Food Composting Infrastructure

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 34

BioCycle survey series provides region by region listing of food waste composting projects in the U.S.

Cristina Olivares and Nora Goldstein

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Logistics Of Composting Urban Yard Trimmings

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 39

Grover Landscape Services processes up to 800 tons/day of yard trimmings and source separated food waste, producing high quality compost for landscape and agricultural markets.

L. F. Diaz and L. L. Eggerth

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Fuel Alternatives For Heavy Equipment

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 50

In response to rising fuel costs and environmental considerations, biodiesel blends, electric models and alternative energy sources are increasingly being used to power heavy equipment.

Rhodes Yepsen

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Climate Change Connections: Stop To Smell The Pizza Flower

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 21

Sally Brown

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California Gets Aggressive On Organics And Climate Change

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 22

Getting organics out of landfills is critical. Connecting that mission with greenhouse gas emissions will make that happen.

Margo Reid Brown

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Airport Food Court Composting

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 36

Portland International Airport (PDX) in Portland, Oregon expands its food waste collection to travelers.

Meredith Sorensen

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Process Control

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 41

Equipment and software to monitor key process parameters are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but fundamental understanding of the biology of composting and anaerobic digestion is critical for project success.

Nora Goldstein

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Poultry Litter Composting Aids Flock Management

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 45

Study examines litter composting and reconditioning as a means of managing persistent disease problems in the commercial poultry industry.

Gary A. Flory, Robert W. Peer, Becky Barlow and Doug Hughes

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Biomass Energy Outlook: Manure And The Organics Drift

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 49

Mark Jenner

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Prepping MSW Substrates For Anaerobic Digestion

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 54

New facility in Italy and field trials in the U.S. illustrate innovations in preprocessing municipal solid waste prior to the digestion phase.

Nora Goldstein

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Vermicomposting Improves Farm Economics (Philippines)

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 58

Utilizing vermicomposting improves soil fertility, reduces costs and mitigates pollution in the Philippines.

Rafael D. Guerrero III

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From Sludge To Compost In Eastern Europe

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 61

Trends and practices in biosolids composting in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Karsten Runge

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Regional Roundup

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 16

Albany, New York
FOOD SCRAP MANAGEMENT FORUMS
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is holding a series of Regional Food Scraps Reduction and Management Forums throughout the state. The goals of the forums are to develop local partnerships, identify opportunities for food scraps reduction and donation, and identify

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BioCycle World

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 6

BIOCYCLE RENEWABLE ENERGY CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
BioCycle's 8th Annual Conference on Renewable Energy From Organics Recycling will be held October 6-8, 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin. The conference agenda reflects advancements in the knowledge base on how to convert agricultural, municipal and industrial organics into energy and biofuels. Perhaps this is reflected most in the state-of-the-knowledge and sophistication of projects and

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EDITORIAL

BioCycle August 2008, Vol. 49, No. 8, p. 4

THE NAME GAME, AGAIN

EARLIER this summer we received an email from Josh Marx, Senior Planner for King County (WA) Solid Waste about BioCycle's use of the term “food waste.” Marx, a long-time BioCycle reader and pioneer in municipal programs to divert organics from landfills to composting, believes it is important to refer to discarded food as anything but “waste.” In his email, he pointed out that in the June issue, BioCycle made an attempt to use a more appropriate term, i.e., food scraps, however in the 56-page issue, we still managed to use “waste” 92 times, and “scraps” only 22 times.

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