Monthly Archives: May 2013

Waste food decomposition rate Temperature Rat behavior

Peninsula Composting in Wilmington, Delaware, which is where some of NYC’s source separated food waste is taken, has spare capacity of about 150 tons/day. The Peninsula facility is the largest composting facility on the East Coast. The site is permitted … Continue reading →

  Almost 20% of residential and street basket waste is food. Exposing food waste on the street makes hungry rats keep feeding.

Seen originally at: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/seto1101sp2013 Rains and flooding will cause the critters that live underground to emerge. Just be glad it’s been a relatively dry April. Here’s an article about something that can happen during extreme flooding as seen with Hurricane … Continue reading →

http://nytelecom.vo.llnwd.net/o15/agencies/planyc2030/pdf/planyc_2011_solid_waste.pdf

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwasteless/downloads/pdf/wp-reports/wprr06.pdf

Hi all, If we divide this project into 3 phases, how dose the schedule of project look like? Phase I: Food Waste (Summer 2013?) Phase II: Data Mapping (Fall 2013?) Phase III: Rat (Spring 2014?) Masa

              Food Waste Generation + Collected socieconomic parameters and waste data (Jeremy, Ben, Masa) + Creating a food waste distribution (Masa) + Developing Food waste generation model (Masa) Data Mapping + Creating layers for … Continue reading →