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The waste grease, collected from a local pizzeria, a Mexican restaurant, and a pub, will be mixed with manure in the dairy farm’s anerobic co-digester and converted into renewable energy. Methane gas digesters are used by dairy farms to convert manure into energy and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Biochar is created by heating biomass, such as forest waste or animal manure, in a low-oxygen environment—a process known as pyrolysis. The second is an abundance of forest and sawmill waste, which releases greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere if left to decompose.
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Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which gets released when livestock operations pool manure in open-air lagoons. This story was published in partnership with Grist. Such efforts are currently on track to prevent 1.8
The CO 2 e is used to standardize emissions from all types of greenhouse gases (e.g., The EPA’s definition of CO 2 e explains another way to look at it: “The number of metric tons of CO 2 e with the same global warming potential as one metric ton of another greenhouse gas.”
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billion Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities grant program hopes to convince farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon in the ground. A project run by Central State University will reduce this feedlot’s methane emissions through an innovative manure management system.
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