April 2016 news and other matters on waste conversion to renewable energy, biofuels and other bioproducts for resource recovery. Last update: 04/27/2016
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November 2012 news and other matters on waste conversion to renewable energy, biofuels and other bioproducts for resource recovery. Last update: 12/03/2012
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The “New Waste Management Paradigm” promotes the concept that the highest quantity of materials should be eliminated from the waste stream through source reduction and extended producer responsibility. Following efforts to reuse and recycle components of the waste stream, opportunities to convert the remaining materials into energy, biofuels, and compost should be preferred over landfill disposal.
September 2012 news and other matters on waste conversion to renewable energy, biofuels and other bioproducts for resource recovery. Last update: 09/29/2012
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May 26, 2014 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 21. Take a moment this Memorial Day 2014 to really think about the actual Cost of Conflict, not just the price per gallon the DoD is spending on green jet fuel.
September 8, 2014 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 36. You have to love it when we can economically accomplish environmental clean-up by using plants, and then cleanly turn that biomass into fuels and energy.
September 22, 2014 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 38. The Nay-Sayers are wrong again. It is the careful acquisition and conversion of waste as feedstock that makes biofuels economical.
October 6, 2014 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 40. Recover the highest value materials when converting waste into green goods by considering feedstock, conversion process, and output.
September 23, 2013 Newsletter Volume III, Issue 38. In the audacious belief that folks are as curious about Waste Conversion as us, three years ago this month we built and launched this web service.
April 30, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 18
Teru talks about perspective and applying the hub-and-spoke model to conversion of waste to energy in Trash Talk..
May 7, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 19
Let's consider some of the most common characteristics for industrial application of waste / biomass-fueled, small-scale distributed systems for generation of combined heating, cooling, power and/or other commodities.
June 18, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 25 We do so much magic and so much harm with words. We've been taught that "disposal" is the act of tossing things away, and that certainly is the case if we toss that something along the roadside, or into a hole or burn-barrel in our back yard.
June 25, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 26. Assembly Bill 341 mandates Commercial Waste Recycling starting on or after July 1. If all we do is require Business to "arrange for recycling services" and don't attend to what happens next, perhaps we should call the program, "Mandatory Commercial Separation."
August 13, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 33. Why pay to protect oil Over There, when we can develop it over here? Why hog-tie US security to those who'd just as soon hold us hostage? The only way home-grown fuels are more expensive is if we don't count the real cost of OPEC blood-for-oil.
August 27, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 35. It seems to me there's more confidence showing in our waste conversion industry these days. Confidence that says, "if we build it, they will come"… here, let me explain.
September 4, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 36. California lawmakers sent 788 bills to the Governor for signature Saturday morning. A very important one is missing.
October 15, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 42. There's the old joke, "Raise your hand, who's not here…" and it applies to this business of tracking the ways communities convert waste.
Teru Talk action items pertaining to waste conversion to renewable energy, biofuels and other bio-based products for resource recovery. Last Update: 04/19/2016
Archived Events that were featured on Teru Talk pertaining to waste conversion to renewable energy, biofuels and other bio-based products for resource recovery.
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