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BiogasWorld Weekly Vol 15
It’s Time For Congress To Join The Fight Against Food Waste
July 26, 2017 – This week, I am excited to join a group of advocates and chefs from Food Policy Action, the National Resource Defense Council, ReFed, and the James Beard Foundation in Washington, D.C. to put food waste on the plates of Congress. In 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency and United States Department of Agriculture announced a national goal to halve food waste by 2030, but these agencies and Congress have not yet adopted policies to help us meet this ambitious goal. We are now approaching a critical opportunity to implement such policy change: the U.S. Farm Bill, expected to pass in 2018. This legislation shapes our food and agriculture system, covering everything from rural broadband to food assistance programs—yet the last Farm Bill, enacted in 2014, didn’t put a single dollar towards food waste reduction efforts.
Read more on Huffington Post Canada
Utah biogas project to use DMT Clear Gas Solutions technology
July 27, 2017 – DMT Clear Gas Solutions recently announced it is providing biogas upgrading technology to an anaerobic digestion project in Utah that will produce enough power from food waste to power 15,000 homes. The Wasatch Resource Recovery Project, located in Salt Lake, Utah, is expected to process approximately 180,000 tons of food waste annually. The facility is scheduled to be fully operational by the third quarter of next year.
New Jersey Just Took a Major Stand Against Food Waste
July 27, 2017 – A new law in New Jersey—one of the strongest stances against climate change in the U.S. right now—aims to cut the state’s food waste in half by 2030. Lawmakers also hope that the law will reduce the state’s climate footprint and add much needed resources in their fight against hunger. The bill passed the New Jersey legislature unanimously and was signed by Governor Chris Christie last week. According to the Natural Resources Defense Department, around 40 percent of the food that Americans eat ends up in landfills—that’s $165 billion in food per year. “Reducing food losses by just 15 percent would be enough food to feed more than 25 million Americans every year at a time when one in six Americans lack a secure supply of food to their tables,” the department wrote in a 2012 report.
Read more on Food & Wine Magazine
Largest Fleet of CNG buses in Michigan
July 28, 2017 – The City of Grand Rapids, together with its public transportations system known as The Rapid, has unveiled a new plan to roll out what will become Michigan’s largest fleet of environmentally friendly buses. The buses, powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), will soon be cruising the streets of Downtown and Greater Grand Rapids. Bus riders will see 33 of the alternative fuel vehicles in 2017, including 28 in service for The Rapid on bus lines throughout Greater Grand Rapids and five for the City’s free DASH shuttle service in Downtown operated by The Rapid. The buses will replace diesel powered vehicles.
Global Biogas Market is estimated to reach 25.3 Billion USD in 2017 – 2022
July 28, 2017 – Global Biogas Market industry research report accordingly analyzes the crucial aspects of Biogas market and put them into a proper all-exclusive document. It also does an in-depth study of current scenario of Biogas market. Biogas Market is expected to reach 25.3 Billion USD in 2022. At first, the report introduces the basic overview of Biogas industry in terms of definitions, applications, industry chain structure, revenue segmentation, and classifications. The report also gives the details about the business owner scenery of the Biogas market. The report further covers the developmental history of Biogas market along with major areas it covers.
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Italy: a 998kW plant supplies energy to 2,500 households
July 31, 2017 – La Fattoria della Piana, in Calabria, is a livestock farmers’ cooperative that since 1936 has processed the milk produced by its constituent farms, and is now involved in all activities within the agri-food supply chain. Its 998kW biogas plant is fuelled by the manure of 900 cattle and by cheese processing waste, enabling the production of electricity and thermal energy. The electricity meets the needs of 2,500 households, while the heat is used in the dairy production processes. The digestate is used in the citrus and olive groves.
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ADBA Urges Government to Prioritise Biomethane for HGVs & Busses
August 1, 2017 – UK trade body, the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), has called on the government to make the fuelling of buses and heavy goods vehicles by clean biomethane central to its Clean Air Strategy. The organisation explained that biomethane is a low-carbon transport fuel produced by the anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic wastes to create a biogas which can then be upgraded to create a methane-based fuel. According to ADBA, the UK AD industry already has sufficient capacity today to produce enough biomethane to power the UK’s entire bus fleet, and the use of biomethane for buses and HGVs has increased in recent years in response to concerns over the cost of fossil-fuel-based fuels and their negative impact on air quality and greenhouse gas emissions.