Sentences with phrase «commercial organic waste»

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Assistance will include on - site visits to determine food waste generation baselines; strategies for reducing food waste; siting for food waste capture systems; training in reduction strategies; and an exploration of local options for composting, biodigesting, donation of edible food, or commercial companies that offer organic waste diversion services.

In total, the city's commercial establishments generate roughly one million tons a year of organic waste.

To address environmental concerns, commercial vegetable growers are increasingly interested in using organic mulches derived from agricultural or urban byproducts and waste, paper - based mulches, and biodegradable plastic films and fabrics as alternatives.

And in Los Angeles, the ground service equipment for eight airlines will now be fueled with renewable diesel — made from grass clippings and other organic waste — because of the FAA's Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative.

It provides resource management expertise and services to residential, commercial, municipal and industrial customers, primarily in the areas of solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, recycling and organics services.

At the base of the Bay Bridge in Oakland, the district feeds a mix of sludge, commercial food scraps, and other organic waste into an array of 12 gigantic anaerobic digesters that produce methane, also called biogas.

The commercial building industry can greatly reduce waste going to landfills and incinerators by targeting two large categories: paper (office paper, paperboard, cardboard) and organics (yard trimmings, food scraps, and wood).

The first large - scale commercial operation to produce cellulosic ethanol (the kind of ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil industry, and will be online in 2013.