When bacteria in the landfill eat this
type of organic waste, methane is produced, which is a powerful climate - altering, greenhouse gas.
In total, the city's commercial establishments generate roughly one million tons a
year of organic waste.
Besides cattle operations, other human activities such as the production and transport of oil, coal and gas, as well as the
decay of organic waste contribute to methane emissions.
Again why won't anyone call for action on pyriolyzing the massive
messes of organic wastes as a means of curbing their reemitting GHGs, while also destroying germs, toxics and drugs that are escaping to pollute more water systems?
The fund is further supporting the reduction of emissions from waste through projects that reduce the
amount of organic waste in landfill, through diversion to composting and resource recovery, capturing methane from landfills and producing electricity and treating wastewater at places such as sewerage plants or abattoirs.
TCP is a non-combustion process for the conversion
of organic waste into renewable diesel and fertilizers.
Results achieved over hundreds of plants globally have achieved removal
of organic waste from discharge water of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the plants installed by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generators.
«The positive response from customers about recycling is also a big bonus,» said Martinez, whose 50 - seat restaurant produces only about five
tons of organic waste per year.
In the context of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programme of the Dutch Water Alliance, RUAF Foundation, in cooperation with local universities, organises 4 one - week national workshops and 1 international workshop on safe
reuse of organic wastes, sanitation products and wastewater in urban agriculture for staff of the DWA partners (NGO's) and staff of City Councils, Government Ministries and entrepreneurs.
Over 90 kilograms
of organic waste per resident is collected every year, with Milan now achieving over 50 per cent separate waste collection.
We find it hard to admit that the operation of natural ecosystems is exemplary: plants synthesize nutrients that feed the herbivores; these in turn feed the carnivores, which provide a
lot of organic waste, which give rise to a new generation of plants.
Bioenergy carriers produced from crops like maize or sugarcane are known as biofuels, while biogas refers to the mixture of methane and carbon dioxide produced by the bacterial
decomposition of organic wastes.
Beginning in 1994, a local NGO called Bio-tech pioneered the development of their «integrated waste recycling plant,» where large amounts
of organic waste generated by the markets, slaughter houses, and restaurant kitchens are treated and converted into methane (cooking gas) and fertilizer.
A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap
full of organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.
Ankathi and Shonnard dug into the
piles of organic waste coming into Colorado's Heartland Biogas Facility LLC and assessed the process that turns food waste from restaurants in Denver and manure from dairy farms near the facility into bio-methane, an energy source.
The additive, a simple
mixture of organic waste, such as chicken manure, and zeolite, a porous volcanic rock, could be used to support agriculture in both the developed and developing world, while avoiding the serious environmental consequences associated with the overuse of chemical fertilisers.
In one of his more intriguing passages on biological systems, he notes that humanity has failed to realize that «operation of natural ecosystems is exemplary,» in that their processing
of organic waste gives rise to a new generation of plants.
The main issue I am raising is the huge amounts
of organic wastes going to dumps that require billions of dollars every year in keeping controls in place to prevent seepages into water supplies.
StormFisher owns and operates a 2.85 MW biogas facility in London, Ontario that converts up to 100,000
tonnes of organic waste each year into renewable energy and organic - based fertilizer.
Over the past few years we have been encouraging the
diversion of organic waste away from the landfill and toward useful products such as compost and soil amenders.
Some of these strategies include small - scale wastewater management such as septic tanks and recycling of grey water, construction of medium - technology landfills with controlled waste placement and use of daily cover (perhaps including a final biocover to optimize CH4 oxidation), and controlled
composting of organic waste.
Before the closure, only a small
fraction of the organic waste generated at the market — between 30 and 40 tons — was reused as compost at the West Dump.The researchers, who received funding from the Mexico City Institute of Science and Technology, hope to find fruit and vegetable producers at the CEDA who can use the food waste as compost for their own fertilizer.
the «Academies» appear totally unaware that massive ever expanding
mess of organic wastes having germs, toxics and drugs is probably the main cause of world health problems and also gives off needlessly GHG emissions as they biodegrade wherever dumped.
Rather, the decision to re-examine milk offerings stemmed from concern that the district is throwing out an obscene amount of food — 600
tons of organic waste each day, according to a 2015 district study.
To address this problem, most states and territories have introduced levies or fees to
dispose of organic waste to landfill.
Foster's microbial fuel cell could spawn similar devices to be used across the food and beverage industry, which generates a
lot of organic waste.
It was appalling that the July G - 8 meeting proposed steps for world health with nary a mention of the
roles of organic wastes and sewage.
Huge
amounts of organic waste are generated each year in the United States, according to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
By harnessing
both of its organic waste streams — contained in waste water and organic solids — the company is setting world green energy and water purity benchmarks for food processing, says Pascal Pipyn, Executive Vice President, Process and Research and Development for GWE, who represented GWE at the inauguration.
«Remo - Frit is setting world green energy and water purity benchmarks for food processing by harnessing
both of its organic waste streams, in waste water and organic solids.
If only someone would wake up to the ever - expanding messes
of organic wastes and sewage as a resouce to get some control of unneeded GHG emissions.
Global Green reached 651 households, working with over 20 building owners / operators and 5 waste haulers to divert nearly 85,000 lbs (or 42.5 tons)
of organic waste to be composted.