Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Cutting the Carbon Impacts of Waste
Cutting the Carbon Impacts of Waste
A clearer picture of how waste can be managed to reduce its impacts on climate change emerges in new research published today.
The reports anticipate the greenhouse gas effects of the UK’s main waste streams between 2005 and 20311, and assess the different ways of dealing with household garden and food waste2,3.
The ERM report shows that recycling has significant benefits over landfill, particularly in terms of reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Read the full news report from here @ The A to Z of Building
A clearer picture of how waste can be managed to reduce its impacts on climate change emerges in new research published today.
The reports anticipate the greenhouse gas effects of the UK’s main waste streams between 2005 and 20311, and assess the different ways of dealing with household garden and food waste2,3.
The ERM report shows that recycling has significant benefits over landfill, particularly in terms of reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Read the full news report from here @ The A to Z of Building
Labels: anaerobic-digestion, climate-change, uk, waste, waste-uk
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Manure to become energy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Manure to become energy in Mount Joy
By Patrick Burns, Staff
Intelligencer Journal
Mar 09, 2007
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - EnergyWorks, of Annapolis, Md., has agreed to build an anaerobic digestion plant on a poultry farm that would produce biogas from waste created by the chickens.
The plant will produce an odorless, colorless gas similar to natural gas that is produced when animal waste is decomposed by bacteria in the absence of oxygen.
More from this news report @ Lancaster Online
By Patrick Burns, Staff
Intelligencer Journal
Mar 09, 2007
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - EnergyWorks, of Annapolis, Md., has agreed to build an anaerobic digestion plant on a poultry farm that would produce biogas from waste created by the chickens.
The plant will produce an odorless, colorless gas similar to natural gas that is produced when animal waste is decomposed by bacteria in the absence of oxygen.
More from this news report @ Lancaster Online
Labels: anaerobic-digestion, animal-waste, animal-waste-usa, biofuels, biogas, waste, waste-usa
PermaLink - Manure to become energy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania posted by Ecacofonix : 9:20 PM
0 Comments
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
