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  • Oregon Is Turning Sewage into an Endless Supply of Green Energy

    Britany Robinson

    March 17, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Clackamas county, Oregon

    A wastewater treatment plant in Oregon not only cleans water that is released into the local river, but it also creates fertilizer that is sent to farmers to use on non-food crops and it produces renewable power from methane. The green energy created at the plant heats five buildings on the site and produces half of the energy the facility uses. This kind of co-generation system is growing in other places in the United States, China, Brazil, and Norway.

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  • Renaissance Mill

    Britany Robinson

    March 23, 2020 |

    Oregon Business Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, West Linn, Oregon

    After a paper mill in Oregon closed abruptly, a venture capitalist swooped in, bought the place, and reopened it as the first paper mill in the United States to produce paper using wheat pulp. Through a partnership between a pulp plant in Washington state, the Willamette Falls Paper Company is using the leftover material from wheat farmers to turn it into a product that reduces agricultural waste, carbon emissions, and the need to cut down trees.

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