BIOMASS MAGAZINE – April 23, 2024 – The USDA celebrated Earth Week by awarding $194 million in grants through its Rural Energy for America Program – including important biogas initiatives. The $194 million REAP awards support more than 650 projects in 35 states and Puerto Rico. The USDA announced the REAP awards as part of a …

ENERGY BUSINESS REVIEW – March 21, 2024 — Human beings produce vast amounts of garbage on a daily basis. For years, the conventional method of dealing with municipal solid waste has been to transport it to landfills. However, landfills present numerous issues—they fill up quickly, require significant space, contaminate water and soil, and emit methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – March 4, 2024 – WastAway – a leading green tech company that converts municipal solid waste (MSW) to fuel – has named veteran branding executive Todd Smith chief communications officer to chart the future growth and vision of the company.

City Council in Murfreesboro, Tennessee has approved funding to move ahead with final design for a new WastAway facility to convert 140,000 tons of local-only garbage into Renewable Natural Gas and clean solid fuel for regional kiln operations.

Waste Dive — March 13, 2024 — New Mexico just became the fourth state to enact a program, which has the potential to give biogas projects from landfills and on-farm digesters a boost. Could more states soon follow?

The United States has seen rapid and remarkable results from a herculean effort to pivot away from fossil fuels, according to a new report.

Wall Street Journal – March 12, 2024 – Concrete accounts for more than 7% of global carbon emissions, according to some estimates. That is roughly the same as the CO2 produced by all of India and more than double the amount produced by the global aviation industry.

CHULA VISTA, Calif. – Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is so far behind on getting food recycling programs up and running that it’s widely accepted next year’s ambitious waste-reduction targets won’t be met.

Mayor Shane McFarland and the majority of City Council members from Murfreesboro, Tennessee toured the Morrison, TN WastAway plant as part of their due diligence as they consider how to best address the looming closing of Middle Point landfill.

Instead of burying trash for free at Middle Point Landfill, Murfreesboro officials are considering development of a $45 million WastAway building to covert garbage into a biomass fuel on Butler Drive in an industrial area on the city’s south side.