Sentences with phrase «yard waste»

Or personal manufacturing plants that turn yard waste into fuel.

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Cellulosic's slow path to commercial use Two weeks ago, INEOS Bio announced it had begun commercial production of cellulosic ethanol from yard waste in its Vero Beach, Fla., plant.

Polyethylene yard waste bags are slowly being banned from many municipal programs because they are difficult for composters to sort out and discard.

Mixed with yard waste compost, the fly ash increased tomato yields by up to 70 percent.

And even those of us who live in (or just outside of) major metropolitan areas have only one reliable way to find out that, for example, yard waste collection has been delayed by one week, the local high school's drama club is selling tickets for their latest performance, or what's open and what's closed on a given holiday the local newspaper.

Disposable products create waste, whether that waste is sent to a landfill for thousands of years, flushed and disposed of through wastewater treatment, or composted and disposed of as yard waste.

The scenario is better for yard waste — grass clippings, leaves and branches — with more than half diverted to compost facilities instead of landfills.

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Add yard waste and scrap metal, and that number is more like 45 percent, which is as good, or better, in many cases, than most U.S. municipal systems.

Turns yard waste to loam.

Potential Contamination in Inputs: How it is addressed in the organic standards By Doug Currier, OMRI Review Program Technical Supervisor Pesticide contamination in compost is a concern particularly when compost is manufactured using conventional crop residues or residential yard waste, both... Continued

Orland Park contracts its refuse, recycling and yard waste removal through Waste Management in a contract that was extended for another decade in November.

WBEZ reporter Monica Eng has the dirt on Chicago's yard waste disposal program.

The figures do not include yard waste that is separated for composting.

If the full Village Board approves the measure at its June 3 meeting, residents will begin paying $ 18.58 a month for their refuse, recycling and yard waste services, down from the current rate of $ 19.40 a month.

Many people compost their food scraps and yard waste because they think it's the right thing to do.

In a collaboration with ranchers and local and state land management organizations called the Marin Carbon Project, she and her students are testing the effects of compost created from city yard waste (such as leaves, branches, and lawn trimmings) and agricultural waste (including manure and cornstalks) on carbon storage.

Curbside Collection With curbside compost collection you can just toss yard waste directly into the curbside bin after cleaning up.

DIY Composting If you're making your own compost, find a good place to store yard waste where it's close to your compost pile but protected from the elements.

If you live in a home ranging in size from a single - family residence to a four - plex, you can also set out motor oil and yard waste at the curb.

To preserve water and enrich soil, volunteers tilled in 48 cubic yards of compost made from county recycled yard waste.

Disposable products create waste, whether that waste is sent to a landfill for 1000 years, flushed and disposed of through wastewater treatment, or composted and disposed of as yard waste.

[We assume that the sequestration tons for yard waste and food scraps are for landfilling.

You might tow a boat or an ATV behind your personal vehicle, or you may use a utility trailer to haul yard waste or other items from place to place.

That's why Harvest is a leading innovated in turning food and yard waste into energy and fertilizer.

I was outside doing some yard work, pulling heaps of last year's dried out vines from the fence in my backyard, about to toss a handful into the yard waste bag, when it (it being my handful of vines) chirped at me.

Alter Eco has developed a groundbreaking wrapper — printed with non-toxic compostable ink — that will decompose in yard waste and at - home compost bins.

I started composting this year too, I have a worm bin I built and a yard waste pile I * really * need to turn one of these days.

At my house there is never a shortage of green material (also known as wet or nitrogen - rich matter)-- orange peels, corn husks, dinner food scraps, yard waste, etc. — for my compost bin, but when it comes to finding brown (also known as dry or carbon - rich) material, in the past I've often ended up coming up short.

I compost vegetable and yard waste.

We finally bought a composter; I never imagined I'd be so excited to see produce scraps and yard waste turn to dirt.

They're also seeking for Cuomo to prompt the Public Service Commission to regulate terms of cell phone service and for recyclable materials and yard waste to be banned from landfills or incinerators.

He wants to persuade Time - Warner to offer a-la-carte cable services and he wants to privatize the pickup of garbage and yard waste.

Ten million pounds of food scraps and yard waste have been collected under a city program to reduce the amount of garbage shipped to landfills.

Getting organic material — food, yard waste, etc. — out of the waste stream has become paramount for the de Blasio administration.

They also want Cuomo to prompt the Public Service Commission to regulate terms of cell phone service and for recyclable materials and yard waste to be banned from landfills or incinerators.

For example, yard waste in Florida in December will likely break down a lot quicker in landfills and create more methane gas than the same amount of yard waste in Minnesota during the same month.

Chuck Rice, a Kansas State University professor, with a finished pile of compost made from food and yard waste.

But this city, too, is making efforts to clean the air, including establishing strict rules for the burning of trash and yard waste.

I got a start on that goal last week — I filled five trash bins with twigs and branches from our backyard and scheduled a yard waste pickup with my town.

This could be anything including a new food or treat, garbage, yard waste, or animal feces or carcasses.

She has no skin allergies, no bad breath, sparkling white teeth, energy, no fleas, no hyperactivity, no dander, and she eliminates about 1/3 the yard waste that our other, grain - fed, dogs were putting out.

Good chores for kids ages ten and older include remembering pet mealtimes and properly serving the dog's food, keeping the water bowl filled, cleaning up yard waste, and learning proper leash handling.

The remedy, Brinton tells his clients, is to add more oxygen and carbon - based materials like wood chips, sawdust, and yard waste — things urban composters often have trouble getting their hands on.»

Biomass from crop waste, yard waste, pallets and other wood materials is produced in large quantities in Ohio, but most of that ends up in landfills instead of providing a potential 14 million kilowatt hours every year.