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2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed the city’s new commercial organic waste policy into law. The initiative aims to reduce New Other 18% York City’s greenhouse gas Metal 4% emissions from waste disposal while producing useful Organic 46% resources, such as biogas and Glass 5% soil amendment products. The Plastic 10% law essentially requires certain businesses within 100 miles of the city that generate food Paper 17% waste to divert that waste to anaerobic digestion or composting facilities, beginning in SOURCE: WORLD BANK, "WHAT A WASTE: A GLOBAL REVIEW OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT" 2015. reliable supply of compost, and biogas “NYC’s extraordinary action will be a shot of adrenaline to the facilities can continuously produce biogas and digested materials for gardening and growing biogas and compost industries which are ready, able and willing to man- agriculture,” said Patrick Serfass, executive director of the American Biogasage organic wastes as a resource. This new policy fulfills a fundamental need for Council. “Project financing also flows biogas and composting project develop- more readily with more certainty in feedstock supply, and will create jobs, renewment: a predictable and reliable source able energy and soil amendment products of organic feedstocks. With it, compost while reducing greenhouse gases.” manufacturing facilities can produce a
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Missouri biogas system to process manure Murphy-Brown of Missouri, the livestock production subsidiary of Smithfield Foods Inc., and Roeslein Alternative Energy announced plans to develop a $100 million biogas project in northern Missouri. The project will initially take in manure as feedstock. The project will also consider the use of waste feed and other sources of biomass in the future. Biogas will be harvested from MBM finishing farms using anaerobic digestion technology developed and installed by Roeslein. Impermeable synthetic covers will be placed on existing nutrient treatment lagoons, and barn scraper technology will be utilized to deliver raw nutrients of livestock waste to covered lagoons. The anaerobic digestion modules will be fabricated by Roeslein & Associates’ wholly owned subsidiary Roeslein Manufacturing. Construction is expected to begin in the spring. Murphy-Brown LLC also recently announced that a biogas project with Circle 4 Farms and Alpental Energy Partners LLC in Utah is now producing electricity via two methane digesters.