Industrial Composters Shed Light On Compostable Products

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New report provides a snapshot of what composting facilities are currently accepting, processing conditions and experiences with compostable packaging.

Rhodes Yepsen

Compostables Trial At Municipal Yard Trimmings Operation

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City conducts study to determine whether products labeled as compostable and/or biodegradable would successfully break down in its open windrow composting process.

Paige Hailey

Understanding Variables In Compostable Product Testing

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Which compostable food service items are right for your facility?

Steve Mojo

Greater Toronto At Full Steam With Residential Organics Programs

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With wide acceptance of Green Bin organics collection, Toronto and the surrounding four regions are tackling the challenge of increasing processing capacity.

Peter Gorrie

Yard Trimmings, Food Waste Composting In Vancouver Region

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Metro Vancouver’s contract with a local composting facility enables municipalities to take advantage of a discounted tipping fee for up to 50,000 metric tons of source separated organics.

Molly Farrell Tucker

High Solids Anaerobic Digestion Of Source Separated Organics

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Several commercial-scale AD projects utilizing “batch-mode” dry digestion for residential and commercial SSO streams have been announced in North America, prompting this technology overview series. Part I

Robert Spencer

Making Progress

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Climate Change Connections

Sally Brown

Making The Most Of Too Much Carbon

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Biomass Energy Outlook

Mark Jenner

Industry News

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Compostable Mesh Lawn Bags
A new lightweight, compostable mesh lawn bag called “dsolv” offers an alternative to paper and compostable plastic. The tear-resistant bags are made with PLA bioresin, are BPI/ASTM D6400 certified and break down under ideal composting conditions in about

Regional Roundup

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Corvalis, Oregon
REPUBLIC SERVICES TO COMPOST FOOD WASTE
Republic Services has completed an upgrade of its facility in Corvallis, Oregon, allowing for the composting of food waste. The Pacific Region Compost (PRC) facility received the first permit of

BioCycle World

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10th Annual Biocycle Renewable Energy Conference News
The finishing touches are being put on the agenda for BioCycle’s 10th Annual Conference on Renewable Energy From Organics Recycling, October 18-20, 2010 in Des Moines, Iowa (see pages 15-17 of this issue). The conference program “captures the energy” surrounding

Editorial

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Summer Buzz

AMIDST the sounds of summer — which this year includes the constant hum of the air conditioner — is the buzz of composting, organics recycling and renewable energy activity. Overall, this buzz has a good

Persistent Pesticide As Organics Recycling Foe

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Crop damage in Washington State, likely associated with manure and compost tainted with aminopyralid, is reminiscent of the presence of clopyralid in compost in the early 2000s.

Dan Sullivan