January 5, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 1. Financial tidbits such as those that might come from off-set protocols and tariffs just improve the balance sheet.
September 21, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 38. Food waste is messy. Mixed into dry municipal solid waste, it’s almost impossible to separate and recover.
March 24, 2014 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 12. As soon as that crud isn't trash any more, that discarded stuff magically has Value and the whole game changes.
July 28, 2014 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 30. Some cities want to increase Recycling, in part by implementing advanced Waste Conversion for resource recovery.
September 15, 2014 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 37. These are the times for fine-tuning the conversion of worthy residuals back into foundation materials and final goods.
February 25, 2013 Newsletter Volume III, Issue 8. The path to Recover raw materials for making more goods is convoluted and fraught with misinformation.
November 4, 2013 Newsletter Volume III, Issue 44. The parade of Goulies, Ghosts and Goblins are now past, leaving in their wake a sad collection of jack-o-lanterns whose scary smiles are beginning to sag.
August 20, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 34. My favorite organic waste converters are called Hermetia illucens, also known as Black Soldier Flies. They are naturally occurring just about everywhere summers get over freezing and winters stay above maybe10 below.
November 5, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 45. Last Wednesday, we realized to our horror (well, it was Halloween, after all) that even the major energy efficiency programs and associations don't think of on-site waste conversion to electricity, heat, and fuel in the same sense as they do for, say, energy efficient lighting.
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