Compost Sales Tips To Meet Current Market Conditions

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 21

Understanding the basics of compost marketing will get you in the game. What will keep you in the game is understanding market conditions and learning how and when to modify your program.

Ron Alexander

How To Sell Your Compost

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 122

THE 2nd Edition of The Practical Guide To Compost Marketing And Sales by Ron Alexander of R. Alexander Associates, Inc. was published by BioCycle in April 2010. Chapters include: The Product—Compost; Compost Marketing; Market Planning; Compost Marketing Business Structure;

Anaerobic Digestion For Smaller Dairies

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 24

Scale matters when evaluating the economic feasibility of anaerobic digestion systems. An ongoing project on a small Minnesota farm is testing the parameters.

Diane Greer

Urban Facility Delivers Food Waste Composting Capacity

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 16

The 550 tons/day Wilmington Organics Recycling Center brings much needed processing capacity to a region primed to source separate and divert food waste.

Dan Sullivan and Nora Goldstein

Oil Extraction Expands Feedstock Processing Options

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 28

Technology developed for tanneries is being utilized to extract oil from organic waste streams to improve compost process efficiencies and create biofuels revenue streams.

Diane Greer

Composting Olive Mill Pomace: The Andalusian Experience (Spain)

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 31

Subsidies, need for alternatives to manage the processing by-product and benefits from compost utilization have led to a significant increase in composting operations in the Andalusian region.

J.M. Álvarez de la Puente , J. Jáuregui Arana and R. Garcia-Ruiz

Digester Biogas And Energy Security (Cuba)

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 33

With its oil supply strained, Cuba implemented an “Energy Revolution” in 2006. Among the self-sufficiency strategies is increased generation of biogas, especially in rural areas.

Hilary Flynn

Biosolids Media Campaign

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 35

Climate Change Connections

Sally Brown

CO2 Emissions Down Remarkably In 2009

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 37

Biomass Energy Outlook

Industry News

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 39

Exporting Gas Conditioning Technology
FirmGreen, Inc. and Guild Associates, Inc. announced a partnership that will create 135 green jobs at Guild’s manufacturing plant in Dublin, Ohio, while exporting green energy technology to Brazil in the form of landfill gas cleaning equipment. Under the

Letters

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 13

“Instrumental Information” For Florida Governor
I am pleased to write and thank the composting industry, green initiatives and the collaboration of people who helped our firm, Capitol Solutions, execute a winning strategy that resulted in Governor Crist’s veto of HB 569, legislation that would have allowed

Regional Roundup

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 10

Springfield, Missouri
PROPONENTS OF LANDFILLING YARD TRIMMINGS MAKE LAST-MINUTE MOVE
The clock ran out May 14 on an amendment to change the definition of a landfill in Missouri state statutes and effectively

BioCycle World

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 6

Congressional Report On Anaerobic Digestion
“Anaerobic digestion may help to address two congressional concerns that have some measure of interdependence: development of clean energy sources and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.” That is the opening sentence of a new report — Anaerobic Digestion:

Editorial

BioCycle June 2010, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 4

Priorities And Permanence

FROM an environmental and sustainability perspective, so many emotions are evoked by the ongoing oil gush in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing is as heart-wrenching as seeing a pelican that looks like it has been