Tag: texas

  • One Bin for All?

    - by Melanie Scrug­gs, Texas Cam­paign for the Environment Right now, the City of Hous­ton is expand­ing its two-bin or “sin­gle-stream” recy­cling pro­gram to final­ly cov­er all the near­ly 350,000 homes that it ser­vices. As an avid zero waster, you may be think­ing two things: 1. It is fan­tas­tic that Hous­to­ni­ans final­ly have access to a…

  • 50-Megawatt Biomass Incinerator Completed in Woodville, Texas

    - Octo­ber 28, 2014, HartfordBusiness.com Glas­ton­bury con­struc­tion firm Gem­ma Pow­er Sys­tems has com­plet­ed the 49.9 megawatt con­struc­tion of a bio­mass plant in Woodville, Texas, three months ahead of schedule. The plant to be run by the East Texas Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive will oper­ate on chipped for­est waste. Con­struc­tion of the facil­i­ty began in 2012. Finan­cial terms were not…