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City Trash Plan Forgoes Trucks, Favoring Barges

Three years after the closing of the mammoth Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, the Bloomberg administration has drawn up a 20-year plan to deal with the city’s residential waste by shipping the bulk of it elsewhere by barge, officials who have been briefed on the plan said yesterday.

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City Trash Plan Forgoes Trucks, Favoring Barges

Three years after the closing of the mammoth Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, the Bloomberg administration has drawn up a 20-year plan to deal with the city’s residential waste by shipping the bulk of it elsewhere by barge, officials who have been briefed on the plan said yesterday.

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Bioenergia é responsável por aproximadamente 14% do consumo energético no mundo

Atualmente, a Bioenergia é responsável por aproximadamente 14% do consumo energético no mundo. Segundo dados da Agência Internacional de Energia (AIE), divulgados no Brasil pelo Ministério de Minas e Energia (MME), em vinte anos, cerca de 30% do total de energia consumida pela humanidade será através da bioenergia. Em geral, esse tipo de energia não produz poluição nem se esgota e é renovável.

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Universitária produz tijolos com garrafas Pet

Constatar a funcionalidade do reaproveitamento de materiais recicláveis na área da construção civil. Foi com esse objetivo que Gizele de Menezes, aluna do curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Faculdade Esuda desenvolveu o projeto de graduação “O uso do plástico do lixo para fabricação de blocos de alvenaria de fechamento“

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Canadian Company Sells Ethanol Made of Farm Waste

MONTREAL — Iogen Corp., a Canadian firm at the forefront of efforts to turn agricultural waste into ethanol, is expected to announce today that it has become the first supplier of such biofuel to the commercial fuel market, Wednesdays Wall Street Journal reported

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Compost – soil bank for the future

The word compost conjures

up images of an untidy heap

of assorted kitchen and vegetable

remains at the far end

of the garden. A more scientific

definition of compost

would be the product of natural

degradation of botanical and

putrescible waste by the action of

bacteria, fungi and other organisms

in the presence of an adequate

air supply. The biological

decomposition processes break

down complex organic substances

into carbon dioxide,

water and a residue: compost.