Articles for Organic Waste

News in Frames | Greens power
1 day, 11 hours ago

News in Frames | Greens power

The Hindu  

Ambedkar Vegetable Market Yard, or Bowen pally market, has always been a hive of activity. The market produces three or four tonnes of organic waste every day. The electricity generated from the plant powers more than 100 street lights, 170 stalls, an administrative building, and the market’s water supply network — giving the market committee substantial savings in power bills. …

Market Power Waste Plant Vegetable Organic Waste
Enforce Odd/Even rule to encourage people to shift to cleaner fuels, EV, says biogas body
1 month ago

Enforce Odd/Even rule to encourage people to shift to cleaner fuels, EV, says biogas body

Live Mint  

New Delhi, Nov 17 Indian Biogas Association has suggested enforcement of the odd-even rule for four wheelers in Delhi NCR to check air pollution and encourage people to shift to electric vehicles or those based on compressed biogas or natural gas. Taking with PTI in an interaction, Indian Biogas Association Chairman Gaurav Kedia said, "We recommend implementing the Odd-Even Rule …

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'FOGO' processing plant opens in Tasmania's north-west in a bid to keep food and garden waste out of landfill
5 months, 1 week ago

'FOGO' processing plant opens in Tasmania's north-west in a bid to keep food and garden waste out of landfill

ABC  

Australia is grappling with a food waste problem. But a large chunk of it will come from the community, as food organics and garden organics waste collection services are offered to 38,000 north-west coast homes. Dulverton chief executive Veronica Schilling estimated FOGO makes up about 40 to 60 per cent of household waste, and diverting it would save 7,500 tonnes …

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Noxious fumes, contaminated runoff: No easy solution for Chiquita Canyon Landfill woes
9 months, 1 week ago

Noxious fumes, contaminated runoff: No easy solution for Chiquita Canyon Landfill woes

LA Times  

Federal regulators say it’s an imminent danger, a Los Angeles County supervisor says she has “lost faith” in its management and aggrieved neighbors have filed two lawsuits demanding an end to its operations. As owners of the troubled Chiquita Canyon Landfill struggle to contain noxious fumes and contaminated runoff caused by an underground garbage fire, residents and public officials increasingly …

Chemical County Officials Waste Epa Canyon Reaction
California is forging ahead with food waste recycling. But is it too much, too fast?
10 months ago

California is forging ahead with food waste recycling. But is it too much, too fast?

The Independent  

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IIT Guwahati's waste management research to help manage organic waste efficiently and in environment friendly manner
11 months, 1 week ago

IIT Guwahati's waste management research to help manage organic waste efficiently and in environment friendly manner

Hindustan Times  

To find an efficient process of deriving value-added products from organic waste, the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati researchers have devised a biodegradation technique that addresses the issues of waste management. According to a press release by IIT Guwahati, researchers from the Waste Management Research Group at the institute led by Prof Ajay S Kalamdhad worked out a two-stage biodegradation …

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Uncontrolled chemical reactions fuel crises at L.A. County’s two largest landfills
1 year ago

Uncontrolled chemical reactions fuel crises at L.A. County’s two largest landfills

LA Times  

Hundreds of feet underground, in a long-dormant portion of Chiquita Canyon landfill, tons of garbage have been smoldering for months due to an enigmatic chemical reaction. “If temperatures get to a certain point, there isn’t going to be much that can be done,” said Sarah Olaguez, a Val Verde resident whose family lives less than a mile from Chiquita Canyon. …

Air Gas Los Angeles Waste Residents His Son Canyon
More time for waste: Western Sydney councils seek deadline extension on 2030 FOGO bin rollout
1 year, 1 month ago

More time for waste: Western Sydney councils seek deadline extension on 2030 FOGO bin rollout

ABC  

An organisation representing councils in Western Sydney is calling for a five-year delay to the NSW government's 2030 deadline to roll out food and organic waste collections. Key points: Apartments will need modifying to facilitate a new food and organic waste bin, a Western Sydney councils group says Only four of Sydney's metropolitan councils has fully rolled out a FOGO …

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Mapping methane: Satellites seek out gas-spewing waste sites
1 year, 1 month ago

Mapping methane: Satellites seek out gas-spewing waste sites

Al Jazeera  

A first-of-its-kind waste map under development shows methane emissions at landfills around the world in new fight against climate change. Surprises came quickly when the Global Methane Hub, a non-profit that seeks to reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, began looking at satellite images taken of landfills from around the world. The hub recently announced it received a $5m …

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Coimbatore Corporation handing over unsegregated waste, claims private waste management company
1 year, 8 months ago

Coimbatore Corporation handing over unsegregated waste, claims private waste management company

The Hindu  

The quantum of segregated organic waste that the Coimbatore Corporation handed over to the composting plant at Vellalore was only 22 % of the nearly 14,000 tonnes of the total municipal solid waste the civic body has sent to the composting plant, as per the figures available till February this year, according to the private agency operating the plant. In …

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Waste pickers collect food waste, help combat climate change
1 year, 9 months ago

Waste pickers collect food waste, help combat climate change

The Independent  

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Waste pickers collect food waste, help combat climate change
1 year, 9 months ago

Waste pickers collect food waste, help combat climate change

Associated Press  

MALABON, Philippines — Marilene Capentes pushes a cart along the streets of Malabon city just north of Manila every morning except Sundays, collecting bags of segregated garbage. Workers harvest vegetables grown with compost from organic waste at a community garden at a recycling facility in Malabon, Philippines on Monday Feb. 13, 2023. Froilan Grate, executive director of GAIA Asia Pacific, …

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World making little progress on food waste, a big climate problem
2 years, 1 month ago

World making little progress on food waste, a big climate problem

The Hindu  

Every Thursday, California resident Richard Redmond takes a gallon-sized container of food scraps to the farmers market in the city of South Pasadena where it is collected and composted for use in gardens – an effort to reduce the amount of household waste he sends to landfill. Nations around the globe pledged in 2015 to halve food waste by 2030, …

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Watch | From market waste to electricity
2 years, 11 months ago

Watch | From market waste to electricity

The Hindu  

Ambedkar Vegetable Market Yard or Bowenpally Market has always been a hive of activity. Now, tonnes of organic waste from the Bowenpally market is converted to energy. The Bowenpally market produces 3-4 tonnes of organic waste every day. Up to 800-1,000 units of power can be generated daily by converting ten tonnes of organic waste. Currently, the electricity generated from …

Market Power Waste Bowenpally Organic Waste Bowenpally Market
What you need to know about California’s new composting law — a game changer for food waste
2 years, 11 months ago

What you need to know about California’s new composting law — a game changer for food waste

LA Times  

A tractor-trailer unloads raw materials that will be turned into compost at the Recology Blossom Valley Organics facility in Lamont, Calif., on Dec. 3. Los Angeles County Public Works officials say homes in unincorporated communities will get notices over the first half of 2022 telling them when, and how, to segregate their food waste. Some businesses in L.A. County already …

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California goes to war with food waste. Composting is its next climate crusade
3 years ago

California goes to war with food waste. Composting is its next climate crusade

LA Times  

Sometimes it’s not even trash. Senate Bill 1383 mandates that Californians toss unused food, coffee grounds, egg shells, banana peels and other leftovers into bins they use for other “green” waste, such as garden trimmings, lawn clippings and leaves. “We are pleading with the public, ‘We need recycled food, to help with greening the land around us, to work on …

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Baner-Pashan residents see red over garbage segregation at amenity space
3 years, 1 month ago

Baner-Pashan residents see red over garbage segregation at amenity space

Hindustan Times  

PUNE: Residents of Baner Pashan Link Road – a congregation of 60 societies – are fed up of the Pune Municipal Corporation’s apathy towards their problem of garbage segregation and organic waste dumping being carried out at what are meant to be amenity spaces, repeated complaints notwithstanding. Residents of Baner Pashan Link Road – a congregation of 60 societies – …

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