Climate Change Connections: Another Perfect Storm

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Sally Brown

THE GARBAGE BARGE in the early 1990s was the eye of a perfect storm: A clear visual image that generated plenty of headlines, all pointing to the fact that the waste management industry was a failure. A rallying cry that got composting operations started across the country.

Anaerobic Digestion Of MSW In Europe

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By the end of 2010, expected installed anaerobic digestion capacity to treat mixed municipal solid waste and source separated biowaste will be about 6 million tons/year divided over 200 plants in 17 European countries.

Luc De Baere and Bruno Mattheeuws

2010 Financial Markets Outlook

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Gradually improving market conditions could benefit composting and organics recycling companies’ ability to access capital.

Andrew C. Kessler and Jason A. Seltzer

Cocomposting A Win For Municipalities

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Biosolids/yard trimmings cocomposting facilities expand due to cost-effectiveness of program and demand for finished product.

Nora Goldstein

Fundamentals Of Biogas Conditioning And Upgrading

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The composition of biogas constituents varies by feedstock and site. End use of the biogas typically guides the conditioning and upgrading requirements. Part I

Diane Greer

New Rules Target Commercial Food Waste (Ireland)

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Effective in 2010, Ireland’s new food waste regulations require major producers of food waste to segregate these materials for separate collection.

Percy Foster

Sustainability At Slow Food Cheese Event (Italy)

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Rhodes Yepsen

Slow Food partners with a compostable product company to green its events, diverting organics from the landfill.

Green Growth And Biomass Energy Export

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Biomass Energy Outlook

Mark Jenner

Forward Movement On Organics Diversion

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Compost Canada

Susan Antler

Regional Roundup

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San Jose, California
ORGANICS PROCESSING RFP ISSUED
The City of San Jose has released the first of two Requests for Proposals for the city’s commercial processing and collection contracts. The Organics Processing RFP was released on February 4, 2010 with proposals due on April 2, 2010. The RFP solicits proposals to provide organics processing, materials marketing services and transfer (if necessary) for organic materials generated by commercial customers and delivered to the organics processing facility(ies) by the city’s Commercial Collection Franchisees (to be selected under a

BioCycle World

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Compost Connections To Battling Child Obesity
Childhood obesity in the U.S. has reached a point where one in three children are overweight or obese. On February 9th, First Lady Michelle Obama launched the Let’s Move campaign (www.letsmove.gov), which provides programs and resources to teach and motivate children, parents, teachers and others to eat healthy foods and exercise. More than 31 million school children participate every day in the National

Editorial

BioCycle February 2010, Vol. 51, No. 2, p. 4

The BioCycle Difference

WE ARE not even six weeks into 2010 and the composting, organics recycling and anaerobic digestion world has already seen more action than all of 2009 (okay, maybe a slight exaggeration). As you’ll read on page 6, there is a newly formed American Biogas Council. And then, the Frito-Lay launch of the SunChips 100-percent compostable bag. We saw their presentation at a composting conference, but you know it’s official when there is a full-page coupon in the Sunday newspaper with