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The proposed combined-heat-and-power (CHP) biomass boiler operation in Salisbury MD will create 70,000 pounds per hour of steam for an adjacent Perdue Agribusiness complex using a combination of poultry litter, layer hen manure, wood chips and other locally sourced biomass Another poultry litter facility in Minnesota already produces 55 MW. What a great idea! [...] Axion makes the ties from plastic bottles and landfill waste and says they are cost-effective. ECOTRAX™ simply outperform traditional railroad ties. They are virtually impervious to the elements; will not rust, splinter, crumble, rot, absorb moisture or leach toxic chemicals into the environment; and are completely impervious to infestation by insects. ECOTRAX™ ties offer [...] A proprietary process from Plastic 2 Oil will use plastics from Tennessee landfills to create gasoline, diesel, and other fuels. It can gobble through 1800 pounds of plastic in an hour. Wow. The Land Art Generator Initiative took inventor Akinori Iti’s idea to convert plastic back to petroleum and figured out how to do it with solar tower technology. They called it Plastikoleum. Not only does this save energy, they think they can do it at a scale of 10 tons of plastic per hour, [...] Toronto introduces biogas garbage trucks which run on CNG or biogas. They hope to make enough biogas from the garbage to run their entire fleet of 300 garbage trucks. I find technology like this postively inspirational because it takes a problem (what to do with the garbage) and turns it into a solution. [...] This is brilliant. Take your old cell phone to an ecoATM machine. It’ll determine how much the phone is worth, then issue a receipt you exchange for money at the cashier. It’s like Coinstar, but for electronic devices. They started with recycling cell phones and are now quickly expanding into iPods, GPS, and other [...] This has to be one of the most innovative recycling projects in the world. Last Monday morning, Sheriff Lee Baca at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s headquarters announced that 8,300 seized firearms had been destroyed. The following morning they were converted into steel reinforcing bars, also known as rebar, to be used for upgrades to [...] Photo: Centralian Advocate West MacDonnell National Park in Australia created a 17km bike path and viewing platform for $130,000 from old ink cartridges, which is both a great example of recycling and it will save them money in the long run because the material is so durable. [...] Prodigious amounts of glycerin are produced as a byproduct of biofuel, and sometimes was being landfilled. However, scientists now have devised a multitude of ways it can be used and reprocessed. Waste glycerin can be made into a profit center, yielding high-value chemicals (alcohols and acids) that can be used to make fabrics, insulation, and [...] Peets’s Coffee and Tea and BTTR have teamed up in a unique venture. Peet’s provides coffee grounds (that otherwise would be dumped in landfills) and BTTR uses them to grow different varieties of mushrooms. They use about a ton of coffee grounds every two weeks, which is composted by local farmers when they’re done [...] |  | ||||
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