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AD & Biogas, Facilities

Integrated Biogas Alliance Platform To Derisk Biogas Projects

Food waste and certified compostable products were accepted in the compostables bin (right). Compost Crusader, based in Milwaukee, composted the materials.

Facilities, Food Waste

Music Festivals Amp Up Organics Recycling Game

Facilities, Food Waste, Preprocessing

Sanitation Districts Gear Up For Food Waste Codigestion

The Victor Valley Water Reclamation Authority (digesters shown) has used public-private partnerships for both of its energy development projects.

AD & Biogas, Facilities

Successful Business Strategies For Codigestion At WRRFs

North State Rendering Co., Inc.’s (NSR) anaerobic digestion facility produces RNG for vehicle fuel (left). NSR has accepted clean high strength organics streams (middle) for a number of years, and recently installed a depackager to increase its ability to process packaged food waste (right).

AD & Biogas, Facilities, Food Waste

Evolution Of A Food Waste Digester

Figure 1. Effect of organic loading on gas production

AD & Biogas, Facilities

Closed Loop AD Solution For Cane Sugar Industry

After 15 days of composting under negative aeration, separated dairy manure solids were put in a drying zone (to release steam and drive off moisture) under positive aeration with heated air.

Composting, Facilities

Innovating To Reduce Phosphorus Impacts

The Tera Ambiental Ltda. facility (Jundiai, State of São Paulo, Brazil), which uses both turned windrows and aerated static piles, features a composting capacity of 90,000 tons/years.

Composting, Facilities

Composting In Brazil

Waste audits (right) were conducted at a variety of food service establishments to determine capture rates, diversion rates and contamination rates for trash, recycling, and composting bins. Having simple, customized and visually-based signs (left) placed on collection bins all grouped together was recommended at all establishments.

Composting, Facilities, Food Waste

Front Of House Organics Collection

The 40-year old family business was started by Michael and Betty Merner (far right), and is now owned by their daughter, Jayne Merner Senecal (3rd from right). Also pictured are several of the Merner’s grandchildren (from left to right, Cooper, Caitlyn and Kaleigh).

Composting, Facilities

High Quality Compost Farm

Allen Farms installed an anaerobic digester consisting of two fermentation vessels. Manure, used bed pack and crop residues from the 130-cow dairy operation are processed.

AD & Biogas, Facilities

Small-Scale Dairy Digester Fits The Bill

With strict dust control requirements, maximizing composting moisture content and using dust suppression equipment are key to operations in the desert environment.

Composting, Facilities, Operations

Managing Moisture In The Desert

The City of Toronto’s Dufferin anaerobic digestion facility generates over 5 million cubic meters/year of biogas and is scheduled to begin injecting RNG into the Enbridge pipeline by early 2020.

AD & Biogas, Facilities

Toronto Advances RNG Projects

compost microbes

Composting, Facilities, Operations

Composting And Microbial Inoculants

Compost Facility Maintenance

Facilities, Operations

Compost Facility Maintenance

Photos taken from the safety of a vehicle illustrate the level of devastation at the LCEC. High winds at 50 mph spread the Creek Fire through the site, quickly engulfing large equipment.

Composting, Facilities, Operations

Managing Compost And Mulch Fires

Agromin's Chino, California organics recycling facility.

Composting, Facilities, Operations

Weighting Factors In Organics Recycling Facility Development

Pre and postconsumer food scraps, compostable bags and PLA cups, and milk cartons are accepted in the organics stream. Waste Management (WM) supplied 96-gallon totes with a yellow body and green lid for all organics (1, on right). Totes for single-stream recyclables have a green body and yellow lid (1, on left). WM hauls organics (totes ready to be tipped into truck (2)) to the Town of Needham (MA) composting site.

Composting, Facilities, Food Waste

Patriot Place Steps Up To State Organics Ban Compliance