National Brewery Benefits From Biogas

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 36

Anheuser-Busch has installed anaerobic digestion systems at 10 of its 12 large breweries in the U.S., with an 11th system in design. Primary drivers are cost-avoidance for wastewater treatment fees and fossil fuel purchases.

Katherine Gekas

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Composting Integrated Into Family Business

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 21

Composting operation started by a Texas meatpacking company, initially to process its own waste, has expanded into biosolids, yard trimmings and food processing residuals.

Craig Coker

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Vacant Lots Sprout Urban Farms

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 24

Hunger, obesity, lack of access to fresh produce, unemployment and vacant lots — many contaminated and void of organic matter — are driving an exciting urban agriculture movement.

Nora Goldstein

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Urban Soil Contaminants And Remediation

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 27

Resurgence of interest in urban farms and gardens raises questions about soil contamination, especially lead. This primer provides a basic understanding of the problem, and the solutions available via compost utilization.

Sally Brown

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Raising The Recycling Rate At World-Class Zoo

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 31

A waste audit at the San Diego Zoo identified key areas for increasing materials recovery and waste diversion.

Ellyn Hae and Deirdre Ballou

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By-Products To Biomass Energy In Minnesota

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 34

Rahr Malting joins forces with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community to form Koda Energy, owner and operator of a 24.1 MW biomass power plant.

Dan Emerson

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High Diversion In The Alps (Italy)

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 39

Award winning sustainability initiatives in Val di Fiemme help keep the popular valley pristine, while providing a worldwide role model for mountainous communities.

Rhodes Yepsen

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Compost Integral To Food Supply (Cuba)

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 42

Highly productive farms rely on composting for necessary nutrients.

Jenny Bloom

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Focusing On Waste As Resources

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 43

Climate Change Connections

Sally Brown

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Expanding Organics Collection

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 44

Compost Canada

Susan Antler

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Why Modular Units Balance Local Carbon

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 45

Biomass Energy Outlook

Mark Jenner

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Regional Roundup

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 12

Washington, D.C.
NATIONAL PRESS CLUB DIVERTS FOOD WASTE
The National Press Club (NPC) in Washington, D.C. started diverting its pre and postconsumer food waste to composting in September. Working with EnviRelation, an organics hauler, NPC has achieved a 75 percent volume reduction in waste, filling one instead of four 16-cubic foot containers per day with trash. This is expected to equal two tons of food waste composted each month.

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BioCycle World

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 6

Organic Waste Digestion Protocol Adopted
The Climate Action Reserve (CAR) Board of Directors unanimously adopted the Organic Waste Digestion (OWD) Project Protocol, which provides a standardized approach for quantifying, monitoring and verifying greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions from organic waste diversion projects. Development of the OWD protocol was described in a detailed article in last month’s BioCycle, “GHG

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Editorial

BioCycle October 2009, Vol. 50, No. 10, p. 4

Slam Dunks For Compost

ISSUE deadlines dictate life in our office. This time around, I just couldn’t stop myself from learning more about the subject matter of the article I was writing. As a result, the entire issue was prepared, and there were three pages left for one of the most exciting articles I have worked on — converting brownfields and vacant lots into highly

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