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Garbage Truck Business Model Innovation

rmcculloch — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:18:58 +0000

Three waste companies serve my neighborhood. The first truck in the cul-de-sac this morning was not from the company that we use, but they picked up the stack of boxes that I had placed by our big can. Odd, I thought. The final truck this morning was from Waste Industries – our service provider. Unlike the manual operation I have seen in the past, the truck had a robotic arm that performed all the can handling. Neat stuff. I connected the dots and speculated that this company has invested in the robot hardware to improve per-driver productivity metrics (and increase revenue per driver). I suspect that they also have subcontracted the less productive task of manually handling the incidental boxes and other odd extras. Business models and innovation in such mundane services often go unnoticed, but if my speculation is true, then kudos to some bright business minds in the trash world.

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SUBBOR to Pay City of Guelph $2.5 Million

Leanne — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:57:31 +0000

The following media release was sent out this evening…

SUBBOR to pay City of Guelph $2.5 million
Settlement brings successful conclusion to court battle with SUBBOR, avoiding need for future court proceedings.

GUELPH, ON, November 23, 2009 – The City of Guelph will receive $2.5 million in legal costs from SUBBOR (Super Blue Box Recycling Corporation) and its parent company Eastern Power Limited. The award is part of a settlement between the City and the two companies that comes after the Ontario Superior Court and the Ontario Court of Appeal have already ruled in the City’s favour. Guelph City Council ratified the settlement at tonight’s meeting.

SUBBOR and Eastern Power Limited will pay the City of Guelph $2.5 million in instalments, with interest payable in the event of any default in payment.

Other aspects of the settlement include SUBBOR and Eastern Power Limited’s agreement to surrender all rights to the SUBBOR building — which is located on the site of Guelph’s Waste Resource Innovation Centre — and the land on which it resides. The companies have 90 days to remove their equipment from the site, not far from where excavation is currently underway in preparation for Guelph’s new Organic Waste Processing Facility.

“We are extremely pleased the City has reached a settlement with SUBBOR and Eastern Power Limited, eliminating the need for further court proceedings,” Guelph’s mayor Karen Farbridge said on behalf of City Council. “The settlement is a good one for the City, bringing successful finality to what has been a long ordeal.”

Both the Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal found in favour of the City of Guelph after SUBBOR launched a lawsuit against the City in 2003, claiming $32 million in damages for an alleged breach of contract. In 2007 the Court dismissed SUBBOR’s claim and awarded full costs to the City. The Court of Appeal upheld the Superior Court’s decision and the awarding of costs against SUBBOR and Eastern Power Limited. SUBBOR’s appeal was dismissed on all counts on June 16. The City of Guelph has already been awarded and has been paid $100,000 for its costs related to the appeal.

California Recycling Program is on The Rocks - WIH Resource Group

wihresourcegroup — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:32:45 +0000

For years California has courted a reputation as an eco-friendly, green-minded leader, but the state now finds its most basic program of recycling beverage bottles and cans mired in debt and litigation.

Dozens of supermarket recycling sites have shut down recently as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators spar over how to close a massive gap in the program’s budget. California’s 23-year-old recycling program, managed by the Department of Conservation through fees charged to beverage buyers, has been hurt this year by recession, rising redemption rates and raids of its coffers to help ease the state’s budget woes.

Schwarzenegger and the Democratic-controlled Legislature concede that the program, which collected more than 16 billion beverage containers last year, is in fiscal distress – but each has rejected the other’s solution. “This is an important program for California and we are currently looking at ways to improve funding in this down economy,” said Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Rachel Arrezola.

Mark Murray of Californians Against Waste, a nonprofit advocacy group, said consumers are going to find it increasingly difficult to recycle their beverage containers. “The net result is likely to be a drop in the recycling rate,” he said. Shoppers remain entitled to their nickel or dime deposits for returning glass, plastic or aluminum beverage containers, but many consumers could be forced to drive farther, wait longer or comply with shorter center operating hours.

The number of supermarket parking-lot recyclers has grown gradually in recent years to about 2,100. But two of the largest operators, Tomra Pacific and NexCycle, announced the shutdown of about 90 centers recently, laying off more than 100 workers. Tomra, which projects losses of $9 million this year, has joined with two other firms to sue the state, seeking to “stop the dismantling” of the program. Exacerbating problems, the scrap value of aluminum cans has plummeted in the past year, and the market for other containers has struggled.

“If consumers can no longer find convenient outlets for recycling used bottles and cans, they are more likely to go back to their old ways of discarding them in landfills – or worse, on streets, beaches and other property,” the lawsuit said. “This will essentially end the Recycling Program as we have known it,” the suit said.

By law, supermarkets not served by parking-lot recyclers are supposed to either pay the state $100 a day – only one store is doing so – or redeem the containers themselves, but many do not. In a telephone check of 15 such supermarkets Friday, only six accept empty cans and bottles.

Many supermarkets are not prepared to pick up the slack from closures of parking-lot recyclers because of the time it would take to count bags of containers and the health and safety implications of doing so where food is sold, said Dave Heylen of the California Grocers Association.

“It’s something that would be quite a hardship,” he said.

Department of Conservation officials declined to discuss Tomra’s lawsuit or allegations of harm. But state officials clearly are not trying to kill the program because both Schwarzenegger and the Democratic-controlled Legislature have tried to intervene, thus far unsuccessfully.

In May, state finance officials projected a $162 million deficit for the program by July 2010, which sparked across-the-board cuts that affected subsidies paid to collection centers but not to consumers who redeem beverages.

Schwarzenegger’s relief proposal focused on targeted cuts and on compressing subsidiary efforts, such as for public education and recycling incentives, into a new program of competitive grants.

The Legislature rejected Schwarzenegger’s plan during budget talks and crafted its own proposal, Senate Bill 402, which would have relied on expansion rather than contraction to bolster the program.

In vetoing SB 402, Schwarzenegger said that consumers would have been hurt by provisions to double the fee on 20-ounce sodas, from 5 to 10 cents, and to expand the kinds of beverages and types of containers accepted.

“I recognize that without this bill there is an immediate hardship,” his veto message said, but “the lasting effects of this bill are far worse.”

As a stopgap, Schwarzenegger said he would order emergency regulations to require beverage distributors to submit payments to the state every two months, not three, which is expected to generate a one-time infusion of about $100 million.

California’s recycling program partly has been a victim of its own success, because each redeemed container takes a nickel or dime from funds for subsidies, outreach or operational funds.

Redemption rates have risen from 67 percent in 2007 to 74 percent in 2008, and to 85 percent for the first six months of 2009.

Meanwhile, beverage sales from January to June were 325 million containers less – about 3 percent – than for the same time span in 2008.

Bottom line? Projected revenue has dropped by about $74 million the past year, from $1.15 billion to a projected $1.086 billion.

But Chuck Riegle of Tomra said the most painful blow was self-inflicted by the state: Politicians have raided recycling coffers, through loans, to help balance the state budget.

Tomra’s suit seeks to force repayment of about $415 million that otherwise would have been used for recycling.

Four times this decade, the state has borrowed beverage funds, most recently during the current fiscal year when more than $99 million was diverted to the state’s general fund.

The deadline for paying back $286 million borrowed in 2002 and 2003 initially was June 2009, but it was extended three years ago to 2013. Only $30 million has been repaid, records show.

In borrowing fee revenue, the state requires that no harm be done to the affected program, yet more than half of this year’s projected $162 million deficit consisted of the $99 million loan to bolster the state’s general fund.

Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association said the multiple raids on recycling funds, the lack of timely repayment and the harm caused to collection centers raise questions about whether fees were spent illegally.

“It changes what otherwise might be characterized as a legitimate fee into a tax of questionable legality,” Coupal said.

State finance spokesman H.D. Palmer disagreed, saying that the program was projected to have an $81 million balance when legislation was signed in February to borrow for the next fiscal year. Changing market conditions made the deficit evident months later, in a May budget revision, Palmer said.

“This is just one example of the dramatic fluctuations we’ve seen in the state’s fiscal picture as a result of the recession,” he said.

Schwarzenegger’s veto message for SB 402 said he supports repaying past loans and banning any future loans from recycling coffers to the state’s general fund.

Sources: Fresno Bee and WIH Resource Group

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"Clothes for the Community" Program Recycles Garments, Helps Neighbors

City of Santa Clarita — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:28:32 +0000

The City of Santa Clarita, Waste Management and the Salvation Army are inviting community members to participate in a new and innovative program called Clothes for Community. The new mobile clothing drive allows community members to donate their gently used clothing to those in need, while reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills.

There are two ways for community members to participate in Clothes for Community: drop-off or pick-up. For drop-off, residents may drop-off clothing to be donated at the specially-designated Salvation Army Drop Box, located at the Waste Management/Blue Barrel Yard at 25772 Springbrook Road, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays.

For more information on Clothes for Community, please contact Mark Patti with the City’s Environmental Services at (661) 286-4173.

Solid Waste Landfills are Producing Pipeline Quality Natural Gas - WIH Resource Group

wihresourcegroup — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:12:40 +0000

With improved processing technologies and attractive natural gas prices, more landfills are producing pipeline-quality gas.

After several years of inactivity, the number of high-Btu landfill gas energy projects is increasing. Since 2006, 11 construction startups and three expansions of high-Btu projects have taken place, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP).

Today’s high-Btu projects employ the latest advancements in technology to remove carbon dioxide and other impurities from landfill gas, resulting in a gas that is more than 95 percent methane and has a heating value equivalent to natural gas. Recent improvements in technology and higher returns on the finished gas have made high-Btu projects a viable option for more landfills — including facilities with lower gas flows.

Ordinary landfill gas consists of roughly 50 percent methane — which is the primary component of natural gas — 50 percent carbon dioxide, a small amount of nonmethane organic compounds (NMOCs) and other trace impurities. Removing the carbon dioxide and other impurities from landfill gas doubles its heating value, making it comparable to natural gas, which has a heating value of 1,025 Btu per cubic feet (ft3) to 1,095 Btu/ft3.

High-Btu landfill gas is most often injected directly into natural gas pipelines. Once in the pipeline, the gas blends with the natural gas and is distributed to a gas utility’s customers.

The Trends

Up until 2006, the growth of high-Btu projects was flat, averaging around one startup or expansion per year, as illustrated in Figure 1 on p. 46. In 2007, however, the number of startups and expansions began to grow steadily. In fact, 18 of the 25 high-Btu projects operating as of August 2009 were started or expanded during the last three years. LMOP expects a total of 10 projects to begin operation in 2009, including five that have come on line already. (Those five are Oak Grove Landfill in Winder, Ga.; Live Oak Landfill in Conley, Ga.; Carter Valley Landfill in Church Hill, Tenn.; Greenwood Farms Landfill in Tyler, Texas; and Turnkey Recycling & Environmental Enterprises in Rochester, N.H.)

In 2007, the Rumpke SLF Landfill in Cincinnati completed a $15 million expansion of its high-Btu processing plant, which began operating at the site in 1986. The expansion increased the processing of landfill gas from 9 million cubic feet per day (mmft3/day) to 15 mmft3/day. According to Rick O’Mahony, vice president of operations of Pittsburgh-based Montauk Energy, which is the developer and owner/operator of the plant, the plant was expanded to take advantage of increasing volumes of landfill gas. “We could either flare the gas at some marginal cost or expand the plant to provide increased gas processing with the associated sales of high-Btu gas to the gas utility,” says O’Mahony, who has helped develop six high-Btu landfill gas projects.

The three key factors that have contributed to the recent growth of high-Btu landfill gas projects are low wholesale electricity prices, high natural gas wholesale prices and improvements in gas separation technologies.

Wholesale prices for electricity and natural gas significantly affect which type of project will be profitable. Over the last several years, national wholesale electricity prices have been relatively steady, as illustrated in Figure 2 on p. 46. Meanwhile, natural gas prices have increased significantly since 2001 (see Figure 3 on p. 46). When natural gas prices rose from 2005 through 2008 — approaching $9 per million Btus — many landfills were able to pursue high-Btu projects.

Improvements in technology also have helped spur the growth of high-Btu landfill gas projects by making these projects feasible at landfills that provide less than 3,000 standard cubic feet per minute (scfm) of landfill gas. For example, manufacturers have reduced the cost to build gas-processing equipment and have reduced pressure requirements, which have decreased operating costs.

David Mauney, an experienced landfill gas project developer and consultant with The Hunter Group, explains how high-Btu projects are not just for larger landfills any more. “Initially, high-Btu projects required at least 3,000 scfm. But with improvements in the technology today, you can go as low as 1,500 to 2,000 scfm.” LMOP has recorded at least 10 high-Btu projects at landfills that provided less than 3,000 scfm of landfill gas to the project.

Meeting the Specifications

Landfill gas must be thoroughly cleaned and upgraded before it can be sold to a natural gas utility. To meet the typical specifications for pipeline-quality landfill gas (see chart on p. 48), several steps are required.

The final step, carbon dioxide removal, is the main component of a high-Btu project. This is because carbon dioxide constitutes approximately half of the raw landfill gas, and its removal requires specialized separation equipment. Removal of NMOCs, hydrocarbons and siloxanes often is achieved concurrently with carbon dioxide removal. To create pipeline quality gas, a combination of technologies may be necessary, depending on the composition of the landfill gas. Here are the four steps to creating pipeline quality gas:

Minimize oxygen and nitrogen.To minimize nitrogen and oxygen levels, a landfill may need to upgrade its gas collection system to prevent air intrusion. Landfill gas collection systems operate under a vacuum, and oxygen and nitrogen from the atmosphere can be drawn through the surface of the landfill and into the gas collection system. Air intrusion can be minimized by adjusting well vacuums and repairing leaks in the landfill cover.
Remove moisture.To remove moisture, many landfills employ a chiller or desiccant. Compressing and cooling the landfill gas further removes moisture. For high-Btu projects, removing the moisture (measured as water vapor) prevents interference with the subsequent compression and separation processes.
Remove hydrogen sulfide.Hydrogen sulfide can be removed using liquid absorption, either with chemical or physical solvents and usually in a continuous process, or through adsorption on a solid reactant product in a batch process.
Remove carbon dioxide.Four carbon dioxide removal technologies, described below, have been applied at landfills in the United States: scrubbing, membrane separation, molecular sieve (pressure swing adsorption) and CO2Wash.

Scrubbing uses a solvent that preferentially absorbs carbon dioxide and other gases into the liquid phase (also known as liquid absorption or physical solvent treating). Early high-Btu plants relied primarily on scrubbing technology, including the plants at the Fresh Kills Landfill in New York City and the McCarty Road Landfill in Houston, both of which began operations in the 1980s.

For these projects, large-scale cleanup technology was built on site, modeled after natural gas processing plants. Significant capital was required to build the processing plants and compress the landfill gas to appropriate pressure levels — 600 pounds-force per square inch gauge (psig). Scrubbing technology has therefore been applied historically at high-volume landfills that could generate enough gas (i.e., greater than 6,000 scfm) to ensure long-term returns. Recent technology advancements, however, have lowered the pressure requirements to around 400 psig and made smaller projects (those less than 3,000 scfm) possible.

One of the first applications of a gas treatment system on a smaller scale occurred at the Johnson County Landfill in Shawnee, Kan., in 2001. The landfill installed a modular scrubbing plant on a skid, specifically developed for smaller applications. According to the project developer, South Tex Renewables, the skid-mounted design is less expensive and easier to install and operate than previous technology. Pressure requirements are 400 psig. LMOP’s national database shows that five physical solvent high-Btu landfill gas projects have come on line since 2000 at landfills with gas flow as low as 1,000 scfm.

With membrane separation, different gases pass through porous membranes at different rates based on molecule size, allowing for the separation of compounds. Carbon dioxide passes through the membrane approximately 20 times faster than methane. In the past, a drawback to this technology’s application in the landfill gas industry was that pressure of around 600 psig was required to push the carbon dioxide through the membranes. Recent technology advancements, however, have lowered the pressure requirements to around 200 psig, thereby making smaller project sizes (less than 3,000 scfm) possible.

Membrane separation is relatively easy to operate and maintain. LMOP’s national database shows that nine of the high-Btu projects that started up since 2000 use membrane separation technology to remove carbon dioxide. More than half of those projects use technology that consists of a pre-treatment skid to remove NMOCs and a series of membrane modules to remove carbon dioxide and some oxygen.

Molecular sieve (pressure swing adsorption) uses vapor phase activated carbon for NMOC removal and a molecular sieve for carbon dioxide removal. The molecular sieve media preferentially adsorbs carbon dioxide on the media surface. When the media is loaded with carbon dioxide, the molecular sieve is taken off line, and the media is regenerated through a depressurization and purge cycle. (The process is therefore often referred to as pressure swing adsorption or PSA.) Molecular sieve media that selectively remove nitrogen also are available. PSAs can achieve some incidental oxygen removal. Four projects that started up or expanded in 2007 and 2008 use PSA, including the Rumpke Landfill in Cincinnati.

CO2Wash is a patented process that uses liquid carbon dioxide obtained from landfill gas as a solvent. After moisture removal and compression, landfill gas moves upward through a three-story column. Refrigeration at the top of the column condenses the carbon dioxide into liquid form. A portion of the liquid carbon dioxide washes down the column, cleansing volatile organic contaminants from the gas. The process produces two products: food-grade carbon dioxide (meaning the gas is 99.99 percent carbon dioxide) and medium-Btu gas (70 percent methane) that is virtually free of siloxanes and volatile organic compounds. The medium-Btu gas can be used as fuel, or it can undergo membrane processing to produce high-Btu gas.

Looking Ahead

The price of natural gas will continue to influence the number of new high-Btu projects. For 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts an average annual price of $4.67 per million Btus, and for 2010, $5.87 per million Btus. Beyond 2010, EIA projects a steady increase, nearing $8 per million Btus by 2020.

Two new projects have already come on line in 2009, with six more expected. The upcoming projects employ three different carbon removal technologies: scrubbing, membrane, and molecular sieve. Developers and technology providers will continue to demonstrate and refine the technology, paving the way for even more projects at landfills of all sizes.

What is LMOP?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) promotes landfill gas as a renewable local energy resource. As of June 2009, LMOP has encouraged and facilitated the development of approximately 410 landfill gas (LFG) energy projects since the voluntary program’s inception in 1994. These projects have prevented the release of more than 33.8 million metric tons of carbon equivalent into the atmosphere over the past 14 years. This reduction has the same environmental benefit as preventing the carbon dioxide emissions that would result from the consumption of nearly 197 million barrels of oil.

As of December 2008, more than 790 LMOP Partners have signed voluntary agreements to work with EPA to help promote and advance LFG energy. Today, approximately 480 LFG energy projects are operating nationwide, and about 130 projects are under construction or development. LMOP estimates that roughly 520 additional landfills present attractive opportunities for project development.

Sources: Waste Age Magazine and WIH Resource Group

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goodwillrocs — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:26 +0000

When you donate to ABVI-Goodwill you help our environment!

ABVI-Goodwill helps keep over 2 million pounds of unwanted clothing and household items out of local landfills each year. Our partnership with Waste Management also helps reduce waste of recyclable materials. You even help us create jobs when we repurpose donated materials into quality merchandise that is manufactured for sale in our stores.

We also offer Reconnect, a free program to recycle unwanted computers, in partnership with Dell. We now accept any brand of computer equipment in any condition at each of our eight Goodwill stores. Our goal is to divert more than 300,000 pounds of computer equipment from landfills each year.

The Workhorses of Waste - MSW Management Magazine and WIH Resource Group

wihresourcegroup — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:44:58 +0000

It’s been said that the cowboys working the range would pamper their mustangs and often neglect their own comfort for the sake of their workhorses. They made sure that the horses got clean water while the cowboys drank brackish water. The horses were given sweet grass to eat while their riders made do with a cold plate of beans. The cowpokes sacrificed their own well being for the sake of their mounts. And they did so with good reason: Their livelihoods (even their lives) depended on the care of their horses.

The waste industry has its own workhorses, the waste collection vehicles, and they come in various “breeds.” Like the cowboys of old, their riders perform a physically demanding, gritty, unappreciated but absolutely necessary job. Hollywood portrayals notwithstanding, cowboys back in the day were not glamorous; they were workingmen like everyone else. Being a cowboy was a tough way to make a living, something modern waste collectors can appreciate. And like the cowboys of the past, today’s waste collectors need the appropriate mounts with the right capabilities in order to do their jobs.

Basic Types of Vehicles
There are three basics types of waste collection vehicles and three specialized types. Each services a different kind of customer: industrial, residential, recycling, or specialized. The three basic types are classified by the location and manner of their loading operation and include front loaders, rear loaders, and side loaders. The two specialized collection vehicles collect either with a vacuum attachment or with a grappler arm. The third specialized type is classified according to the overall function of recycling.

Front loaders (not to be confused with front-end loaders used for earthmoving and stockpile material management) are used to collect waste from dumpsters that collect and temporarily store debris that is typically generated by businesses, retail operations, restaurants, and industry. These trucks combine a forklift with a waste hopper for containment during transport. As the truck approaches a dumpster, it inserts its fork lift arms into metal loops designed for the purpose and located on either side of the dumpster box. Once secured, the forklift arms lift the box up and over the truck cab, turning it upside down as it goes. The top of the dumpster will fall open and allow its contents to spill into the hopper below. Once emptied, the forklift arms return the now empty dumpster back to its position on the ground. Inside the hopper, the waste is compacted by a “packer blade” that pushes the waste back to the rear of the hopper. This increases its density and opens up more free space for the next load. Trucks that are equipped with “pack and go” hydraulics, have superior operational efficiency since the truck can be compacting waste as it moves to its next pickup, removing delays as the truck would wait motionless until the compaction process was completed.

Rear loaders typically accept residential waste from individual trash cans that are emptied manually into the rear of the truck. These trucks are usually serviced by a small crew consisting of the driver and two or more loaders. They are designed to take and compact smaller individual loads of waste, compared with the large bulk loads handled by the front loaders. Partially automated loading systems are available in addition to manual loading. Waste containers larger than the typical waste cans (often referred to as toters) can be lifted and dumped by an auxiliary loading mechanism. Sometimes this loading mechanism consists of a special grove slot in the truck that is sized to receive a standardized waste container. A chain that tightens and wraps itself around the waste container can then lift and tilt it to empty the contents into the back of the truck. No matter how the waste is loaded, it gets compacted within the truck. This is done by means of a hydraulically powered sweep-and-slide blade that shifts out and down to position itself for compaction and then sweeps the waste forward to the front of the tuck. This action effectively compacts the loaded waste and frees up space in the back end for additional loading.

Automated side loaders are collection trucks that pick up intermediate-size mobile garbage bins. Some models have mechanical arms that can reach out 9 feet from the side of the truck to grab adjacent bins. The arm is operated from within the cab by a joystick and is articulated so that it can be operated around obstacles. This allows the entire waste collection effort to be performed by a single worker instead of the typical driver and one to two loaders required by less-advanced collection vehicles.

Recycling trucks are a kind of specialized vehicle used by standard hauling routes. They are designed to manage source-separated waste, collecting and hauling it to a local multistream (“clean”) materials recovery facility (MRF). However, since most waste collection operations nowadays also include a pickup of source-separated recyclable materials, recycling trucks have become an integral part of the standard waste collection vehicle fleet. No compaction is typically performed in these trucks either, but they do come with multiple (usually four) containers, each of which holds a different kind of source-separated waste.

Pneumatic collection trucks are specialized vehicles equipped with flexible pneumatic tubes controlled and positioned by attached cranes or booms. The engines of these trucks can be used to generate a suction force that applies negative pressure to the mouth of the tube. The tube is positioned over an opening (typically a hole to an underground storage unit) and proceeds to suck up the waste into the holding tank on the back of the truck. The tube’s flexibility allows for effective operation even around nearby obstacles.

Grapple trucks are another type of specialized waste collector used primarily in large-scale industrial and recycling activities. These trucks come equipped with a hydraulically operated boom serviced by a clamshell bucket or an orange-peel grapple. The boom reaches out to an adjacent pile of debris or large and heavy waste items and grabs them with the grappling attachment. The oversized waste is then deposited into a dump container on the back of the truck for hauling offsite. Given the size, weight, and irregularity of the waste handled by grapple trucks, they do not typically compact their waste loads during transit.

Operational Characteristics
Standard waste collection vehicles perform two functions: They haul waste to the final disposal site, and they compact each load of waste to increase its density and reduce overall hauling costs. The municipal solid waste deposited at a landfill has a density of 550 to over 650 pounds per cubic yard (approximately 20 to 25 pounds per cubic foot). This is the result of compaction within the truck during collection operations as the truck’s hydraulic blades compress waste that has a typical density of 10 to 15 pounds per cubic foot at the curbside. The in-vehicle compaction effort should approximately double the density and half the volume of the collected waste. However, these values are rough averages only and can vary considerably given the irregular and heterogeneous nature of municipal solid waste.

Holding capacity varies according to make and type of truck. Effective capacity may be reduced by the use of multiple storage hoppers (as in recycling trucks) or due to the nature of the collection apparatus (as with the pneumatic hose) or the physical characteristics of the waste itself (such as large sized, uncompactable debris managed by grapple trucks). Front-end loaders tend to be larger, with body storage capacities of 30 cubic yards to 40 cubic yards. Rear-end loader capacities range from 11 cubic yards to 31 cubic yards, with 25 cubic yards being typical. Side-loader capacities are somewhat smaller still, from 6 cubic yards to 28 cubic yards.

The operational lifetime of a waste collection vehicle is not that much different than for any other similar truck chassis or vehicle performing similar functions (such as dump trucks). The key to prolonging the life of a waste collection vehicle is to perform regular maintenance and repairs as needed. Like similar trucks in a rough-use environment, special care has to be made to the drive trains in general and the transmissions in particular. Aside from the accumulated effects of constant stopping and starting along the collection route, the only real difficult operational environment for a waste collection truck is at the landfill itself. Judging by the extensive resale market for waste collection vehicles, a properly maintained truck can expect an extensive operational lifetime (often for more than a decade or two). But as the saying goes: “It ain’t the years, it’s the mileage.”

Typical capital costs vary with the type of waste collection vehicle being acquired. Standard vehicles managing commingled municipal solid waste can cost from $110,000 to $140,000 per truck for manual rear loaders or $115,000 to $140,000 per truck for mechanically operated front loaders and side loaders. Recycling trucks with the standard four separate waste compartments can run from $120,000 to $140,000 per truck (all costs from Handbook of Solid Waste Management, Kreith and Tchobanoglous, 2002; with costs adjusted to the Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index of 6,500).

The operations and maintenance costs can vary considerably, depending on the length of the collection routes, the number of stops made along the route, and the tonnage collected on each route. It isn’t the continuous running of the truck that causes wear and tear; it’s the repetitive stops and starts required by waste collection operations. These are what wear down the brakes, transmission, et cetera. Annual O&M costs are measured in terms of dollars per ton each year. Operating costs also include the labor costs associated with the driver and the loaders (for non-automated collection vehicles). Typical O&M costs for collecting commingled municipal solid waste range from $50 to $70 per ton. Being more labor intensive with the handling requirements for multiple wastestreams, the collection of source-separated recyclable materials can vary from $100 to $140 per ton.

There is an old saying in the waste industry that “You don’t make money picking waste up; you make money by putting it back down again.” Given the labor-intensive requirements of waste collection operations (even with automated loaders) versus the capital-intensive requirements of landfill construction and operations, it is easy to see why this is so. The costs of collecting and hauling wastes can be determined in a relatively straightforward manner (e.g., truck miles or labor hours) and vary mostly with population density. The more densely populated the area being serviced by a waste collection vehicle fleet, the lower the O&M costs due to less wasted transit time spent traveling between stops. Operations at the landfill where the waste is disposed are unique in that they combine relatively high upfront capital costs (associated with permitting and constructing the landfill itself) and relatively low operating costs. Therefore, it is often best to treat the two operations as separate cost centers for the purposes of accounting.

Major Makes and Models
One of the biggest names in heavy-duty trucks, Mack Trucks, has an extensive line of waste collection vehicles. The design of its TerraPro Series is based on the successful MR and LE Series, with an emphasis on operator comfort and ergonomically designed workflow to maximize productivity. The flexible design of the TerraPro Series can accommodate front-loader, side-loader, and rear-loader applications. Equipped with a diesel particulate filter, the TerraPro series runs cleaner than its predecessors. The TerraPro Cabover model is the industry’s leading seller and is augmented by the versatile Low Entry model. Designed for rugged use, the Cabover optimizes maneuverability with a small turning radius. It comes equipped with a 300-horsepower engine delivering more than 1,200 foot-pounds of torque to an eight-speed transmission.

Mack’s Low Entry waste collection vehicle is the result of comprehensive customer research and engineering redesign of traditional waste collection concepts. Its design combines an in-cab control Link with a back-of-cab body link system serving as quick connection, bodybuilder interfaces. This allows for flexibility in body installation, allowing for the use of side-loader or rear-loader systems. Its 300-horsepower engine delivers over 1,200 foot-pounds of torque to a six-speed transmission.

In an industry dedicated to protecting human health and the environment, it’s surprising that more manufacturers don’t “go green.” Well that is exactly what Volvo has done with its new Volvo FE Hybrid waste collection vehicle. Volvo plans to put this newly developed diesel-electric hybrid into full production later this year. Waste collection vehicles constantly stop and start as they make their way around collection routes. In doing so, they become big wasters of fuel as they sit around idling while the waste is being loaded. Volvo’s simple hybrid design includes a 320-horsepower diesel engine with a 120-kW lithium-ion electric battery and motor. The electric motor can power the truck up to speeds of 12 miles per hour and will receive energy recharges every time the truck hits its brakes. Initial estimates indicate that the new trucks will use 20% less fuel with a proportional reduction in emissions.

In step with Volvo is Peterbilt’s (a division of PACCAR Inc.) new hydraulic hybrid Model 320 HLA, equipped with hydraulic launch assist (HLA) technology developed by the Eaton Corp. HLA works by recovering up to 75% of the energy normally lost to waste heat while braking. This system captures braking energy and stores it as pressurized hydraulic fluid in an onboard accumulator, instead of an eclectic battery. The fluid is then used to help propel the truck when the driver gets it back under way. Not only can the compressed fluid drive the vehicle at low speeds, it can also provide an 18% improvement in acceleration efficiencies. Early estimates indicate that the reductions in emissions and fuel consumption by the Model 320 are significant. Furthermore, the use of a hydraulic hybrid system results in a 50% reduction in annual brake realignment maintenance requirements. “The Model 320 HLA is an ideal environmental option for refuse applications,” says Bill Jackson, Peterbilt general manager and PACCAR vice president. “Dramatic improvements in fuel economy, reductions in emissions, and lower maintenance costs spotlight the Peterbilt Model 320 Hydraulic Hybrid as the environmentally responsible, fuel-efficient solution for municipal and residential solid waste transportation fleets. These fleets operate in some of the most demanding of truck applications, often making 800 to 1,200 stops per day on collection routes.”

Peterbilt’s traditional Model 320 is ergonomically designed for driver comfort. A removable three-frame cross-member allows for ease of service. Power trains are available in either front-mounted or transmission-driven configurations. Optional frame liners are available for heavier applications (like hauling concrete and bric-a-brac from construction-and-demolition debris. It offers a full range of axle selections in single, tandem, or tri-drive configurations, plus a full complement of tag and pusher axle option. The Model 320 is available in a variety of configurations with a full range of options for the refuse, construction, and inner-city hauling markets. It comes equipped with a 306- to 470-horsepower engine delivering power to an 8- or 13-speed transmission. The various combinations of options allows for customized applications for specific operations.

International’s Durastar waste collection vehicles are designed and built for simplicity and endurance with minimal downtime. The integrated wiring design of its Diamond Logic electrical system utilizes 40% less wiring than standard waste truck electrical systems. This reduces the need for maintenance and the potential for repair. Well-planned, synchronized service intervals further reduce maintenance costs. Durastar’s MaxxForce DT engine provides up to 9% to 13% improvement in fuel economy. This fuel-injected V6 engine provides the industry’s best combination of horsepower and torque.

Freightliner’s Business Class M2 series of waste collection trucks provides flexible configurations based on four models. These trucks are designed to support a wide variety of bodies and chassis-mounted equipment. This can come with MBE900 engines that can deliver up to 350 horsepower, and with wheelbases that provide a tight 55-degree wheel cut for ease of maneuverability. The MS models can come with either manual or automatic transmissions from Mercedes-Benz, Eaton Fuller, or Allison, along with Freightliner’s Smart Shift option. The multiplex wiring system reduces the number of wires by nearly 50%, and comes with color-coding and ServiceLink diagnostic tools for ease of maintenance and repair. The most versatile of these models is the M2 106V, providing front engine power-train operation housed in front frame extensions. These frame extensions come in increments of 6 inches, 12 inches, or 24 inches.

The Crane Carrier Corp. (CCC) provides both a packaged front loader (PFL) and a packaged side loader (PSL) model waste collection vehicle. Utilizing a Cummins ISC-260 engine delivering 258–800 horsepower to an Allison transmission, the PSL model carries waste storage bodies ranging in size from 25 cubic yards to 37 cubic yards. It is built on the company’s standard low-entry tilt chassis.

As the only ISO 9000–certified domestic refuse body manufacturer in America, Heil provides a full range of refuse collection vehicles (front loaders, rear loaders, side loaders, and recyclers). Its front loaders come with a patented clamp-on arm that reduces maintenance by 70% and comes standard on its Half Pack and Half Pack Sierra front loaders. The Sierra is a lightweight version of the standard Half Pack, with all of the features and performance characteristics of the Half Pack but with 13% less gross body weight. The 40-cubic-yard Half Pack Sierra weighs just 16,700 pounds versus 19,300 pounds for the same size standard Half Pack body. Both bodies offer payloads up to 1,200 pounds per cubic yard, a packer cycle time of 22 to 26 seconds, and arm cycle times of 18 to 20 seconds. Rear loaders are represented by Heil’s Formula series trucks (4000, 4060 SB, and 5000). They come in a variety of sizes from 11 to 32 yards, with an optional narrow body version also available. The SB is a split-body model with a dual tailgate refuse or recycling rear loader. It has separate compartments and independent unloading capability.

A greater diversity is provided in Heil’s side loaders. The original Square Body is the loader designed for Class 7 and Class 8 tucks ranging in size form 18 to 33 cubic yards. The Durapack is a high-compaction version with somewhat higher capacity ranging from 26 to 33 yards. With its exceptionally long-reach arm, Heil’s Rapid Rail is the company’s original model automated side loader. The Starr system is a trailer version of the Rapid Rail with a very small turning radius, and the Co-Collector is a split-body version. For designated routes where full-size collection vehicles cannot go (small alleys and narrow roads), Heil has its Retriever class of small side loaders. For recycling application, Heil provides the Recycle 2000. With its two-commodity compaction recycling body for tandem trucks, it is loaded from side-mounted buckets.

McNeilus, a manufacturer of concrete trucks as well as refuse trucks, provides a complete ensemble of rear, front, and side loaders. The company’s front loaders come in the matched Atlantic and Pacific models. The Atlantic has AR-450 abrasion-resistant sidewalls and an arm capacity of 10,000 pounds. The Pacific is designed to meet tougher weight laws out on the West Coast. The company’s line of automated side loaders greatly increases waste collection operational efficiencies. A more flexible version is the Manual/Automated side loader that also allows for manual rear loading. The McNeilus Standard rear loader has a packing cycle of only 16 seconds, significantly increasing the speed of operations. The Tag Axle version has the rear axle built into the tailgate, creating better weight distribution to all three axles. The Heavy Duty version is suitable for large loads and commercial waste pickups. The XC Extra Compaction is the extreme limit of waste compaction capabilities, allowing for more tonnage per load of waste. The large-scale vehicles are augmented by the cost effective Metro-Pak and the smaller, more agile McNeilus M5.

Autocar LLC builds and supports Class 8 LCF refuse trucks. Running both on diesel and on natural gas, the Autocar E3 Advanced Hydraulic Hybrid Drive has the best overall strength-to-weight ratio in the industry. Equipped with a Cummins 345-horsepower engine that delivers 1,150 foot-pounds of torque, the E3 has a wide range of vehicle and body configurations. The company’s new E3 Hybrid stores energy from braking and provides 50% fuel savings and reduced emissions.

GS Products delivers a family of mobile solid waste and recycling equipment and highly specialized collection equipment, including its MP-8000 Sideloader, 6000 Side Dump, 5000 Top Loader, and 3000 End Dump. Based on proven design concepts and readily available parts, its goal is to produce durable, easy-to-maintain machines.

Sources: MSW Management Magazine and WIH Resource Group

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kameronlombard — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:02:56 +0000

waking this morning i looked out and realized that it was recycle day. littered up and down my street were the beautiful bright blue extra large containers filled with recyclable goods to be turned back into usable resources. it made me think of how much trash we all collect over a week’s period of time that literally people can fill both a full trash container that has wheels on it as well as a recycle container to match. at least that’s the way it works in my neighborhood.

we never think though about not emptying out the trash as it fills up. perhaps some do not think enough about the environment to fill the recycle bin well enough, but hey we are making progress. yet in life it seems so different.

we often times will allow trash to build up over time like hoarders and never deal with the problems and issues in our own hearts and minds. we simply sweep it under the rug, push it into a closet, or set it in the junk drawers of our lives. what kind of trash. trash like rejection, hurt, disappointment, and basically offenses we’ve caused or have taken on.

as these build they can lead to an overall sense of resentment, bitterness, and regret about our lives and others. holding our own life’s environment in such a way leads to a toxic life. un-forgiveness towards ourselves for our past and to others for what they have done to us is a killer in our soul. just like we have weekly trash build up that must be recycled, so also we must in our own lives deal with the trash that will constantly try to build up in our lives. letting go of our past and letting others go free of the debt they owe us by what they may have done to us.

one method i’ve found helpful is a very simple process. when i’ve felt hurt over something or rejected and it doesn’t seem to just roll off my back in a day or so i sometimes do the following. at least in my head but more effective it is on paper. in yoda lingo.

1. write it down – something short or long. what is the hurt and who is responsible.

2. pray it through – ask God to forgive us for holding the grudge and forgive those who’ve hurt us. ask him to heal that area of our heart.

3. rip it up – literally! rip up the piece of paper. like ripping up a paid bill, no longer needed.

4. throw it far - trash it! the Bible says that God forgives us and cast our sins as far as the east is from the west. in the same way we are loved, we are to love others.

if we were the offender and regret is the feeling it may also simply be good to go back and say those simple yet hard words. “I’m sorry, I was wrong.”

simple i know. but very often it has been just what i needed to get rid of some of the trash of rejection, regret, hurt, disappointment, and insert your word here: ____________ cleaned up in my own life.

recycle our environment,

kameron

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The Admiral — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:58:50 +0000

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Recently, Neel Metal Fanalca began a process of ostensible source-segregation of waste in its areas of operation in Chennai. I have had the benefit of examining the whole thing personally, in Kodambakkam.

Apparently under pressure to show source segregation of waste, NMF issued polythene bags to residents for storage of recyclable waste. The organic waste is to be handed over to the personnel of NMF each morning and evening, during one-hour window periods. The waste collector attracts the attention of residents by blowing a whistle repeatedly. The plan is farcical in the way it is implemented, though.

1. There is no downstream system to manage the waste. The organic waste is not composted as a measure of ‘disposal’, as required by the Chennai Corporation’s contract with NMF, but is simply shifted to the dumping ground.

2. No plan exists for recyclable waste. I found, for instance, that NMF personnel simply sell the waste to local ‘raddi’ shops in the vicinity, simply displacing the waste from their own bin to the street in front of the waste shop.

3. Waste in the form of CFL and tubelights (containing small amounts of mercury), batteries, other household chemicals are being dumped along with the organic waste.

In addition, the NMF crews also want the residents to put up their own waste bins in their respective apartment blocks or houses. This is a difficult proposal to implement, even if it was sound in other respects, which it is not for the reasons stated in 1 to 3 above.

Disappointingly, Exnora International, which launched citizen-led initiatives in the 1980s to compost waste, is now a partner in the NMF scheme. This may be good in principle, but Exnora has not been given any solid role in deciding the waste management plan. What is more, EI is also relegating sustainable waste management to the back-burner by going along with the NMF model.

Time for the citizenry to ask the Chennai Corporation some searching questions, rather than treat waste as someone else’s problem.

Despite Economy, Waste-by-Rail Interest is on the Rise by both the Private Sector and Public Agencies

wihresourcegroup — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:51:03 +0000

Most recently, WIH Resource Group has been contacted and retained by a range of public and private sector clients to assist in performing wastebyrail feasibility studies, facility siting studies, waste generator radius market studies and to conduct financial analysis for various clients throughout the nation.

While waste volumes are down on average between 25% and 35%, a growing interest in railroading waste from large metro areas (Cities) to more remote rail-served, or near rail- served, landfills is on the rise.

The timing of this renewed interest in Wastebyrail is interesting as general freight volumes for the major Class One Railroads are down considerable so the railroads’ interest in potential Wastebyrail programs might be of greater interest now then when other freight is maximizing the railroads’ system capacity.

Of particular interest is that Investor mogul Warren Buffett and his investing company, Berkshire Hathaway, made a bid last week to acquire BNSF Railway for $34 billion.

Berkshire Hathaway already owned about 22 percent of BNSF, the nation’s second largest Class One railroad.

The deal, which including Berkshire’s previous investment and the assumption of $10 billion in Burlington Northern debt brings the total value to $44 billion, represents what Mr. Buffett said was a big bet on the United States Railroads.

He told CNBC in an interview that railroad operators cannot do well unless American businesses were producing goods and customers were buying them.

This move by Buffett will most likely spur even more interests in railroad transportation. Railroad transportation compared to Trucking allows for an approximate 3:1 ratio of weight and volume per rail car to that of an individual truck. By comparison, and on a per ton calculation, rail emits a much smaller percentage of harmful diesel-fuel carcinogens than that of trucking. In addition, the cost for rail transportation is almost a third to that of trucking costs for the same traffic lane.

In terms of the future of Wastebyrail, it makes the most economic sense when regional disposal rates exceed $65-$75.00 per ton, such as in the Northeast part of the U.S. and Northwest, and where the nearest regional rail-served landfill is between 250-350 miles one way from the waste generators. Seattle, Los Angeles, New York and New Jersey are a few examples of where Wastebyrail makes sound economic sense, especially as siting new landfills is increasingly more difficult in large metropolitan areas.

WIH Resource Group is a leader in Providing Client Specific Recycling and Waste Management Solutions. WIH Resource Group provides its clients with recycling and comprehensive business solutions, specializing in, among other services, waste management operational performance assessments, transportation / logistics, alternative fuel use, solid waste planning, waste and recycling market studies and environmental services.

WIH Resource Group also has in-depth experience in assessing needs and enhancing recycling programs. WIH Resource Group and its unique team have extensive program background and experience assisting local government clients assessing and optimizing their recycling programs.

As an example, in the past WIH has completed multi-facility Material Recovery Facility (MRF) performance assessments for King County, Washington and recently completed assisting Apache County Arizona in conducting a recycling feasibility study.

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Waste is worse than loss ~ Thomas Edison

waltwang08 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:28:10 +0000

Fight Food Waste in the Home, originally uploaded by jbloom

Food waste is one of the main sources of greenhouse gases, particularly methane, which is more dangerous to the environment and traps more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Canadian author, chef, and food blogger, Dana McCauley, points out that one-quarter to one-third of the food we waste is unopened or whole or untouched and suggests that we too often buy more than we need. In an attempt to be “a better earthling,” she now separates loaves of sliced bread and freezes what she won’t be using within a day or two. “By doing this I should be able to divide my sliced bread expenditures by at least half, saving about $75 a year…I’ve sent the $75 I plan to save to the World Food Programme’s Silent Tsunami Fund which hopes to ‘reach the millions of people who, six months ago, were not even considered ‘hungry’ but, today, are fast becoming the new face of hunger.’

More Dana McCauley at danamccauley.wordpress.com.

Government, Backed into a Corner on Public Incinerator Concerns, Pushes Back

ebalkan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:20:53 +0000

Beijing municipal officials recently announced plans to continue with seven incinerator projects in the Beijing area, despite protests of nearby residents.

As we have reported before, Beijing’s trash is growing at approximately 8% annually, though the city is capable of treating just over half of what it tosses. Currently, 90% of Beijing’s solid municipal waste is sent to area landfills.

Though source waste reduction, improved recycling programs and more active resident seperation are among the many options available for addressing the problem, local and central level officials have prioritized the building of more incineration plants as their preferred approach.

This stance, combined with a lack of regulatory oversight and monitoring necessary to ensure the plants’ safety and environmental standards, has stirred dissatisfaction among local residents, and prompted vocal protests unseen in years past.

Incinerators – Clean or Dirty? Friend or Foe?

The thought of burning trash hardly seems ecological or pleasant to the nose, and expert opinions vary as to whether they are part of a sustainable path of development.

That said, advanced facilities are capable of meeting even the most stringent emissions standards; contribute little apparent smell to the community in which they are located; and can even produce energy as a biproduct, making the plant a net negative energy consumer.

Plus, incinerators contribute to the mitigation of landfill methane gas, which has a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2.

Among the list of countries with advanced facilities in operation – which includes Austria, The Netherlands, Japan and France – is China. However, most facilities in China are not among the latest and greatest.

In Shenzhen, for example, though the Baoan incinerator produces almost no dioxin – the carcinogenic emission that often gives incinerators a bad name – it also costs ten times what incinerators across town cost to operate. Other, operationally cheaper plants, by contrast, can be smelled from a mile away and seen belching dark plumes of smoke into the air.

The topic at hand is not why have not China’s municipalities not set strict standards to mandate cleaner incinerators. Chinese cities such as Beijing and Shanghai have passed standards comparable with those in Europe. However, lacking enforcement and monitoring of operation in China has resulted in poorly performing incineration plants even in cities which have enacted strict local regulations.

Moreover, national standards permit dioxin levels ten times those permitted in the US by the Environmental Protection Agency. Foreign engineering firms cite China’s pollution-permissive legal framwork as their reason for not being more responsive to a surging demand for building incineration plants in China.

These factors combined have resulted in incineration plants which, in addition to posing an environmental threat, have also bred public distrust and resentment.

Public Outcry Becoming More Prevalent

As recently as a few years back, environmental justice was not something with which ordinary citizens normally got involved.

Whether because of higher income levels, property value concern, raised awareness, an amalgamation of these elements or something else altogether, China’s citizenry has become more vocal on environmental issues affecting local communities. Growing activism is especially apparent on the issue of incineration plants.

In the past two years, protests over planned incineration plants have broken out in major cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Panyu. (in Guangdong Province). Each of these cities’ protests resulted in planned projects being halted or altogether abandoned. In Xiamen, rally cries against a planned chemical plant overturned the project.

Government, Backed Into a Corner, Pushes Back

Despite a measure of recent success of citizens in defeating incineration plant construction and expansion, the mechanism for democratic governance is far from fully developed in China. Though local governments can no longer ignore public sentiment completely, they have not demonstrated a willingness to redraw waste management initiatives.

Just last week, Beijing government officials announced intentions to continue with seven planned incineration plants, slated to be built in the city’s residential neighborhoods, as part of a plan to build nine incineration plants in the Beijing by 2015.

The announcement came in spite of renewed concerns over incineration plants in the last few months.

Chen Ling, vice-director of the Beijing municipal commission of administration, was quick to address community concerns by avowing that the plants would not pose a health risk.

But a marred track record to date may speak louder than Chen’s promises.

Beijing’s one existing incinerator plant, built in 2002, was found in 2008 to be burning, on a daily basis, four times its designed capacity, and pumping 40% of its methane emissions in to the air, rather than capturing them for energy.

Beijing’s latest act demonstrates that though a corner has not been fully turned in terms of government responsiveness to public sentiment, it can neither act unilaterally, particularly on issues that affect daily quality of life. If the last few years’ of growing activism are any indication of what is to come, it would seem that the recent announcement is not the final word.

If you like what you see here, check out TALKING TRASH: Beijing.

nature naturally...

barbidoesmiami — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:31:42 +0000

here he comes again. i cant stand it anymore. i’m gonna cut his gas line. since nine this morning, there have been outside my window the following: man worker with noisy gas powered bush clipper cutting to shreds a perfectly lovely bush, half an hour later same worker with noisy gas powered lawn mower mowing 1″ high grass, half an hour later same worker with noisy gas powered weed whacker whacking 3/4″ grass, and an hour later another worker with noisy gas powered leaf blower blowing one visible and several microscopic leaves across the pavement. this process of curbing and preening nature takes at least two square inches out of the ozone layer, and therefore shortening the survival chances of nature by several what? Minutes? Hours? Years? but. this is what I find. some in miami think green is just a color. GREEN as a movement for sustainablity is not a prevailing concept. its a color that you cut and mow and whack and blow. hummers are STILL the car of choice for the rich and richer. recycling at my condo means separating your garbage and then having it all thrown together again by waste management so why bother. at publix, the local supermarket monopoly, the baggers give me a foul look when i bring my reusable set. i’m scared of those baggers. they yell at each other, so surely they’ll yell at me. the beach gets cleaned every day, morning and afternoon, by giant scoopers. this does not make anyone responsible for the crap thats left behind. THEY, a force which is not generally seen as another human, cleans it up and as a result waste is left where it was used in its process. parks, streets and shoulders are littered before THEY clean them up and what doesn’t get picked up in time ends up blown into the ocean or the canals, like floating publix bags, styrofoam cups, coke bottles, halloween candy wrappers, tide containers and so on. the city itself makes an enormous effort to keep miami clean, and it’s a beautiful city, but this process of constant cleaning and controlling of litter seems wasteful and doesn’t motivate individuals to take responsibility in creating a sustainable lifestyle. one that uses less and recycles and reuses more. this is my observation after six weeks, i’d love to be proven wrong, and will join any local group that is working to teach greener policies…

Manure Power: Dairies Harness Methane to Create Renewable Energy - WIH Resource Group

wihresourcegroup — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:32:42 +0000

The 2,600 cows at Vintage Dairy west of Fresno produce up to 140 tons of manure per day.

Four times a day, 5,000 gallons of water flush manure down the rows of the open-stall barns at Vintage Dairy – collecting about 90 percent of the waste. Photo by Jennifer Baldwin

David Albers is a third-generation dairy farmer, and environmental lawyer, and founder and CEO of BioEnergy Solutions. Photo by Jennifer Baldwin

Albers demonstrates the thickness of the polyurethane liner covering the anaerobic digestion lagoon at Vintage Dairy. His guests are students from Independence High School’s energy academy in Bakersfield. Photo by Jennifer Baldwin

The “scrubbing plant” at Vintage Dairy upgrades the biogas to high-quality methane that matches the purity of natural gas. The black tower on the left is the desulfurization tower and the white tower on the right burns off the carbon dioxide. Photo by Jennifer Baldwin

A red valve marks the spot where Pacific Gas & Electric Company takes title to the biomethane produced at Vintage Dairy. Photo by Jennifer Baldwin

David Albers knows the power of poop. Cow manure, that is. The third generation dairy farmer from Bakersfield has 2,600 cows producing about 130 tons of manure each day. But he prefers to count it differently.

“The way we’ve broken it down is, two cows can power one home each day. So our cows power about 1,300 homes.”

Just how does he make the leap from poop to power? Albers’ Vintage Dairy, located west of Fresno, is the first in the state of California – and one of the first in the nation – to capture the gas released from the decomposing manure, turn it into high-quality methane, and sell it directly to a power company as natural gas.

In his case, he injects the gas into a Pacific Gas & Electric Company line that runs through his property. The utility company pays Albers for the gas, then pipes it to an energy plant, where it is burned to produce electricity.

So not only does Albers make a profit as a dairy farmer, he also brings in income for creating and selling renewable energy. Furthermore, he’s helping to lessen the affects of global warming by reducing his dairy farm’s greenhouse gas emissions.

It’s a practice he believes in so wholeheartedly, he has launched an entire business devoted to it. As founder and CEO of BioEnergy Solutions, based in Bakersfield, Albers offers to fund and install biogas systems at other dairies and split the gas revenue and emission credits with the farmers. So far, his is the only dairy with the system, which went online in 2008. He reports he has contracts with 39 dairies and letters of intent from 150 more. His project is certainly gaining attention.

In September, the California Environmental Protection Agency and other state agencies honored BioEnergy Solutions with a Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award in the “climate change” category.

Albers’ project “is at the top of our list for uses for methane,” said Dave Warner, director of permit services for the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. “It gets fed directly into a pipeline, so it’s a perfect solution.”

What to do with all that gas

There are about 1.8 million diary cows in California producing methane – one of the main greenhouse gasses that cause global warming, and also one of the main sources of energy in this state. With a little “scrubbing,” all that methane can be purified and used to heat homes, generate electricity and even fuel cars.

So why aren’t more dairies capturing and selling their methane? It comes down to money.

“Financing is the big obstacle,” said Allen Dusault, program director for sustainable agriculture with the San Francisco-based nonprofit, Sustainable Conservation. He works with dairies that want to capture their methane and put it to use. But these systems are very expensive, and until recent law mandated power companies to use more renewable energy, dairies had a hard time selling either the natural gas or electricity generated on-site. For most dairies, the cost benefit of installing the methane digesters and scrubbing plants does not outweigh the savings from generating their own power. The systems can cost into the millions.

Even so, there are about 30 dairies in California that digest manure and generate power on-site, according to Cindy Pollard, spokeswoman with PG&E. Of the dairies that use internal combustion engines to burn the gas and generate power, some have recently shut down, according to Dusault, after new regulations required the dairies to cut down on the nitrogen oxides released from those engines.Nitrogen oxides are one of the main culprits for ground-level air pollution, including summertime smog, said Warner of the air pollution control district. This is why the district prefers other uses for purified methane, called biomethane, such as injecting it into natural gas lines – or compressing it to fuel vehicles.

One large dairy in Lindsey is doing just that. Hilarides Dairy has converted its fleet to run on natural gas and compresses its biomethane to fuel their trucks. According to an article by Dairy Herd Management, the 9,000-cow dairy is capable of producing an equivalent of 700 to 800 gallons of diesel fuel each day.Could California’s dairies effectively fuel natural gas-powered vehicles? A 25 report, researched by Ken Krich of Sustainable Conservation, posed this fact:“Manure from about half the cows in California could provide enough biomethane to power all the natural gas vehicles currently operating in the state,” according to the report, Biomethane From Dairy Waste.Other industries that also produce a lot of methane, such as swine farms, landfills, waste water treatment sites and food processing plants, are also prime for biomethane production. California may want to look to Europe, particularly Sweden and Germany, where biomethane has become an industry standard over the past 10 years, according to Dusault.Warner says some waste water treatment plants in California are already capturing their methane and using it to produce their own electricity. And earlier this month, the world’s largest landfill gas to liquefied natural gas facility opened in Livermore. The gas can fuel up to 300 garbage trucks operated by Waste Management, according to the company’s website.

How it works

A tour of David Albers’ Vintage Dairy shows just how big of an operation it is to capture, clean and sell natural gas-quality methane. The tour starts in one of the long, open-stall barns that houses row after row of cows. Each row has a feeding station along one side and a sandy spot for the cows to lay down on the other. All manure is aimed into the center of the row.

The first step in the process is effective manure collection, Albers explains, and this type of housing – unlike an open feed lot – allows his dairy to collect about 90 percent of the manure.“Four times a day, 5,000 gallons of water is pushed through here,” washing the manure down the row into a canal, Albers says.

The canal transports the sludge to a processing pit, where it is then pumped about 200 yards away to a mechanical separator. Solids are dumped into a composting pile to be turned into fertilizer for the dairy’s feed crops.The liquid remainder flows by gravity into a 5-acre, 38-feet-deep pit covered with a thick liner made of high-density polyurethane. This is the anaerobic digester.

In the absence of oxygen, bacteria break down the sludge and release biogas, which is composed of mostly methane and carbon dioxide, with a little hydrogen sulfide as well.The gas enters a perforated pipe that runs the perimeter of the covered lagoon and is delivered to an on-site “scrubbing plant” that first desulfurizes the gas, and then removes the carbon dioxide.

The carbon dioxide is “flared,” or burned off (the effects of which are not harmful to the air, Warner of the air pollution control district said). What is left is high-quality methane that matches the purity of natural gas.The gas runs to a station 1,500 feet away where a compressor brings it up to the same level as the natural gas flowing through PG&E’s line running through the dairy’s property.

Then, at a red valve, PG&E takes title to the gas.And, what happens to all of that water? Albers points to a crystal clear pond on the other side of PG&E’s right of way.“There’s nothing floating in it. It’s all been broken down in the digester,” Albers says. The water will be used to irrigate the dairy’s crops of alfalfa, wheat and sorghum when the economy lets up and it becomes feasible to grow their own feed again, he says. For now, their crop farming operations are shut down.

Affects of the economy

The economic recession has also slowed Albers’ plans for expansion. Once he’s able to secure the financing, his first step will be to build digesters at four neighboring dairies and pipe their biogas to his plant for processing.Next up will be to build a similar system in Shafter, starting with Tjaarda Dairy and expanding to its neighbors.

That 3,000-cow dairy also has a PG&E natural gas pipeline running through it. By clustering the digesters, Albers can invest in one scrubbing station to be shared by several dairies.Perry Tjaarda has been in the dairy business for 45 years, starting in Corona, then Bakersfield and now, for the past 10 years, in Shafter. He’s experienced ever-tightening regulations and knows he has to do something to get ahead of future greenhouse gas emission rules.

“Over the last few years a lot of focus has been put on dairies and the possible pollutants they produce. Are we polluting or are we not? And if we are, what are we doing about it?” he said.Regardless of the “science behind the rhetoric,” Tjaarda says he sees an economic benefit to capturing and utilizing the methane from his dairy’s manure – especially if Albers’ BioEnergy Solutions is willing to front the cost of the system.“By pumping into PG&E’s gas line, we get paid a little, David gets paid a little, and we get (emission) credits. It’s a win-win. It makes sense,” he said.

All this wouldn’t be possible if a new law hadn’t been passed in 2006 that mandated utility companies in California to get at least 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2010. It also helps that Albers has 10 years under his belt as an environmental lawyer and knows his way around the legal issues and permitting processes for dairies.

Every time a project he represented was up for environmental review, “at least one person would say, ‘Why not build an anaerobic digester?’” he said. “Under California law, I would have to respond with an analysis showing we researched the economic feasibility.”And in every case it would not be economically feasible to build a digester only to produce an excessive amount of power that utilities would be unwilling to pay for.

But when Senate Bill 107 passed in 2006, utilities changed their tunes. And, in November 2008, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order that utilities obtain at least 33 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2020.Furthermore, dairies face possible mandatory greenhouse gas emission reductions under Assembly Bill 32.

That bill, called the “California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006,” mandated the California Air Resources Board to develop a scoping plan to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.That plan points out that 6 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in California come from agriculture, and they are “largely methane emissions from livestock, both from animals and their waste.”

While the plan currently calls for voluntary reductions among dairies, it also recommends revisiting the issue in 2013 to possibly make the reductions mandatory.If that becomes the case, manure digesters could become the industry standard for large dairies in California and Albers’s BioEnergy Solutions could very well be the state’s leader in the effort.

PG&E spokeswoman Pollard said the utility does have contracts with other companies to buy biomethane. One of those is Microgy, a subsidiary of New York-based Environmental Power Corporation, which has plans to build three scrubbing stations near dairy clusters in Kerman, Riverdale and Hanford. But those projects are not yet online.

Albers’ Vintage Dairy is the only one injecting biomethane from dairy manure into existing pipeline in California today.“I love what we’re doing,” Albers said. “With this kind of thing, we have to pinch ourselves. How cool is it to come up with something that’s good all the way around? We are doing an environmental project on a dairy, we are providing renewable energy to PG&E, the dairyman gets a new revenue stream, and all of us get cleaner air because there are less emissions in the atmosphere.

”David Albers will be one of the featured speakers at the third annual Kern County Energy Summit presented by the Kern Economic Development Corporation. “Kern County’s Emerging Energy Technologies” is from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at Bakersfield Marriott at the Convention Center, 801 Truxtun Ave. Registration is $50. For a registration form, go to www.kedc.com or call 862-5150.

Sources: Bakersfield Express & WIH Resource Group

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Narration Making

youngkwang — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:56:54 +0000

One’s waste becomes another’s resource

- Bobby has a small banana farm in the city of La Flor and every harvest season there are waste produced such as: ground banana stems and organic waste, sawdust, and effective microorganisms. Bobby was not aware of the value of recycling the waste produced. After he joined the program of recycling organization, he is able to manage the waste properly and also get paid.

- The organization collects wastes from different farms and reproduces them as useful farming resources such as fertilizer.

- After fertilizers are produced they sell those to other farms in need at affordable prices.

- Other than fertilizer, they also distribute ground banana stems for people who need it such as for natural fiber paper production.

Selling products made by local artisans and craftsmen on-line

- Sally and Sam are very interested in exotic culture. They just got married in Providence was looking for some exotic art pieces that could decorate their new home. However they could not find anything that attracts their eye in the city.

- Andrea who lives in small town of Costa Rica makes beautiful folk art paintings. However no one really knows about what she is making so she does not make a lot of money from selling her works.

- Zappos decides to purchase works from artworks from all over Costa Rica including Andrea’s paintings.

- Now many Costa Rica’s unknown great artworks are exposed to people in the U.S.

- Sally and Sam, through Zappos, found about Andrea’s beautiful paintings and purchase her paintings.

- Andrea’s paintings were very popular so Zappos asks Andrea to produce more paintings.

- Andrea makes a fortune and customers in U.S. are happy to get those exotic paintings.

Art Lessons for visitors to Costa Rica

- Emily is visiting Costa Rica from a school tour.

- She wanted bring home some special souvenirs.

- So she and her classmates visit a workshop that provides lessons about how to make some of Costa Rica’s beautiful folk artworks.

- The studio teaches people some basic craftsmen skills like painting, wood carving and ceramics.

- Emily decides to learn about wood carving and have lessons.

- The workshop charges Emily and her friends for the cost of material and the lesson.

- After the lesson is finished, Emily now has her own DIY souvenir to bring back home and the local town has great business by sharing their culture and makes some money from it.

Certification program to encourage farmers to maintain sustainability of the cattle farms

- Katie who has healthy eating habit likes to go to Whole foods for her grocery shopping because Whole foods provide a lot of organic products that can be trusted.

- Through Whole Foods Market’s Whole Trade Guarantee program, customers are guaranteed to purchase safe and fresh products. This program has attracted a lot of people and more people are going to Whole foods for their grocery shopping.

- In order to make a business with Whole Foods, the farmers are encouraged to care more about organic farming.

- If your product is very popular, your product will be also introduced in other branches of Whole Foods so more people have access to it.

Allowing companies to come in to campus and join the research

- Dole is one of the largest produce and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit and fresh vegetables.

- EARTH University has large tropical lands that are dedicated for experimenting with new methods of growing fresh fruits in more sustainably and more efficiently. Also they have faculty who are profession in farming technology. However, the school does not have enough money to provide student and faculties with enough equipment for research and to pay for its faculties.

- With the funding from Dole, EARTH University can make use of their great resources such as the great plantation area in La Flor.

- While EARTH University is benefiting from Dole, the company sends their researchers to the site at EARTH University to have close access to the new technology that could be adapted to their own farm.

- Dole also offers internships for students of EARTH University so the students can experience the business and learn about entrepreneurship.

- The EARTH brand makes partnership with Dole and enhances the reputation and also it is easier for EARTH to expand their market and be exposed to foreign markets.

To connect foreigners better with locals

- Joshua who lives in a small town owns a small restaurant in Costa Rica. He is very proud of his town and he is very enthusiastic about foreign tourists to his town also he wants to draw more people into his town.

- So he applies as a volunteer tour guide through a program that is set up by Costa Rica Government. He gets approved by the government that he is safe and trained personnel.

- Every time he guides a group of people who visit his town, he receives 5% of the tour fee.

- A group of tourists who are interested in having local tour guide and experience local culture participated in this eco-friendly local tour in Costa Rica. They travel by bus from town to town but they participate in bike tour within small towns.

- When a group of people visited the town where Joshua lives, Joshua brings them to visit local family to see how Costa Ricans live and also eat very traditional local food. They are also introduced to unique and non-tour site.

- After the tour, the group of can rate the tour guide the government is sure that the tour guide is doing the right job.

AMA Tackles E-Waste

newshoundjoana — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:20:43 +0000

DR. SIMPSON BOATENG, the Director of AMA’s Public Health Department, is set to tackle the ‘e-w

Guided Tour/Lunch - McCommas Bluff Landfill (12/5/09)

Peter — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:17:55 +0000

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Landfill to have New Recycling Center

energyinformation — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:40:31 +0000

News Source: Salt Lake Tribune

As if being a recycling center wasn’t enough to build up its ecological credibility.

The Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District broke ground this week on a new building at the Layton landfill that will be powered by solar, wind and methane-gas energy and be a recycled-steel structure.

The facility will be built with adjacent solar panels and a windmill, and include a pipeline to the landfill where methane is collected from the rotting garbage, said the district’s executive director, Nathan Rich.

“I think it’s part of this focus on recycling and sustainability,” he said of the building’s multiple environmentally friendly facets.

Much of the impetus on building the $1.1 million facility was to turn recycling from an expense for the landfill into something that could generate money.

Currently, and until the new recycling center is running in April 2010, individuals drive to the landfill, dumping and mixing their recyclables into the same bins.

Wasatch Integrated then pays to have the glass, plastic, paper, cardboard and aluminum hauled away to a sorting facility that then sells the goods, Rich said.

With the new center, people will be asked to sort their items and place them into distinct chutes. Then, “with a little bit of effort on our part to do some quality control,” he said, the center will produce cleaned items that can be resold directly from the landfill.

“Right now, we’re projecting within one to two years, this facility will at least be a break-even operation,” Rich said, noting the district has been saving for the project for the past few years and won’t need to increase any fees to pay for it — “We’re pleased about that.”

This new recycling center, though, isn’t meant to compete against private businesses or multiple cities’ efforts to provide curbside recycling, said Rich and Davis County Commissioner John Petroff.

“We’re not trying to replace the recycling programs that some of the cities have started,” said Petroff, who chairs the district’s administrative board.

The waste district is used by all Davis County cities except Bountiful, which has its own dump.

Woods Cross and Bountiful have mandatory curbside recycling programs; Centerville, Farmington and North Salt Lake have optional curbside programs in the works.

“We had a long discussion about whether we were building something that was going to become obsolete,” Rich said of the possibility that more cities adopt curbside programs. But he said the new facility will still be used by commercial sectors that don’t have access to residential recycling and people who have a lot to recycle.

Plus, there are people who don’t want to haul recyclables to the dump.

“I think you have to have multiple recycling opportunities,” Rich said.

Also, the new recycling center doesn’t have the capacity to handle the whole district’s recycling, Rich said, and will probably only extend the landfill’s lifespan by about one year. At maximum capacity, the new facility will be able to handle up to 4,000 tons of recyclables a year.

Each year, about 144,000 tons of garbage are buried in the landfill; some of that could be recycled, but Rich said there are no exact numbers. Roughly 129,000 tons of trash bypass being dumped each year and are instead sent to a burn plant to create energy, which is sold to nearby Hill Air Force Base.

As many cities have explored creating their own curbside recycling programs, public leaders have expressed concern that their recycling efforts would reduce the amount of refuse available for the burn plant.

The waste-to-energy plant isn’t large enough to handle all of the waste in the landfill, Rich said, and any recycling would simply reduce the waste in the landfill.

“With those numbers,” Rich said regarding the tons of garbage at the landfill, “even if curbside recycling makes it districtwide, I don’t think we’ll have any problems.”

Rich added that waste-to-energy is a good system for many items, like greasy pizza boxes, that are too contaminated to be recycled.

“We should recycle everything we can,” Rich said, “from an environmental perspective and from a waste-management perspective.”

New European register gives access to information on emissions from European industrial sites

reportingtheworldover — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:26:06 +0000

The European Commission and the European Environment Agency today launched a comprehensive new European pollutant release and transfer register – E-PRTR. The register contains information about the emissions of pollutants to air, water and land by industrial facilities throughout Europe. It includes annual data for 91 substances and covers more than 24 000 facilities in 65 economic activities. It also provides additional information, such as the amount and types of waste transferred from facilities to waste handlers both inside and outside each country.

Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said: “Transparency is a vital tool for improving our environment. The opening of this register will give citizens direct access to information on emissions from facilities across Europe and will help them to engage actively in decisions affecting the environment. It demonstrates a genuine commitment by the public authorities and industry to share information with citizens and increase openness.”

Professor Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency, said: “To achieve the public participation objective set by the Aarhus Convention, people first need to know what is happening to their environment and what is at stake. With this new register, we take an important step in placing more environmental information at their fingertips. Anyone can now see how much pollution is being released to air and water from facilities in their neighbourhood or region.”

In order to improve public access to environmental information, a new E-PRTR register has been set up, containing data reported by individual facilities. The register provides details of pollutants released from individual facilities to air, water and land in 2007, covering 30% of total NOx (nitrogen oxides) emissions and 76% of total SOx (s ulphur oxides) emissions to air in the EU-27 countries and Norway. The register also shows the amount of waste and waste water transferred to other locations, including transboundary transfers of hazardous waste, and gives preliminary information on pollutants from ‘diffuse’ sources released to water, such as nitrogen and phosphorus loss from agriculture.

The website has a powerful search engine that allows visitors to search using one or more criteria and a map tool. For example, visitors can search the amount of hazardous and non-hazardous waste transferred from facilities in a country (waste search), or releases from a specific industrial site by name or location (facility search).

E-PRTR reveals, for example, that:

Often a small number of facilities make large overall contributions to the total amount of pollutants released in Europe. For instance, just five large combustion plants were collectively responsible for more than 20% of all E-PRTR sulphur oxide emissions to air in 2007. Sulphur oxides contribute to both environmental acidification and the formation of health-damaging particulate matter;
More than 54 million tonnes of hazardous waste were transferred from E-PRTR facilities. Most hazardous waste is recovered or disposed of within the country where it originates; just a small fraction of it (approximately 6%) is transported across borders.

TIDE research will be available on IssueLab

tidebelize — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:57:39 +0000

IssueLab is an online publishing forum for nonprofit research. Our mission is to more effectively archive, distribute and promote the extensive and diverse body of work being produced by the third sector. To better promote the work of the Toledo Institute of Development and Environment (TIDE) we will post some of our research (as appropriate) on this site. Scroll down for a link to our research on Waste Management.

Each year billions of charitable dollars are spent on nonprofit research, research which journalists, policy analysts, legislators, students, activists, and grant makers all rely on to effectively address complex social issues. And yet despite the widespread interest in this work and the billions of dollars spent each year to produce it, most nonprofit research remains unpublished, hard to find, underexposed, or archived in issue-specific information silos.

The nonprofit sector clearly needs a better solution than the current piecemeal approach to managing and sharing one of its greatest assets, while journalists, researchers, activists, policy makers, educators, and the general public need a much better solution for locating and accessing social research across issue areas. IssueLab is that solution.

But IssueLab is not simply an online archive. Our efforts are evenly split between aggregating research on social issues and pushing that research back out to other online communities and end-users. Although ambitious, our goal is to mainstream nonprofit research so that users who may not know anything about nonprofits can still learn from the unique perspective these organizations bring to the study of social issues.

We recognize the nonprofit sector as a vital and valuable source of knowledge and believe that by leveraging technology to broaden access to their findings, IssueLab can help users to better understand complex social issues and further healthy debate and dialogue.

Toledo Institute for Development and Environment

Research Works Available:

Punta Gorda Municipal Waste Report
Publication date: 2009-04-08
Date Archived: 2009-11-03

O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! ~ Kenneth Graham

waltwang08 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:07:14 +0000

Pooooop!!, originally uploaded by PunkJr

No, this isn’t a case of déjà poo. You’re thinking of the zoo story we ran a week or so ago. This post’s about The Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Company. They use elephant poo to make, among other things, paper products “using age-old paper making techniques, evolved locally over hundreds of years.” Interesting idea for the holidays, yes? If, indeed, your answer is “yes,” click poopoopaper.com and visit the pootique.