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In business, solving bigproblems can lead to big profits.One of our largest environmentalproblems is the millions of tonsof plastic waste that wind upfloating in our oceans and wash-ing up on beaches. It’s not onlyunclean, but a massive waste ofraw material that should other-wise be recycled. Most impor-tantly, it’s an ecological disasteraffecting marine life and ulti-mately human health. Findingnew ways to prevent or recoverdiscarded plastics from rivers andoceans could be a gold minebusiness for 21st century entre-preneurs. Imagine how largerstreams of recycled plastic couldreduce our reliance on virginmaterial and the related energyconsumption and pollution con-sequences.

But it will be tough going.Nevertheless, a few pioneeringcompanies are beginning to recy-cle ocean plastics as a way ofdrawing public and government attention to the problem of oceanplastics pollution.

Scientists are just beginning to understand the complex prob-lem of plastic debris in oceans and how it is detrimental to theecosystem. They have identified five major ocean gyres or systemsof rotating currents where wind and water trap floating debris suchas plastic, much like an eddy in a river. The most notable is theNorth Pacific Gyre, also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,which is estimated to be the size of Texas.

Because of the durability of plastic, it can float in thesegyres for decades before sunlight photo-degrades it into tinyparticles that float on and below the surface and can be con-sumed by creatures as small as plankton, a basic in the marinefood chain. The plastic does not go away, however. Since it isnon-biodegradable it remains in tiny sizes which can beingested by sea creatures. Plastic particles have been found in

sea birds and many species of fish and have been traced as thecauses of sicknesses and death.

Picking up plastic debris from beaches and sorting it by handis highly labor intensive and usually done by volunteers. Netting itfrom the water is currently cost prohibitive from a business stand-point.

In late 2012, Method, an environmentally-conscious cleaningproducts company launched its latest innovation in sustainablepackaging – bottles made from a blend of plastic recovered fromthe ocean with post-consumer recycled plastic. The bottles are for alimited edition packaging of a new Method product, a two-in-onehand and dish soap, which is available exclusively at Whole FoodsMarket stores nationwide.

“Method is really demonstrating how smart business canmake a big impact for our planet,” said Errol Schweizer, executive

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Survey indicates Americans feel they’renot doing enough for the environment

A new national survey finds mostAmericans feel less than confident thatthey’re doing enough to help the environ-ment – and many say they don’t reallyknow how.

Only 37 percent of Americans in thesurvey say they’re doing enough for theenvironment, and less than half (46 percent)say they are knowledgeable about what ittakes to be eco-friendly in daily life. Twothirds of Americans say they would like tolearn some simple steps that help theplanet.

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“It’s never been easier to recycle inAmerica, especially the plastic bottles,

caps and containers that we use everyday,” said Steve Russell, vice president ofplastics for the American ChemistryCouncil, which sponsors the PlasticsMake it Possible initiative.

The good news is that almost allAmericans now have access to recycling– and more than 90 percent said theyrecycle in their daily lives, according tothe survey. However, the next part of therecycling loop – looking for productsmade with recycled materials – is not aswidespread. With the holiday retail sea-son upon us, only 28 percent say theywill look for gifts this year made withrecycled materials, according to thesurvey.

Recycled plastics, for example, areused to make a wide range of consumer

goods, such as clothing, kitchenware andgarden tools, that can make great eco-friendly gifts. In 2012 the companyRepreve turned nearly one billion plasticbottles into yarn and fabrics used to makeitems for companies such as Patagonia,Ford Motor Company and LK LifeKhaki. The number and kinds of productsmade with recycled plastics are growingdramatically as plastic recycling expands.

While the survey finds that manyAmericans may not know how to be eco-friendly, most are doing at least some-thing to find out – more than threequarters (78 percent) say they have takensome action to learn more about whichproducts are collected for recycling intheir community.

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Casella sells Maine energy facility Casella Waste Systems, Inc. com-

pleted the sale of the property containingits Maine Energy Recovery facility(MERC) to the City of Biddeford, Maine.

As part of the transaction, Biddefordwill pay the company total considerationof $6.65 million over 21 years, enter into anew 10 year waste handling agreement,and enter into a new 10 year recycling col-lection agreement. At closing, the com-pany conveyed to Biddeford the land(excluding any above grade improvementsother than the stack) and cellular leasesrelated to antennae on the stack.

The purchase and sale agreementallows for a post-sale transition period,where the company has the option to oper-ate MERC for up to 6 months and thecompany has 12 months to dismantle allfacilities on the property except for thestack that houses the cellular equipment.

The company plans to cease operations atMERC by the end of its third quarter fiscal2013, and at that time begin the process todismantle the facility.

“In September, we began constructionof a new transfer station in Westbrook,Maine to handle the majority of the wastecurrently disposed of at Maine Energy,”said John W. Casella, chairman and CEOof Casella Waste Systems. “We expect tocomplete construction at Westbrook in lateDecember, and to begin transferring wastehistorically directed to Maine Energy, toother company landfills. The sale of MaineEnergy is expected to materially improveour financial results, with consolidatedAdjusted EBITDA margins improving byroughly 70 basis points, and cash flowsincreasing by roughly $5.6 million peryear due to lower capital expenditures.”

Pennsylvania recovers over$2 million through recycling

Pennsylvania’s general servicessecretary Sheri Phillips said that morethan $2 million was recovered throughthe Commonwealth’s recycling programin 2011-2012 – a 9 percent increasefrom the previous annual time period.

“The saying ‘one man’s trash isanother man’s treasure,’ truly applies inthe case of the Commonwealth’s recy-cling program,” Phillips said. “In thiscase we are turning our trash into treas-ure – to the tune of $2 million.”

The Commonwealth recycling pro-gram has been in effect since 1989through Act 101 of 1988, the MunicipalWaste Planning, Recycling and WasteReduction Act, and was enhanced byManagement Directive 202.55 Recy-cling, Waste Reduction and Procure-ment of Environmentally PreferableProducts.

Administered by the Department ofGeneral Services, the program requiresthe central and satellite offices of allCommonwealth agencies to have a sep-aration and collection program for recy-clable materials produced as a result ofagency operations, including: officepaper, cardboard, aluminum, plastic andglass.

Commonwealth agencies areencouraged to incorporate into theirrecycling programs efforts to recycle,reuse or refurbish pallets and to collecttoner cartridges for remanufacturing.Agencies should also include programs

to recycle, as appropriate, batteries,scrap metal, tires, waste oil, fluorescentlamps and ballasts.

“This program ensures that weexceed requirements for environmentalresponsibility while at the same time,reduce our amount of waste and recoupsome of the costs spent on materials wecan no longer use,” Phillips said.

Recovered funds are used to offsetthe cost of the recycling program andthe purchase of new materials to replacethose being recycled.

“In addition to the traditionallyrecycled items, we’re ahead of the curvein the implementation of an e-wasterecycling program, which has alreadyrecovered more than $30,000 from morethan 300,000 lbs. of material recycledthis year,” Phillips said.

Secretary Phillips noted that newrules for recycling electronic devicesunder the Pennsylvania Covered DeviceRecycling Act will take effect for con-sumers and businesses on January 24,2013.

Under the act, consumers cannotdispose of certain devices, such as com-puters, laptops, monitors and televi-sions, with their trash. This means thattrash haulers will no longer be able totake these devices unless the municipal-ity has a collection or drop-off programthat ultimately sends the devices to anelectronics recycler.

NYSAR3 awards recyclersThe New York State Association for

Reduction, Reuse and Recycling(NYSAR3), the professional recyclers’association for New York State, recog-nizes a few of their members each yearfor their dedication, innovation and pas-sion for recycling. For 2012, two peoplewere recognized by NYSAR3 at theirannual conference.

Recycler of the Year – Awarded toPeggy Grayson of the GLOW RegionSolid Waste Management Committee.Grayson is the only employee covering amulti-county area of the state for recy-cling and she does it with enthusiasmand on a shoestring budget. Grayson wasone of the first in the state to executemulti-county household hazardous waste

collection days and is also the drivingforce behind the Western NY MaterialsExchange catalog.

Lifetime Achievement – Awarded toMarjorie Torelli, of the former WesternFinger Lakes Solid Waste ManagementAuthority. Torelli is of one recycling’sfiercest advocates and can always berelied on to make a justifiable argumentin favor of recycling. She spent 21 yearseducating western New Yorkers with atruly hands-on approach to recyclingeducation by creating programs forschool children and adults alike duringher tenure. Her expertise is routinelysought by others in the field as her repu-tation as a poised and respected profes-sional is second to none.

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Pennsylvania DEP acceptingapplications for 2013 awards

The Pennsylvania Department ofEnvironmental Protection is encouragingenvironmental stewards to apply for the2013 Governor’s Environmental Excel-lence Award.

The award is open to all Pennsylvaniabusinesses, farms, government agencies,educational institutions, non-profit organi-zations and individuals that have devel-oped innovative environmental projects,strategies and technologies or have createdopportunities that balance environmentalstewardship and economic development.

Eligible projects include wastewaterrecycling technology innovation, resourcedevelopment, renewable and alternativeenergy innovation, economic opportunitydevelopment, watershed restoration strate-gies and environmental education out-reach, among others.

Projects will be evaluated based onseven criteria detailed within the applica-tion, including potential job creation anduse of innovation technology. A clear, con-cise explanation of the project’s purposemust be included in the project summary.

The project must have been com-pleted between Aug. 1, 2011, and July31, 2012. While each candidate maysubmit only one application for a partic-ular project, companies with multiplefacilities may submit an application foreach facility.

Projects that have previouslyreceived a Governor’s Award for Envi-ronmental Excellence are not eligible forthis award, though past winners maysubmit applications for new projects forconsideration.

Each project will be reviewed by acommittee of DEP employees. Recipientsof the award will be honored during anevening reception and the winning projectswill also be listed on DEP’s website.

Projects should be submitted viaemail to [email protected] January 31, 2013. Faxed or mailed sub-missions will not be considered.

For more information or to apply,visit www.dep.state.pa.us, keywords:Governor’s Award for EnvironmentalExcellence.

Sonoco Recycling, LLC has invested$4 million in its Columbia, South Car-olina, materials recovery facility, allowingacceptance of additional types of materi-als. Because of this, local residents will beable to recycle more of their householdmaterials such as composite cans, glass,magazines and other types of plastics.

Sonoco Recycling has added threesorting screens for corrugated cardboardand paper sorting, an optical sorter toretrieve plastic, and a new glass crusherthat allows the facility to collect whole andbroken glass bottles, jugs and jars.

New items accepted:•Composite cans – cardboard contain-

ers with metal bottoms, such as coffee orPringles containers.

•Paper – office paper, junk mail, mag-azines, chipboard, wet-pack boxes andgable-top cartons.

•Plastics – most plastics #1 through 7.•Glass – whole and broken glass bot-

tles, jugs and jars.The facility is still unable to accept

tissue paper, paper plates and cups, waxedcardboard, plastic bags and films, contain-ers that have held toxic substances, metallids on glass or plastic items, glass cups orplates, window glass or ceramics.

Sonoco acceptsmore materials

Navistar mobilizes dealernetwork to aid east coast fleets

Navistar International Corporationhas initiated Operation Assist, a disasterrelief program put into effect to help inSuperstorm Sandy recovery efforts onthe East Coast to get International Truckcustomers back in business as soon aspossible.

Through Operation Assist, Navistaris coordinating with its InternationalTruck North American dealer networkand International Used Truck Centers tohelp customers in the East Coast findnew or used trucks to replace lost ordamaged vehicles.

In addition to quickly replacingdamaged vehicles, Navistar will matchemployee and dealer contributions up to$50,000 to the American Red Cross.

Navistar has organized lists of avail-able new and used International trucksand trailer inventory from its NorthAmerican dealer network to assist in therecovery. Dealers across the country are

working together to provide access tothe variety of trucks needed to aid cus-tomers in the region.

“We created Operation Assist tofacilitate trades among dealers and speedthe process of getting needed trucks tothe region. We’re trying to get our cus-tomers back in operation as quickly aspossible,” explained Jeff Ordner, direc-tor, international fleet sales, Northeastregion.

IC Bus, a Navistar company, hasalready answered the call for help bydelivering an order of 100 school busesto Amvoy School Bus, Staten Island,New York, in an effort to quickly restoreschool bus service for children.

Meanwhile, Navistar’s Idealeasetruck leasing program has thousands ofInternational trucks with titles and leasesin its inventory across the country, whichcan be quickly deployed to customers onthe East Coast.


Of those who “drop and shop,” 51percent in the U.S. and 56 percent inCanada go beyond replacing what theyjust recycled to shop and buy otheritems, according to a recent studycommissioned by Call2Recycle®, aproduct stewardship organization man-aging the only no-cost battery and cellphone collection program in NorthAmerica.

Of those surveyed, 54 percent inthe U.S. and 45 percent in Canadaconsider retailers a key source forlearning about recycling programswhere 18 percent of the U.S. popula-tion and 24 percent of the Canadianpopulation participates in retail “takeback” programs for the collection andrecycling of batteries and cell phones.

This is good news for the manyenvironmentally-committed retailerswho offer take back programs for theircustomers. Major retailers such as The

Home Depot, Best Buy, Canadian Tire,RadioShack and Lowe’s all offer on-site collection of recyclables, includ-ing rechargeable batteries. Up to 80percent of battery and cell phone recy-clers surveyed cited convenience as amajor motive for participation and upto 80 percent of respondents say theyhave positive feelings about stores thatoffer such programs.

“When collection programs areconvenient and accessible, busy con-sumers will integrate recycling intotheir routines, setting the stage forgrowth in recycling participation,” saidCarl Smith, chief executive officer andpresident of Call2Recycle. AddedSmith, “We are continuing to workwith retailers to make it even easier forpeople still holding on to rechargeablebatteries to fit recycling into theirweekly errand list.” 91 percent of theU.S. population has access to a

Call2Recycle battery collection loca-tion within 10 miles of their residence.

According to the response data,consumer support of product recyclingis heavily influenced by three key fac-tors: the mode of product collection;how accessible the collection program isfor consumers; and their general aware-ness of take back programs. Batteriesand cell phones, among other products,are primarily collected at retail outletswhere consumers already shop.

Call2Recycle counts consumer par-ticipation through the retailer’s pro-grams as part of its record of more than70 million lbs. (34 million kilograms) ofrechargeable batteries diverted from thewaste stream. This participation canonly increase as 67 percent and 75 per-cent of non-battery and cell phone recy-clers surveyed, in the U.S. and Canadarespectively, say they intend to recyclein the future.

Drop & Shop retail recycling programs work

The U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) announced more than$5.3 million in research fellowships to127 students pursuing degrees in envi-ronmental studies throughout the UnitedStates.

Twelve of the fellowship recipientsattend one of eight universities and col-leges in the Southeast. Duke University,Georgia Institute of Technology, Univer-sity of South Alabama, University ofCentral Florida, North Carolina StateUniversity, University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill, University of Florida –

Gainesville and Spelman College eachhad at least one student receive a fellow-ship. The 11 Greater Research Opportu-nities (GRO) fellows and the oneScience to Achieve Results (STAR) fel-low exemplify the agency’s efforts toimprove Science, Technology, Engineer-ing and Mathematics (STEM) education.These fellowships encourage leadershipin the nation’s environmental science,research, restoration, pollution preven-tion and sustainability efforts.

2012 marks the 30th anniversary ofthe GRO Fellowship program, which is

part of the national effort to ensure thatthe United States continues to graduatestudents ready to meet environmentalscience, engineering, and policy chal-lenges. Supporting graduate environ-mental study for masters and doctoralstudents, the STAR fellowship programprovides a steady stream of well-trainedenvironmental specialists that are meet-ing society’s environmental challengesby performing new environmentalresearch in engineering and in the physi-cal, biological, health and socialsciences.

EPA awards more than $5.3 million for research

Covanta Energy Corporation enteredinto agreements with the Towns of WestHartford and Enfield, Connecticut for sus-tainable waste management services.

Covanta will provide one-stop shop-ping for waste disposal, recycling andcomposting. By bundling services, munic-ipalities are able to save money on dis-posal costs and get credit back in the formof a rebate for recycling.

Since the end of 2011, Covanta hasadded a number of new partner municipal-ities in Connecticut including Guilford,Madison, East Hartford, Newington,Southbury, Windsor Locks and Vernon.The addition of West Hartford and Enfieldbrings the total amount of municipal solidwaste Covanta will now manage as a resultof these new partnerships to approxi-mately 150,000 tons and the total amountof recyclables to 25,000 tons per year. Theaverage agreement runs for four years withextension options.

As part of the new agreements, Cov-anta also provides educational outreachfunds to communities. These funds can beused for a variety of projects includinghazardous household waste collectionsand energy-from-waste and recycling edu-cation programs.

Covanta’s Energy-from-Waste facili-ties provide Connecticut communitieswith an environmentally superior alterna-tive to landfilling their municipal solidwaste, generating clean, renewable energyfor more than 34,000 homes in the stateand recycling enough metal to build morethan 12,000 automobiles annually.

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Members of the United Coalition ofOhio Auto Recyclers (UCOAR) from allacross the state came together in a dis-play of unified grassroots opposition toSenate Bill 273. Dozens of auto recy-clers rallied together outside the OhioStatehouse for hours, displaying boldsigns of protest seen by legislators, pass-ing motorists and others. The demon-stration also involved parading in acontinuous circuit a series of salvagecars that provided a first-hand look at thedangerous vehicles that could bereturned to the roads of Ohio and madeeasily available to criminals, should thebill pass.

Senate Bill 273 is a measure,pressed for by insurance companies andauction houses, which would allow any-one, including unqualified and unli-censed individuals, to purchase salvagevehicles. This proposed change in thelaw is highly controversial and wouldundercut current protections that havebeen in place for nearly three decades.

The men and women employed inthe Ohio auto recycling industry turnedout in force to demonstrate then attendeda hearing held by the House InsuranceCommittee. Nearly every seat in thepublic gallery was filled by opponents ofthe bill wearing “Crush SB273” T-shirts.Several representatives from industrycoalitions and local auto recycling busi-nesses testified before the Committeeopposing SB 273. UCOAR Spokesper-son George Sapir delivered an impas-sioned address outlining the manydangers the bill poses to the state.

“Ohio lawmakers both heard andsaw a very clear and unified messagefrom the auto recycling industry,” saidSapir, who is the chief executive officerof a 96 year-old family-owned business.“The deeply flawed SB 273 would cre-ate enormous risks for the people ofOhio. By undermining the sound legalframework for how badly damaged carsare sold, the bill opens loopholes for allthe wrong people.”

UCOAR is deeply concerned over thenegative impacts of this bill. It will killhundreds of productive Ohio jobs, endan-ger public safety, increase auto-relatedcrime, harm the environment and drive alarge number of small Ohio businessesinto bankruptcy or out of business.

Sapir noted: “Grassroots oppositionto this bill has been extraordinary. Somany members of the Ohio autorecycling industry have joined togetherto oppose this bill, which is not just badfor them, but is truly terrible for every-one who calls Ohio their home. Wemust save Ohio jobs and businesses bydefeating this bill.”

Ohio autorecyclersoppose billstatehouse

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global grocery coordinator for WholeFoods Market.

Over the past year and a half, Methodemployees worked with volunteers fromSustainable Coastlines Hawaii and theK kua Hawaii Foundation to hand collectseveral tons of plastic from the beachesof Oahu, where the kinds of plasticneeded to make this packaging are mostabundant. Method is making donations tothese two non-profit groups to help keepthem functioning as a supply chain forcollecting and sorting plastics marinedebris.

“We instructed volunteers to lookfor rigid, opaque plastic. We also hadMethod employees sorting through thetrash volunteers collected off the beachto find the particular kind of plastic weneeded,” reported Katie Molinari, aMethod spokesperson. “Method’s currentocean plastic bottle is a blend of 10 per-cent recovered ocean plastic and 90 per-cent recycled HDPE. We have producedapproximately 90,000 bottles and we arecurrently exploring how to increase theamount of ocean plastic in future produc-tion. We were able to divert much of theplastic we felt we could use in our bottlepackaging at the beach clean ups. Itemslike fishing nets and tires were sent tolandfills.”

While obviously a clever marketingapproach that offers a unique buyingopportunity for Whole Foods shoppers,many of which are avid environmental-ists, it is the type of initiative that createsawareness of the problem and begins tocreate a market demand from other envi-ronmentally conscious companies inter-ested in the issue.

“Our goal with ocean plastic pack-aging is to show that the most viablesolution to our plastic pollution problemis using the plastic that’s already on theplanet. Method’s ocean plastic bottledemonstrates in the extreme that recy-cling is possible.” said Adam Lowry,Method’s co-founder. “By recycling andreusing plastic to make our bottles, weturn off the tap of plastic flowing into ouroceans and take the first, most importantstep toward solving the ocean plasticproblem.”

Method’s objective is to demonstratehow business can tackle environmentalproblems, and that there are smarterways to make plastic rather than usingvirgin material. Nearly all of Method’sother packaging is made from 100 per-cent post-consumer recycled material, aneffective way to reuse plastic and preventit from ending up in landfills and oceans.

To develop the new recyclingprocess to make the bottles, Methodpartnered with Envision Plastics. TheEnvision process allows the rigid,opaque plastics recovered from the oceanto be cleaned, blended and then remanu-factured into high quality recycled plas-tic bottles for Method at virtually thesame quality as virgin high-densitypolyethylene.

Tamsin Ettefagh, vice president ofsales-purchasing at Envision said, “In thefirst go around with Method, theyshipped us all the material that was col-lected. We then gave feedback as to what

material should be avoided in future col-lecting. Basically, we got in a mix of allkinds of polyolefins and we did furthersorting at Envision. Then we ground andwashed it before blending with curbsidecollected baled bottles.”

“The ocean material weare getting is pretty contaminatedwith UV degradation and is also amix of polyolefins so you have ahigh percentage of polypropyleneand polyethylene. By us blendingit in as a percentage into ourpolyethylene that we alreadyrecycle, it allows the oceanmaterial to be compatible. It’snot too big of a contaminantthat way and it also helpswith the degradation so theMethod product put on theshelf does not break. If theconsumer were to drop a100 percent ocean plasticsbottle it would breakbecause it’s too brittle.”

No colorants were addedto the bottle. Its gray color is dis-tinct from all other Method products.Method’s head of creative design likedthe natural gray that occurred during theblending process. The bottles are extru-sion blow molded.

“Let’s face it, it’s not sustainable.It’s not economical. It’s a very expensiveway to make a product. (The additionalcost of producing the bottles is absorbedby Method and not passed on to the con-sumer). The whole purpose behindMethod was to bring awareness to the

consumer that there’s an issue and thatwe have to stop plastics getting into theocean by greater collection and recyclingefforts. If you think about who shops at

Whole Foods, they are predominatelyeducated people. When they learnabout an issue they get excited and

do something about it. We hope thatpressure will be put upon abuserswho are dumping in the oceans andthat politicians will also get excited

about it,” Ettefagh concluded Back in 2010, Electrolux, a

global maker of home and pro-fessional appliances firstlaunched its Vac from the Seaproject also aimed at raisingawareness about the immedi-ate need for the world totake better care of plasticsand support people andorganizations that do.Essentially their objectiveis to eventually incorporate

ocean plastics into vacuumcleaners since plastic is the

main raw material used to makethe products. From a sustainable businesspoint of view, Electrolux wants to usean increased global supply of recycledplastic.

Paul Palmstedt, vice president ofcommunications at Electrolux SmallAppliances said, “The aim of the Vacfrom the Sea project is to highlight thevast amount of plastic debris floatingaround in our oceans. We have great dif-ficulties in finding supplies of recycledplastics for our green vac range. If recy-

cling of everyday plastics could be mademuch more efficient, we could extendour green range and produce more greenvacs, while having less plastic debris endup in our oceans, provided people buyour vacs, of course.”

Within the Vac from the Sea project,Electrolux teams collected plastic debrisfrom beaches around the world. Theyused the recovered plastics to create asmall number of vacs for exhibition pur-poses. After that, the company arrangedpress activities in a number of countriesto focus the issue and it also sponsoredtwo NGOs who arranged research voy-ages to map the extent of debris in theoceans. “I think we can say that we havehelped build more awareness about theissue, but of course more activities, notonly from Electrolux, are required,”Palmstedt added.

Tamsin Ettefagh at Envisionreported that since Method’s announce-ment of the new ocean plastic bottle shehas been inundated with calls fromorganizations interested in exploring theuse of ocean plastics.

Obviously, the cure to having lessplastic polluting the oceans is greaterpublic awareness of the problem hope-fully leading to programs aimed atincreasing recycling rates. Pressure mustalso be put upon ocean-going vessels andcommercial fishermen to control the dis-posal of plastic goods. And who knows?Someday ingenuity, passion and techno-logical progress may make open-waterplastic harvesting another practicalsolution.

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•KW Plastics was awarded for itspioneering approaches to recyclingpost-consumer polypropylene packag-ing. Due to the range of polypropyleneproducts found in household waste,many reclaimers have had difficultyhandling the various melt flows, layersand additives. KW Plastics has devel-oped processes, specifications andequipment that overcome these chal-lenges, allowing the processing ofyogurt cups, butter tubs, ketchup bot-tles, juice boxes and even corrugatedyard signs made from polypropylene –and all as part of an integrated process-ing system. The Troy, Alabama-basedfirm now purchases these items fromaround the country and reprocesses

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•Safeplay Systems won forEcoPlay, its popular line of playground

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•Based in San Diego, California,Sony Electronics Inc. won for its devel-opment of SoRPlas, a material madefrom 99 percent recycled polycarbonatethat is used in the housings of some ofSony’s popular consumer products, par-ticularly in high-end cameras.

To make SoRPlas, Sony uses 50percent post-industrial scrap from opti-cal disc manufacturing, such as CDs,DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, and 50 per-cent post-consumer recycled plasticsfrom end-of-life products, containersand other items.

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German recycled-plasticmanufacturer receives funding

Silver Lake Kraftwerk, a privateequity firm headquartered in MenloPark, California, has committed $40.1million in Friedola Tech, a recycled plas-tics processing company that produceshigh-quality, environmentally-friendlyproducts and components for the auto-motive and packaging industries.

The investment will provide growthcapital to enable further product innova-tion, development in key market seg-ments and expansion into newgeographic regions, including the open-ing of a world-class manufacturing facil-ity in Greenville, South Carolina.

Under the terms of the transactionWHEB Partners, a European-basedresource efficiency private equity firm,has agreed to sell its majority stake inFriedola Tech to Silver Lake Kraftwerkwhile remaining a shareholder. Once thetransaction has closed, Silver LakeKraftwerk will become the majority

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Based in Geismar, Germany,Friedola Tech is a manufacturer andmarketer of recycled plastic productswith a focus on the automotive andpackaging sectors. The company sup-plies lightweight, recyclable and envi-ronmentally friendly plastic solutions toa variety of industries and boasts aninnovative and proprietary product port-folio, including their signature productplatform, CON-Pearl. As a Tier-1 sup-plier, Friedola Tech’s plastic solutionsare a key component in the lightweightefforts of a number of their customers,including leading car manufacturers.

The deal is currently pending anti-trust approval by the German authorities.

The Department of Justice hasreached a settlement that will require StarAtlantic Waste Holdings LP and Veolia ESSolid Waste Inc. to divest commercialwaste collection or disposal assets innorthern New Jersey, central Georgia andthe Macon, Georgia metropolitan area inorder to proceed with Star Atlantic’s pro-posed $1.9 billion acquisition of Veolia.The department said that the transaction,as originally proposed, would haveresulted in higher prices.

The Department of Justice’s AntitrustDivision filed a civil antitrust lawsuit inU.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., toblock the proposed transaction. At thesame time, the department filed a proposedsettlement that, if approved by the court,will resolve the lawsuit and the competi-tive concerns.

“Without the divestitures required bythe department, consumers in northernNew Jersey, central Georgia and theMacon metropolitan area would have beenharmed by a reduction in competition forcommercial solid waste collection or dis-posal,” said Joseph Wayland, acting assis-tant attorney general in charge of theJustice’s Antitrust Division.

According to the complaint, thetransaction, as originally proposed,would have substantially lessened com-petition in commercial waste collectionor disposal services in the geographicareas of northern New Jersey, centralGeorgia and Macon. The acquisitionwould have eliminated a major competi-tor in each of these areas.

Under the terms of the proposed set-tlement, Star Atlantic and Veolia will

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Waste Management, Increleased its 2012 sustainabilityreport. The report is called“Embracing the Zero WasteChallenge,” and documents thecompany’s progress towardincreasingly transformingwaste into valuable resources.

“Five years ago, weannounced four aggressive sus-tainability goals to improve ourimpact on the environment andour business,” said CEO andpresident, David Steiner.

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The Solid Waste Authority of Cen-tral Ohio (SWACO) is awarding nearly$70,000 in grants to support sustainabil-ity initiatives of local governments,organizations, schools and non-profitagencies located within SWACO’s dis-trict. This year’s award winners are: theCity of Westerville, Columbus Metro-politan Library, Grove City Parks andRecreation, Grange Insurance AudubonCenter, Habitat for Humanity, HilliardEnvironmental Sustainability Commis-sion, Prairie Township Fire Department,St. Joseph Montessori School, Washing-ton Township, and Worthington ServicesDepartment.

The grants are funded through a $5per ton generation fee applied to solidwaste generated in this district. Grantsawarded support SWACO’s missionsand principals and are reviewed by agrants committee and are approved bySWACO’s executive director. Many ofthe grants help fund projects that willincrease recycling and decrease thereliance on the landfill. Other fundedprojects include the purchase of productsmade from recycled goods.

“We are excited to be able to helpsupport these wonderful sustainabilityinitiatives. We are using the backdrop oftomorrow being America Recycles Day,to gain recognition and remind peoplethere are many ways they can play a rolein reducing their carbon footprint,” saidSWACO Executive Director Ronald J.Mills.

The SWACO grants are open toagencies and groups like governments,schools, and tax exempt charities for awide variety of green projects. Eligibleprograms include waste-reduction, edu-cation and awareness and purchase ofrecycled products.

“We’re committed to being a lead-ing public library and a communityleader in promoting environmental sus-tainability. In 2009 we established aGreen Team with that goal in mind. Weare honored to receive this grant that willhelp us expand our efforts by giving ourcustomers the opportunity to recycleeasily in our locations,” said ColumbusMetropolitan Library CEO PatrickLosinski.

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Novelis broke ground on the com-pany’s first aluminum manufacturingplant in China. The $100 million invest-ment is designed to meet the rapidlygrowing demand for rolled aluminumused in the design of a new generation oflighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

The wholly owned plant under con-struction in Changzhou in the JiangsuProvince, will have a capacity of120,000 metric tons per year, furtherstrengthening Novelis’ position as theworld’s largest producer of aluminum

sheet products used to create vehiclestructures and body panels. Startup ofthe new facility, the industry’s first auto-motive sheet plant in China, is plannedfor late 2014.

Located in the heart of theChangzhou National Hi-Tech District,the new facility will be close to vital raillines, the Changzhou deep water port onthe Yangtze River and other world-classbusiness and commercial infrastructure.The company plans to ship rolled alu-minum coils manufactured at its South

Korean operations to the new facility inChangzhou for heat treatment and fin-ishing before delivery to automotive cus-tomers within China as well as to exportmarkets.

James Liu, Managing director forNovelis China, says the expansion is indirect response to customer demand.“Our close relationships with worldclass automakers are driving our longterm strategy to support their vehicleproduction expansions around the globe.We expect demand for automotive alu-

minum sheet in China to exceed the 25percent compound annual growth rateexpected across the globe over the nextfive years, as auto manufacturers strivefor improved fuel efficiency and reducedemissions.”

Sustainable manufacturing is a corefocus for Novelis’ entrance into China,and the company is designing its newfacility according to rigorous environ-mental design, construction and opera-tional standards.

EPRO names winners of BestRecycled Plastic Product 2012

EPRO invited the plastics industryacross Europe to nominate examples ofproducts made from recycled plastics forthe Best Recycled Plastic Product Compe-tition 2012.

The key objective of the competitionis to raise awareness of the value and ver-satility of used plastics packaging.Whether it be post-consumer or post-industrial plastic, the opportunity to recy-cle this resource into new products mustbe recognized, encouraged and promoted.

The competition attracts a wide rangeof entries representing both consumer fac-ing products and business to businessapplications. Since the competition wasfirst launched in 2009 more than 90 entriesfrom 15 countries were received. This yearthe entries were judged by a broad Euro-pean panel of experts, including represen-tatives from EPRO, Plastics Europe and

ACR+. The winners were announced andthe awards were presented at IdentiPlast2012, in Warsaw.

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•Category BtoC : CURVER withECOLIFE Neo (Baskets made of recycledPP) – Europe.

Plastic packaging design, improvedcollection schemes, advances in sortingtechnology together with a greater rangeof reprocessing opportunities and applica-tions means that the need to send plasticsto landfill is decreasing rapidly.

Based on the continued success of theinitiative, EPRO will be running the bestrecycled plastic product competition againnext year with the winners announced atIdentiplast Paris in October 2013.

New report addresses UK wasteThe report Scenario-Building for

Future Waste Policy produced by Z_punktThe Foresight Company on behalf ofDefra, the Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs, provides someanswers to questions regarding waste pro-duction and handling. The report has beenpublished, and describes, in four visions ofthe future and quantified scenarios, howthe UK can react to the growing mountainsof waste.

If one were to predict what the situa-tion will be like by 2030 based on currenttrends, then, in around 20 years’ time, theUK will be sitting on 16 percent morewaste than today. What strategic decisionshave to be taken in terms of waste policyto improve this trend? What negativetrends should be avoided? With the aid ofextensive comparison calculations onwaste arising, the report shows whattimely steps need to be taken, and, indoing so, summarizes the results of afuture-orientated process that brought

together key experts on the subject. Theresults are meant to provide input for areview of UK waste policy and guidancefor long-term waste policymaking. Scenar-ios help to reflect systematically on possi-ble future challenges, and, as such, supportlong-term orientated policy measures.

As Cornelia Daheim, managing direc-tor of Z_punkt, explained, “An interestingmethodological novelty, here, is the inte-gration of numbers and narratives. Thescenarios tell stories in the form of consis-tent visions of the future conceived on thebasis of a process involving experts, butare, at the same time, very specific due tothe integrated quantitative analysis.”Daheim went on to stress that such anapproach “meets the growing need on thepart of decision-makers for key figures inscenario processes.”

The report is underpinned by compre-hensive numerical estimates of waste ris-ings, differentiated according to type andprocessing.

A-Ward wins 2012 steel prizeThis year, the Swedish Steel Prize

has been awarded to A-Ward Attach-ments Ltd. of New Zealand. The com-pany has designed a flexible systemusing high-strength steel which com-presses and packs metallic scrap in con-tainers.

The aim of the Swedish Steel Prizeis to inspire and disseminate knowledgeabout high strength steels and the possi-bilities to develop lighter, stronger andmore sustainable products.

A-Ward has worked for two years toperfect the design of a scrap loader which

improves the management and transporta-tion of scrap. The loader is manufacturedfrom SSAB’s Hardox wear plate.

The scrap is loaded directly onto thecontainers and horizontal loadingreduces the risk of damage to the con-tainers. Environmental impact is reducedbecause ordinary container transporta-tion can be used.

Other nominated companies havebeen awarded the second prize in the2012 Swedish Steel Prize. These compa-nies are Gremo (Sweden) and BorcadCZ s.r.o (Czech Republic).

The Recycling Association of Min-nesota (RAM) kicked off the RecycleYour Holidays™ holiday light recyclingprogram.

Recycle Your Holidays (RYH) is astatewide effort to collect and recycleholiday lights that are old, unwanted orno longer work. This program employsindividuals with disabilities at localvocational centers throughout Min-nesota who collect and sort the lightsfor recycling.

RAM encourages people who neednew lights to purchase LED lightstrands which are up to 90 percentmore efficient than incandescent bulbs.The RYH program is free for busi-nesses to participate as a collection site.

RAM provides free bins and pro-motes the program in partnership withWCCO on their website as well as part-ner websites. Vocational center staffand clients pick up the lights and bringthem to their facility to be safelyrecycled.

To find a Minnesota locationwhere old holiday lights can be takenfor recycling, visit RAM’s website atwww.RecycleMinnesota.org.

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Sims Recycling Solutions is rankedas the number one electronics recyclerby the Sacramento Business Journal forthe fourth consecutive year. The publica-tion’s annual list uses the amount ofelectronic waste recycled during theyear before to determine the top fiverecyclers in the Sacramento area. Simsprocessed more than 12,000 tons of e-waste in 2011 at its Roseville facility.

The fully certified electronics recy-cling facility provides end-of-life recy-cling and asset management services forlocal businesses and consumers. The siteconsists of 200,000 sq.ft. of electronicsprocessing, including manual andmechanical sorting and shreddingmachinery.

“People know it’s important to recy-cle old electronics, such as computers,printers and TVs, and the more conven-ient it is to dispose of these devices, theless likely it is they will end up in thetrash and in landfills,” stated SteveSkurnac, president, Sims RecyclingSolutions, Americas.

Sims Recycling Solutions holds afree drive-through and drop-off electron-ics recycling event on the first Friday ofevery month at the company’s sitelocated off Washington Boulevard inRoseville. Sims accepts the followingitems: computers, laptops, keyboards,mice, printers, cell phones, radios,

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By recycling 50,942 devices duringa one-week period, AT&T customersbroke the world record for collecting themost wireless devices in a week as certi-fied by Guinness World Records.

In 2011, AT&T collected approxi-mately three million cell phones forreuse and recycling and, thanks in part toits new trade-in program, anticipates sur-passing that number in 2012. By recy-cling these devices, AT&T customersavoided sending approximately 25,471pounds of waste to landfills. By thenumbers, Texas recycled the mostdevices with 5,879 devices, followedclosely by California with 4,916 devices.Among stores, the Chippenham store inRichmond, Virginia, collected the mostdevices at 108. Yet, there is much workto be done as millions of devices arediscarded every year without beingrecycled.

AT&T is committed to engagingcustomers around sustainability.Recently, the company:

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•Launched a consumer-friendlywebsite portal called EcoSpace. The siteoffers an easy one-stop shop to learnmore about AT&T’s sustainability initia-tives, shop for AT&T eco products, findeco-rating information for assesseddevices sign up for paperless billing andget recycling updates;

•Launched its Eco-Rating system, aconsumer-friendly and easy-to-under-stand rating system that serves as a wayfor consumers to make more informedchoices by allowing them to betterunderstand important sustainabilityattributes of AT&T-branded mobiledevices; and,

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AT&T breaksworld recordfor customerrecycling

Creative Recycling Systems (CRS)declared that their Raleigh, North Carolinafacility has achieved the e-Stewards® Elec-tronic Recycling Certification, a commit-ment to responsible recycling,environmental protection and internationallegal compliance.

e-Stewards is a globally accredited,third-party audited certification programdeveloped by the Basel Action Network(BAN), with support from other environ-

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Wise Alloys and the United Steel-workers of America, Local 200 havereached a new 5-year labor agreement.“Our new agreement benefits employeesand the company by providing the abil-ity to plan for the future over a longerperiod of time. Employees are assured ofwage improvement and the company canbetter forecast costs,” said Wes Ober-holzer, executive vice president/COO.

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The board of directors of Nucor Cor-poration increased the regular quarterlycash dividend on Nucor’s common stockto $0.3675. This cash dividend is payableon February 11, 2013, to stockholders ofrecord on December 31, 2012, and isNucor’s 159th consecutive quarterly cashdividend.

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Based on preliminary CensusBureau data, the American Iron andSteel Institute (AISI) reported that theU.S. imported a total of 2,540,000 nettons (NT) of steel in October, including2,059,000 NT of finished steel (down 2percent and up 3 percent, respectively,from September final data). Year-to-date (YTD) finished steel imports areup 18 percent vs. the same period in2011. Finished steel import marketshare in October was an estimated 25percent and is estimated at 24 percentYTD.

Key finished steel products with asignificant import increase in October2012 compared to September are heavystructural shapes (up 56 percent), tinplate (up 40 percent), line pipe (up 39percent), reinforcing bars (up 27 per-

cent), hot rolled bars (up 16 percent)and sheets and strip galvanized hotdipped (up 12 percent). Majorproducts with significant YTD importincreases vs. the same period lastyear include reinforcing bar (up 50 per-cent), line pipe (up 39 percent), sheets& strip galvanized hot dipped (up 36percent) and oil country goods (up 29percent).

In October, the largest volumes offinished steel imports from offshorewere all from Asia and Europe. Theywere South Korea (372,000 NT, up 16percent), Japan (179,000 NT, up 8 per-cent), China (117,000 NT, up 14 per-cent), Germany (103,000 NT, down 8percent) and The Netherlands (71,000NT, up 85 percent). For the first 10months of 2012, the largest offshore

suppliers were South Korea (3,181,000NT, up 30 percent), Japan (1,697,000NT, up 38 percent), China (1,309,000

NT, up 23 percent), Turkey (1,185,000NT, up 89 percent) and Germany(1,035,000 NT, up 29 percent).


DISCLAIMER: American Recycler (AR) collects pricing and other information from experienced buyers, sellers and facilitators of scrap metal transactionsthroughout the industry. All figures are believed to be reliable and represent approximate pricing based on information obtained by AR (if applicable) prior topublication. Factors such as grades, quality, volumes and other considerations will invariably affect actual transaction prices. Figures shown may not be con-sistent with pricing for commodities associated with a futures market. While the objective is to provide credible information, there is always a chance for humanerror or unforeseen circumstances leading to error or omission. As such, AR is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of the information provided,or for outcomes arising from use of this information. American Recycler disclaims any liability to any person or entity for loss or damage resulting from errorsor omissions, including those resulting from negligence of AR, its employees, agents or other representatives.

Commodity Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3 Zone 4 Zone 5#1 Bushelings per gross ton $300.00 $339.00 $359.00 $376.00 $380.00#1 Bundles per gross ton 318.00 345.00 365.00 380.00 389.00Plate and Structural per gross ton 316.00 345.00 360.00 390.00 385.00#1 & 2 Mixed Steel per gross ton 275.00 348.00 360.00 380.00 360.00Shredder Bundles (t in) per gross ton 289.00 301.00 332.00 345.00 330.00Crushed Auto Bodies per gross ton 289.00 301.00 332.00 345.00 330.00Steel Turnings per gross ton 210.00 209.00 230.00 239.00 245.00#1 Copper per pound 3.09 3.05 3.40 3.50 3.38#2 Copper per pound 3.00 2.97 3.24 3.32 3.19Aluminum Cans per pound .56 .58 .78 .78 .80Auto Radiators per pound 2.08 1.91 2.15 2.05 2.19Aluminum Core Radiators per pound .68 .66 .72 .69 .73Heater Cores per pound 1.50 1.52 1.60 1.75 1.89Stainless Steel per pound .65 .65 .78 .74 .89All prices are expressed in USD. Printed as a reader service only.

U.S. IMPORTS OF FINISHED STEEL MILL PRODUCTS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (Thousands of Net Tons)

SOUTH KOREAJAPANCHINATURKEYGERMANY NETHERLANDSINDIAAll OthersTOTAL

OCT201237217911770

1037170

1,0762,059

SEP201232116510243

1123950

1,1712,005

2012Annual (est)

3,8172,0371,5711,4231,242

595778

14,86426,326

2011Annual

2,8371,4771,231

733954570717

13,31421,835

% Change 2012Annual vs. 2011

34.6%37.9%27.6%94.0%30.2%4.3%8.4%

11.6%20.6%

METALSOctober steel imports decline 2 percent from September

September steel shipments downThe American Iron and Steel Institute

(AISI) reported that for the month of Sep-tember 2012, U.S. steel mills shipped7,233,375 net tons, a 13.7 percent decreasefrom the 8,377,162 net tons shipped in theprevious month, August 2012, and a 9.0percent decrease from the 7,947,262 nettons shipped in September 2011. Ship-ments year-to-date (YTD) in 2012 are73,628,127, a 7.6 percent increase vs.2011 shipments of 68,441,207 for ninemonths. 2012 shipments through Septem-ber would annualize at 98 million tons.

Shipments in September were down13 percent vs. the 2012 monthly averagethrough August and were the lowest

monthly shipment total since February2011. Raw Steel Capacity Utilization inSeptember was 70.4 percent, the lowestmonthly total in 2012. Raw Steel Produc-tion continues to be weak and recorded itslowest 2012 utilization figure during theweek ended October 27 at 67.9 percent.The current Weekly Production utilizationis 70.7 percent for the week endingNovember 10, 2012.

A comparison of September ship-ments to the previous month of Augustshows the following changes: cold rolledsheet, down 6 percent, hot dipped galva-nized sheets and strip, down 11 percentand hot rolled sheet, down 22 percent.

2011 steel recycling sets recordThe Steel Recycling Institute (SRI)

declared that the recycling rate for theworld’s most recycled material – steel –is at an all-time high of 92 percent. Morethan 85 million tons of steel scrap wasconsumed by steelmaking furnaces in2011 – an increase of nearly 10 millionnet tons versus 2010.

Each year, more steel is recycledthan paper, aluminum, plastic and glasscombined, maintaining steel’s identity asNorth America’s most recycled material.This is reflected through the recyclingrates of the quality products commonlymade with steel.

The recycling rate for steel packag-ing has also reached an all-time high of70.8 percent – with more than 1.5 mil-lion net tons of steel recycled. Automo-bile recycling rates have regainedbalance at 94.5 percent. This figurecame after several years in excess of 100percent – meaning more old cars had

been coming off the road than new onesgoing back onto it. Appliance recyclingremained stable at 90 percent with morethan 2.9 million net tons of steel recy-cled. Construction rates also remainedstable with a recycling rate of 98 percentfor construction plates and beams alongwith a rate of 70 percent for constructionrebar.

Recycling rates for steel are gener-ally released up to 18 months followingthe end of the calendar year as they arebased on data released from: AmericanIron and Steel Institute (AISI) AnnualStatistical Reports, US Geological Sur-vey, EPA Characterization of MunicipalSolid Waste, National Automobile Deal-ers Association, Association of HomeAppliance Manufacturers and the Insti-tute of Scrap Recycling Industries.

SRI also provides resources to helpconsumers learn about how and where torecycle their steel products locally.


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Salvaging Millions

You have sat in class after class,talked to other yard owners aboutswitching over to paying employeesfor performance, and you are still pay-ing them hourly or salary, and or asmall commission plus base (whichdoesn’t motivate them, though theycount on it), thinking all your employ-ees will walk out or might cause chaosin the business.

Yes, just like you I was slow tochange to pay for performance. I hadall the excuses you are making, all thereasons why I should not disrupt myemployees, because they were givingme all they had, but was I wrong! I stillremember the day I changed to a payfor performance system for ouremployees in 1989.

In sales, our volume doubled inthree months, with two fewer sellers,dismantling production and deliveriesdoubled with the same number of per-sons. New people hired thought it wasgreat, as they didn’t have the “bag-gage” of the former employee. Yes, itwas hard, and some people left, espe-cially the underperformers. Imagine ifyour competitor changed to pay forperformance, say five years ago, theadvantages in production and coststructure he has had over you for thatperiod of time. It’s hard to believe I didit over 20 years ago, and the majorityof the industry by number of operatorshas not converted. But, the percentagesof yards that have changed based on

large sales volumes, say over $2mannually, and are a majority of thoseyards. Yet the small operators continueto watch the big guys get bigger. Theylearned the advantages years ago, andin many if not most cases use themoney they save to buy more cars.

So why risk the change? As own-ers we have faith in our employees. Wedo not follow them around to see ifthey are spending their time efficientlyor wasting our money. Instead of mon-itoring their work, we give them raisesand hire more employees because,“they just can’t get it done.” If you arepaying your employees hourly, take aday and just follow them around youwill be surprised at how much theydon’t do.

The benefits of pay for perform-ance will increase your bottom line.How? It reduces the number ofemployees while increasing productiv-ity. Pay for performance will weed outthe underperformers, and will amazeyou with what your strong employeesare capable of handling.

I have helped many yards withpay for performance, including dis-mantlers, parts pullers, drivers andsalespersons. In fact, it’s one of themost rewarding items I teach owners,over and over, site by site. It’s notunusual to see clients get the costsback in a week or less with thechanges they implement.

Pay for performance-what are you waiting for?

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AUTOMOTIVEGE to purchase 2,000 FordC-MAX hybrid vehicles

Ford Motor Company announced acollaboration with GE, in which thecompany will purchase 2,000 Ford C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrids for its fleet– Ford’s largest-ever plug-in electrifiedvehicle fleet sale. Ford will also jointlymarket GE’s alternative fuel infrastruc-ture solutions.

For GE, the purchase of 2,000 FordC-MAX Energi vehicles is another stepin the company’s initiative to converthalf of its global fleet to alternative fuelvehicles as part of its commitment toecomagination. The addition of the Fordvehicles brings the number of alternativefuel vehicles in GE’s fleet to more than5,000 in its goal of 25,000 vehicles.

“Ford is launching six new electri-fied vehicles – a big bet that fuel priceswill continue rising and lead to moredemand for advanced fuel-efficient vehi-cles,” said Ken Czubay, Ford vice presi-dent, U.S. marketing, sales and service.

The two companies will also workwith researchers from Georgia Instituteof Technology to study GE employeedriving and charging habits, with thegoal of improving all-electric drivingand charging performance. Researchers

will use Ford’s MyFord® Mobile app –with real-time battery charge status andvalue charging that automaticallyrecharges at lower-cost, off-peak elec-tricity rates.

Study findings will be shared withcommercial customers to provideinsights and help facilitate deploymentof electric vehicles in their own fleetsamid a growing electric vehicle infra-structure that now includes more than10,000 public charging stations acrossthe country.

The Ford C-MAX Energi is Amer-ica’s most fuel-efficient plug-in hybridwith an EPA estimated 108 miles-per-gallon equivalent (MPGe) city rating and100 MPGe combined rating. C-MAXEnergi is expected to be America’s mostaffordable plug-in hybrid with a startingprice of $29,995, after federal tax creditand including destination and deliverycosts.

Ford also will supply new alterna-tive fuel vehicles for use at GE’s VehicleInnovation Center at the headquarters ofGE’s fleet management business in EdenPrairie, Minnesota.

Kenneth Turner receives APRA awardKenneth Turner, president of C.C.

Battery Company, Inc. in Corpus Christi,Texas, was presented with the AutomotiveParts Remanufacturers Association’s Dis-tinguished Service Award. The award hon-ors Turner for “Distinguished BusinessStatesmanship and Dedicated ServiceRendered to the Entire Industry of Auto-motive Parts Remanufacturing.”

Being located in the extreme southernend of Texas, many parts were unavailable

to C. C. Battery so they manufacturedmany of their own. Turner became friendlywith men like Barney Kaplan and thesalesmen from IPM and other companieswhere he got a lot of information. Theseresources led him to expand into the roleof supplier when other rebuilders begancoming to him for parts. Turner eventuallyexpanded the territory he served to includeexport to Chile, Peru, Mexico, Canada andother countries.

KAR Auction Servicesmakes first cash dividend

KAR Auction Services, Inc. statedthat its board of directors has approvedthe initiation of a quarterly cash divi-dend on the company’s common stock.The initial quarterly dividend of $0.19per share was paid on December 28,2012 to stockholders of record at theclose of business on December 19, 2012,representing an annualized dividend of$0.76 per share. This is the first dividendpaid to stockholders in the company’shistory.

The declaration and payment of anyfuture dividend will be subject to thediscretion of the board of directors andwill depend on a variety of factors,including the company’s financial con-dition and results of operations, contrac-tual restrictions, including restrictivecovenants contained in the company’scredit agreement, Automotive FinanceCorporation’s securitization facilities

and the indenture governing the com-pany’s outstanding debt securities, capi-tal requirements and other factors thatthe board of directors deems relevant.Therefore, no assurance can be given asto whether any future dividends will bedeclared by the board of directors or theamount thereof.

The Company also announced thatit has entered into an amendment to itscredit agreement. The amendment pro-vides greater flexibility to the company,including modifications to increase theamount of restricted payments (whichinclude, among other things, dividends,stock buybacks and other paymentsmade in respect of the Company’sequity securities) permitted to be paidunder the terms of the credit agreementand modifications to a financialcovenant to account for such greaterflexibility.

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RUBBERNCAT study shows groundtire rubber good alternative

The National Center for AsphaltTechnology (NCAT) revealed the resultsof a study evaluating the role of groundtire rubber powder in asphalt mixtureperformance. Debunking a commonindustry belief, the study indicates thatthe asphalt manufacturing process,whether cryogenic or ambient, does notimpact the performance of the rubbermaterial or, ultimately, the asphalt.

“We are optimistic that the studyfindings will accelerate the use of sus-tainable material in highway construc-tion,” said Richard Willis, NCAT’sassistant research professor. “By increas-ing the use of ground tire rubber, asphaltproducers will benefit from price stabil-ity as compared to more volatile oilprices which impact the cost of tradi-tional, oil-based polymers. Importantly,ground tire rubber produced cryogeni-cally or ambiently provides high per-formance and cost benefits in asphalt.”

Ground tire rubber (GTR) can beblended with asphalt to beneficiallymodify the properties of the asphalt forhighway construction. According to theEPA, benefits of using tire rubber inasphalt include:

•Longer lasting road surfaces;•Reduced road maintenance;•Cost effectiveness;•Lower road noise; and,•Shorter breaking distances.In recent years, as oil prices have

risen, the number of states reassessingthe potential of GTR mixtures hasbegun to increase; however, littleresearch has been published which char-acterizes the influence of particle size,grinding technique and blendingmethodology.

The NCAT study addressed theseneeds and indicates that surface areaand particle size of the rubbers had themost influence on the modified asphaltbinder – smaller particle size, whichequates to larger surface area, providesbetter performance. Based on the studyresults, researchers also recommend:

•Ground tire rubber should be con-sidered an appropriate asphalt bindermodifier to achieve critical high temper-ature performance in mixtures.

•Ambient and cryogenic GTR per-formed equally in terms of binder modi-fication and separation. Specificationsshould not distinguish between the twotypes of materials when the GTR is 30mesh or smaller.

•Ten percent rubber is an appropri-ate level of loading for asphalt binders.

According to the RubberizedAsphalt Foundation (RAF), 70 percentof state transportation agencies, includ-ing California, Arizona, Florida, Georgiaand Texas, have reaped the financialbenefits of using rubber-modifiedasphalt on their highways. The RAFstates that rubberized asphalt can savebetween $2 and $5 per ton compared toconventional polymer-based asphalt.Recently, the Georgia Department ofTransportation (GDOT) amended thestate’s road construction specificationsto include recycled rubber as an alterna-tive to oil-derived polymers.

Rubber particulate modification ofbinders has been performing in the mar-ket for over 30 years and this researchwill support the understanding of how touse tire rubber to make performancegraded asphalt. The study’s findings,along with phase two work with asphaltmixtures and slight modifications to thePerformance Grade specifications, willallow states the means to capture thehigh performance characteristics of tirerubber in asphalt systems.

“Ground tire rubber is a product thatprovides long-term supply and is a cost-effective and competitive way toincrease the robustness of asphalt, whilealso serving as a productive outlet forend-of-life tires,” said Peter Wu, P.E.,Ph.D. from the office of materials andresearch at the GDOT. “The departmentis always looking for ways to providetaxpayers with a greater value and theuse of rubber-modified asphalt can dothat while also contributing to the state’ssustainability efforts.”

The study was conducted atNCAT’s facility in Auburn, Alabama,with the assistance of partners Black-lidge Emulsions, Lehigh Technologiesand Liberty Tire Recycling.

Liberty Tire Recycling recognizedfor recycling illegally dumped tires

Pittsburgh-based Liberty Tire Recy-cling recently received recognition forthe donation of its tire collection andreclamation services to The ArtsExchange, an Atlanta-area communitycenter. The center gave Liberty TireRecycling top honors at its first volun-teer appreciation awards ceremony. In2011, Liberty Tire Recycling voluntarilyremoved more than 1,000 scrap tires thathad been illegally dumped on the cen-ter’s property.

Liberty Tire Recycling has engagedin ongoing efforts to collect and reclaim

scrap tires as a result of illegal tiredumping across the Atlanta area, whichhas become a growing problem follow-ing the recent reduction in funding for astatewide scrap tire management pro-gram. Liberty Tire Recycling collabo-rated with the City of Atlanta and KeepAtlanta Beautiful to stage a city-widetire cleanup event. Volunteers gatheredthroughout the city and collected 25,000scrap tires in one day. Tires from theevent were transported to Liberty’sfacility near Atlanta, where they wererecycled.

PAPEROctober 2012 paper reports

The American Forest & Paper Associ-ation released its October 2012 U.S. paperreports.

ContainerboardContainerboard production rose 2.6

percent over September 2012 and 0.5percent compared to the same month lastyear. The month-over-month averagedaily production decreased 0.7 percent.The containerboard operating rate forOctober 2012 gained 0.1 points overSeptember 2012, increasing from 96 per-cent to 96.1 percent.

BoxboardTotal boxboard production

increased by 2.6 percent compared toOctober 2011 and increased 0.5 percentfrom last month. Unbleached KraftBoxboard production decreased over thesame month last year and decreasedcompared to last month. Total SolidBleached Boxboard & Liner productionincreased compared to October 2011 andincreased compared to last month. Theproduction of Recycled Boxboardincreased compared to October 2011 andincreased when compared to last month.

Recovered FiberTotal U.S. industry consumption of

recovered paper in October was 2.49million tons, 6 percent higher than inSeptember 2012. Consumption was upacross all grades except for Newspapers,which remained at its September lowand was 25 percent lower than in Octo-ber 2011. Year-to-date total consumptionin 2012 is 4 percent lower than duringthe same period last year.

U.S. exports of recovered paperremained approximately flat, dropping 1percent in September compared toAugust. Average export $/Ton figureswere lower across all grades when com-pared to the prior month. Year-to-dateexports of recovered paper in 2012 are 7percent lower than during the sameperiod in 2011.

Printing-writing paperAccording to the report, total print-

ing-writing paper shipments decreasedtwo percent in October compared to Octo-ber 2011, primarily driven by declines inuncoated mechanical shipments.

Additional key findings include:•October shipments of coated free

sheet papers increased year-over-year forthe 5th time in the past 12 months, reach-ing the highest level since September2010.

•Shipments of uncoated free sheetpaper in October increased two percentover the same period in 2011, with millinventories at the lowest level since July1995.

•October uncoated mechanical papershipments decreased 23 percent comparedto October 2011, with YTD shipmentsdown 16 percent relative to the previousyear.

Kraft PaperTotal Kraft paper shipments were

128.3 thousand tons, a decrease of 5 per-cent compared to the prior month. Totalinventory was 72.9 thousand tons thismonth. Both unbleached and bleachedKraft shipments decreased year over year.


Events CalendarJanuary 16th-18th, 2013

12th International Electronics Recycling

Congress IERC 2013. Salzburg, Austria.

www.icm.ch

January 28th-31stUSCC 21st Annual Conference & Tradeshow.

Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa. Lake Buena

Vista, Florida.

301-897-2715 • www.compostingcouncil.org

March 10th-13thThe 26th Southeast Recycling Conference

& Trade Show. Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf

Resort & Spa, Destin, Florida.

800-441-7949 • www.southeastrecycling.com

March 13th-15th13th International Automobile Recycling

Congress IARC 2013. Brussels, Belgium.

41 62 785 10 00 • www.icm.ch

March 20th-21stSpring 2013 Association of Postconsumer

Plastic Recyclers Meeting. Sheraton New

Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.

202-316-3046 • www.plasticsrecycling.org

March 20th-22ndGlobal Plastics Environmental Conference.

Sheraton New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.

810-223-1949 • www.sperecycling.org

Auction CalendarJanuary 23, 10:00 am

1430 Sparrows Point Blvd. Sparrows Point

MD: Mobile, construction, material handling

and support equipment, spare parts and much

more. Hilco Industrial.

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January 24, 8:00 amHighway 431 N, Dothan, AL: 16th Annual

January Farm & Construction Equipment

Public Auction. Deanco Auction.

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February 8, 8:00 am10500 Clark Petersen Blvd., Las Vegas, NV:

Material handlers and other heavy equipment.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.

800-211-3983 • www.rbauction.com

February 11, 8:00 am651 W. Southport Road, Kissimmee, FL:

39th Annual 7 Day Winter Auction. Yoder &

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The American Forest & Paper Asso-ciation (AF&PA) announced that Eliza-beth Bartheld, has accepted the positionof vice president, government affairs forthe association.

Bartheld joins AF&PA from Con-gressman John Sullivan’s (OK-1) officewhere she served as chief of staff fornearly a decade; prior to that position,she served as legislative director for bothSullivan and Congressman Wes Watkins(OK-3). In her new role, Bartheld over-sees all AF&PA federal and state gov-ernment affairs, the political actioncommittee, and grassroots activities.

Bartheld holds a bachelor’s degree inpsychology and political science fromBaylor University and a master’s in busi-ness administration from the Universityof Maryland.

Elizabeth Bartheld joinsAF&PA as vice president

Alcoa has finalized the sale of its378 MW Tapoco Hydroelectric Projectto Brookfield Renewable Energy Part-ners.

Tapoco is a four-station hydroelec-tric project located on the Little Ten-nessee and Cheoah Rivers in easternTennessee and western North Carolina.The transaction included the 4 generat-ing stations and dams, 86 miles of trans-mission line, and about 14,500 acres ofland associated with and surroundingTapoco.

Alcoa received proceeds of approxi-mately $600 million from the sale.

Alcoa finalizes sale ofhydroelectric project

Johnnie Perkins, western regiondirector of municipal services at RepublicServices, and Nancy Parris, director of epi-demiology at Providence Saint JosephMedical Center, have joined the CaliforniaProduct Stewardship Council (CPSC)board of directors.

CPSC promotes public policy knownas extended producer responsibility, orproduct stewardship, which shifts physicaland financial responsibility for recyclingproducts and packaging away from gov-ernment to the parties that design them –manufacturers. The primary goal is incen-tivizing better design for the environmentby internalizing the costs of capturing,reusing and recycling materials that wereformerly headed to landfills and wasteincinerators. Some products must beredesigned to achieve zero waste goals.

Since 2009, Republic Services hasbeen a platinum level sponsor of CPSC.Perkins has served as a key member of twoCalifornia gubernatorial staffs, a Califor-nia attorney general, vice president GeorgeBush and local elected officials. Moreover,Perkins has managed and directed Repub-lic Services’ Sacramento lobbyist to sup-port key legislation supported by CPSC.

The most recent addition to the boardis Parris who has worked in healthcare forover 35 years, mostly in epidemiology andinfection prevention. Her responsibilitieshave included ensuring proper handlingand disposal of medical and biohazardouswaste in the hospital. She also has expert-ise in healthcare worker exposures tobloodborne pathogens. Parris has alsoserved on the local and state boards of theAssociation for Professionals in InfectionControl and Epidemiology.

CPSC has led the statewide discus-sion on the need for producer responsibil-ity for sharps to maintain public health andsafety especially to recycling workers; Par-ris’ expertise will bring a health care per-spective to the discussion. Parris isworking to establish needle collectionfrom the public at Providence St. JosephMedical Center in Burbank and hopefullyto the other health facilities owned by theProvidence chain.

Product stewardshipcouncil expands board

Steve Dwoskin, executive vice pres-ident of Sourcing for WAIglobal, inExton, Pennsylvania, was presented withthe Automotive Parts RemanufacturersAssociation’s Distinguished ServiceAward. The award honors Dwoskin for“Distinguished Business Statesmanshipand Dedicated Service Rendered to theEntire Industry of Automotive PartsRemanufacturing.”

When Dwoskin was in college hewent to work for a generator shop inMiami. When the owner died fourmonths later Dwoskin bought the busi-ness and quickly learned that one of hisbiggest problems was obtaining parts. Toenable himself to purchase larger quanti-ties of components in order to get theprice he needed, Dwoskin started sellingto other rebuilders in his area. This even-tually led to his company, Auto ElectricSuppliers, shipping from their SouthFlorida location, where they also manu-factured cleaning equipment to sell tothe trade.

Auto Electric Suppliers became oneof the most successful rebuilder suppliersin the world servicing over 3,000 regularcustomers in 76 countries. In 2007, AESmerged with WAIglobal where Dwoskinserves as executive vice president incharge of sourcing.

Dwoskin receives APRA’sDistinguishedServiceAward

Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. hasacquired, through its wholly owned sub-sidiary Waste Services of Florida, Inc.,Choice Environmental Services, Inc. forcash consideration of $123.25 million.

Choice Environmental is a solidwaste services company based in FortLauderdale, Florida, and a wholly ownedsubsidiary of Swisher Hygiene.

Progressive Waste Solutionscompletes acquisition

Bandit Industries has added severalnew dealers, serving customers in thesouth, northeast, and midwest. These deal-ers join the Bandit North American dealernetwork to help meet the rapidly increas-ing demand for Bandit equipment andZenith knives.

Miner’s Equipment and Truck Repairis centrally located in Oklahoma City toserve customers throughout Oklahoma in aquick, efficient manner. The staff is highlyexperienced in equipment maintenanceand repair, servicing a wide range ofmachinery but specializing in arboristequipment. In addition to in-depth mainte-nance, Miner’s Equipment and TruckRepair will stock and sell new Banditchippers and stump grinders, and they willalso stock a full range of Zenith knives.

Bobcat of Bowling Green is locatedon the outskirts of Bowling Green, Ken-tucky. Already a dealer for numerousbrands including Bobcat, Husqvarna,Wacker Neuson and more, the staff willnow offer sales and service for Bandithand-fed chippers and stump grinders.They will also stock and sell a variety ofZenith chipper knives for numerous chip-per makes and models, and they will takecare of Bandit customers throughoutsouth-central Kentucky.

Huntsville Tractor and Equipmentfirst opened 40 years ago in Northern Ala-bama. Huntsville Tractor and Equipmentwill stock and sell Bandit products. Theparts and service department is equippedto handle any maintenance needs, includ-ing replacement Zenith knives for mostchipper brands.

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Balcones Resources, Inc. has pro-moted Sara Koeninger to senior vice presi-dent of corporate services. As senior vicepresident, Koeninger will sit on the com-pany’s executive leadership committee.Koeninger manages special projects forBalcones, including the company’s safetyprograms and provides oversight forequipment installations and start-ups.

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Food residuals may represent oneof the recycling world’s biggest oppor-tunities, as food waste has continued topile up in landfills while other compo-nents of the materials stream areincreasingly being recycled. Compost-ing plays a primary role in turning foodresiduals into useful products, but sofar the food waste stream has hardlybeen touched by composting efforts.

The opportunity is significant.Food waste is the single largest compo-nent of solid waste in U.S. landfills,according to a recent report from theNatural Resources Defense Council(NRDC). Forty percent of all food gen-erated ends up as waste, according tothe report, and the amount of foodwaste from homes, restaurants andother sources has grown 50 percentsince the 1970s.

“Currently over 34 million tons offood waste is being generated in theU.S. and 97 percent plus is going tolandfill,” said Michael Virga, executivedirector of the U.S. Composting Coun-cil in Bethesda, Maryland. “This is anenormous potential feedstock for thecomposting and anaerobic digestionindustries.”

“As a country, we’re essentially toss-ing every other piece of food that crossesour path – that’s money and preciousresources down the drain,” said DanaGunders, a scientist with the NRDC whoauthored the recent report. Gunders saidproducing food that is never eatenaccounts for 25 percent of freshwaterconsumption, as well as 4 percent of oilconsumption. “Moreover, uneaten foodaccounts for 23 percent of all methaneemissions in the U.S. – a potent climatechange pollutant,” she said.

Recycling has scored significantsuccesses in other portions of thewaste stream, including other organicssuch as yard clippings. “In 1960 24percent of yard waste went into land-fill,” noted Darby Hoover, a seniorresource specialist at NRDC. “Nowit’s 8.6 percent.”

The vast majority of the foodwaste being landfilled could berecycled. Why isn’t it? “The barri-ers to more food waste beingrecovered and collected are numer-

ous,” Virga said. “The perceptionof food waste and the “yuck” factorare difficult to get over for mostconsumers.”

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First Wind, an independent U.S.-based wind energy company, has com-pleted construction of its 34 megawatt(MW) Bull Hill Wind project andcommercial operations have begun.Located on the ridges of Bull Hill andHeifer Hill in Hancock County,Maine, the project features 19 1.8-MW wind turbines that have thecapacity to generate enough cleanenergy to power nearly 18,000 homes.

Now that the project has startedoperations, Hancock County and East-brook will receive an average aggre-gate tax payment of approximately$100,000 annually for the next 20years and an additional $240,000annually in community benefit pay-ments – more than $7 million in total.In addition, First Wind is providing apublic safety communication tower toHancock County for improved com-munications for the safety and rescuedepartments in the county.

The cost-competitive clean elec-tricity generated by the Bull HillWind project will be sold to NSTARunder a long-term power purchaseagreement, which First Wind won ina competitive solicitation by NSTARas they were seeking a low costsource of energy. In August of 2011,NSTAR and First Wind entered into a15-year fixed-price contract for theoutput from the project. The cost sav-ings due to the fixed-price contractare expected to save NSTAR ratepay-ers about $57 million over the life ofthe contract.

“The power from Bull Hill Windis part of a diverse, responsible energyportfolio that includes renewableresources generated right here in NewEngland,” said James Daly, vice presi-dent of Energy Supply at NortheastUtilities, parent company of NSTAR.“The Bull Hill project will helpNSTAR meet our goal of providingrenewable energy to homes and

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Recycler would like to extend ourdeepest sympathies and condo-lences to the victims and families ofthe Sandy Hook Elementary Schooltragedy.

I believe that it is important tostand in solidarity with the victims,but I also believe that it is importantto avoid focusing on the perpetratorof the atrocity. Nothing can justifytheir actions, and frankly, I’m notinterested in ‘why’ this person didwhat they did.

Instead, I would like to reflecton how much blame we, as a socie-ty, should shoulder for the actionsof mentally unstable or derangedindividuals. I do not blame violentvideogames. I do not blame our par-tisan politicians. I do not blame oursensationalist and liberally biasedmainstream media. I do not blameour firearms laws, or our attitudestowards gun ownership.

I blame the shooter. I blame thedearth of readily available mentalhealthcare for the majority of ourpopulace. I blame lax school securi-ty policies, and the failure to imple-ment emergency measures. Butthese are not necessarily moral orsocietal failings. Despite our bestefforts, our best laws, our bestbureaucratic oversight, individualswill continue to commit crimes –some of them atrocious – and theblame will fall squarely on theirshoulders, not ours.

That doesn’t mean that ourpoliticians are entirely off the hook.I do blame Washington for theincredibly expensive administrativebureaucracy that they’ve built andforced upon us. As they debate thefiscal cliff prior to this issue’s sub-mission to the printer, both sidesrefuse to address the real underlyingissues: entitlement spending, gov-ernment bloat and a broken taxationsystem.

But that’s another columnentirely. Disasters humanitarian andfiscal aside, I hope that 2013 calmsdown for everyone. I hope that theSandy Hook victims find some sem-blance of peace, and that you allfind yourselves some boomingbusiness.

If you’re reading this, theMayans were wrong, and we allhave another year ahead of us inwhich to work, to play, and to bewith those we love. I hope that all ofour readers have a happy, healthyand prosperous year.

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Courtney Dittmar was thrust into atough Bay Area job market in 2009when she lost her job of nine years at auniversity library. After two years ofunemployment, a friend connected herwith the nonprofit GRID Alternatives,which runs a Solar Intern Program fund-ed by a $120,000 grant from Pacific Gasand Electric Company (PG&E).

Now, Dittmar is a graduate of theprogram and recently led a team of vol-unteers from PG&E and GRID Alterna-tives in completing a rooftop-solarinstallation on an Oakland home. The1.6-kilowatt system, made possiblethrough GRID Alternatives’ SolarAffordable Housing Program, will savethe homeowner an estimated $15,000 inenergy costs over the system’s 30 yearexpected lifetime.

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Before being selected as the firstPG&E solar intern, Dittmar completednearly 300 volunteer hours with GRIDAlternatives, commuting by bus, trainand bicycle from her home in MountainView to solar installations throughoutthe Bay Area. Dittmar is also taking freeclasses at PG&E’s Pacific Energy Centerin San Francisco to supplement her fieldexperience. She has applied for a fewsolar jobs recently and said she is con-vinced the training is making her morecompetitive.

Since 2006, PG&E has contributedmore than $520,000 to GRID Alterna-tives’ Solar Affordable Housing Pro-gram to support green job training,financial benefits for income-qualifiedfamilies and a reduction in carbon forthe broader community. In addition,GRID Alternatives has installed nearlyall of the solar electric systems fundedunder the PG&E Solar Habitat program,

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GRID Alternatives is a nonprofitorganization that brings the benefits ofsolar technology to low-income commu-nities. Using a barn-raising model,GRID Alternatives leads teams of volun-teers and job trainees to install solarpower on qualifying homes – providingsavings for families struggling to makeends meet, preparing workers for jobs inthe fast-growing solar industry, andcleaning the air. More than 2,800 Cali-fornia families have benefitted from theprogram, saving an estimated $77 mil-lion in lifetime electricity costs. Morethan 11,000 people have received hands-on solar installation experience.

PG&E grants support solar job training

The U.S. Environmental Agency(EPA) will partner with universitiesin Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexi-co, Oklahoma, and Texas to reducefood waste as part of the EPA’snational Food Recovery Challenge.

The goals of this voluntary pro-gram are to limit the 34 million tonsof food wasted nationwide annuallyby reducing unnecessary consump-tion and increasing composting anddonations to charity. By joining theFood Recovery Challenge, partici-pating schools pledge to reducefood waste by five percent in oneyear.

Food accounts for 25 percentof al l waste sent to landfi l lsnationwide – more than any othersingle material . In addit ion to

using landfill space and the ener-gy needed for t ransport , foodwaste becomes a significantsource of greenhouse gas by giv-ing off methane as it decomposes.

In addition to higher educationinstitutions, the EPA is also workingwith grocery stores, entertainmentvenues, hotels, restaurants, hospi-tals, convention centers and federalfacilities to reduce food waste.Every university and college isinvited to join the Food RecoveryChallenge, with several institutionsalready participating.

The committed university part-ners include:

•University of Texas at Arlington •University of Arkansas,

Fayetteville

•Baylor University – Waco,Texas

•University of Houston •University of Texas at Austin •Rice University – Houston,

Texas•New Mexico State University,

Las CrucesThe Food Recovery Challenge

is part of the EPA’s SustainableMaterials Management Program,which seeks to reduce the environ-mental impact of food and otherwidely-used everyday items throughtheir entire life cycle, including howthey are extracted, manufactured,distributed, used, reused, recycledand disposed.

EPA works with schools to reduce food waste

Dominion to developfuel cell power project

Dominion, one of the nation’s largestenergy companies, plans to grow its cleanenergy portfolio by developing a fuel cellpower generating facility in Bridgeport,Connecticut. Dominion acquired thisdevelopment from FuelCell Energy Inc. ofDanbury, Connecticut.

The facility will produce 14.9 MW ofelectricity – enough to power approxi-mately 15,000 homes – using a reactiveprocess that converts natural gas into elec-tricity.

The Dominion Bridgeport Fuel Cellfacility is part of Project 150, a programsponsored by the state and supported bythe Clean Energy Finance and InvestmentAuthority (CEFIA) to increase renewableand clean energy projects in Connecticut

by 150 MW. CEFIA is the nation’s firstfull-scale clean energy finance authoritythat leverages public and private funds todrive investment and scale up clean energydeployment in Connecticut. This projectwas supported by the City of Bridgeport,which provides a tax incentive develop-ment agreement that will be in place forthe life of the project.

Dominion Bridgeport Fuel Cell, LLChas contracted with FuelCell Energy, Inc.(FCE) to build, operate, and maintain thefacility. FCE will supply five proprietaryDirect FuelCell® stationary fuel cell sys-tems and an organic rankine turbine thatwill use waste heat from the fuel cells togenerate a total of almost 15 MW ofelectricity.

First Wind, an independent U.S.-based wind energy company, has com-pleted construction of its Kawailoa Windproject and commercial operations havebegun.

Located on Kamehameha Schools’Kawailoa Plantation lands on Oahu’sNorth Shore, the 69 megawatt (MW)wind project will be able to generateenough clean and cost-competitive windenergy to power the equivalent ofapproximately 14,500 homes on theisland. At full output, it has the potentialto meet as much as 5 to 10 percent ofOahu’s annual electrical demand andavoid the burning of about 300,000 bar-rels of oil per year.

“This is, by far, the single largestwind energy project in Hawaii’s history,”said Lt. Governor Brian Schatz. TheKawailoa project is First Wind’s secondproject on Oahu and fourth in theHawaiian islands.

Paul Gaynor, CEO of First Wind,said, “Now with our Kawailoa projectonline, First Wind’s combined projectson Oahu and Maui have the capacity togenerate enough clean energy to serveover 40,000 businesses and homes inlocal communities throughout Hawaii.”

Late last year, the Hawaii PublicUtilities Commission approved a powerpurchase agreement between First Windand the Hawaiian Electric Company(HECO), which serves more than400,000 Hawaii customers. Hawaii statelaw mandates 70 percent clean energyfor electricity and surface transportationby 2030, with 40 percent coming fromlocal renewable sources. Kawailoa Windwill significantly advance the state’sprogress toward these goals.

“Wind power is an important cleanenergy resource for Hawaii and one ofthe keys to breaking our dependence onimported oil. Kawailoa Wind will pro-

vide the people of Oahu with clean,locally-produced energy for decades tocome,” said Dick Rosenblum, HawaiianElectric Company president and CEO.

Developed in concert with Kame-hameha Schools (KS) as part of theirNorth Shore Plan, Kawailoa Windreflects a genuine collaboration with thecommunity. The plan was completed in2008 after nearly two years of extensivecommunity consultation. First Wind hasbeen discussing the project with NorthShore residents and community organi-zations for the past three years andworked with federal, state and countyagencies to obtain the necessary permits.

Kamehameha Schools senior assetmanager Kapu Smith, who oversees allagricultural activities on Kamehameha’s

6,000 acres of Kawailoa farm lands,added that Kawailoa Wind providesimportant support to agriculture on theNorth Shore. “Lease rent from this proj-ect will help offset the cost of ongoinginfrastructure improvements and mainte-nance – like water systems, roadways,fences and so forth – and enable the con-tinuation of reasonable agricultural rentlevels for existing and future tenants.These things are critical to keeping theselands available for farming.”

RMT Inc. oversaw the installationof 30 state-of-the-art Siemens turbineson the Kawailoa Wind project site. Workon the project started in December 2011and created an average of 108 construc-tion-related jobs while generating signif-icant revenue for the surrounding com-

munity. The project drove nearly220,000 on-site labor hours during con-struction, and dozens of Hawaii busi-nesses were involved through develop-ment and construction supply chains.

As with its other projects on Mauiand Oahu, First Wind developed a Habi-tat Conservation Plan (HCP) forKawailoa Wind, working with the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service and the Divi-sion of Forestry and Wildlife of theHawaii Department of Land and NaturalResources. The HCP is a wildlife con-servation effort that includes researchfunding and actions to protect and mini-mize incidental harm to federally listedspecies in the vicinity of the wind ener-gy project.

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Thirty Siemens turbines were installed on the project site. They will generate 69 MWs, enough to power 14,500 homes on the island.

McGill Environmental Systemsof N.C. Inc. plans to open its seventhorganics recycling facility by the endof 2013, locating it in Berkeley Coun-ty, South Carolina. The companyexpects to hire up to 25 people tostaff the facility.

The state-of-the-art, indoor com-post manufacturing plant will be con-structed on the site of Berkeley Coun-ty Water and Sanitation’s (BCWS)current yard waste operation.

The project, a public-private col-laboration between BCWS andMcGill, represents the culmination of

two years of planning for the industri-al-scale, regional facility. The facilitywill be built on county land butowned and operated by McGill. Thecompany will accept and process awide variety of biodegradable materi-als from municipal, commercial andindustrial generators for use as feed-stocks in the production of its line ofpremium compost products for theprofessional sports turf, landscapingand stormwater/erosion control mar-kets. It also sells bulk and baggedproducts through retail lawn and gar-den centers.

McGill-Berkeley will be a fully-enclosed processing facility utilizinga scientifically-enhanced compostingprocess based on an aerated static pilemethod developed by Rutgers Univer-sity, augmented with computerizedcontrols and a biofiltration system.

When complete, the Berkeleyoperation will give McGill a com-bined annual processing capacity ofabout 500,000 tons from all facilities,including its existing regional opera-tions in North Carolina, Virginia andIreland.

McGill Environmental to open organicsrecycling facility in South Carolina

What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino? An “el-if-i-no.”

Mainstream fuel options contin-ue to be as costly and untenable asever, and so growth in waste-to-ener-gy (WTE) market sectors may comeas no surprise to most.

Kagi Heating Supplies and Man-ufacturing, Inc. manufactures, dis-tributes and services Kagi multi-fuelwaste oil burners. The Kagi productburns waste motor oil, hydraulic oil,crank case oil, light gear oils (up to50 weight), waste vegetable oil andstove oil to name a few. “Our prod-uct is used primarily with forced airheaters and boilers used to heat com-mercial buildings, small shops,garages, greenhouses, swimmingpools, saunas and many more appli-cations,” explained Tom Kagi, Jr.,vice president. Kagi burners havebeen in production in one form oranother for nearly 30 years. The cur-rent models have been produced formore than 18 years. “Even thoughwe could buy them from China forless, our burners and components aremade in the U.S.,” Kagi noted.

Kagi offers two products: theburners in each product have differentheat ranges (Btu output). The 250Series burner Btu range is from100,000 to 350,000 Btu and the 500Series burner has a range of 350,000to 700,000 Btu. There are variousburner options available when atypi-cal applications are involved; for

instance, different blast tube lengthsand a choice of models with an on-board pump or a remote pump set up.A European model is also availablefor non-domestic customers.

“Allowable by the EPAfor small generators of wasteoil, this is a positive and eco-nomical way to safely disposeof waste oils. Our product isunique because the burner ismore field-service friendlythan others since we do notuse many proprietary parts.Also, clients frequently tell usthat they are unhappy withcompetitor products and thehigh price of replacementparts when those burners nolonger function. Users lovethe Kagi burner because it isvery easy to set up and use,and customers can learn howto service the product them-selves. We offer classes to anyonewho’d like to learn how to assembleand service their burner,” Kagi said.

Kagi burners are used withforced air heaters and boilers. Indi-vidual installation depends on theheater or boiler manufacturer’sguidelines and local building andfire codes. Users need a compressedair supply and storage and contain-ment for the fuel supply. The cus-tomer must settle and filter the fuelbefore use.

Kagi has received customerservice awards and clients oftenreport that the product manual isinformative and that they appreciateKagi’s troubleshooting assistancevia the telephone. “We want clientsto be happy with our product and we

strive to offer quality burnersand customer service. Our burnerloaner program is available at nocost so our customers never haveto be without heat. A burner canbe shipped to us for service orrepair and they can use one ofour burners until we return theother one. No one else in theindustry does that,” explainedKagi.

“The perfect solution forwaste-to-energy needs is Untha’sXR/TR combination,” statedBernhard Mueggler, CEO ofUntha America. Together, the XRpre-shredder and the TR second-

ary shredder convert household andindustrial waste into secondary fuel.“Reducing waste volume, creatingconsistency, and stabilizing theorganic substances within are the first

steps in the waste-to-energy process.First, the waste undergoes pre-shred-ding with the XR, producing coarseand medium-sized particles. Throughseparation technology, ferrous andnonferrous, inert, PVC and heavyfraction material are then removed.Then, the waste can be processedthrough the TR, yielding fine parti-cles which can be burned as fuel, pro-ducing heat,” Mueggler explained.

The shredding provided by theXR and TR models converts wasteinto a consistent and repeatable fuel.With uniform fuel, the combustionsystem can be geared toward thatparticular fuel, thus creating an effi-cient process resulting in less ashand higher energy output. Waste-to-energy facilities encounter trashranging from mattresses to newspa-pers, so their equipment must shreda wide range of material.

According to Mueggler, “TheXR/TR combination easily processesthese materials and there’s no needto use the machines with mass incin-erators. They can be used in con-junction with the latest gasificationtechnology, which is clean and effi-cient. The XR has been operatingworldwide for decades, while therecently debuted TR is already draw-ing accolades. The patented shred-ding chamber of the TR providescontinuous output without a ram.Eliminating the ram reduces mainte-nance and increases capacity. Thecutting system can be changed inless than an hour, giving the operatoran extra three weeks per year ofoperating time.”

The Untha system can be usedas a stand-alone system creatingrefuse-derived fuel (RDF) as the endproduct. “We have some unitsinstalled in WTE facilities, but alarge percentage is in RDF produc-tion facilities that sell the fuel toother companies,” Mueggler report-ed. He added, “In the RDF market, itseems there are challenges in gettingplants permitted & financed andWTE plants also struggle due toenvironmental concerns. Gasifica-tion to create ethanol or diesel seemsto be the quickest route to EPAacceptance.”

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Manufacturer List

CH4 Biogas Lauren Toretta917-734-2237www.ch4biogas.com

Clean Burn LLCTina Phillips800-331-0183www.cleanburn.com

Kagi Heating Supplies & Mfg., Inc.Tom Kagi888-866-5244www.kagiburner.com

Untha Shredding Technology America, Inc.Bernhard Mueggler603-601-2304www.untha-america.com

VecoplanJeff Wolfe877-738-3241www.vecoplanllc.com

Warren & BaergManufacturing, Inc.Randy Baerg559-591-6790www.warrenbaerg.com

Zero Waste Energy SystemsBruce Coxhead905-266-0314www.zwes.ca

www.warrenbaerg.com

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Randy Baerg is presidentof Warren & Baerg Manufac-turing, Inc. (W&B) He said,“We manufacture individualcomponents and full systems toprocess waste materials into aclean fuel that is easily addedto a company’s major fuel flow.Cleaned, sorted and preparedwaste materials can produce afuel that produces fewer emis-sions and waste than most of theother mainstream fossil fuels, andthose being used to generate steamand or electricity.”

Baerg noted that this realizationis spreading in the U.S. as clearguidelines and regulations are put inplace and history shows that if afacility is properly set up for theirexisting fuels, alternative fuels suchas those produced by W&B equip-ment, are easily handled with thefacility’s existing scrubbing systems.

“The key machine in our systemsis the Model 250 or Model 300 cuber,which takes dry, sorted and groundpaper, cardboard wastes, film plasticsor wood materials and compressesthem into a dense 1.25” cube that ismuch like a pellet only larger. Eachcuber produces four to eight tons ofcubes per hour. The cuber offers sev-eral benefits over other densificationmachines: the larger, densified prod-uct requires less grinding than othersand is more forgiving of large materi-als that may find their way throughthe system and into the cuber,” Baergsaid. W&B also manufactures con-veyors – drag chain and belt type –augers, surge bins, metering bins andother equipment utilized in the sys-tem or independently.

Baerg reports that most systemsin operation are smaller with 1 or 2cubers operating between 8 to 24

hours per day, producing 4 to 8 tonsper hour. If waste flow supply is froma manufacturer’s regular waste fromproduction lines, a small, simple sys-tem can be set up within 60 to 90days, from order to start-up. Largerfacilities typically operate betweentwo to six cubers. There are largerfacilities in Europe and Asia, set upto process 1,000 to 1,500 tons perday, requiring up to 10 to 20 cubersper system.

“The domestic waste-to-fuelindustry seems to be growing region-ally, and even higher growth is seenin Europe and Asia. More companiesare learning they have all of the itemsin place for cuber systems to workwell and save money. With excessclean waste materials, high landfillcosts, high fuel costs and shortage ofgood fuels, companies increasinglyprefer to recycle or turn their wasteto fuel, depending on which market isbetter. We see growth, domesticallyand overseas, in manufacturingwastes such as paper, cardboards,separated MSW and film plastics,mixed in with other materials oralone, up to 95 percent film plastics.Processing, cleaning, grinding andcubing this waste into fuel are someof the excellent choices available toreduce waste and utilize a cleanfuel,” explained Baerg.

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A little old man shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slow-ly, painfully, up onto a stool. After catching his breath he ordered a banana split.

The waitress asked kindly, “Crushed nuts?”“No,” he replied. “Arthritis.”

In 2004, Chris Kightly saw an opportunity, changed careers, and found-ed Logan Oil. The company collects reclaimed gasoline from auto disman-tlers, auto shredders and other recyclers in 150 cities across the country.

Kightly said he saw the business as a way to do something “green andprofitable,” and also as a way to create employment for people.

The dismantlers or recyclers remove the gasoline from the cars and storeit in tanks awaiting pickup. To make sure the gasoline in the tanks is cleanand useable, the Logan Oil employees test it before they remove it from thetanks, and they reject any gasoline that might have been contaminated duringthe reclamation process.

The gasoline is then filtered to remove water or sediment that mighthave been in the cars’ gas tanks. That filtering is done on the trucks that pickup the gasoline, as it goes into the trucks. The clean, filtered gasoline is soldto local non-branded gas stations, to gasoline distributors and companiesthat can use the gasoline themselves.

Since Kightly’s company operates nationally, he said he has to deal withgovernment regulations on a state-by-state basis. One issue he runs intoquite often is the states’ attempts to tax the sale of the fuel he collects andsells.

Kightly said that the fuel is not actually “used” when he acquires it, so itshouldn’t be subject to taxes. He said that once fuel is used in a car, it isburned up and gone, and the fuel taken from the scrapped cars is the sameproduct that came from the gas pumps. Since taxes were paid at the pump,Kightly said there should be no additional taxes paid when he sells that gasto his customers.

So far he has been successful in arguing with the government agencies,which is good for the companies he buys the gasoline from. “We pay goodmoney for the gas,” Kightly said. Not that long ago, those auto dismantlerswere paying to have the gasoline picked up.

Kightly said that right now, there are very few companies doing what hedoes, and that as government regulations become stricter as time goes on, itwill become more difficult for new companies to comply with the regula-tions and get into the business.

However, there is plenty of potential to pick up more gasoline. He saidthat there are about 14 million cars scrapped each year. On average, thosecars have about four gallons of fuel remaining in the gas tank. That meansthere is a potential 50 million gallons of gasoline that could be reclaimedeach year. Right now, Kightly and one other company are picking up about 4million gallons of gasoline per year.

Some of the remaining fuel is reclaimed for other purposes, but Kightlysaid that unfortunately “a lot of that gas goes into the ground.” One of thechallenges of the business is in “educating the dismantlers” so the gasolineis reclaimed properly and kept clean enough so it can be sold for use in cars,which garners the best price for the dismantlers and puts more gas into carsat better prices for consumers.

Kightly said that he has attended a lot of forums and conferences world-wide, and that in other countries recycling is not an option – it is mandatory.While he wouldn’t like to see the same government regulations in the U.S.,he does appreciate the higher level of recycling in those parts of the world.

Meanwhile, Kightly enjoys his role in being inventive when dealingwith the municipalities and the government agencies he works with. He alsoenjoys the challenges of dealing with the transportation issues involved inpicking up gasoline all over country and delivering it to customers.

He said that sometimes he thinks of himself of being in the truckingbusiness, and he just happens to be transporting gasoline. Kightly said thatan important part of his business is making sure that his trucks arrive at cus-tomer locations before their gasoline storage tanks are full.

He explained that once those tanks reach capacity, the dismantlers can’tprocess any more cars, and that impacts their bottom line. “They don’t haveto worry about us being there,” he said, because service is always a priorityfor his company.

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Navy, DoD enter into windfarm agreement in Texas

Officials from the Department ofDefense (DoD), the Department of theNavy, E.ON Climate & Renewables NorthAmerica, LLC (ECRNA), and PetronilaWind Farm, LLC, owned by ECRNA, dis-closed a memorandum of agreement(MOA) to allow the developer to build andoperate new wind turbines in NuecesCounty, Texas while working to protectthe Navy’s ability to continue its trainingmission at NAS Kingsville and NAS Cor-pus Christi. Representatives from eachorganization participated in a ceremonyand base tour to commemorate theagreement.

Signatories to the agreement includeJohn Conger, Acting Deputy Under Secre-tary of Defense for Installations and Envi-ronment; Joseph Ludovici, PrincipalDeputy (Acting) Assistant Secretary of theNavy for Energy, Installations and Envi-ronment; John Quinn, Deputy Director,Chief of Naval Operations Energy andEnvironmental Readiness Division;VADM William French, Commander,Navy Installations Command; Rear Adm.Jack Scorby, Commander, Navy RegionSoutheast; Capt. David Edgecomb, Com-manding Officer, NAS Corpus Christi;Capt. Mark McLaughlin, CommandingOfficer, NAS Kingsville; Paul Bowman,vice president of Petronila Wind; andSteve Trenholm, chief executive officer,ECRNA.

Under the MOA, ECRNA will installand operate up to 100 wind turbines at thePetronila Wind Farm site.

“The Navy is at the forefront of alter-native energy use and production, and theNavy supports such projects when they arecompatible with our mission,” said Rear

Adm. Scorby. “The agreement will enablethis wind turbine project to move forwardwhile putting measures in place that workto preserve vital pilot training capability atNAS Kingsville and NAS Corpus Christi.”

Under the agreement, ECRNA willprovide $750,000 in funding to DoD forresearching, testing and implementingsolutions to mitigate potential impacts.Mitigation efforts could include upgradesthat allow the Navy radars to more accu-rately detect aircraft; optimizing radars to“ignore” signals received from wind tur-bines, incorporating new systems that fillin radar gaps and other technical modifica-tions. To reduce the potential of radarinterference, the new turbines will be lim-ited to 500’ in height and will be confinedto one 5x7 mile site within the existingPetronila Wind Farm project boundary.

The agreement establishes a specificset of procedures the Navy and ECRNAwill use to safely curtail wind turbineswhen and if needed, and to document andaddress emerging concerns. In addition,Navy, DoD and Petronilla Wind will forma joint working group to study the effec-tiveness of the mitigation measuresimplemented.

“This agreement is a collaborativeeffort that proves the military and the windindustry can find solutions that protectbases and still allow responsible develop-ment,” said Steve Trenholm, CEO,ECRNA.

The Navy and the Department ofDefense will continue working closelywith renewable energy developers andlocal communities in South Texas toensure local wind turbine projects cancoexist with the Navy mission.

Biogas market movement:German market may slump

Throughout the world, there are morethan 10,000 operational biogas plants withan installed capacity of about 5,000 MW.Almost two-thirds of the facilities arelocated in Germany. The worldwideinstalled capacity in biogas plants will fur-ther increase by 2,700 MW from 2012until 2016 and the number of plants willgrow by another 3,800. However, thefocus of this growth will shift away fromGermany, where it has mainly happenedover the past five years. The German shareof newly worldwide constructed plants forinstance will decrease to about a third.

Due to their favorable subsidizationschemes, the already established biogasmarkets in Italy, the United Kingdom, theCzech Republic and the Netherlands willcontinue to be among the most importantmarkets in the next five years. France isone of the new strong European growthmarkets. The country introduced a feed-intariff in 2011 and simplified the approvalprocedures for the construction of biogasplants. Further emerging markets can befound in Eastern Europe. Poland has, forinstance, announced a feed-in tariff inearly 2013.

The most important non-Europeanmarkets of the years to come will be the

North American and Asian ones. Most bio-gas plants will be constructed in the U.S.,Canada, China, India and Japan. Thegrowth in the U.S. will especially acceler-ate, as the country’s current projectpipeline is one of the largest throughoutthe world. Standards in India and Chinawill reach western levels in the years tocome and the countries will significantlydevelop their biogas markets thanks totheir huge biomass potentials. Japan intro-duced the world’s highest feed-in tariff forbiogas in mid-2012, which will triggerconsiderable dynamics in this market.

Compared to these growth markets,the world’s largest biogas market in Ger-many has slumped dramatically sinceearly 2012. This is mainly due to theamended Renewable Energy Act. Com-pensation rates for biogas were in somecases reduced significantly and legal con-ditions were tightened (for instance, plantsnow have to use at least 60 percent of theirwaste heat). This is why in Germany thenumber of newly constructed biogas plantsper year will decrease from about 1,300 in2011 to 300 plants in 2012. In the longterm, the German market will stabilize onthis lower level.


Other problems include logistics. Itisn’t generally cost-effective to truckfood residuals long distances, yet therearen’t yet enough composting facilitiesclose to major sources of food residu-als. Safety of collection and compost-ing workers is also an issue, since foodresiduals can harbor illness-causingmicroorganisms and attract rodents andother animals. Finally, markets for theproducts of composted food residualsrequire additional development.

The Composting Council is team-ing with the Washington-based Nation-al Restaurant Association to addressthese issues by, among things, raisingawareness about composting foodwaste. Scott DeFife, executive vicepresident of policy and governmentaffairs for the restaurant trade group,said restaurateurs are very interested infinding ways to address food waste,including through recycling and com-posting.

Consumers are becoming moreconcerned about food waste and start-ing to examine sustainable practices inthe restaurants they frequent, DeFifesaid. Government officials are increas-ingly looking at restaurants as a largesource of food residuals that contributeto landfill use, he said. And restaurantowners are beginning to regard foodwaste as a potentially valuable com-modity that they need to utilize.

“There is a very strong businesscase for restaurant operators in theenergy, environment and sustainablepractices field to get a greater return oninvestment and lower costs or get areturn on things that otherwise arethought of as waste,” DeFife said.

On the collections side, some ofthe techniques for improving consumercooperation with composting initiativesinclude making it easier for consumersto separate food from other componentsof the stream. For instance, in SanFrancisco, consumers can put foodresiduals into the same green bin they

put food-soiled paper and similarorganics. Other initiatives employ com-postable bags that make it easier, neaterand cleaner for consumers to preparefood residuals for composting.

With regard to safety and hygiene,more frequent collections of food resid-uals for composting offer some prom-ise. Going to weekly collections insteadof bi-weekly collections, for instance,reduces the amount of food residualscollected each trip and the length oftime material has to sit by the curb.When food residuals are removed fromgarbage and collected weekly, Hoovernoted, cities like Portland have foundthat frequency of garbage collectioncan be reduced to every other week.

Because of the difficulty of get-ting consumers to cooperate, earlyefforts to collect food residuals arefocusing on restaurants and large insti-tutional generators of food residualssuch as universities, hospitals and air-ports. “You have to go after the low-hanging fruit and that’s the institu-tions,” Virga said.

Restaurants are also an importantpart, but many are small, independentoperations, DeFife said. They havesmaller amounts of food residuals thanlarge institutions, and they may belocated further from composting facili-ties, increasing the logistical and finan-cial challenges of composting foodresiduals. He said, it’s particularlyimportant to educate these operatorsabout the opportunities compostingfood residuals provides to improve theirbusinesses’ sustainability, cooperatemore effectively with local govern-ments and boost financial returns.

One key factor in making compost-ing food residuals economically sus-tainable is the difference between locallandfill tipping fees and fees com-posters charge to remove food residu-als. If composting fees are competitivewith landfills, composting is morefinancially appealing to generators offood residuals.

Technology may also play a role.Anaerobic digesters can be placed onthe premises of individual restaurants,reducing transportation costs and pro-viding restaurant operators withsaleable soil amendments and evenenergy generated through the digestingprocess. “If you can create energy and asoil amendment, that’s the best of bothworlds,” Hoover said.

Composting has many challengesin front of it, including expanding thenetwork of composting facilities andexpanding the markets for compostproducts. “We’re only barely touchingthe surface,” said the National Restau-rant Association’s DeFife. “There’s somuch more that can be done if therewas more education, coordination andopportunity on the business side. Wethink we can dramatically increase it.”

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