Sylvia Overby, who will take office in January after winning a seat on the town board last week, questioned the deletion from the budget of money to run the scavenger waste plant, which the board anticipates privatizing, as reported elsewhere in this issue. (easthamptonstar.com)
The Center for Sugarcane Technology, an industry - sponsored organization based in São Paulo, has taken up a 357 - million - real loan to build a cellulosic ethanol plant next year, which would use waste plant matter from conventional sugar - cane fermentation. (scientificamerican.com)
He focused enthusiastically on biochar, the notion of turning waste plant material into charcoal and burying it. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)