compost collection News
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USCC files for stand alone NAICS Industry Code for Compost Manufacturing
The US Composting Council, the leading organization representing the commercial compost industry, has applied for a NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) code for "Compost Manufacturing". The move, made this spring during the open period for new industry NAICS codes, fulfills a long-term goal of USCC, whose compost production and collection members are currently classified into ...
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Composting collaborative webinar on nurturing entrepreneurs to grow infrastructure
The Composting Collaborative, of which USCC is a founding partner, is focusing its October webinar on the role of new businesses in closing the gaps in providing organics recycling collection and compost production and sales. USCC has found that encouraging entrepreneurship is one answer. In this October 17 webinar (3-4:15 pm) facilitated by USCC’s Associate Director, Cary Oshins, learn ...
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London businesses help Kent agriculture
Food waste collection firm Juniper Food Waste has launched a new collection and composting system for Greater London businesses. The firm, which is part of office plant and grounds maintenance provider Enterprise Plants, will collect the food waste from businesses to be turned into compost. Juniper is using in-vessel composting systems, which will allow the food waste to break down and mature ...
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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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Innovative composting system halves waste reduction time
Independent composting firm Greenview Environmental is opening the first of four cutting edge ‘organic refineries’ next month. Using an in-vessel aeration system developed by Greenview Environmental founder John Jardine, the refinery will start production on 1 July in Corby. The IVAS composting technology reduces kerb-collected municipal and commercial organic waste to soil improver in just six ...
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Sanitation project Nakuru County Kenya underway
From last year onwards AAWS is involved in supporting the sanitation program at NAWASSCO, the utilities company in Nakuru, Kenya. We aim at nothing less than closing the sanitation chain for this city. Up to now human waste from about 500.000 people is dumped into the wildlife refuge polluting the ground water aquifers. NAWASSCO, cooperating with the Dutch Utilities company VEI has expressed ...
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US composting council`s 18th Annual Conference & Trade Show call for papers
Abstracts are encouraged on the following conference topics: Feedstocks, Collection, Processing & Energy Production Increasing Food Residuals Composting in the U.S. Streamlining permit regulations for composting food residuals Developing diversion programs Integrating food residuals into existing yard waste composting programs Overcoming collection issues Advances in on-site ...
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How to produce 100% hygienic compost out of human excreta
The main reason not applying human faeces and urine in compost is the fear that pathogens causes serious illness and sicknesses. We have to be sure that pathogens are effectively inactivated before we even think about reusing human excreta. Everybody agrees that if this goal could be achieved and human excreta could be reused in agriculture it would deliver enormous benefits. It would: ...
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Composting Council: An Ongoing Commitment to Safety at Composting Facilities
Recently two young men died in a tragic accident at Community Recycling & Resource Recovery Inc.'s composting facility near Bakersfield, California. US Composting Council (USCC) President Frank Franciosi stated, "We are deeply saddened by this event, and the USCC is working with our membership to insure that incidents of the is nature are prevented in the future. I know I speak for all of us ...
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Tidy Planet ships bespoke composter to island in Paris’s River
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 ...
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BASF Creates Chemistry at Sustainable Brands Conference
BASF Corporation will demonstrate how connections can create chemistry to drive sustainable solutions in industries such as packaging, home and personal care, and health and nutrition during two seminars at the Sustainable Brands Conference in San Diego, California, June 3 to 6, 2013. Christopher Bradlee, Biopolymers Market Development Manager for BASF in North America, will discuss sustainable ...
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WRAP to stop selling compost bins at the end of September
The Waste & Resources Action Programme will stop selling compost bins from the end of this month to local authorities. It has stated that a number of local authorities are now subsidising bins themselves and have made the decision based on local circumstances and priorities. A WRAP spokeswoman said: “WRAP’s focus will now be on providing help and advice to existing home composters. The ...
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