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Vancouver Hopes to Expand Composting Plan to Include All Food Waste
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ancouver, B.C.—The City of Vancouver and other municipalities are joining to send food scraps to Fraser Richmond Soil and Fibre, a local composting firm, reports cbc.ca. The city has started a program so residents can put out fruit and vegetables and coffee grounds, and they are now piloting a second phase with full food scraps, including meats and dairy, hoping to expand early in 2012 to include all food scraps. Fraser Richmond Soil and Fibre diverts an estimated 200,000 metric tons of yard and food waste from the landfill each year. It is composted into soil and sold to municipalities, landscapers and retailers. The facility also uses materials from dredging the Fraser River, using about 100,000 cubic meters of sand annually. In early 2012, the company wants to open a new digester that will take the methane gas and use it to run the collection trucks or something similar.
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Akron’s Second Phase Sends All Biosolids to Biomass System, Eliminate Odors, Create Electricity
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kron, OH—WKYC.com reports that Akron is working to extend its contract with KB Compost Services, Inc., to implement a second phase to reduce almost all of the odors from the city’s compost facility, at a cost of $32 million. A 30% energy credit is also available. Akron contracted in 2007 with KB Compost to build an anaerobic digestive system to manage one-third of the biosolids generated by the city to produce renewable energy. Phase Two will send all of Akron’s biosolids to the facility, create over 100 construction jobs, produce electricity for the facility and generate Renewable Energy Credits that can be sold on the open market. The combined two-phase system will eliminate almost all of the odors generated by the composting operation because, with no sludge composted, there will be no outside storage of material. After 10 years, the city will take on the debt service payments, with the plan that they will be funded 100% from the annual operating cost savings.
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