U.S. Residential Food Waste Collection And Composting

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 35

More than 90 towns and cities in the U.S. report offering residential food waste collection, showing significant growth.

Rhodes Yepsen

Brewery Digesters As Power Source For Healthcare Network

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 42

In La Crosse, Wisconsin, a brewery and beverage packager is redirecting biogas generated by its anaerobic digesters to a CHP unit, offsetting energy costs for a nearby hospital and its own operation.

Diane Greer

Economic Realities Of Funding Waste Diversion

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 20

The City of Toronto has pushed back its deadline to achieve 70 percent diversion of household and small business wastes by 2010. Construction of a 94,000 tons/year anaerobic digester facility to process SSO is proceeding.

Peter Gorrie

Valuing The U.S. Composting Industry

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 25

Aside from current investment in infrastructure and contracts to process organics, the primary metric available to assess the composting industry’s worth is assigning a dollar value to compost use benefits.

Ron Alexander

Tools To Evaluate Compost Phytotoxicity

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 28

Authors develop model to predict the likelihood of compost phytotoxicity, providing producers and end users a tool to make informed compost and soil management decisions.

Danielle Aslam and Jean VanderGheynst

Wastewater Plant Taps Biogas, Solar And Wind

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 46

http://The Landis Sewerage Authority offsets its electricity use with cogeneration, solar panels and a wind turbine, and grows crops and trees fertilized with its biosolids to remove carbon from the air.

Dennis W. Palmer

Municipal Solid Waste Processing (Australia)

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 48

An overview of MSW composting processes and projects in Australia, including basic funding structures used.

Paul Oakes

Activated Biogas Digester For Improved Organics Recycling (Nigeria)

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 50

Researchers developed a simple three-compartment digester to produce biogas to meet the energy needs of households and smaller communities.

M.K.C. Sridhar, O. Olumuyiwa, A. Oluyemi, O. Okareh, E.O. Oloruntoba and G.R.E.E. Ana

Climate Change Connections: Landfill Gas Math

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 52

Sally Brown

Year End “Gifts” For Organics Recovery

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 53

Compost Canada

Susan Antler

Regional Roundup

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 16

Wilmington, Delaware
DELIVERIES START AT COMPOSTING PLANT
The 27-acre Wilmington Organic Recycling Center, owned and operated by Peninsula Compost Company, LLC, opened for business in

BioCycle World

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 6

Tribal And Rural Communities Track At West Coast BioCycle Conference
Working in partnership with the Region 9 office of U.S. EPA, BioCycle’s 25th Annual West Coast Conference — April 12-15, 2010 — in

Editorial

BioCycle December 2009, Vol. 50, No. 12, p. 4

Empowering Sustainable Communities
WHAT a great year 2009 has been for getting inspired! It started early in the year, while developing the agenda for the BioCycle International Conference and making plans for our 50th Anniversary

>> Web Extra, December 2009 BioCycle

From "Tools To Evaluate Compost Phytoxicity," p. 28

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