As newcomers to the solid waste conversation both in Maine and more broadly, we’ve had a lot to learn about the organics landscape. The folks at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection have been exceedingly helpful throughout our initiation into the solid waste ‘club’.…
Read moreA report recently released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) suggests that if food waste were a country, it would be the 3rd largest producer of greenhouse gases behind China and the US. That statistic is staggering, plain and simple. In the above…
Read moreSince launching BEP and our flagship project at Exeter Agri-Energy (EAE), I’ve been invited pretty regularly to talk about the project and how my path led me here. In August, I was invited to chat with Steve Woods, president and CEO of TideSmart Global…
Read moreWe’ve spent a lot of time over the past several months writing about the importance of diverting food waste from the regular waste stream. What we haven’t talked about as much is our work to secure a contract to expand the Exeter Agri-Energy (EAE)…
Read moreI feel like we’ve been beating a dead horse for a while re: food waste disposal, but there doesn’t seem to be any escaping it these days. Yesterday’s New York Times had an article about Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest cause – food waste separation from…
Read moreSorry for the radio silence, folks – we’ve been busy working on a variety of projects including spending some time with the Maine legislature! A new article in the Bangor Daily News caught our eye, though, and it was clear we needed to jump…
Read moreBiogas Energy Partners may have to hire these three guys as policy consultants. The Des Moines Register had this nice story last week about three young men who are concerned about the methane gas produced by food waste needlessly taking up space in landfills.…
Read moreOn Monday, CTMirror published an interesting article about how difficult it is for farmers in Connecticut to bring anaerobic digestion systems online. The story by reporter Jan Ellen Spiegel details how one farmer, Paul Miller, has been trying to build an energy-producing digestion facility…
Read moreFood waste needlessly takes up a lot of space in New England’s landfills, and as Biogas Energy Partners has predicted, legislation in many states across the nation is probably on the way as a result of growing awareness. The problem is twofold. First, a…
Read moreContinuing your science education is a positive. The anaerobic digestion facility that Biogas Energy Partners (BEP) helped bring online at Stonyvale Farm in Exeter, Maine, has received a lot of media attention. On Sunday, the Maine Today newspapers published a very lengthy article about…
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