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More homes can now recycle their food waste - NELCNorth East Lincolnshire Council is expanding its food waste recycling pilot to more homes this Spring. The Council started collecting food waste every week on one of its bin rounds last April. Households in the pilot area received a lockable outdoor bin and a small caddy for their kitchen. The pilot area includes 4,680 homes...

Waste not: Turning food scraps into renewable energyFood for thought: if food waste was a country it'd be the world's third largest greenhouse gas producer behind the US and China. So what's being done about it?

It’s Time America Stopped Throwing Out Food WasteCalifornia got the ball rolling, working to keep organic materials out of landfills by issuing regulations and using technologies that can turn them into an energy source and carbon sink. Now, other states are joining in.

A growing number of farms are recycling cow manure for green energyThe green energy created through recycling manure in an anaerobic digester is helping power a small town.

Pennwood Farms Watches Electricity and Bedding Costs DisappearTucked away in the hillsides of Somerset County, Pennwood Farms is seeing great results from its new methane digester. The 600-cow dairy farm is owned by four brothers who installed the digester in April of this year with the help of a $264,450 USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) loan, a $264,574 REAP grant and $475,274 in PA Energy Development Authority funding. The digester produces biogas to power a 180-kilowatt engine-generator, providing more than enough electricity to meet the farm’s needs. In addition to electricity, the digester also produces fertilizer and cow bedding, saving the farm over $60,000 per year in bedding costs. Rural Development’s REAP loan and grant to Pennwood Farms are excellent examples of funding that contributes to making farm operations more energy efficient and economical. This funding for renewable energy projects helps rebuild and revitalize rural America.

Prepare carefully if considering carbon credit contractsIf farmers are adding strip tillage, cover crops, or perennial crops to their operation, there could be the potential to receive a carbon credit payment per acre, too.

These are Minnesota's top greenhouse gas pollutersAbout 100 facilities in Minnesota generate about 25% of the state's total greenhouse gases.

To Counter Global Warming, Focus Far More on Methane, a New Study Recommends - Inside Climate NewsThe Environmental Protection Agency is drastically undervaluing the potency of methane as a greenhouse gas when the agency compares methane’s climate impact to that of carbon dioxide, a new study concludes. The EPA’s climate accounting for methane is “arbitrary and unjustified” and three times too low to meet the goals set in the Paris climate […]

Landfills are leaking PFAS 'forever chemicals' in 41 Minnesota countiesThe full magnitude of the landfill problem is unknown, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said.

'Nobody wants this:' Birchwood landfill owners asking for more spaceA landfill in Hamilton County is currently closed and not accepting any more waste due to space. Plans to expand the landfill are being met with some opposition from Harrison residents. The Birchwood landfill wants to expand by more than 50 acres, but neighbors who live around it say they have concerns. Read the rezoning plans below: 2022-0079 Application Website by WTVC on Scribd. Dan Dobrowolski and his wife live on Morning Glory drive near the Birchwood landfill.

Toxic waste revealed as eroding coastlines expose old landfillsFloods and rising sea levels are washing hazardous waste from old rubbish tips into the sea at thousands of sites globally

Visualizing the Global Landfill CrisisThe world produces enough solid waste to fill over 800,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools every year. Per person, that's 0.74 kilograms per day.

Twin Cities trash is piling up so quickly, 4 landfills need to expandWaste generation in the metro area was up 30% in the past year.

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