Collecting bagged recyclables
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Curbside recyclingprograms in Pittsburgh, New York City and in Omaha have resorted to the use of blue bags instead of other containers to boost citizen participation and facilitate collection. Pittsburgh, PA pioneered the blue bag program with monthly participation averaging 82%. Container glass, plastic bottles, jugs andjars and metal cans are all placed in a single blue bag, while newspapers are put in another. In New York City, the program aims to reach a goal of 42% recycling rate by 2000 while in Omaha, NE, blue bag participation had risen to 52.75% in mid-June, 1992.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1992
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Scaling up for commercial vermiculture
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Vermiculture has become successful commercially that most breeders have expanded their operations to include vermicomposting. While vermiculture focuses on the large-scale breeding and growing of worms and the production of castings, vermicomposting involves the recycling of organic materials. Some of the more successful vermicomposting operations include Chattanooga, TN-based Goodwill Industries, Banks of Eden Farm in Eden, MD, and Alpine, CA-based Environmental Recycling Systems. For vermicomposting, the most commonly used works are red wigglers.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1996
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Compost teas in agriculture
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Compost tea offers the benefit of adding nutrients, suppressing diseases and destroying greymold and damping off, to organic farmers and gardeners. Researchers believe that microbials in compost teas produce toxins attacking the early blight fungus. The addition of straw mulch to cow manure and yard compost teas may help in effective chemical control of early blight. The effectiveness of tea may change with the aging of the compost. The water has to be separated from the compost. Ardeo, Inc. has manufactured a device for growing microbes.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1996
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