GOT MULCH? What to do with the 5.6 million cubic yards of wood waste left after Hurricane Ike? The city doesn’t know either — so it’s sponsoring an ideas competition: “The contest will pay $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 for the top three ideas for how to best use the heaps of debris, which city officials have said would be enough to fill up the Astrodome nearly four times over. . . . So far, the city has given about 700,000 cubic yards of wood waste to two companies that will turn it into mulch and compost for resale. But the sheer volume of debris far outstrips local market demand for recycling it. . . . ‘We don’t want to have to fill up our precious landfill sites with a bunch of wooded waste, so we’re going to try to recycle all of it,’ [Mayor] White said. ‘It will probably be the single biggest recycling project that there is in the country this year.'” [Houston Chronicle; competition site]
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wood chips are now used in electricity production
http://www.green-trust.org/woodgas.htm#Info:
http://www.burlingtonelectric.com/specialtopics/mcneil.htm
http://www.psnh.com/Energy/ENERGYPROJECT/NWPP/print-faqs.html
wood chips are also used in manufacturing engineered lumber
I wondered if any of those kinds of companies would take some of the Ike wood, but I guess not.
I heard on the news that one of the dumpsite is on Dowling and Rusk. right where the new soccer stadium suppose to go.
why don’t they just put it in the giant sinkhole from earlier this year…
the sinkhole idea is excellent. You should submit that.