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Climate Change Connections: Devil In The Details

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 19

Sally Brown

When I first moved to Seattle from the East Coast, I scoured the yellow pages in search of a butcher. I am not a vegetarian and I enjoy eating meat. Growing up I was in charge of the grocery shopping and I have very fond memories of going to Vinnie the Butcher in Queens. Vinnie would hand cut the steaks and the pork chops. He let me go into his walk-in refrigerator to see all of the meat hanging. He had one of those thick wooden tables for cutting the meat. After cutting, he would wrap it up in the brown butcher paper and then I’d head to Al’s for vegetables.

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Food Scraps Recovery In Ohio

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 20

An initiative last fall invited grocers, haulers and composters to
a stakeholders’ meeting to identify barriers to implementing regional programs.

Joe Goicochea

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Setting Up A Composting System At School

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 22

Oregon Middle School provides a working model to recover food residuals, showing what can be accomplished and how.

Shara Anslow

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Cafeteria Composting In Southern Maine

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 25

An idealistic fourth-grade student inspires a composting project in
her elementary school.

David Ramsay

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Composter, Wood Recycler Builds Soils Business

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 27

A Syracuse, New York company produces
and blends soils on spec, servicing the state Departments of Transportation and Environmental Conservation, local agencies and area landscapers and contractors.

Larry Trojak

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>> Web Extra, April 2008 BioCycle

References and a directory of storm water treatment systems complement "Operator Insights: Storm Water Treatment" by Craig Coker, page 29.

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Operator Insights: Storm Water Treatment

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 29

Segregating storm water flows at composting facilities to minimize generation of highly contaminated runoff goes a long way to reducing treatment costs. Part II

Craig Coker

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Biggest Bang From The Biogas Production Buck

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 37

Review of considerations and costs for selling biogas from on-farm anaerobic digestion systems through the electrical grid or the natural gas pipeline.

Norma McDonald and Diane Greer

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Redefining Ag Wastes As Coproducts

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 42

Once considered products of the waste stream, a nonprofit in Minnesota shows that agricultural residues and coproducts are powering the future.

Dan Lemke

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Farm Digesters For Small Dairies In Vermont

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 44

Vermont dairy farmers work with a utility to diversify their incomes, using AD systems to generate biogas for electricity. '

Molly Farrell Tucker

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Western Australia Reaches For Zero Waste

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 49

The five regional councils in the Perth metropolitan area are systematically rolling out a waste processing infrastructure, realizing the benefits of compost for soils and climate change.
Paul Oakes

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Food Waste Management Options In The UK

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 51

Study provides guidance on the most cost-effective and environmentally sustainable ways of diverting household food waste

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Regional Roundup

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 14

Detroit, Michigan
AMERICA’S LARGEST GARBAGE INCINERATOR UP FOR RENEWAL
Within the next three months, Detroit must decide what to do about a local garbage incinerator, America’s largest, which processes more than 700,000 tons/year of waste. “By some estimates, Detroit’s decision to turn its garbage into smoke and ash will have cost $1.2 billion by the time the incinerator is finally paid off next year,” says Curt Guyette, a Metro Times news editor.

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BioCycle World

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 6

NEW WAYS TO FIND SAFER CLEANERS AND COMPOST KITCHEN WASTE
At restaurants like the Savoy in Manhattan and less expensive chains, the search is on for safer cleaners and new ways to compost kitchen waste. “People are finally ready,” says Michael Oshman who founded the nonprofit Green Restaurant Association in 1990.

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Editorial: Good Green Jobs

BioCycle April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 4

THE Pennsylvania primary is a couple weeks away, and the airwaves and mailboxes have been filled with ads and literature from the three candidates vying for their party’s presidential nomination. The Clinton and Obama campaigns, in particular, continually highlight the role of “green jobs” in the country’s economic revival and environmental vitality.

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