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Section B Page 6 American Recycler, September 2008
Horse waste to turn green via
new technology from MaxWest
MaxWest Environmental Systems,
Inc. and Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’
and Owners’ Association (FTBOA) have
announced a partnership to convert horse
waste into renewable energy.
Ocala/Marion County is home to 431
thoroughbred breeding and training farms
covering more than 70,000 acres of Florida’s
pastures. The disposal of horse/stall
waste is a problem that increasingly draws
the attention of state and local government
agencies. Currently, individual farms are
responsible for the disposal of stall waste.
MaxWest’s gasification technology will
provide FTBOA members with a convenient,
environmentally friendly method of
horse manure disposal.
Horse waste will be trucked from
farms, training centers, sales companies,
and other equine facilities across Marion
County to a site owned and managed by
the partnership. The manure will be mixed
with wood waste and then gasified in
MaxWest’s integrated gasification system
MONTHLY CROSSWORD BY Myles Mellor
ACROSS
1. ___ scrap, this kind of scrap has reached a record level of
$600 per ton
5. Bottle ___, law requiring deposits on beverage containers
8. Gay___ Container, the trade name for a large, reusable
container used for shipping materials
10. Car or man followers
11. Crude substance
12. Data
14. Asset evaluation worksheet, for short
15. Recyclable can type
16. Long ___, 2,240 pounds
18. Feminine ending
19. Water-well feature
21. Machine that flattens aluminum cans
25. The average American uses 650 ___ of paper per year
26. Sopranos group
29. Nurse, abbr.
30. Thin slat of wood
32. Not well
33. RFID part
35. Paper that has been discarded in the manufacturing process
in the paper mill
37. Trailblazer?
39. Gross!
40. Shakespeare's you
41. Arctic transportation
42. Chargers' home, for short
43. Life energy in Chinese philosophy
44. Power plant that uses municipal solid waste as a part of its
fuel supply
45. Used beverage cans
46. Light switch option
47. Poet, Cummings
48. Common plastic resin used in beverage containers
50. Switching to this type of television may cause an increase in
electronic recyclers' workload
53. Record onto CD
56. The girl from Ipanema came from here
58. Cut off
60. Oakland team
61. Nature's way of recycling
64. Popular Nevada city, for short
65. Adam's apple girl
67. Gas-to___, project that converts gas from landfills into
electricity
68. Concentrated load capacity
69. Water wasting faucet problem
DOWN
1. Single ___ recycling, aka fully commingled recycling
2. Tellurium symbol
3. ___tomer, material which can be stretched but will return to its
original length
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to produce renewable thermal energy,
which will then be used to produce
“green” electric power for sale to the
power grid.
The facility is expected to convert
upwards of 100,000 tons of stall and wood
waste per year. The process should produce
approximately 7.2 megawatts of
exportable energy daily, enough to power
over 1,400 homes.
Most recently, MaxWest has focused
its technology on working with municipalities
to convert biosolids to green energy at
wastewater treatment plants and is presently
talking with Florida dairies and cattle
feedlots across the United States. The
FTBOA project is its first expansion into
working with horse waste.
The MaxWest system works with
wood, crop wastes, and other forms of carbon-based
wastes such as plastic.
MaxWest systems are presently operating
at facilities converting wood, cow, chicken,
and mixed wastes.
4. LDPE part
5. Deli order, abbr.
6. Barrier designed to prevent the
leaching of contents from a landfill
7. Lane, abbr.
8. Closed-___ recycling, recycling
materials into their original form
9. Garbage container
13. Length measurement, abbr.
17. __ and void
20. Business degree
21. Swindle
22. Hollywood's home
23. Prepare a present
24. Front ___ loader, commercial solid
waste collection truck type
27. Was on TV
28. ___ Control Law, local ordinance
controlling the collection of municipal
solid waste
31. Pressure measure
34. Engine purr
36. Looking at
37. One of the most commonly recycled
plastics
38. Fire remains
Veolia Environmental Services to
recover ethanol from waste
Veolia ES Technical Solutions,
LLC, the hazardous waste division of
Veolia Environmental Services, is beginning
ethanol recovery services at its
newly acquired Medina, Ohio facility.
“Very little has been done in
the area of recovering
ethanol from waste.”
-Phillippe Martin
Waste materials from industrial
manufacturing and consumer goods that
contain ethanol will undergo a process to
recover it for reuse. Veolia ES Technical
Solutions will also provide secure packing
destruction for off-specification
alcoholic beverages in conjunction with
the ethanol recovery process. The recovered
ethanol can then be used as fuel to
replace or supplement gasoline.
“This is yet another step in our
growing list of recycling technologies
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41. Take without asking
42. ___ reduction, an action to
reduce waste at the point of
generation
43. Carp
44. Damp
49. To be announced...
50. Round tent type
51. "The ___, bitsy spider..."
52. Hang around
54. PC operator
55. The legal-for-trade certification
program for weighing devices
57. Positive or negative particle
59. Plastic used for plumbing pipes
62. Public relations, for short
63. Football position, abbr.
66. Roman 6
that include organic and inorganic
processes to recover mercury, metals,
and solvents,” explained Philippe Martin,
president and CEO of Veolia ES
Technical Solutions.
The operation will support ethanol
production from industrial, non-alcoholic
and alcoholic wastes. Waste products
are sent through equipment that
destroys or recycles the packaging and
separates out the liquids. These liquids
are transferred to a recovery process that
removes most water and contaminants.
The final ethanol product is then subject
to a rigorous specifications review, and
when met, will be sold as fuel.
Veolia ES Technical Solutions
process is relatively new in the area of
recovering and producing ethanol.
“Most ethanol plants in the United
States use food products, mainly corn, to
produce ethanol, but very little has been
done in the area of recovering ethanol
from waste,” said Martin.
Industries that will benefit from
Veolia ES Technical Solutions waste-toethanol
service include food and beverage
distributors, especially breweries
and wineries, biotechnology, pharmaceutical,
chemical and consumer goods
manufacturers.
Stericycle
reports results
for second
quarter 2008
Stericycle, Inc. reported financial
results for the second quarter of 2008.
Revenues for the quarter ended June 30,
2008 were $277.8 million, up 19.3%
from $232.8 million in the same quarter
last year.
Acquisitions less than 12 months
old contributed approximately $18.0
million to the growth in revenues for the
quarter. Gross profit was $123.2 million,
up 17.8% from $104.5 million in the
same quarter last year. Gross profit as a
percent of revenue was 44.3% versus
44.9% in the second quarter of 2007.
Net income for the second quarter
of 2008 was $38.7 million or $0.44 per
diluted share compared with net income
of $32.0 million or $0.36 per diluted
share for the second quarter of 2007.
For the six months ended June 30,
2008, revenues were $532.6 million, up
20.0% from $443.9 million in the same
period last year. Gross profit was $236.7
million, up 19.1% from $198.8 million
in the same period last year. Earnings
per diluted share increased 16.2% to
$0.79 from $0.68 per diluted share in the
same period last year. Earnings per diluted
share for the six months ended 2008
were negatively impacted by $0.04 per
diluted share related to the arbitration
settlement recorded in the first quarter of
2008.
Man blames fate for other accidents,
but feels personally responsible when he
makes a hole-in-one!