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What's hotter than your pyrolysis unit? This biochar and carbon removal news!
🌱 Hobart’s McRobie’s Gully Waste Management Centre in Tasmania is being used as a trial site for turning green waste into biochar. The City of Hobart has partnered with Heal Country to run the trials. Heal Country is an Aboriginal-owned enterprise that works with First Nations people.
🌲 Finnish startup Carbo Culture opened one of Europe’s largest biochar plants, a short drive from Helsinki. The plant — dubbed R3 — will use dust pellets left over from nearby wood manufacturers as its feedstock.
🗺️ cdr.fyi has created the Carbon Removal Map, an interactive tool for visualizing the global carbon removal ecosystem. It aims to offer a comprehensive view of the CDR landscape to better explore the breadth of CDR initiatives.
☕ As detailed in a new study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, researchers have discovered that concrete can be made nearly 30 percent stronger by partially substituting biochar, made from coffee grounds, for sand.
🌐 Karbon-X and Laconic signed a Letter of Intent to develop an innovative biochar verification methodology. The methodology aims to ensure the accuracy and transparency of Karbon-X's reforestation project in Bolivia, and it will be applied to verify other biochar projects worldwide.
🚦 The green light has been given to demolish a row of buildings in Cheshire, UK, in order to clear the way for The Mersey Biochar project, which will research approaches, technological and commercial, to removing carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases from atmosphere at a cost as low as possible.
🇮🇳 The people at PyroCCS - Fastest to Scale Carbon Removal are rapidly scaling and they are intending to set up their next 10 project sites in India for woody waste biomass pyrolysis. They are looking for leads to green cuttings from trees, saw mill wood waste cuttings, and bamboo industry waste –– learn more and reach out if you can support.
🍚 In India, rice husk biochar has been found to efficiently remove groundwater fluoride. Modified biochar showed fluoride adsorption at neutral pH and reduced concentrations less than the WHO permissible limit for drinking purposes. Biochar-based adsorbents showed more potential for defluoridation than chemical-based sorbents.
🌽 The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is collaborating with the city of Lincoln on a trial that is intended to “fill in the knowledge gaps” about biochar and its benefits for larger-scale corn-soybean operations. The Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research, Nebraska Forest Service and Oregon Biochar Solutions are helping to fund the study.
🗑️ The Department of Natural Resources announced a climate resilience partnership with Myno Carbon, focusing on using forest waste to create and market the use of biochar to support a planned carbon removal facility in Kettle Falls, Washington.
🐄 According to scientists at The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen and Centre for Environmental Health and Engineering (CEHE) in Surrey, adding biochar to anaerobic digestors when processing sewage sludge and manure on farms has been proven to help boost biomethane production, which can then be sold. It’s also been found that adding biochar to the process could help reduce the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance genes by more than 90 percent.
✅ Sifted has published a breakdown of the different carbon removal methods, explained –– including biochar.
🗞️ Westword profiled James Gaspard and his US-based company, Biochar Now for a look inside the industry.
💰 Demand heats up for biochar carbon projects — a recent report indicates that the global biochar market is expected to nearly triple from its current value of $160 million to over $450 million by 2030.
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