Composting News

Will Allen accomplished something that few of us have been able to do. He elevated composting to rock star status. Will Allen is the former professional basketball player who bought a near bankrupt nursery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, kept the name and turned it into a phenomena. Growing Power, started in 1993, brought urban agriculture alive. Its operations included soil and greenhouse production, ...

Jul. 9, 2019

By BioCycle Magazine

Washington, DC: Best Practices For Community Composting The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) just released “Community Composting Done Right: A Guide to Best Management Practices,” written by ILSR’s Linda Bilsens Brolis and Brenda Platt. “Though small-scale composters are often exempt from certain state permitting or local zoning requirements, it is paramount that ...

Apr. 30, 2019

By BioCycle Magazine

Sprouts Farmers Market is inspiring guests to celebrate Earth Month throughout April with educational tips and resources at ...

Apr. 18, 2019

By Siemens AG

Organic waste expert Tidy Planet has expanded its globally-acclaimed range of Rocket Composters, with the creation of the B1400 – a machine specially-commissioned for its French distributor, Les Alchimistes’ large-scale composting project in the middle of the River Seine.The French social enterprise is dedicated to increasing the value of food wastes on a localised and social scale – with ...

Feb. 10, 2019

By Tidy Planet Limited

A more defined connection between compost, soil health, and water quality is vital for inclusion in predictive watershed modeling and consequently, nutrient management plans. ...

Dec. 31, 2018

By BioCycle Magazine

Dundee and Angus College has invested in a second of Tidy Planet’s Rocket Composters for its Arbroath Campus, after successfully composting over 70 tonnes of food waste in the last three years at its Kingsway site.The College itself spans three campuses – Kingsway, Gardyne and Arbroath – and began its sustainability journey in 2015 when it switched to Vegware compostable catering consumables, in ...

Dec. 17, 2018

By Tidy Planet Limited

Several in the sustainability field have asked why someone would invest in a BioSoil Farm Food Waste Recycling Center instead of simply shipping their food waste of to be composted. Good Question.  Here is the answer… Food Waste and Organic Waste shouldn’t go to a landfill for disposal because in a landfill the organic waste (food waste, paper, etc) creates methane gas as ...

Dec. 5, 2018

By BioSoil Farm, Inc.

Poinsettias, the classic Christmas pot plant, are grown in their thousands in UK nurseries from late July onwards, but growers have to rely on the use of plant growth regulators (PRGs) to ensure that the optimum height and number of bracts is achieved by early December. ...

Nov. 30, 2018

By Delta-T Devices Ltd.

In 2017, aquariums, zoos, and other organizations accredited and certified by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) funded a record-breaking $220 million in field conservation, led 2,800 education programs, and contributed to 170 peer-reviewed publications. These numbers were produced as a result of AZA’s ...

Sep. 4, 2018

By Siemens AG

Agricultural waste is a big problem in the present day. Among the chief offenders is rice husks. Rice is amongst the most grown crops worldwide, and is a staple of your diet of huge amounts of people. However, growing rice creates plenty of waste. Rice husks would be the leftover aspects of rice plants right after the edible rice has been harvested. Each and every year, a great deal of rice husk ...

Aug. 22, 2018

By Kingtiger (Shanghai) Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.

América Free Zone (www.americafreezone.com) is a free business development area in the province of Heredia, located in the heart of the San Jose Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica. Despite having extensive experience in providing services to the companies that are located in it, it has state-of-the-art facilities, impeccably endowed with any cutting-edge technology to achieve full excellence ...

Aug. 14, 2018

By Susteco AB

Apex, the India-based coconut processing company, launches today as the industry leader in sustainability and innovation with the introduction of 12 premium coconut-based products manufactured from its ...

Jul. 11, 2018

By Apex Coconuts and Solar Energy Limited

BioSoil Farm is proud to announce the release of their brand new Potting Soil.  It is all-natural, organic, and made mostly of recycled plant nutrients without the use of manure. Our Potting Soil is Super Charged so all you ever have to do is water your ...

Jun. 23, 2018

By BioSoil Farm, Inc.

Abigail O’Neal high fives a resident at the launch of a major recycling project in Road Town on Wednesday. Looking on is Lynette Harrigan of the BVI Tourist Board. If all goes as planned, the British Virgin Islands could become a model for transforming waste into resource for food security as early as 2019. “We can be an example to the world. I really think we can,” said Abigail ...

Jun. 6, 2018

By GreenScience Technologies Inc.

We lost David Buckel, a compassionate, brilliant composting champion, in mid-April. He died of self-immolation in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York, taking his own life to draw attention to the harsh realities of climate change. “My early death by fossil fuel,” he wrote in a suicide letter, “reflects what we are doing to ourselves.” We met David in early 2013. By that ...

May 31, 2018

By BioCycle Magazine

SOIL has won the 2018 Lush Spring Prize for Social and Environmental Regeneration! This award recognizes organizations that are working to revive damaged social and natural environments and that demonstrate a commitment to sharing what they are doing to inspire and inform others. SOIL was selected for the Lush Spring Prize in the Established Projects category – a category that honors ...

May 16, 2018

By SOIL Haiti

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 ...

May 7, 2018

By Eco Partners, Inc.

Almost as far north as you can come in Sweden and 250 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle lies Abisko National Park. This is also home to STF’s northernmost facility.   Magic all year round ...

Apr. 15, 2018

By Susteco AB

An analyze of the compost from our Big Hanna composters installed at Conseil General du val de Marne, France meets the French standard NF U 44-051 for soil improver. When the compost meets the NF U 44-051 standard it becomes a product and is no longer considered waste. It changes its nature. It can be used for the maintenance or restoration of soil organic matter and the improvement of its ...

Mar. 1, 2018

By Susteco AB

Obstacles are in tape impregnating process where styrene acrylate – a petrochemical material – is used to avoid glue absorbing into the tape material and the other one is the used glue. There are already existing solutions in the market to replace glue with bioadhesive product, but previously there was no solution to avoid the use of styrene acrylate. We have developed and patented a ...

Feb. 25, 2018

By Ahlstrom-Munksjö