These are issues of past newsletters published by Teru Talk in 2015 on all matters of waste conversion for
resource recovery, including renewable energy, biomass, bioproducts, biofuels, bioenergy and solid waste.
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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.
January 12, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 2. We humans have one climate change target we can actually do something about: we can manage the breakdown of organic waste.
January 19, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 3. External validation is that magic milestone when others rip into your technology systems, and come away believing your bit of kit is as spiffy as you think it is.
February 2, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 5. If you still insist on pointing fingers, follow the Money. Or, you could just get busy and correct the problem.
March 2, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 9. The California Energy Commission's IEPR recognizes that converting waste into energy is a primary key to recovery of resources, the environment, and our economy.
March 9, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 10. Well executed municipal waste management is a beautiful thing to behold (trust me on this one). Add waste conversion and we're ecstatic.
April 20, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 16. If that circular economy hat-trick can be done smartly, cleanly, does it really matter how it is accomplished?
May 18, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 20. It takes both proper tools and competent operation to accomplish clean, economical waste-sourced resource recovery.
May 26, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 21. When nothing else can be recycled from a region's waste, at least recover heat and power. It's much better than sending it to the dump.
June 15, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 24. Somebody called this “economical environmentalism”: we do a good turn for this global home of ours, and we all make more money.
June 29, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 26. No, it's NOT OK to throw a fit and stop that resource recovery here, only to have that burden and its solution happen elsewhere.
August 17, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 33. Thermal waste conversion to energy has incorporated some of the most sophisticated tools and methods on the planet.
September 14, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 37. It takes a multi-feedstock, multi-tech, multi-product resource recovery park to close the gap in the Circular Economy.
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.
October 5, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 40. We need a standardized framework to achieve an acceptable, dependable, “end-of-waste” status for the recyclates we generate.
October 19, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 41. That constant flow doesn’t quit just because a whats-it in your magic trash discombobulator comes unhinged.
October 26, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 42. Green-washing is a term used to describe a cloak of environmentalism thrown over a less than green practice.
November 16, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 45. The law does not say that Recycling means to just separate out the easily salable items and have somebody else sell them off in bulk.
December 7, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 48. Eco-friendly waste conversion systems scaled for your home and business will become as commonplace as toilets.
December 14, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 49. Methane capture is the Big Thing, and a lot of waste conversion for resource recovery is focused on this short-term pollutant target.
December 28, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 51. We have these ready-made local mountains of raw materials, just waiting to be mined. Right now, we call them Landfills.
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