Organic Waste

Dog Waste

Students Use Dog Waste to Light Park

Posted on May, 2012 Categories: Biofuels , Check It Out! , Communities , Energy , Featured , Leisure , Organic Waste , Parks & Recreation , Waste Management Every day, about 200 dogs and their owners visit the Cosmo dog park in Gilbert, Ariz. When they go home, they leave behind about eight cubic yards of dog waste, plastic bottles, bags and other trash. Read more
Coffee Beans

Using Coffee to Brew up Energy

Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Biofuels , Business , Check It Out! , Energy , Energy Savings , Organic Waste , Waste Management The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota recently announced  it is leading a project to develop an efficient renewable electricity technology for coffee-processing plants. Read more
Mushroom Kit-2T

Grow-At-Home Mushroom Kit

Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Check It Out! , Consumer , Organic Waste , Waste Management The Back to the Roots' grow-at-home mushroom kit lets you grow up to 1 1/2 lbs of gourmet, tasty oyster mushrooms in as little as 10 days...right from the box.  The soil inside is 100% recycled coffee grounds - safe & sustainable.  Inspired by the idea of producing local, fresh food from what was an urban waste stream, Read more
Organic Waste

Composting During Winter

Posted on November, 2011 Categories: Check It Out! , Consumer , Featured , Organic Waste , Waste Management As interest in composting continues to grow, a common question is “Can I compost in winter?”.  The answer is an emphatic – maybe.  Composting season essentially ends when temperatures are regularly below 40 degrees (F). Read more
Biochar

Turning Forest Waste into Soil Benefit

Posted on October, 2011 Categories: Business , Consumer , Featured , Organic Waste , Waste Management Your next bite of an organically grown apple may hold within it a tiny bit of a Washington forest. Read more
Crops

Feeding the World While Protecting the Planet

Posted on October, 2011 Categories: Biofuels , Communities , Energy , Energy Savings , Organic Waste , Waste Management , Water Management The problem is stark: One billion people on earth don’t have enough food right now. It’s estimated that by 2050 there will be more than nine billion people living on the planet. Read more
landfill

"Trash Talk" Ad Draws Attention to Waste Management Challenges

Posted on September, 2011 Categories: Communities , E-Waste , Featured , Organic Waste , Recycling , Waste Management Toronto.ON, Canada - The Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) is running a special advertising insert in newspapers across Ontario in September to kick-start discussion about waste management issues in Ontario Read more
Hogs

Hog Waste Producing Electricity and Carbon Offsets

Posted on September, 2011 Categories: Biofuels , Business , Energy , Organic Waste , Waste Management A pilot waste-to-energy system constructed by Duke University and Duke Energy recently garnered the endorsement of Google Inc., which invests in high-quality carbon offsets from across the nation to fulfill its own carbon neutrality goals. Read more
Wood

Wood Products Part of Winning Carbon-Emissions Equation

Posted on July, 2011 Categories: Biofuels , Building Green , Consumer , Energy , Organic Waste , Planning , Waste Management Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to grow, so forests have long been proposed as a way to offset climate change. But rather than just letting the forest sit there for a hundred or more years, Read more
Food Court Tray

Project Aims to Cut Food Court Waste

Posted on July, 2011 Categories: Business , Consumer , Featured , Organic Waste , Recycling , Waste Management The National Restaurant Association is playing a key role in a new initiative to cut food courts' contributions to landfills. Read more
* = required field