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Columbus Residential Recycling - Fifth and Final Phase Starts February 1st

1/31/2013

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Residential recycling collection begins in north and northeast Columbus on Friday, February 1 for approximately 48,000 households. This marks the fifth and final phase of RecyColumbus. With the addition of Phase 5 households, approximately 191,000 homes will now be able to recycle.

"Columbus residents have enthusiastically welcomed recycling in all neighborhoods where the program has been implemented so far," said Mayor Coleman.  "Since the program was started in June, more than 10,000 tons of recyclables have been collected, saving more than $555,000 in tipping fees at the County landfill."

Phase 5 Columbus neighborhoods that are now eligible for this new city service include:

  • Far Northeast side east of I-270
  • Krumm Park (East Columbus Gateway)
  • Milo-Grogan neighborhood east of I-71
  • Near East side north of East Broad Street between
    I-71 and the Columbus-Bexley border
  • North Linden and South Linden
  • Northeast side
  • Northland area south of S.R. 161 and east of I-71
There is no additional charge for the service. Upon receiving a recycling cart, residents should write their address on the lid and move it to a convenient location for use. The cart's lid keeps out water and wheels make it easy to transport. 

On the Friday pickup, residents should roll the cart to the same location as their trash for pickup by 6 a.m. of their collection day and roll it back to their storage point within 24 hours of collection. Residents who live in a single-family home, or a building of four attached units or less that is not part of a complex, are eligible for this new city service. If you do not qualify, but would like to be considered in the future to receive this service, please contact the City of Columbus 311 Customer Service Center at 614-645-3111 or online at www.311.columbus.gov.





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Clean Energy Completes First Stage of ‘Natural Gas Highway’ for Trucking

1/22/2013

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By the end of the year, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. said it will have completed 70 LNG (Liquefied natural gas) truck fuel stations along highways linking major U.S. metropolitan areas, with many of the stations located at existing Pilot Flying J truck stops.
submission: Ferris Law Group
Source: Transport Topics

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13 Banned foods still allowed in the u.s.

1/18/2013

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You think the FDA has your back? Sure, they recently proposed two new regulations to up food safety measures, specifically how food processors and farmers can work better to keep their fresh products free of dangerous bacteria (remember that killer cantaloupe outbreak from 2011?). But while it may seem like the government is out to protect us from bad--even fatal--food-borne illnesses, which cause some 3,000 deaths a year, they don't completely have our best interest--or health--in mind.
Source: Shape.com

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lawmakers renew wind energy tax credit

1/15/2013

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Blue Creek Wind Farm in Van Wert and Paulding counties is Ohio’s largest with more than 150 wind turbines that produce 350 megawatts of power. The developer benefited from a federal wind energy tax credit valued at about 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour of energy.

Bill Spratley, executive director of Green Energy Ohio says Blue Creek is a towering testament to the growth of wind energy in recent years.

"It was the biggest private investment in Ohio, $600 million in the year 2011 followed by auto plants and other factories, so these are enormous investments,” Spratley said.

Julian Boggs, state policy advocate for Environment Ohio, said Ohio’s wind energy capacity has grown from 10 megawatts in 2010 to more than 400 megawatts currently.

"Ohio actually, in 2011, had the largest increase in wind capacity of any state and it's certainly a growing economy here," Boggs said.

Source: NBC4i.com , Green Energy Ohio Newsletter


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Waste not center closes its doors

1/11/2013

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Misfit pens, lights, ribbons and books will have to find a new place to call home.

Columbus’ Waste Not Center, where teachers and artists found castaway items to recycle for their projects, closed on Dec. 17.

After years of service, the Central Ohio Sustainability Alliance board voted to close the center at 2830 Fisher Rd. on the West Side because of a lack of money.....

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Courtesy The Columbus Dispatch Saturday December 29, 2012 5:54 AM

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SWACO Announces Shift Away From Landfilling

1/9/2013

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TEAM GEMINI TO DEVELOP GREEN ENERGY PARK USING FUEL CREATED FROM WASTE

The Board of Trustees ("Board") for the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio approved two land lease contracts today (Jan. 8, 2013) which serve as blueprints for new facilities that will significantly increase the area's recycling rates. The Board approved the agreements today with Team Gemini, LLC ("Gemini"), a sustainable project design and development company headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

The leases mark completion of contract negotiations between the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio ("SWACO") and Gemini after an eight-month selection process. SWACO Executive Director Ronald J. Mills also recently signed a contract where Gemini agrees to construct the recycling center and an industrial park that will be powered primarily by renewable energy.

Under details spelled out in the contract and land leases, Gemini agrees to lease 22-acres of SWACO land next to the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill to construct receiving facilities; Gemini will lease 343-acres of SWACO land north of State Route 665, which will house Gemini's green-energy industrial park. In both cases, Gemini agrees to pay SWACO $1,000 per acre per annum once the facilities are constructed.

The contract also requires Gemini to build at its expense a combined Receiving Facility, that will be owned and operated by SWACO, and a Material Recovery Facility ("MRF"), which will be owned and operated by Gemini. Once completed in 2014, Team Gemini agrees to recycle a minimum of 1,000 tons of waste a day that would otherwise be headed to the landfill and pay SWACO $4.81 per net ton for the usable material. This payment is in addition to normal tipping fees paid by haulers at the gate.

Under terms of the contract, SWACO can increase the amount of waste Gemini receives, leaving the potential for larger scale recycling.

Mills said the projects will not affect existing curbside recycling programs. About 60 percent of landfill waste comes from businesses.

"Curbside programs can continue to harvest the best of recyclables. This project is a way for us to increase recycling in what is left," Mills said. "This project is a tremendous step toward SWACO's goal of decreasing dependence on the landfill while providing SWACO financial stability where ratepayers ultimately benefit."

In addition, Gemini agrees to build a conveyor system that will bridge State Route 665 and transport the recyclables from the Material Recovery Facility to processing facilities located in the industrial park. The park is also expected to include greenhouses, a fish farm, an anaerobic digester and other production and industrial facilities. Under the design concept, waste from one center will help fuel another.

Team Gemini President, Douglas P. Haughn, who was born and raised in Grove City, Ohio, said that he is excited to come back home and be a part of such a project.

"It is our goal to both build and attract proven technologies that can recover and use the resources of the landfill while generating clean power," Haughn said. "The demand for renewable resources and energy are increasing. This Project creates access to those resources on a concentrated industrial scale and will be made available to the market place. "

"Some countries in Europe no longer have landfills, because they are recycling 100 percent of their waste Why can't we use those same technologies and have a similar goal?" Haughn further noted,"With SWACO and the involvement of industry experts and our team members, we can create a synergistic center of industry, powered completely by our waste stream, thus creating a Carbon Negative Footprint."

Both contracts offer 99-year leases, provided performance milestones are met.

The Ohio State University's Ohio BioProducts Innovation Center has expressed an interest in collaborating with Gemini.

"This agreement and related investment is transformational because of synergistic impacts of bringing together world class technologies into an eco-industrial park, " said Dennis Hall, Interim Director of the Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center (OBIC) at OSU. "The utilization of existing waste streams, both bio-based and other recyclable materials allows for high value products to be created from what was previously regarded as garbage."

SWACO issued two Requests for Proposals ("RFP") in June and August 2012 dealing with development on SWACO land and use of waste. Team Gemini was selected from that RFP process.

SWACO's Chairman of the Board Bradley N. Frick said this project marks a historic milestone.

"This marks where waste transitions from a cost-center to a revenue generator," Frick said. "What we are doing here can not only set a trend in Ohio, but throughout the nation as well."

Additional information is available on SWACO's website at www.swaco.org

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