There’s nothing especially sanitary about sanitary landfills. Where society’s solid and liquid wastes go to die but they never really do. They change form as they slowly decompose, which leads to all manner of unintended consequences.

Full article on Bloomberg

“New Orleans only recycles 3 percent of waste, one-tenth of national average”
Article: https://thelensnola.org/2022/01/28/new-orleans-only-recycles-3-percent-of-waste-one-tenth-of-national-average/

Humanity’s foulest, most dangerous and often most widely downplayed environmental threat is the routine disposal of trash, garbage, waste biomass and sewage via open dumping, landfills, incinerators and wastewater treatment plants. People who think these archaic and inefficient waste management are safe.ways to dispose of billions of tons of carbon wastes around the clock, 24/7/365 worldwide, aren’t paying attention to environmental reality. Recycling as commonly practiced is woefully insufficient and there’s a huge and growing need to raise the bar of technology expectations, and not just in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“As America continues to lead the world in per capita waste production, it’s becoming more and more clear that everybody — from manufacturers to consumers — “over-believes” in recycling. This is a story about responsibility and what happens when everyone keeps trying to pass it off to the next person — and what happens, when finally, there is no next person.”

– NPR.org

From ClimateandSecurity.org: Washington, DC, February 24, 2020 — In a comprehensive report released by the “National Security, Military and Intelligence Panel (NSMIP)” of the Center for Climate and Security, experts warn of High-to-Catastrophic threats to security from plausible climate change trajectories – the avoidance of which will require “quickly reducing and phasing out global greenhouse gas emissions.”

The panel, made up of national security, military and intelligence experts, analyzed the globe through the lens of the U.S. Geographic Combatant Commands, and concluded that:

“Even at scenarios of low warming, each region of the world will face severe risks to national and global security in the next three decades. Higher levels of warming will pose catastrophic, and likely irreversible, global security risks over the course of the 21st century.”

Link to full article: https://climateandsecurity.org/a-security-threat-assessment-of-global-climate-change/

Link to report: https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/a-security-threat-assessment-of-global-climate-change_nsmip_2020_2.pdf

“Turning waste into energy has usually meant incineration – that is, burning our trash. But this method has major environmental drawbacks. Gasification could be a better alternative. It’s an old technology that proponents hope to repurpose as a cleaner and more economical waste-to-energy solution, and now a number of companies in this space say they’re on the verge of commercialization and expansion.”

– CNBC, February 8, 2020

“Forests are feeling the heat. In places like the American West, rising temperatures and drought mean less water for trees, sometimes shriveling swaths of woodland. Now, scientists have found that thinning early in forest growth creates tougher trees that can endure climate change. What’s more, these thinned forests can suck carbon out of the air just as fast as dense forests.”

“U.S. forests capture between 10% to 20% of U.S. emissions each year. But if trees get too crowded, they compete for light and water—and stressed trees are more susceptible to drought and insect attacks. Removing some trees can ease the competition, letting the remaining trees grow big and healthy.”

Read full article in http://www.sciencemag.org/

Jay Toups, Bioroot Energy Chairman & CEO

It was a great honor to be invited by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) to present the Bioroot Energy perspective on higher mixed alcohol fuel and carbon wastes to an international audience at the Future Energy Forum conference, “Renewable Energy and Quality of Life” in Astana, Kazakhstan, August 14-15. The UNITAR team led by Thomas Fohgrub, along with Frank Helbig, Aimee Jenks, and Marit Berchner, did a fantastic job staging the event and we are deeply appreciative for their incredible kindness, professionalism and support.

http://www.unitar.org

http://www.futureenergyforum.org (Archived page)

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