First Issue of BioCycle Connect Published
Welcome to the inaugural edition of BioCycle CONNECT®, the new BioCycle for a new decade. We’ll be coming to you just about every week in 2020 with new and timely content on organics recycling projects, programs, policies, and practices — as well as dust off some...
Shortcourse on Anaerobic Digestion at Cornell University Next Week
Join the ABC in Ithaca, NY next week! Cornell University's PRO-DAIRY Program is producing an shortcourse on anaerobic digestion January 15-16 called "Anaerobic Digestion Process Fundamentals and Management Shortcourse For Agricultural, Food Processing, Industrial and...
Rome, NY board gives go-ahead for construction of anaerobic digester
During the last meeting of the year, the city’s Board of Estimate and Contract, unanimously passed measures paving the way for the planned wastewater treatment plant's anaerobic digester to be operational by the end of 2020. With engineering work already complete,...
Energy and finance industry veteran joins Drylet as new President and CEO
Drylet, LLC, an award-winning bioremediation technology company with a strong waste-to-energy focus (and an ABC member), announced today that Trevor Turbidy is succeeding Luka Erceg as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Turbidy served most recently...
New York closer to citywide commercial organics diversion with latest proposal
New York City is on track to have one of the nation's more widespread commercial organics diversion mandates in the latest sign of ambitious local policy to boost this growing sector. Earlier this fall, the city's Department of Sanitation (DSNY) proposed a new rule...
New Jersey Natural Gas Announces 100% Renewable Offset of Its Facility and Fleet Natural Gas Emissions
New Jersey Natural Gas (NJNG) today announced it has completely offset its facility and fleet use of natural gas with renewable energy. By purchasing Renewable Natural Gas Attributes (RNGAs), renewable energy credits generated from the production of Renewable Natural...
Remembering Amp Americas Co-founder Martin Hollander
Our hearts are heavy for Martin’s family and all of our friends at Am Americas. From Amp Americas' Grant Zimmerman: The Amp Americas team has been devastated by the news that one of our co-founders, Martin Hollander, along with his wife and two teenage sons, were on...
New Jersey Assembly passes organics diversion mandate without landfill exemption
The New Jersey General Assembly passed a bill earlier this week – by a vote of 51 to 25 – that would require certain large-scale generators to separate organics if they are within 25 miles of an authorized recycling facility. The bill (A3726) directly followed...
Chicken waste conversion project may ease ground water contamination
Has Delaware found a solution to its long-running problem of ground water contamination from the waste produced by poultry plants? A new plan to convert chicken waste from a Delaware processing plant into usable compost and natural gas promises to remove...