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2007 Waste Matters
March
Gray water's red tape
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Before the home was built, its water conservation package — gray-water system and a separate cistern for rainwater and runoff — was awarded a $20000 grant
MMSD approves $81 million Deep Tunnel extension
Milwaukee Small Business Times - Milwaukee,WI,USA
The new 27th Street tunnel, which will be part of MMSD's $1 billion overflow reduction plan, will stretch two miles long, about 300 feet underground, ..
Eco-sanitation catches up in Karnataka town
Peninsula On-line - Qatar
In little more than a year, the eco-sanitation concept is making some headway, flushing away the non-existent sewage system of this semi-urban town
WWSD checks new sewer system
Scranton Times-Tribune - Scranton,PA,USA
... NY, to check out a Living Machine sewage system. The district is considering installing the system in a proposed eco-friendly school that would replace ...
February
Problem landfill said to be site of underground fire
Chronicle-Telegram - Elyria,OH,USA
COLUMBUS — A smelly landfill in Northeast Ohio that has been named a top priority by the state Environmental Protection Agency has an underground metal fire ...
Acid discharge treatment starts anew at Reed and Strattanville
Clarion News - Clarion,PA,USA
The Damariscotta system, and other passive treatment systems used by the Mill Creek coalition, use limestone and spent compost from mushroom growing ...
Pub's eco-friendly makeover after one power cut too many
The Northern Echo - Darlington,UK
The pub will use heat generated from treating sewage waste. Water to flush the toilets will be supplied from rainwater and run-off water from the land that ...
Eco-friendly school has lessons built in
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
An innovative waste- treatment system filters sewage through tanks and basins filled with live plants, grasses and algae that break down waste like a ...
Manure Products May Offer New Composite Materials
NETCOMPOSITES - Chesterfield,UK
Another option is to use an anaerobic digester, which breaks manure solids down into a sterile organic fibrous material and captures methane gas that can be ...
Vt. Lawmaker to Trade Carbon Emissions
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
To offset the 56 tons of carbon emissions produced by his office and through his travel, Welch is going to pay $672 to help fund a methane digester at a
New EPA Chief Says Problem Landfill a Priority
Fox 8 News WJW - Cleveland,OH,USA
CANTON, Ohio -- Fixing a smelly landfill that could have a hidden fire or some kind of chemical reaction is the at the top of the list for the state's new ...
A model for waste management
Hindu - Chennai,India
For this enterprising resident, the compost created in his small garden and earthworms he sells to those wanting to make their fertilisers are a steady ...
January 2007
So eco-friendly: Wills and Kate's 'starter palace'
Daily Mail - UK
A large rainwater-reservoir will be built for washing clothes, watering the garden and flushing toilets. Each bathroom will have water-saving fittings, ...
Water, sewer problems plague city
Cibola County Beacon - Grants,NM,USA
GRANTS - Two emergency water and sewer situations called for immediate action around the New Year, Grants officials reported at the city workshop meeting ...
Project teaches pupils sound sewage treatment methods
Pocono Record - Stroudsburg,PA,USA
Second, sludge should be broken down in a digester by anaerobic bacteria. This requires the system to be maintained at higher temperatures. ...
QuestAir to supply system to recover methane from biogas at a ...
Chemie.de (press release) - Germany
... has received an order for a M-3200 PSA system to recover pipeline grade methane from biogas generated by an anaerobic digester in Lavigny, Switzerland. ...
Germs to gobble train stain
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
Last year, the Research Design and Standards Organisation in Lucknow — the research unit of the Indian Railways — asked the DRDE to build a digester for ...
Nebraska firm plans ethanol plant at proposed Sunflower center
Hutchinson News - Hutchinson,KS,USA
The anaerobic digester would create methane used to power the ethanol plant, for instance, while the algae reactor would convert carbon dioxide from the ...
Power from the people: New program harnesses small scale power ...
Ottawa Business Journal - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
An immigrant who left Switzerland 17 years ago, where he said such operations are common, Mr. Klaesi bought the manure digester three years ago and is ...
Anaerobic digesters may be used to produce natural gas
Agri News - MN,USA
The Emerald Dairy digester is located where the manure is producing the natural gas. There is minimal refining, he said. The carbon dioxide is removed and ...
A contemporary mess
Al-Ahram Weekly - Cairo,Egypt
It led to a rise in the water table and the septic tanks and sewage trenches are now polluting underground water. When this problem emerged, with its known
LIFE ON THE FARM Betting the farm, but on what?
Franklin County Courier - Enosburg,VT,USA
Manure-based “digester” projects have failed, and from what I’ve been able to gather, the main reason has been that the power company wasn’t interested in ...
St. Paul campus looks to recycle organic waste
Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis,MN,USA
University researchers have looked into purchasing a methane digester, which would take the methane harvested from animal waste and convert it to energy,
PG&E Energizes Governor's Inaugural With Cow, Soy and Sun Power
GreenBiz - Washington,DC,USA
5, 2007 - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has teamed up with Joseph Gallo Farms and Microgy, Inc., to provide clean, renewable manure digester biogas to power ...
DNR says digester project can work
Harlan Tribune - Harlan,IA,USA
The digester concept involves feeding manure, food processing waste and other organic waste into a community digester, which would create methane gas to ...
Study could propel BioTown forward
Monticello Herald Journal - Monticello,IN,USA
According to VanVoorst and Snodgrass, an adequate wastewater treatment plant is necessary in order to efficiently operate the digester and bring other ...
2000-year-old toilet may solve an ancient mystery Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA In a new study, three researchers say they have discovered the outdoor latrine used by the ancient residents of Qumran, on the barren banks of the Dead Sea. ...
California cow manure gas to heat homes
Earthtimes.org - USA
3 A power company, digester manufacturer and California dairy ranches are joining forces to add natural gas to the state's pipeline system. ...
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