Here the new topics for the SPECIAL ISSUES of Waste Management Journal: 1. Closing the cycle of material and residues in the circular economy 2. Aftercare and remediation of landfills 3. Optimization of putrescible organics management (food waste, animal waste, sewage sludge, etc.) 4. Waste management strategies, policies, regulations and social issues Interested authors may submit their ...
SEaB Energy is proud to have been short-listed in this year’s Resource Revolution Awards in the ‘Technology Trailblazer: Energy-from-Waste’ category for our game-changing, on-site, micro AD MUCKBUSTER® system that converts food and organic waste to energy. The Resource Revolution Awards recognise and champion organisations that are at the forefront of developing innovative ...
Food waste has been highlighted as a top priority in Ireland to ensure the country doesn’t miss EU diversion targets for biodegradable municipal waste. Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency has published The National Waste Report 2007, stating food waste “is a priority”. Other progress indicators were that overall general waste generation had not increased from 2006. And, recycling rates had ...
Jersey Lynne Farms, a 49-year-old, family-owned wholesale food distributor in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, carries 1,500-1,800 items, including milk, eggs, butter, frozen foods, and other perishables. Delivering to independent supermarkets and mom-and-pop grocery stores and bodegas, Jersey Lynne serves diversified customers including Spanish, Russian, Middle Eastern, Asian, and Caribbean ...
Micron Waste Technologies Inc. (“Micron” or the “Company”) (CSE: MWM, OTC: MICWF, Frankfurt: 7FM2), today announced that it has suspended development of the Cannavore™ waste digester system in light of changing market conditions. While Micron has made rapid progress in completing the alpha prototype development and demonstrated its capability to process cannabis ...
August 31th, 2018 – The City of Regina talked trash today, as well as snow routes and finances, as some of the highlights from the committee agenda. The city is re-visiting waste collection, with the focus this time on organic waste. Currently, only 20 per cent of residential waste is diverted from the landfill, but the city has a target of diverting 65 per cent of household waste from the ...
Maple Grove (MN)—September 26, 2017– Organix Solutions, an organics recovery and municipal solid waste company based in Minnesota, proudly announced today it received a full patent for its organics co-collection program on June 6, 2017. The utility patent US 9,669,431 B2 encompasses the compostable organic waste collection method and materials, establishing its patent portfolio that ...
The Collège Adolphe Chérioux de Vitry-sur-Seine works towards a sustainable development and is now introducing a food waste management system by installing the BIG HANNA Composter model T240. This is something completely new to the Val-de-Marne region! The area Chérioux is just over 36 hectares, with a large patch of grassy space in the middle and more than 1500 ...
Raymond Blanc’s Michelin-starred luxury hotel and restaurant Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons has invested in composting and food waste drying technology from Macclesfield-headquartered Tidy Planet, helping the site to compost 94% of its annual food waste. The A1200 Rocket Composter is the waste solutions provider’s third largest machine and can handle up to 2.5 tonnes of food or ...
On Wednesday, September 16, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Deputy Administrator Stan Meiberg will join U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack as well as private industry and charitable organizations to announce the United States’ first food waste reduction goals at City Harvest’s food recycling facility in Long Island City, N.Y. The announcement occurs just one ...
DELANO (MN)—November 17, 2015 – Organix Solutions, an organics recovery and municipal waste consultancy based in Minnesota, recently announced their commitment to commercialize BurCell™ Recovery Technology. The BurCell is engineered to capture all organic waste from the municipal solid waste (MSW) stream, including food and compostable paper. First of its kind, the BurCell can ...
May 2019 will see Malaby Biogas celebrating the 7th anniversary of operations. The pioneering facility has been a centre of innovation and growth; leading the way in the development of a new and environmentally friendly industry which efficiently converts food and organic food production wastes into renewable energy and low carbon fertiliser for farms. Last year it became the first English ...
Ten New England educational, healthcare and other business institutions have become members of EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge, a national initiative that encourages businesses, organizations and institutions to actively participate in food waste prevention, surplus food donation and food waste recycling activities. The 10 new participants in EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge from New ...
Researchers have designed and proposed a new organic waste management plan for Catalonia, Spain, and presented it in a recent study. They say that the plan would reduce a number of environmental impacts that arise from landfilling biodegradable waste, including natural resource depletion, acidification, and eutrophication. To reduce the negative environmental effects of landfilling and to ...
When used to process organic waste, commercially available pumps can only stay in service for a short period of time. But with ALLWEILER progressing cavity pumps, Marchfelder BioEnergie GmbH of Austria has achieved much longer service periods. When regular commercial pumps are used to process organic waste, they typically wear out after only a short period of time. Liquids pumped under these ...
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and City of San Jose will celebrate the city’s successful food-waste-to-energy program at a tour of the nation’s first large-scale commercial anaerobic digestion facility, privately owned and operated by Zero Waste Energy Development Company. “Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on reducing food waste, the largest single ...
Binder+Co's environmental technology department is performing well in the United Kingdom. A screening and organic separation system was sold to Day Aggregates, a new Binder+Co customer. The system enables a wide range of organic waste products, fibres, food constituents and plastics to be separated from fragments of waste glass in wet or dry state. General contractor on the project is DUO plc, a ...
Berlin, 24 October 2018. The European Parliament approved today its report on the draft Directive on Marine Pollution and Single-use Plastics. “European Bioplastics fully supports the transition from a linear to a circular economy. Bioplastics enable more sustainable solutions for a range of products“, says François de Bie, Chairman of European Bioplastics (EUBP).“We ...
Berlin, 20 December 2018 – The European institutions have reached an agreement on a directive to curb the use of a number of single-use plastic products in the EU, which aims to prevent and reduce marine litter of these products. European Bioplastics (EUBP) fully supports the transition from a linear to a ‘no-leakage’ circular and bio-based economy in Europe. “This ...
Today EPA Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe joined U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to announce the launch of a challenge that asks farmers, processors, manufacturers, retailers, communities and government agencies to reduce wasted food. The U.S. Food Waste Challenge builds upon the success of EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge to help more Americans do their part to reduce ...