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ALL the WasteRush Glossary posts together NOW

Waste Terms: to learn the Value of Waste

*Have you ever wondered what is meant by SAF ?
…SAF – Sustainable Aviation Fuel – is a biofuel for aircraft that has similar properties to conventional jet fuel but with a smaller carbon footprint.
*Have you ever wondered what is meant by LFG?
…LFG – Landfill Gas – the gas that forms in a Landfill is made up of the same gases as natural gas (NG) a fossil fuel. In a Landfill LFG can be captured and used in the same way as natural gas.
*What is MSW ?
…MSW is Municipal Solid Waste – The garbage that every home throws away. It is used as a feedstock to a MRF to be sorted or sent to a Landfill.

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WasteRush Glossary 4 – Latest Terms to Know, about Waste

WasteRush Glossary 4 – S-Z

Words / Initials / Acronyms that you might want to know as we ALL learn to Value and Use our Waste to Clean our Climate.

*Have you ever wondered what is meant by SAF ?
…SAF – Sustainable Aviation Fuel – is a biofuel for aircraft that has similar properties to conventional jet fuel but with a smaller carbon footprint.
*What is Upcycling ?
…Upcycling – converting waste products to new products that are of higher economic value or quality than that of the original waste product.

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WasteRush Glossary 3 – Latest Terms to Know, about Waste

WasteRush Glossary 3 – M- R

Words / Initials / Acronyms that you might want to know as we ALL learn to Value and Use our Waste to Clean our Climate.

*Have you ever wondered what is meant by LFG?
…LFG – Landfill Gas – the gas that forms in a Landfill is made up of the same gases as natural gas (NG) a fossil fuel. In a Landfill LFG can be captured and used in the same way as natural gas.
*What is MSW ?
…MSW is Municipal Solid Waste – The garbage that every home throws away. It is used as a feedstock to a MRF to be sorted or sent to a Landfill.

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WasteRush Glossary 2 – Latest Terms to Know, about Waste

WasteRush Glossary 2 – E-L

Words / Initials / Acronyms that you might want to know as we ALL learn to Value and Use our Waste to Clean our Climate.

*Have you ever wondered what is meant by Incentivize?
…Incentivize – a new way to say: encourage, inspire, arouse, motivate, spur on, stir to action
*What is EPR?
…EPR – Extended Producer Responsibility – Especially in the age of Waste Plastic, EPR is a new environmental policy that is applied to producers to extend their responsibility to include the end of their product’s useful life. In other words – “we consumers are not the only ones responsible for dealing with the product you made. You have to help us move it to it’s next use, after we use it.” Today, this applies mostly to plastic, e-waste and glass packaging, but more types of products are being added as the EPR policy takes hold.

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WasteRush Glossary 1 – Latest Terms to Know, about Waste

The WasteRush Glossary 1 – A-D

Words / Initials / Acronyms that you might want to know as we ALL learn to Value and Use our Waste to Clean our Climate.

*Have you ever wondered what is meant by “Anaerobic Digestion”?
…It is the “no oxygen” process by which Organic matter, like food waste, is turned into powerful and dangerous, but useful gas.
*What is a “MRF” ? (pronounced like ‘murf’)
…the acronym for “Materials Recovery Facility” or Recycling Center

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Waste Not Recipes! Video Theater – Scraps to Feast On!

Get more out of your Food Budget!

There are thousands of “Waste Not Recipes“ on YouTube.

Here are just a few

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6 Reasons Why We Need to Stop Burning Garbage! Now!

A HOT Summer Solstice 2024

https://earth.nullschool.net/

The Heat is up in the 40’s Celsius
……….reaching for the 50’s

18 June, 2024
49.4 C in Iraq
(120.92 Fahrenheit)

BURNING Anything Today is not a good idea because: there are too many of
“us” doing it!

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ReLondon – Empower Consumer Behavior – Better Life for Stuff

ReLondon – The City of London continues the UK’s successful efforts to clean up their Climate; waste less and reuse, repair, share and recycle more. ….Are other cities doing this?

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MicroGrids – The Surprising Electric Gate to Clean Energy

It is all very well and good for me to publish a post about:

How To Get More Electricity For Your Community
BUT what if you can’t hook it up to your Utility Grid?

MicroGrids will upgrate the Big Grids

Renewables lead to Electricity.
The Gate to use this Clean Energy is the “Electricity Power Grid“.
BUT it needs a big infrastructure facelift / upgrade.
The whole world of electric grids are old or do not exist!
How do we fix this?

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SMALL Landfills – Capture the Methane And Make Energy, too.

How much Municipal Solid Waste is considered the size of
SMALL Landfills / Garbage Dumps?

It used to be I million – 3 million tons of Municipal Solid Waste-in-place.



https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2017-06/documents/overview_lmop_lfg_us.pdf
slide 5 of the presentation

Now-a-days there appears to be no limit to the size of a “Landfill project to produce energy” as long as the people who own it can find
1. an end user for the gas or electricity
2. Funding for the project.

The Landfills discussed in this post range from 360,000 tons to 2.8 million tons of waste-in-place.

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ISO knows the Value of WASTE! >>> Break-thru

………Essential for Industry!

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
at the heart and soul of industrial processes worldwide.

ISO knows the Value of WASTE and Closing-the-Loop

The idea for the ISO Circular Economy committee began with a seminar held by AFNOR, ISO’s member for France. What followed was a French standard, XP X30-901, Circular economy, published in 2018. The response was so positive that an international committee was proposed and ISO/TC 323 began to get to work.
The standards for ISO/TC 323 are to be published in 2024.

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America! Clean Cool Air!! – Back To The Year 1800!!!

A Review: Ezra Klein interviews a Climate Clean-up Expert

America!!! Make it happen in the USofA!
The $370 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers oodles of money to get back to Cool Clean Air for YOUR everyday life including tax credits, discounts, and rebates.

BUT, what is the big picture, which of these benefits should YOU use? What will the future bring? Things have already changed, Technology is improving things all the time!

If you have the time and like podcasts….Ezra Klein had a discussion with a climate expert about where we are with the big picture. ….. HOWEVER, I have some comments to make about what has changed since they talked in September.

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Color Your Work GREEN! Make Your Vote Count Now!

Go for the Green Jobs in your profession!

Are you worried that if you look for a job in the Green Companies, you might be going off the deep end? Your skills do not have to be Green! Too hard to find? Too strange? Not enough opportunities yet?

NOT TRUE!

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The “Relief” of phasing out Fossil Fuel! …Now!

“Fix it action” is possible, Now!
The posts* below, offer real actions we can take, Today.

YOU KNOW WHAT “MISTAKES” I REFER TO: “FOSSIL FUEL”
Maybe we should really start calling them “mistakes” for they surely are!

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Photo above by Naassom Azevedo on Unsplash    

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In the mood to phase out fossil fuel? – Governance

Fossil Fuel is Ancient Waste! We need to stop using it and use the Waste we make now! We can make our Waste cleaner!

Yes, Governance! One of the ESGs. – Solutions through Law

“The rules of our world are laws, and they can be changed. Laws can restrict or they can enable. What matters is what they serve. Many of the laws in our world serve property – they are based on ownership. But imagine a law that has a higher moral authority… a law that puts people and planet first. Imagine a law that starts from first “do no harm”, that stops this dangerous game and takes us to a place of safety….” Polly Higgins, 2015

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Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash 

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In the mood to phase out fossil fuel? People-Civic

Fossil Fuel is Ancient Waste! We need to stop using it and use the Waste we make now! We can make our Waste cleaner!

Yes! Society, People, Civic! One of the ESGs.
Things we can do, NOW, to phase them out.
– Grass Roots Efforts

Hard to talk to China. So let’s talk to USA! ………………….and Europe

This blog, wasterush.info, looks for the encouraging things that we humans can do to harmonize with planet Earth.  The problem that stands out and never seems to stop is fossil fuel. Here too, there are ways to work on phasing them out. Now!

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In the mood to phase out fossil fuel? Environment

Fossil Fuel is Ancient Waste! We need to stop using it and use the Waste we make now! We can make our Waste cleaner!

Yes, Environment! One of the ESGs.
Things we can do, NOW, to phase them out.
– Human Cleverness

This blog, wasterush.info, looks for the encouraging things that we humans can do to harmonize with planet Earth.  The problem that stands out and never seems to stop is fossil fuel. Here too, there are ways to work on phasing them out. Now!

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credit: Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash 

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The World is too small for ….Pox?

Infections that pass from animals to humans are known as zoonotic diseases. Some of these also have the ability to pass from human to human once they make the jump across species.
In that respect, monkeypox has some similarities to Covid-19. But it’s been around a lot longer than the coronavirus behind the recent pandemic.

In this post:
How Population Growth and Human Activity
Increase the Risk of Zoonosis
What is monkeypox and why is it spreading? – comprehensive!!
…Remember – at the bottom, posts on the recent pandemic

above photo: Photo by NCI on Unsplash

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How to join the Circular Economy – Close-the-Loop

Ellen MacArthur Foundation – wants to put the last part of “Nature’s Life Cycle” back into industry. The part that we humans have to re-evaluate. Save our resources!

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After COP 26 – It Added Important Progress – Private Finance


Do you have some time to think about how important private investors is to this whole issue?
9 Countries are Net Zero Achievers!

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Before COP 26
COP26
The Net Zero Achieved Club
the UN – Race to Zero
SME Climate Club for Small Business
Scotland – and a NetZero small business Toolkit
…REMEMBER a list at the bottom of other posts about GHGs

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Waste Online Tools! There are more of them!

an Update !

More online tools where you can sell your production waste.
Landfills, must be shrinking !?!

Wow, Your Company’s Muck Is Their Company’s Raw Material?

….. First Search in a “Waste to Resource” Online Exchange when you are looking for a feed stock!

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the first two
now there are more online tools
Regional – Waste Exchanges
…Remember, a list at the bottom of posts aboutWaste

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Bhutan – A Clean Little Kingdom That Pulls in CO2

This is the story of
ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) and
the little Kingdom of Bhutan

This is a cautionary story of success and urgency…………..
Bhutan is a “Carbon Sink”! They have already reached 2050 !
They continue to further their efforts. But they are part of planet Earth, so they suffer from the mistakes of others.

If all the World would make changes like Bhutan has……we would save Bhutan and the rest of us Humans!

In this post:
COP26,
Bhutan is a Carbon Sink.
How have they Reversed Climate Change? (REALLY!),
Bhutan for Life,
AgainA reminder about all that Bhutan has been doing
Come together at COP 26 and dance!

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Color your Future Green! Now is the time – Green Collar Jobs

Consider the Green Economy for your next Career!

Sooooooooooo Much To Do! Sooooooo Much Going on!
Green is getting very very exciting!

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Welcome to the Y.O.L.O. Economy >>YOLO = You Only Live Once
We did it! >>>>>>>>> This is one example of the many who have!
How Do you decide that it is time to seek a new job or new career
Color your Future Green
…at the bottom, other posts about Green Jobs & Careers

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Construction Mycelium – wait a minute Let’s Think this Again

review, rehash, rethink and then onward

I am taking my own advice.
In that pandemic moment, there was plenty to learn from standing still.
The pandemic is an opportunity to review, rethink, rehash.
I have followed the development of Mycelium in Industry for the last few years and thought it would be good to stand back and review ………..

In this post:
Growing a circular economy with fungal biotechnology: a white paper
Rethinking….MycoComposite Construction is par with WOOD?
Rethinking….Growing Myceliated Facades
Some related projects: 3-D printing, research, Fungar.eu , video
…Myco-Composite Suppliers and other posts listed at the bottom

above image: https://thegrowingpavilion.com/

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