The Chicago Tribune has an article today on a eco-friendly shopping mall here.
Waste management ought to be a bit more in the forefront of our brains here in Anderson. Considering the Mallard Lake War and all that. Here is a story from the London Times today about a company using a different process for turning waste into dollar (well, pounds). I guess it appeals to me for its two-birds-one-stone approach:
Now, if we had an outfit like that here what would be the need for a landfill at Mallard Lake?Mr Riddle says that New Earth’s approach is a double business model. It not only takes waste off councils’ hands under contract, it sells the end products – sometimes back to the councils.
The company sells topsoil to golf courses, recycled plastic for use in tarmac and compost for use on non-food crops such as elephant grass and oil seed rape grown for biofuel. The compost cannot be used on food crops because of the risk of foot and mouth disease from meat waste.
Mr Riddle says he envisages selling the biodeisel back to the councils as they will want to be able to say that their rubbish lorries are fuelled by the waste they are carrying.
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