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Eaton Facility Achieves Zero Waste to Landfill

November 17, 2014November 14, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Eaton’s aerospace facility in Titchfield, UK, has achieved zero waste to landfill through strategies such as recycling, re-use and new work processes. Eaton is encouraging its manufacturing sites to achieve zero waste to landfill as part of its waste management program and also as a means to reduce its carbon ... Read more »

Microsoft Zero-Carbon Data Center: First in US

November 7, 2014November 6, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Microsoft, Siemens Energy Management and FuelCell Energy have partnered on what they say is the first zero-carbon, waste-to-energy data center in the US. The Microsoft data center, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, uses biogas methane produced by waste byproducts at the nearby Dry Creek wastewater facility to power the fuel cell system, ... Read more »

GM Landfill-Free Sites hits 122

October 17, 2014October 16, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Eleven more General Motors’ facilities have achieved landfill-free status. The company’s running total is 122 manufacturing and non-manufacturing operations spanning Asia, Europe and South and North America that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. GM’s new landfill-free facilities include: CAMI Assembly (Canada) Colmotores Assembly (Colombia) ... Read more »

Walmart Helps Zoo Turn Animal Waste to Energy

September 26, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Walmart is donating six microturbines from its experimental store in Aurora to the Denver Zoo for its waste-to-energy system, which will convert the zoo’s animal waste and human trash into usable energy and heat. The microturbines will generate electrical energy to run the filters and pumps in the zoo’s 10-acre ... Read more »

Goodyear Converts Rice Husk Waste to Fuel-Efficient Tire Treads

September 23, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is using rice husk waste to produce fuel-efficient tires. Goodyear says it will utilize ash left over from the burning of rice husks to produce electricity as an environmentally friendly source of silica for use in its tires. The company has tested silica derived from ... Read more »

GM Plant Avoids 38,425 Metric Tons of CO2

September 18, 2014September 18, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Motors’ Toledo Transmission plant in one year reduced energy intensity by 30 percent, avoiding 38,425 metric tons of carbon from entering the atmosphere. The plant also reduced wastewater pretreatment discharges by 60 percent since 2009. For these and other efforts to reduce its environmental impact, the plant received an ... Read more »

Diamond Packaging Achieves Zero Waste to Landfill

September 15, 2014September 12, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Diamond Packaging has achieved zero manufacturing waste to landfill status. The company has set a goal of zero waste to landfill. Zero manufacturing waste to landfill is defined by Diamond Packaging as 100 percent landfill waste diversion through a combination of recycling and energy recovery solutions. In Diamond’s case it ... Read more »

Ford Landfill-Free in Canada

September 5, 2014September 5, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Ford’s Oakville Assembly plant now sends no operational waste-to-landfill, an achievement that gives the automaker the distinction of becoming landfill-free at all its manufacturing facilities in Canada. Oakville Assembly is the first Ford assembly plant in North America to achieve this designation. The Essex Engine Plant received landfill-free status in ... Read more »

Waste-to-Energy Could Supply 12% of US Electricity

August 19, 2014August 19, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

If all of the municipal solid waste (MSW) that is currently put into landfills each year in the US were diverted to waste-to-energy (WTE) power plants, it could generate enough electricity to supply 12 percent of the US total, according to a study conducted by the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) ... Read more »

NY Food-Waste-to-Energy Pilot Expands

August 15, 2014August 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

New York City will expand a pilot food-waste-to-energy program this fall. The program, which launched last summer, diverts food from the waste stream and converts it into natural gas, Capital New York reports. The city expects the program to avoid about 90,000 metric tons of CO2. Waste Management separates the ... Read more »

DVO Digester Reduces Farm Waste GHGs by 90%

August 15, 2014August 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A DVO anaerobic digester, scheduled to open at Calgren Renewable Fuels on Sept. 30 in Pixley, Calif., will convert animal waste into energy, reducing the environmental impact from farm waste greenhouse gas emissions by more than 90 percent, says Steve Dvorak, owner and founder of DVO. This is DVO’s first ... Read more »

Hog-Waste-to-Energy Plant Under Construction

August 12, 2014August 12, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

An $80 million hog-manure-to-energy project is under construction in Northern Missouri, developed and constructed by Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) in collaboration with Murphy-Brown of Missouri (MBM) the livestock production subsidiary of Smithfield Foods. Crews are installing impermeable covers on 88 existing lagoons to harvest biogas, also called renewable natural gas, ... Read more »

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