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Retrieved as trash and unloaded as treasure, piles of dead wood are dropped off at this biochar facility in Berthoud, Colorado, for an opportunity at a second life. James Gaspard is the CEO of this business,Biochar Now. What Biochar Now does is we take non-merchantable waste wood and other organic matter, and we convert it through a chemical reaction called pyrolysis into a pure carbon. We re taking a product that has no other market, and we re creating a market for it, Gaspard said. So at this site we take clean wood,
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stanley cup wood, which would be pallets and crates, and dead trees, and forest fire debris, limbs. We take in wood that no one else can use. However, the biochar process can be used with materials beyond that list. At other facilities we re approved to take in treated woods. We have a facility that s taking in major railroad cross ties and we convert it into the same carbon. We can take in telephone poles, we can take in painted woods, old fencing that s been treated, Gaspard said.SEE MORE: Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels saw another steep jump in 2023Once the wood is collected, it s shredded and put into kilns with little to no oxygen, at temperatures three times as hot as fire. This t
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MILWAUKEE 鈥?To celebrate the end of National Public Works Week, Milwaukee s DPW had it s fleet on full display at Red Arrow Park. Kids from the area were able to check out city garbage trucks, cranes from the forestry department and the fire department had an engine on display.Vehicle operators and trainers were at the event to help kids learn about the different trucks and provided demonstrations of the differ
stanley water bottle ent equipment. It s a great cap off to what DPW employees do, said Interim DPW Commissioner Jerrel Kruschke. Maybe it will strike someone to work for DPW, one of these young people people, you know in the future to work for the city. Employees with DPW do everything from pick up our garbage, keep our parks in great condition,
stanley fr remove snow in the winter and so much more. The department is responsible for 95 square miles, 221 buildings, a fleet of more than 1,500 vehicles, 476 acres of boulevards and gree
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