Nine Teams Chosen for Colorado’s NextCycle Program
Each of the nine teams selected for the first-of-its-kind pilot program will receive a $5,000 business development grant, mentoring from the Colorado NextCycle technical advisory committee, and technical support from RRS, the recycling and sustainability consulting firm assisting with the Colorado NextCycle program.
Big Merger Announced in Solid Waste Field
Texas-based Waste Connections, Inc. and Toronto-based Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. are merging in an all-stock transaction. The combined company will bear the Waste Connections name.
Deal Provides Wider Access to Methane Flaring Solution
“Most industries that currently flare their waste gases will soon be able to use these waste gases productively while also significantly reducing their emissions of waste gases into the atmosphere. This is great news for our world’s air quality and great news for the financial bottom lines of the industries that currently emit these greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,” said Alain Castro, CEO of Ener-Core.
Canada Preparing for $350 Billion Infrastructure Boom
The Province of Ontario’s Green Energy Act of 2009 helped to ignite fast growth in the production of clean and renewable energy. Since 2009, the act has spawned more than 20,000 jobs.
The Future of Cogeneration is Green
Gas-fired cogen plants are common, but biomass-fueled plants have the added benefit of using a renewable, practically inexhaustible fuel source.
Nevada Joining Benefit Corporations Wave
At least 12 other states have laws on the books allowing companies to organize in this way, which allows them to focus on environmental and social performance, as well as profits.
Renewable Energy from Landfill Gas
As the need for renewable, cleaner, and cheaper energy continues to rise, landfill gas for renewable energy production will likely become a more common practice.
Recycling Facility Turns Wastewater into BioFuel
BlackGold Biofuels opened up a new facility in North Carolina, where wastewater will be converted into biofuel. Though it is common practice for cooking oils to be recycled into biofuels, transforming wastewater into biofuel is a more transient feat and not as common.
Emerson Chosen for Innovative Waste to Energy Gasification Facility in France
Emerson’s Ovation expert control system provides flexible and accurate control of a powerful biomass gasification plant in France.
London’s Getting Energy from Discarded Cooking Oil
Fat and oil used for cooking are often poured into sinks and cause buildup in drains and ultimately end up in sewer systems. This waste, called fatbergs in England, will be reused as energy at a fat-fueled power station in east London.