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Tidy Planet signs exclusive Italian partner to help reduce country’s food waste
Macclesfield-headquartered Tidy Planet has expanded its operations into Italy, appointing environmental solutions firm Ecologia Soluzione Ambiente (ESA), as the exclusive Italian partner of its food waste composting technology. The move aims to promote greater resource efficiency - through using food waste recycling solutions - across the Italian and Egyptian markets. ESA – the 17 ...
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Prague Zoo composts food waste and compostable packaging
Prague Zoological Garden opened in 1931 with the goal to “advance the study of zoology, protect wildlife, and educate the public”. The zoo occupies 58 hectares (140 acres) with 50 hectares (120 acres) in use for exhibits, and housed around 5,000 animals from just 676 species, including 132 species listed as threatened. The Prague Zoo has 2 restaurants, 7 cafes and many refreshment ...
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EPA Recognizes The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University City District for Helping to Reduce Methane-producing Food Waste in Landfills
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and University City District (UCD) for significant contributions to food recovery which helps mitigate climate change. CHOP and the University City District are both members of EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge which encourages participants to compost or donate their excess food which ...
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Reducing Food Waste and Saving Money at Thanksgiving
Before going to the supermarket to buy the turkey, assorted vegetables, fruit and cheese for Thanksgiving, many people will have to clear out refrigerator space to hold everything. That means throwing away a lot of uneaten food such as moldy tomatoes, withered lettuce, expired yogurt containers, and bowls of now unrecognizable leftovers. This once good, nourishing food cost money to buy. And, by ...
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Philabundance celebrates earth week by becoming EPA sustainability partner
In a special Earth Day signing ceremony held today, Philabundance joined the growing ranks of organizations from across the mid-Atlantic region to enroll in U.S. EPA’s Sustainability Partnership program. As a Sustainability Partner, Philabundance will work with EPA to green the charity’s operations in an effort to reduce operating costs. The signing took place at the Philabundance ...
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EPA welcomes ten Philadelphia area Shoprite stores and Philabundance into the food recovery challenge
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officially welcomed new members from the Philadelphia area into its Food Recovery Challenge. EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge encourages organizations to reduce, donate, and recycle as much of their excess food as possible, which saves money, feeds the needy, and helps protect the environment. The new members include: Ten Philadelphia area ...
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EPA Recognizes 26 Mid-Atlantic Colleges for Food Donation and Waste Diversion Efforts
Twenty-six colleges and universities in the Mid-Atlantic Region have joined EPA's Food Recovery Challenge (FRC) to date, including five schools that joined the challenge in the last month: Chatham University, University of Virginia, Towson University, Dickenson College and the University of Pittsburgh. The Food Recovery Challenge encourages colleges, universities, and other organizations to ...
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New Earth solutions continues expansion plan
Waste treatment and resource recovery firm New Earth Solutions has obtained planning permission from Bristol City Council its advanced composting facility. The new facility will be based in Avonmouth, Bristol and has the capacity to take 50,000 tonnes of food waste and green waste per year from households in the Avon area. Bristol City Council has given NES a 20-year composting contract to meet ...
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Pennsylvania invests $20m in community recycling
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell says the state will spend $20 million to support new and expanded recycling programs benefiting 10 million people in 134 communities across the state. Counties, cities and townships will purchase recycling containers, establish a drop-off recycling programs, yard waste collection and composting, and augment recyclable materials processing. 'Recycling is a ...
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Waste Management Announces Expansion of Organics Recycling Services
Acquisition of Garick enables Waste Management to expand organic recycling services and commercial and consumer organic products across North America HOUSTON, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) today announced it has acquired a majority equity interest in Garick LLC, a leading manufacturer, marketer and distributor of organic lawn and garden products that will ...
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Age is no barrier to being green
A green taskforce, made up of 10 old people from around the UK, has developed a set of recommendations to help reduce waste and promote reuse. The Greener and Wiser taskforce has been supported by charities Age Concern and Help the Aged, think tank Green Alliance and Natural England. It has been set up to increase the profile of older people’s views, aged between 52 and 90, in environmental ...
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EPA Pushes Procurement of Materials from Recovered Waste
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is revising the list of items designated in the Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines’ landscaping products category to promote the use of materials recovered from solid waste. EPA is expanding the description of “compost” from yard trimmings and food waste to include compost from biosolids and manure, but does not limit the designation to specific types of ...
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EPA welcomes bates college, UNH and Keene state college into the food recovery challenge
Several New Hampshire organizations and one in Maine who are trying to take some of the food waste out of our region’s landfills were recognized at the Northeast Resource Recovery Association’s two-day conference on recycling last week in Manchester, New Hampshire. During the 31st Annual Northeast Recycling Conference, EPA focused on these New Hampshire restaurants, schools and ...
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23 New England Colleges join effort to reduce food waste
Twenty-three colleges and universities in New England have joined an EPA effort to cut the amount of food that goes to waste. This doubles the participation of EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge in 2013, since eleven New England colleges and universities were already participating in the challenge. In 2011, these schools recovered a total of 4,538 tons of food. The partnership, which was ...
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EPA recognizes the borough of state college for curbside food recycling
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency marked the beginning of Earth Week by recognizing State College Borough for its curbside food recycling program. State College is the only town in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that is conducting curbside food waste collection for composting. The program began as a pilot and is slated to go borough-wide in 2013. During the ceremony today at ...
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Cedar Grove Composting Unveils Food Waste Digester Plans
Cedar Grove innovates technology to turn food waste into energy. SEATTLE - Cedar Grove Composting announced today that it is working with BioFerm Energy Systems, a German-based clean energy generation company owned by The Viessmann Group, to integrate anaerobic digestion into its composting process. The proposed technology employs a high-solids anaerobic digester that produces a usable biogas by ...
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NYC aims to require composting of food scraps
Legions of apartment dwellers will soon be asked - and may eventually be ordered - to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest bid to make the Big Apple greener. After launching a test program recently in 3,500 Staten Island homes and some Manhattan apartment buildings, city officials said Monday they planned to expand it to 100,000 houses and high-rise ...
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Waste Management of the Pacific Northwest to Acquire Glacier Recycle as Part of Company`s Increasing Focus on Waste Reduction, Recovery and Processing
AUBURN, Wash., Nov, 2010 -- Waste Management of the Pacific Northwest today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Glacier Recycle, which provides comprehensive recycling services for the construction industry. Waste Management officials said the acquisition will expand the company's "green services" related to waste reduction, waste recovery and the processing of waste into ...
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Komptech Americas holds meeting for North American dealer network
On November 8, 2018, members of the entire North American group of dealers for Komptech Americas met together in Denver, Colorado to review the successes of 2018 and gain a glimpse into plans for an even stronger year in 2019. Some flew in from as far away as Boston and Montreal. Others made shorter flights from Austin and Calgary. In the end, representatives from the thirteen individual ...
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EPA Recognizes Shop-Rite of Roxborough as #1 Grocer with Food Recovery Challenge Award on America Recycles Day
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s national Sustainable Materials Management Program recognized Shop-Rite of Roxborough as part of the agency's Food Recovery Challenge. The store, part of the Brown Family Shop-Rite group, placed first nationally in the FRC data-driven award category for grocers. Based on 2012 reporting data, Shop-Rite of Roxborough achieved the highest percent ...
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