Domestic Composting News
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Weradiate Llc Named Among the Top Winners at 2021 Grow-Ny, An Unprecedented Global Food And Agriculture Business Competition
Empire State Development and Cornell University’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement have named WeRadiate LLC the $250,000 winner of Grow-NY, a food innovation and agriculture technology business competition focused on enhancing the emerging agriculture innovation cluster in Central New York, the Finger Lakes, and the Southern Tier. Marking its third year, the unprecedented ...
By WeRadiate
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2020 The Composting Council Annual Awards announced
Awardees are nominated by peers and honored each year at the US Composting Council's Annual Conference and Tradeshow. This year's awards will be announced at COMPOST2021, the USCC’s virtual conference. The City of Orlando’s Green Works Orlando Program is being recognized with USCC”s Organics Diversion Program of the Year, which is awarded to a program, public or private, that ...
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SOCIETY Magazine: Completing the Poop Loop
As part of a reporting program devoted supporting innovative development journalists, Grégoire Belhoste and William Thorp spent time with SOIL at our Port-au-Prince facility last year to better understand the history and process of SOIL’s regenerative urban sanitation service. The beautiful feature piece in Society Magazine explores SOIL’s history, the “poop loop” ...
By SOIL Haiti
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That's What You Need To Know To Start An Organic Fertilizer Plant
It is not a trivial matter to start an organic fertilizer factory, perhaps this is our next few years, a decade or even decades of business, so many people will consider a lot of issues. Next, we briefly introduce the organic fertilizer production line of various configurations, each link of the equipment characteristics. After understanding these, you can choose the organic fertilizer production ...
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That's What You Need To Know To Start An Organic Fertilizer Production Line
It is not a trivial matter to start an organic fertilizer factory, perhaps this is our next few years, a decade or even decades of business, so many people will consider a lot of issues. Next, we briefly introduce the organic fertilizer production line of various configurations, each link of the equipment characteristics. After understanding these, you can choose the organic fertilizer production ...
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Minnesota compost leaders, non-profit advocate among awardees recognized at USCC’s COMPOST2019
Composting facilities in Texas and Tennessee and a non-profit program in San Diego, CA and an energetic program in Minneapolis were among those who were honored by their peers by the US Composting Council at a January ceremony. Awardees are nominated and honored each year at the US Composting Council’s Annual Conference and Tradeshow. This year’s program was held at the Renaissance ...
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Standards for biodegradable, compostable and bio-based plastics: call for evidence
The government's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs issued, on 22nd July, their Call for Evidence on Standards for Bio-based, Biodegradable and Compostable Plastics. The United Nations has predicted that plastic production will account for 20% of all the world's total oil consumption by 2050 if we continue to ...
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We are Finally Taking Flight in Creating Healthy Soils, Healthy Minds, and A Stronger Healthier Planet
WeRadiate has been a growing passion for several years, initially just as a concept of interest focusing primarily on compost operations within community gardens; it has now grown in scope to incorporate community based operations and large scale facilities processing hundreds to thousands of tons of food scraps annually. While our scope has expanded, our hopes remain the same: to create high ...
By WeRadiate
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Don’t let summer go to “waste”
School will soon be out and summer is a great time for families to reduce waste in fun and new ways! First, remember to keep practicing the basics—reduce, reuse, and recycle. Find new ways to reduce your waste—eat more fruits and vegetables with compostable scraps and use fewer packaged snacks. Reuse what you already have—pack lunches for work or summer camp in washable ...
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Using Biochar as an Ingredient for Compost Making
Where did 2017 go? Now that we are well into the New Year of 2018, this is the year I hope to be making even higher quality compost to spruce up my garden this spring. This article will be dedicated to the use of biochar as a “carbon” source for making the highest quality compost consisting of all the nutrients plants require and teaming them up with beneficial microbes (bacteria ...
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Plastics Composting at Home
As landfills continue to expand, many consumers continue to look for ways to recycle. A proposed new ASTM International standard, WK35342, Specification for Home Composting of Biodegradable Plastics, will educate consumers on the process of home composting these materials. The proposed standard will illustrate great potential for responsible home waste management. “The proposed standard is ...
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EPA Regional Administrator Tours Duluth Composting Facility, Highlights the Benefits of Reducing Food Waste
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Susan Hedman highlighted the environmental benefits of diverting food waste from landfills today at the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District’s composting facility. “The Western Lake Superior Sanitary District’s innovative composting program provides a terrific example of how we can turn food waste into a valuable ...
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US Composting Council Announces the 2015 International Compost Awareness Week Poster Contest – Call for Entries for Poster Design
The US Composting Council (USCC) is seeking entries for the annual International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) poster contest, incorporating this year’s theme, Be Loyal to Your Soil– Compost! The contest runs September 1 through November 15, 2014 and is open to anyone who wishes to share their artistic interpretation of compost and its ties to soil health. The winning poster will ...
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SPS 2014 – Sustainable Phosphorus Summit
SPS 2014, the fourth world summit on phosphorus and its global issues, is to be held from 1 to 3 September 2014 in Montpellier (France). Its aim is to address the issue of phosphorus, from a regional to a global scale, along with its many interactions with our societies. SPS 2014 will be held just after PSP5 - Phosphorus in Soil and Plants, 5th International Symposium, to take place in ...
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Kick-start to Compost Awareness Week 2014
Compost awareness week kicked off on Monday 5th May and will be running until Sunday (11th May). Local authorities and businesses alike are taking part by organising awareness events, free compost giveaways or discounted compost containers. Despite there being no UK coordinator for the week, composting charity Garden Organic has been helping to publicise the campaign with a school poster ...
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Inland Empire, L.A. County honored by U.S. EPA for composting partnership efforts
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Pacific Southwest region today presented its esteemed Environmental Champion award to the Inland Empire Regional Composting Authority (IERCA) and the Los Angeles County Sanitation District for their work to develop a partnership composting program and state-of-the-art renewable energy composting facility. The award was presented by EPA’s ...
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EPA Provides Grant for Organic Gardening and Composting Training in Brooklyn; Community Gardens in Bedford-Stuyvesant to Benefit from Program
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $30,000 to Green Guerillas, a New York City community-based organization, to teach organic gardening skills to a team of Brooklyn young people. The grant was awarded under the EPA’s Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, which supports and empowers communities working on solutions to local environmental and public health issues. ...
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Home composting of biodegradable plastics
ASTM International Committee D20 on Plastics is currently developing a new standard, WK35342, Specification for Home Composting of Biodegradable Plastics. The proposed standard is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee D20.96 on Environmentally Degradable Plastics and Biobased Products. According to Robert Whitehouse, Ph.D., senior customer applications development manager, Metabolix Inc., and a ...
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Garden and green space development to enhance cities
The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE:SMG) today announced the recipients of the 2012 GRO1000 Gardens and Green Spaces Grant Awards Program. The grants, which focus on improving our nation's cities through the development of community gardens and green spaces, were announced at The U.S. Conference of Mayors' 80th Winter Meeting in Washington, DC. This ...
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Blackbaud receives Green Business Pioneer Award
Blackbaud, Inc (Nasdaq: BLKB), the leading global provider of nonprofit software and services, is rounding out the third quarter with a continued focus on its core value of 'making the world a better place.' As a result of its many employee-led initiatives, Blackbaud was named a Green Business Pioneer by the City of Charleston and the Charleston County Council. The Pioneer Award was presented to ...
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