composting project Articles
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Carbon offsets from organic waste conversion projects
The Climate Act ion Reserve (the Reserve) has long had a protocol to give credit for the capture and destruction of methane emissions from organic waste in landfills, but they have now opened up the possibility of credits for projects that prevent that waste from entering landfills in the first place. In October 2009, the Reserve adopted the Organic Waste Digestion Project Protocol, covering both ...
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Alumni of an educational institute as change agents for community-based environmental management initiatives: experience from a Solid Waste Management demonstration project in Hanoi, Vietnam
Community-based Solid Waste Management (SWM) initiatives are widely recognised for their role in complementing the efforts of municipalities in managing the environment of cities. Community-based initiatives usually require a change agent to bring together local authorities and communities. This role is usually played by NGOs. The educated and skilled citizens can also play similar roles in ...
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Ningbo Organic Waste Treatment Plant - Case Study
Ningbo kitchen waste plant is the first project in China applying the World Bank loan for the MSW disposal. JONO has been qualified as EPC general contractor for kitchen waste pre-processing system, anaerobic fermentation system and aerobic composting system of this project. The impurities rate of input organic waste in this project is more than 30%, that includes plastic (PP, LDPE), ferrous, ...
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Project - Wood Waste in Compost Production
How Important is Compost Production in the US? “The U.S. EPA has estimated that 250 million tons of MSW are generated, and contain 13.5 percent yard trimmings and 14.5 percent food waste (EPA, 2012). Therefore, the yard trimmings amount to about 34 million tons and the food waste to 36 million tons. Of the total 70 million tons, 27.4 million are composted (39%), based on the findings of the ...
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Tidy Planet hits the BBC with inspiring food waste project in France
You may or may not have seen that we were recently featured in a BBC News video for the work we’re carrying out with Paris-based social enterprise – and one of our French distributors – Les Alchimistes… Earlier in the year, our director James Tyler jetted off to Paris to meet with BBC journalist Dougal Shaw and the Les Alchimistes team, to take part in a video that ...
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Biosoil Project for the Sustainable Management of Brownfields
ABSTRACT INKOA SISTEMAS, a company specialised in supplying integral solutions for sustainable development, leads the BIOSOIL ENV/ES/000263 project, whose main objective is to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of Compost Bioremediation technology for the remediation of polluted soils in order to promote a sustainable urban planning of derelict polluted sites, and facilitate ...
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Liz Earle compost 100% of the Food waste generated in the Green house - Case study
The Green House is Liz Earle Beauty Co. Ltd’s head office, located in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. The building was originally designed and constructed to minimise its environmental impact, with ground source heating, rainwater harvesting and solar energy generation in place. When phase two was completed at the beginning of 2012, it virtually doubled the size of The Green House, adding more ...
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Environmental efficiency of composting versus anaerobic digestion of separately collected, organic waste
Environmental policy in the Netherlands among others aims at closing material cycles and minimising the amount of waste requiring final disposal. In this policy the highest priority is given to the prevention of waste production followed by (in descending order of preference) reuse, incineration with energy recovery and sanitary landfilling. In the implementation of this solid waste policy also ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Food waste prevention roadmap factors in water savings
Food waste is a critical problem affecting business, communities, the environment and water scarcity worldwide, but the problem is particularly acute in the United States, according to a report from ReFED. ReFED is a group of businesses, nonprofits, foundations, and government leaders committed to reducing food waste. It was formed in early 2015 to create a Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste, the ...
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