly offset fuel costs.

Robert Spencer

RESIDENTIAL ORGANICS COMPOSTING KICKS OFF IN DERBYSHIRE (UNITED KINGDOM)

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 50

A 30,000 metric tons/year in-vessel tunnel composting plant is receiving source separated household organics. The facility received its Animal By-Products Regulation authorization in October.

COMPOSTING PLANTS TAP BIOMASS MARKETS (GERMANY)

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 53

Renewable energy policies, along with strong demand for biomass fuels, are leading some green waste composting facilities to alter operations to service both biomass and compost markets.

Joachim Hirtenfellner

REGIONAL ROUNDUP

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 16

Albuquerque, New Mexico
NATURAL FOODS GROCER RECYCLES FOOD
RESIDUALS WITH LOCAL COMPOSTER
On July 10, 2007, Whole Foods Market in Albuquerque, New Mexico began recycling its food waste and soiled cardboard with Soilutions, Inc. Soilutions, a green waste recycler and compost manufacturer in the south valley of Albuquerque, has been composting for over 10 years. It accepts material from

BIOCYCLE WORLD

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 6

COMPOSTING PROJECT AT ENGLAND'S “HAM WALL”
GENERATES MORE THAN 300 CUBIC METERS OF ORGANICS
As reported in the Winter 2007 issue of Britain's Composting News, Ham Wall is one of 200 nature reserves managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), with a total of over 300,000

EDITORIAL

BioCycle December 2007, Vol. 48, No. 12, p. 4

“SPINNING” OUT OF CONTROL

THE PAST few weeks have been testament to the fact that the news is “how we spin it.” A case in point is the national energy bill that Congress has been busy debating while interest groups on all sides of