Composting
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Collection, Community Composting, Composting
Summit County, Ohio Opens its First Municipal Composting Program
Top: Ribbon-cutting ceremony in Summit County. Photo Courtesy of Rubber City Reuse. Rubber City Reuse has launched what it describes as the first municipally funded composting program in Summit County, Ohio, giving residents in the City of Stow free, 24-hour access to composting and organics recycling. The program marks a new phase for Rubber City...
Food Waste
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AD & Biogas, Community Composting, Composting, Contamination, Food Waste, Operations, Policies + Regulations, Preprocessing
BioCycle Webinar on Regulating Food Waste Depackaging
Top: Examples of packaged food waste that typically are received for depackaging. Photo by Bob Spencer Food waste depackaging is scaling fast and regulation is scrambling to catch up. BioCycle’s Nora Goldstein and Paula Luu are hosting an hour-long webinar — BioCycle Investigates: Is Regulation Keeping Up with Depackaging? — on August 25th at 12pm...
AD & Biogas
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AD & Biogas, Business+Finance, Food Waste
New Tool Helps Farmers Evaluate AD Projects Before Investing
A newly published study introduces an open-source decision support tool designed to help farmers evaluate whether anaerobic digestion (AD) makes financial and operational sense for their operations before committing to a major capital investment. The model, called Farm Energy Analysis with Anaerobic Digestion (FEAAD), was developed to estimate the technical, environmental, and economic performance of...
Markets
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AD & Biogas, Business+Finance, Food Waste, Policies + Regulations
DOE Invests $6.9 Million to Move Organic Waste-to-Energy Projects Through Early Development
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is putting $6.9 million toward the front end of waste-to-energy project development, funding nine projects across six states that will evaluate whether local organic waste streams can be converted into low-carbon transportation fuels.The complete list of the nine selected projects is available through the DOE funding announcement. The awards,...
Climate
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Biosolids, Food Waste
Food Processing Residuals Tested As Carbon Capture Material
Top: Photo from BioCycle. Researchers at ETH Zurich are testing a new use for protein-rich liquid residuals from dairy and tofu manufacturing, turning them into porous beads that can capture carbon dioxide from the air. The study adds to a growing body of work looking at clean food processing byproducts not as waste, but as...
Policies + Regulations
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Food Waste, Policies + Regulations
New York Moves to Standardize Food Date Labels to Reduce Food Waste
Top: Photo created by BioCycle. New York is one step closer to becoming the latest state to standardize food date labeling after the Legislature passed Senate Bill S7618B and its companion Assembly bill. The legislation, which now awaits Governor Kathy Hochul’s signature, would replace the patchwork of phrases currently found on food packaging with uniform...