\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/nort...ory/751681.html “How far do we keep investing dollars into a product that we aren’t successful in marketing out?” said Council Member Guy Marlette, board liaison to the town’s Solid Waste Committee. “At some point we have to face the reality the whole program is not providing us what our intention was.” Instead of producing $400,000 in revenue each year, as originally hoped, “AmEarth” pellets have brought in less than $100,000 during the past five years combined, and less than $1,000 so far this year because of system breakdowns. The aging pelletization system now breaks down monthly, Angiel said. He also estimated the machinery could cost more than $2 million to overhaul. Marlette acknowledged that after the huge investments the town has made in keeping the pelletization program going, it’s hard for some to consider abandoning it now, especially when the potential for marketing the fertilizer still exists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keukasmallies Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 If there's anything governments can do it is to perfect the development of fertilizer--pellitized, verbal, or otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 How come say Milorganite doesn't lose money? Milorganite is the brand name of an organic nitrogen fertilizer produced by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. Popularized in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s, it consists of processed sludge from the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Jones Island Wastewater Treatment Plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The fertilizer is made of treated biosolids that have nutrients from the sewage stream along with added iron, used to strip phosphorus from the waste water flowing into Lake Michigan. The name Milorganite is a contraction of the phrase Milwaukee Organic Nitrogen, and was the result of a 1925 naming contest held in National Fertilizer Magazine. Milorganite® 5-2-0 is sold throughout the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Pacific Rim as a homeowner and golf course fertilizer. Is this what Amherst had in mind? Amorganite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 You know I am sick of your biosolids You are always talking biosolids Now biosolids or get off the pot. That is a word with limitless potential.And that ain't no bull biosolids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 [...lots of bovine biosolids...] I like it. "The Bills really played like biosolids today. Jauron is a real biosolids-for-brains coach." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 When that gets old- processed sludge May be used as a substitute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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