Yard waste as a resource

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Yard waste is the second largest component of Missouri's trash, comprising 20% of all waste going to the state's landfills. A law was passed prohibiting yard wastes from landfills and regulations on burning implemented. Two alternatives are waste reduction and recycling through composting. The Misssouri Environmental Improvement and Energy Resources Authority provided demonstration sites for yard waste composting and the response has been positive. Citizens are also encouraged to retain soil beneficial yard waste and to engage in backyard mulching and composting.

Management, Missouri, Compost, Compost plants, Materials

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MSW and biosolids become feedstocks for ethanol

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The Orange Recycling and Ethanol Production Facility, which is to be constructed next to the Middletown Wastewater Treatment Plant in Middletown, NY, will be able to process around 230,000 tons a year of municipal solid waste (MSW) and 49,000 dry tons a year of biosolids. The plant will recover recyclables from the MSW, with the residuals being used with biosolids as feedstock to produce ethanol. It is hoped that construction of the plant, which will employ up to 200 people, will begin in autumn 1999, with completion scheduled for 2001.

Middletown, New York

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Why solid waste managers should look at the ethanol option

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Biotechnologies are now available with the potential to produce benign fuels and industrial chemicals from renewable organic plant matter. Materials such as agricultural waste, organic fractions and forest thinnings may be used as feedstocks. Among products that can be produced are transportation fuels such as ethanol. Large biorefineries are currently being developed in the US, including a rice straw-to-ethanol-and-acetic acid facility in the Sacramento area and a municipal waste-to-ethanol plant in Middleton, NY.

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