Growing a commercial organics composting company
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The composting company Brooks Contractor was established in the year 1990 and started full-time in 1992. They decided to do something significant with all the food waste generated in the growing Triangle area where dumping organic material in landfills eventually becomes a huge problem and realizing this, the company set up a program to divert large amounts of this excellent nitrogen source to composting operation.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 2006
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Conversion technologies, recycling and renewable energy
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California is debating whether or not to encourage the development of conversion technologies that convert solid wastes into energy and liquid fuels. The California state has a recycling rate at over 50% but landfilled waste is still high, therefore, California is debating about the best way to convert organic residuals into sustainable power and get support of the environmentalist opponents.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 2006
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Latest trends in anaerobic digestion in North America
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Manure and food waste codigestion systems are installed and added demand of such systems has drawn a large number of designers and developers, increasingly from outside North America. Trends in the manure digester industry that are reviewed in three general categories are discussed.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 2005
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