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Only micro holes in a packaging. A simple – home compostable – solution. Image the advantages for the grower, the packer and the retailer with no operational changes in the current supply chain! ...
WeRadiate was one of seven finalists to take home prize money during the Grow-NY Food and Ag Summit’s award ceremony held at the Oncenter in Syracuse this past Nov. 16 and 17. ...
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 ...
Sanitation does not only concern a small group of people, it is everyone’s duty.” SOIL’s in-home composting toilets help provide critical access to lifesaving sanitation while simultaneously restoring ecosystems, combatting climate change, and improving livelihoods for the people of Haiti. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
For the extra food that has no other use, EPA offers tools for families on how to compost at home, including how to build a compost pile or bin: http://www2.epa.gov/recycle/composting-home. Compost is nature’s recycler and is part of the Earth’s life cycle. ...
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! ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...