Blowing Mulch Streamlines Landscaping Operations While Increasing Profits

Western New York Food Waste Recycler Taps Animal Feed, Compost and Cattle Markets

Wood Pellet Production Feeding European Energy Demands, Threatens Southern US Forests

‘Green Loop’ Conceptual Plan at Core of Big Apple Composting

Blowing Mulch Streamlines Landscaping Operations While Increasing Profits
By Todd Williams
The growth in the blower truck and trailer market business is instrumental in expansion of the mulch industry with no apparent end in sight, experts say.

From simple residential projects, to large apartment complexes, to 20-story high green roofs, mulch blowing has taken a foothold in the landscaping business.

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Western New York Food Waste Recycler Taps Animal Feed, Compost and Cattle Markets
By Todd Williams
Bill Baskin not only preaches recycling; he’s made it his life’s work and in doing so developed a thriving business.

This Massachusetts native discovered many years ago that necessity was indeed the mother of invention when he acquired about 70 acres of typical rocky New England pastureland in Rhode Island.

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Wood Pellet Production Feeding European Energy Demands, Threatens Southern US Forests
By Todd Williams
Southern US hardwood forests are facing devastation brought on by the insatiable demand for so-called green energy by European biomass-powered energy plants.

Operating on the mistaken assumption that wood pellets are carbon neutral, European regulators are turning a blind eye to the massive takeover of American forests to provide feedstock for giant power plants that are switching from coal to wood-fired generators.

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‘Green Loop’ Conceptual Plan at Core of Big Apple Composting
By P.J. Heller
It isn’t often that words such as “brilliant,” “awesome” and “futuristic” are used to describe a commercial composting manufacturing facility. Nor are words uttered such as “radical,” “loopy” or “half-wacky.”

But that’s exactly the mixed reactions to what can best be described as a novel and unique conceptual idea to provide composting facilities throughout New York City. As envisioned, there would be 10 street-level composting plants topped by elevated public parks spread along the city’s waterfront.

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Blowing Mulch Streamlines Landscaping Operations While Increasing Profits

Western New York Food Waste Recycler Taps Animal Feed, Compost and Cattle Markets

Wood Pellet Production Feeding European Energy Demands, Threatens Southern US Forests

‘Green Loop’ Conceptual Plan at Core of Big Apple Composting

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