The Organics Recycling Authority
Composting • Renewable Energy • Sustainability Published since 1960, BioCycle is the foremost magazine on composting, organics recycling, anaerobic digestion and renewable energy.
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Operating as usual
Organics hauler/composter funded its early and growth stages with venture/private equity capital.
South Carolina-based Atlas Organics, Inc. has funded its early and growth stages with venture/private equity capital investments. Nora Goldstein
How do biopolymers fit in a "truly circular economy" for plastics? #Compostable
A new report from Closed Loop Partners, an investment firm and innovation center, examines how and where biopolymers fit in a “truly circular economy” for plastics.
With its recently expanded composting site running smoothly, Dirt Hugger is “deepening its world” on sales of end products.
Top: Tyler Miller (left) and Pierce Louis (right) cofounded Dirt Hugger in 2010. Nora Goldstein Dirt Hugger was founded in 2010 by Pierce Louis and Tyler Miller in The Dalles, Oregon, close to Hood River in the Columbia River Gorge. Louis and Miller had read a study commissioned by Tri-Counties Recy...
Meet BioCycle Trailblazer Tim Haug, author of "The Practical Handbook of Compost Engineering."
Roger Tim Haug, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Loyola Marymount University BioCycle July 2019
How #foodwaste fuels vehicles in Los Angeles …
Source separated commercial food waste is slurried with a DODA bioseparator, then stored in tanks for transport to the Sanitation Districts’ Joint Water Pollution Control Plant (JWPCP), located in Carson
“The Post-COVID State of the American Refrigerator”
A group of researchers with the Ohio State Food Waste Collaborative recently surveyed 500 people from around the country to gain insight into how eating at home during the pandemic has translated to other changes in American kitchens and if intentions to consume the food in refrigerators have risen....
From edible food recovery to #compost use in local parks, CalRecycle offers strategies for organics that can be adopted anywhere. #foodwaste #climate
CalRecycle, the state agency responsible for overseeing implementation of California’s SB 1383 organics recycling and edible food recovery requirements, has a new webpage with links to additional webpages dedicated to collection, procurement, food recovery, and many other program implementation to...
Montana State University (MSU) and the City of Bozeman, Montana are partnering to investigate use of household scale anaerobic digesters to reduce #foodwaste and capture nutrients for reuse in home gardens.
Montana State University (MSU) and the City of Bozeman, Montana are partnering to investigate use of household scale anaerobic digesters to reduce food waste and capture nutrients for reuse in home gardens.
Q& A with Brenda Platt of Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
Brenda has tracked and been involved with #CommunityComposting developments for close to 10 years.
Interview with Brenda Platt of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance who has been involved in, and tracking, community composting developments for close to 10 years.
Here's an update on where 2020 has taken us …
With a little more than 2 months left, have the 2020 trends BioCycle identified in late 2019 unfolded as predicted? Read this update, then please let us know what you think.
EPA's mixed solid waste stats now include "other food management" which covers animal feed, biobased materials/biochemical processing, codigestion/ anaerobic digestion, donation, land application and sewer/wastewater treatment
The U.S. EPA released its annual MSW Facts and Figures report in November, based on 2018 data. For the first time, the data includes a category titled “other food management,” defined as animal feed, biobased materials/biochemical processing, codigestion/anaerobic digestion, donation, land appli...
CBD oil producer contracts with dairy farm to grow 44 acres of hemp, fertilized with digestate.
After a growth trial in 2019, a Massachusetts CBD oil producer contracted with dairy farm in 2020 to grow 45 acres of hemp, fertilized with digestate.
Does your lawn cause more good than harm?
This installment of our Connections’ Drawdown series reviews the pros and cons of lawns, concluding that they ultimately provide more environmental benefits than harm. Part IX
Meet BioCycle Trailblazer Ron Alexander. Ron has blazed a path for compost and compost-amended products …
Ron has promoted the cause of composting around the globe with his unique energy and forcefulness. BioCycle July 2019
This week's BioCycle CONNECT includes:
• Food waste contamination
• Digestate for hemp crops
• The American lawn & carbon, plus more!
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"Other Food Management"
is the new category included in the EPA's latest mixed solid waste statistics. It's defined as animal feed, biobased materials/biochemical processing, codigestion/anaerobic digestion, donation, land application and sewer/wastewater treatment …
The U.S. EPA released its annual MSW Facts and Figures report in November, based on 2018 data. For the first time, the data includes a category titled “other food management,” defined as animal feed, biobased materials/biochemical processing, codigestion/anaerobic digestion, donation, land appli...
Lessons In Community Composting: Collection and Processing — Growth And Insights | BioCycle
Community Composting can be done at different scales depending on business focus, location and goals for growth.
As we shift away from fossil fuels, is the "electrification of everything" the answer?
Decarbonization will require a judicious mix of electrification, RNG, hydrogen, and other emerging solutions if we want to get to a truly sustainable future.
Dairy manure = Renewable energy
The U.S. now has 263 operational livestock anaerobic digesters and 17 under construction.
A September 2020 update of farm-based manure digesters shows a trend toward renewable natural gas production.
On-site solution for #cannabis grower …
FlowR™, a cannabis grower outside of Toronto, Ontario, was looking for a solution to manage its marijuana plant waste.
Reduction of short-lived climate pollutant emissions, including methane, is key to meeting California’s target to reduce #GHG emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. #climatechange
Top: Jepson Prairie Organics, Vacaville, CA On November 3, 2020, CalRecycle received a Notice of Approval of Regulatory Action (pdf file) from the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) on its SB 1383 Short-Lived Climate Pollutants regulations, making them final and set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2022...
From giant guitars and dog bones, to blue-wigged goats in leather jackets …
Top: Examples of 1-800-GOT-JUNK’s weirdest include (clockwise): Life size tank replica (Calgary, Alberta); giant guitar (Reno, Nevada); goat statue with jeans, jacket and leather jacket (Atlanta); Giant dog bone (Tampa, Florida) and a giant tomato (Ottawa, Ontario). Photos courtesy of 1-800-GOT-JU...
100% biodegradable bottle will replace 80 million plastic bottles — 3,000 tons of plastic — currently produced by Bacardi across its portfolio of brands every year.
Bacardi, the world’s largest family-owned spirits company, announced plans to put a sustainable spirits bottle on the shelf by 2023.
Restarted Bennington, VT facility processes biosolids and yard trimmings and finished #compost is used by highway department.
Bennington, Vermont stopped operating its agitated bay composting facility about 10 years ago, but better economics led to a restart in August 2019.
USCC Seeks Comments On Model Zoning Template | BioCycle
The US Composting Council’s (USCC) Legislative & Environmental Affairs Committee’s Model Zoning Task Force released a draft “Model Composting Ordinance” for community, commercial and on-farm composting sites, and is seeking comments from USCC members and industry stakeholders.
Where do U.S. #Compost Markets stand in 2020?
A 1993 BioCycle article, “Compost Supply And Demand,” calculated estimates for compost production and market demand in the U.S. Do we know where markets stand in 2020?
Founded in 2010, Dirt Hugger receives about 35,000 tons/year of residentially collected yard trimmings and #foodwaste, commercial food waste (from restaurants, groceries, and schools), whole fruit waste, cherry sludge from fruit processing, beer waste and beer yeast waste (about 18,000 gallons/week), wood waste, and brush.
Dirt Hugger, a source separated organics composting facility in Dallesport, Washington, received the Washington State Recycling Association’s Recycler of the Year award in early November.
Grant provides funding for network of community composting sites
L.A. Compost CalRecycle California Alliance for Community Composting
Top: Community composting hub operated by LA Compost. Photo courtesy of LA Compost The California Alliance for Community Composting (CACC), in collaboration with the People, Food, and Land Foundation, was selected in June 2020 as the administrative agency to carry forth CalRecycle’s $1.35 million ...
Take back initiative for compostable products help close the loop #zerowaste Vegware
Programs in the United Kingdom separately collect compostable packaging from restaurants, businesses, corporate offices, event venues and institutions using the products.
Campaign serves to educate citizens and aid with keeping plastics and other contaminants out …
King County Solid Waste Division Cedar Grove
A King County (WA) Solid Waste Division task force has been working on “Compost Right” messaging to get plastics and other contaminants out of organics recycling collection bins.
Several new policy developments will likely alter the landscape for meeting required reduction of carbon emissions in CA’s vehicle fuel usage.
Several new policy developments will likely alter the landscape for meeting required reduction of carbon emissions in the state’s vehicle fuel usage.
This year's Compost Council of Canada's Annual Pumpkin Growing Contest winner …
The Compost Council of Canada’s Annual Pumpkin Growing Contest is a “friendly-but-competitive” program within The Council’s membership to focus attention on the fundamental benefit of organics recycling …
“I’ve always wondered why we go through all the trouble to drill for new gas when there’s so much gas going to waste on the ground,” says Vujic. “That’s what drives me — seeing what would otherwise be considered waste going to good use.”
BioCycle August 2019
Testing Wastewater For COVID-19 Virus | BioCycle
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) created a $10 million grant for a three-month pilot program this fall to fund local public health department efforts to coordinate with counties, universities, and....
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Prince George's County Organics Composting Facility, site tour stop 3 #BioCycleEC
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Days End Farm Horse Rescue: In-Vessel Composting, Bedding Products Located in Howard County, Maryland
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BioCycle #REFOR16 site tour 2: Alliance Dairies
Live from BioCycle #REFOR16 Exhibit Ballroom ...
BioCycle #REFOR16 Exhibit Hall is setting up