Increasing Efficiency At Yard Trimmings Composting Sites

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 40

Capital investments such as a stacking conveyor and a larger windrow turner can improve materials handling at larger facilities.

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Generating Biomass Fuel From Disaster Debris

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 51

Debris from natural disasters is plentiful and currently underutilized, but organizations and business are working on the logistics for increasing beneficial use.

Rhodes Yepsen

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CLIMATE CHANGE CONNECTIONS

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 20

Local Action Is Our Warp Drive

Sally Brown

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Connecting Food Scraps To Sustainable Agriculture

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 22

Infrastructure grants from the state, along with technical assistance from various organizations, are helping to build local composting capacity.

Rhodes Yepsen

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Biological Control Of Diseases Of Containerized Plants

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 32

Several root diseases can be controlled effectively - or at least suppressed - by use of blended materials in potting mixes, inoculation of the mix and optimization of environmental factors.

Harry Hoitink and Dennis Lewandowski

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Nuts & Bolts: Mixers

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 37

Some composting facilities purchase mixers that offer size reduction and blending - especially when receiving loads of food scraps and corrugated - while others select a unit for mixing only.

Nora Goldstein

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Measuring Material Volumes At Composting Sites

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 42

Volumes reported to Ohio EPA by composting facilities are generally within 20 percent of actual amounts when accurate records are maintained on loader buckets of material received and sold. Part II

H. M. Keener, M.H. Wicks and James A. Skora

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Biomass Energy Outlook: Speculator-Driven Energy Prices

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 46

Mark Jenner

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Using Treatment Plant Digesters To Process Fats, Oils And Grease

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 47

Fats, oils and grease (FOG) in sewer pipes are a major cause of sanitary sewer overflows. The good news is that feeding FOG to wastewater treatment plant digesters significantly boosts biogas production.

Greg Kester, Perry Schafer and Bob Gillette

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REGIONAL ROUNDUP

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 16

Ottawa, Ontario
DIGESTER DEVELOPMENTS
The AgriEnergy Producers' Association of Ontario (APAO) was formed in the spring of 2007 as an Associate Member Organization under the auspices of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association. APAO's main objectives are to facilitate the exchange of information and sharing of tools among

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BIOCYCLE WORLD

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 6

GRASSROOTS COMPOST COLLECTION IN MONTREAL
Frustrated by the City of Montreal, Quebec dragging its feet in offering curbside organics collection, resident Stephen McLeod started Compost Montreal, a two-man food scraps pick-up operation with almost 100 customers paying $5/week for the service. Households receive a used food container with a

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EDITORIAL

BioCycle July 2008, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 4

POWER OF THE ORGANIC FORCE

JUST recently, I came across a book that I edited, The New Food Chain, published 35 years ago while I was both editor of this journal (then Compost Science), as well as Organic Gardening and Farming magazine. The New Food Chain: An Organic Link Between Farm and City included essays by Wendell Berry, Jane Jacobs, Robert Rodale, Peter Barnes, Gene Logsdon and others. The first chapter was

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