By BILL POOVEY / Associated Press Writer McMINNVILLE (AP) – Trucks dump tons of unsorted household garbage inside a cavernous room at WastAway®, where a conveyor system grinds it, shreds it and heats it. After about 30 minutes, the garbage has become “fluff® ” a safe and stink-free product that looks like wood pulp. Fluff …
Continue reading →by Ryan Busby and Dick Gebhart from Public Works Digest • July/August 2004 “These evaluations indicate that the material is well suited for returning organic matter to soils on degraded training lands, which is a necessary step in reestablishing productivity. It was also found that large amounts of this material can safely be land applied, …
Continue reading →Garbage Growth By Kelli Rodda from Nursery Management & Production (NMPro) magazine. WastAway® Services in McMinnville, Tenn., has found a way to transform household garbage into a media component for plants. The patented and proprietary process shreds garbage, turning it into “Fluff®” a material that resembles a cross between dryer lint and wood pulp. The …
Continue reading →By CHARLES W. JOHNSON Southern Standard, February 20, 2004 Warren County’s recycling figure of 95 percent, provided thanks to its use of WastAway®, has been instrumental in obtaining two matching fund grants in which the state will provide a total of $221,700 and the county will provide matching funds of $95,820. READ FULL STORY (PDF)
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