She has explored how it is possible to transform municipal sewage sludge and agricultural residues into something useful, namely biochar. The research project has a significant relevance to the ...

Courtenay, B.C. resident Greg Porteous started making biochar for his neighbours as a way of taking action on climate change. The black, charcoal-like substance holds onto a lot of the carbon in the ...

Researchers at Utah State University are working on ways to reduce the amount of harmful so-called 'forever chemicals' that ...

Improve your soil by making biochar in the ground. DIY biochar enhances nutrient availability and also enables soil to retain nutrients longer. Last year, I committed one of the great sins of ...

Additionally, we will observe biochar’s ability to perform as a media for biological filtration. One of the technical issues that need to be considered in treating fecal sludge by pyrolysis is the ...

Since Saratoga Biochar proposed the facility in the Moreau Industrial Park in 2021, the community has been fighting against its construction. A grassroots group, “Not Moreau,” rallied at many ...

The Eastern Washington company takes crop and forestry wastes, applies a patented technology to convert the organic debris into biochar, and uses that material to more efficiently grow the next ...

The company invested millions of dollars to receive up to 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits through the production of burnt organic material, or biochar, which offsets emissions the ...

MOREAU — Clean Air Action Network, which worked for years to block Saratoga Biochar Solutions from building ... which declared in 2022 that the sewage sludge facility would have no impact ...

Trials demonstrate that adding biochar to chicken feed can reduce campylobacter in chickens by up to 80%. This could potentially lead to fewer foodborne illnesses among humans. DTU National Food ...