News & Press Releases
Canadian study shows Fluff Pellets reduce carbon and greenhouse gases
May 17, 2013
The WastAway technology is certainly making inroads in Western Canada. Drayton Valley Alberta is a small community that has big plans. They would like to use the WastAway technology to convert their municipal solid waste into fuel pellets called Processed Engineered Fuel (PEF). Read More...
Grant awarded to study Fluff Pellets as an alternate to coal
May 17, 2013
WastAway Services Canada applied for a research grant in October 2011. The process included a Statement of Interest followed by a Full Project Proposal. In May 2012, Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environment Solutions announced we were successful and awarded a matching grant. Read More...
NEW U.S. PATENTS GRANTED TO WĀSTAWAY SYSTEM
October 6, 2010
Bouldin Corporation was recently notified that the US Patent Office granted the company two additional U.S. Patents relating to its WāstAway System. Read More...
WĀSTAWAY PRODUCES NEW FUEL PELLETS – INCREASES EFFICIENCY
September 21, 2010
As a part of WastAway’s continuing research and development effort to provide optimum alternative energy solutions, the company has developed a new high quality fuel pellet that increases efficiency for many waste-to-energy clients. Read More...
WastAway Cited by MSW Management Magazine As Conversion Technology for WTE Projects
DESIGN NEWS HIGHLIGHTS WĀSTAWAY’S INNOVATIVE CONTROL SYSTEM
August 20, 2010
Some engineers have been successful in reducing use of landfill space by up to 90 percent and, in the process, combating pathogens in the trash and automatically retrieving ferrous and non-ferrous metals for recycling. One such example of this landfill innovation can be found on the island of Aruba, where landfill space is at an absolute premium. There, an innovative process and complex control system is being used to convert unsorted household garbage into a safe, inert material called Fluff… Read More...
WastAway is the Green Solution for CMA Music Fest
July, 2010
Who did the Country Music Association call to deal with the trash that was generated by 300,000 Country Music Fans during their four-day Music Fest and Fanfare in Nashville? WastAway Services of McMinnville, TN. Read More...
Excitement Builds As WastAway Aruba Closes in on Start Date
Oranjestad, Aruba, June 25, 2009 – In just under a month, Aruba will become the first island nation in the world to deploy the WastAway Recycling System and in doing so will also become one of the most eco-friendly nations on the planet. Read More...
WastAway Aruba Buildings Near Completion, Equipment Installation Begins
Oranjestad, Aruba, June 1, 2009 – WastAway Aruba continues on schedule as the first international facility nears completion. Read More...
Operators of WastAway Aruba Facility Receive Training in Preparation for July Operations
May 11, 2009
Training began last week for five Arubans who will oversee the operations of the WastAway Aruba facility. Read More...
WāSTAWAY JOINS ALPINE ENERGY GROUP AS GUESTS AT CARIBBIAN WATER AND WASTEWATER CONFERENCE
September 24, 2009
Wāstaway and Alpine Energy Group will join the Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority (VIWMA) and the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (VIWAPA), co-hosts for the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Conference, in featuring their recently announced energy from waste project. Read More...
NANCY GOLDEN JOINS BOULDIN CORP AS FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
September 8, 2009
Nancy Golden has joined Bouldin Corp and WastAway as Financial Controller, according to CEO Mark Brown. Read More...
GOVERNOR DE JONGH: U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS GOVERNMENT SIGNS CONTRACTS WITH ALPINE ENERGY GROUP TO DEVELOP TERRITORY’S FIRST ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PLANTS
August 11, 2009
Projects will use recycled solid waste to reduce oil dependency for electric power generation. Read More...
WastAway successfully launches waste recycling program for the Island of Aruba
Oranjestad, Aruba, August 7, 2009
The ribbons have been cut, the machinery has been started, and Aruba is about to end its first month as an environmental leader by using WastAway technology to recycle about half of the island’s municipal waste. Read More...
Island of Aruba goes green, begins recycling program on July 17 using Wastaway Technology
Oranjestad, Aruba, June 25, 2009
The Caribbean island nation of Aruba will become an environmental leader when they stop filling their landfills with municipal waste and begin recycling it, using Wastaway technology. Read More...
Excitement Builds As WastAway Aruba Closes in on Start Date
Oranjestad, Aruba, June 25, 2009
In just under a month, Aruba will become the first island nation in the world to deploy the WastAway Recycling System and in doing so will also become one of the most eco-friendly nations on the planet. Read More...
WastAway Aruba Buildings Near Completion, Equipment Installation Begins
Oranjestad, Aruba, June 1, 2009
WastAway Aruba continues on schedule as the first international facility nears completion. Read More...
Operators of WastAway Aruba Facility Receive Training in Preparation for July Operations
May 11, 2009
Training began last week for five Arubans who will oversee the operations of the WastAway Aruba facility. Bouldin Corporation is hosting the five workers at the new WastAway Worldwide Training Center in Morrison, Tennessee for ten days. Read More...
Last of WastAway Components Leave McMinnville for Aruba on Schedule
Bouldin and Lawson, the manufacturer of the WastAway machines bound for Aruba, finished all in-house components necessary for the system and shipped the last of the containers. Read More...
Construction Begins on Buildings to House New Facility
Construction continues in earnest on the new buildings in Aruba that will house the first commercial WastAway facility outside the United States. Read More...
New Patents Awarded for WastAway System
WastAway Servces has been awarded two more patents by the United States Patent Office, both of which are central to the WastAway process. The first was for the Bioreactor Vessel and Shaft Assembly and the second was for the Containment System for Continuous Flow Hydrolizers. Read More...
WASTAWAY TECHNOLOGY CHOSEN BY CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF ARUBA TO SOLVE TRASH PROBLEM
January 14, 2009—Bouldin and Lawson, a subsidiary of Bouldin Corporation, recently secured a multi-million dollar project to build their first international WastAway system in the Caribbean island country of Aruba. Read More...
WASTAWAY ADDS PELLITIZER TO MORRISON FACILITY
October 1, 2008—Two pellitizers have been added to the Wastaway facility in Morrison, Tennessee, to extrude Fluff into easily transportable pellets. Read More...
CANADA SUCCESSFULLY TESTS FLUFF PELLETS AS ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCE
September 15, 2008, Quebec, Canada— A project involving Canadian companies and local government tested ten tons of Fluff in the first of a three-part trial to see if Fluff can be used as a source for the development of alternative energy. Read More...
CERL REPORT RECOMMENDS THE US ARMY PROCEED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DEPLOYABLE WASTAWAY SYSTEM.
September 1, 2008—Champaign, IL — Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) issued a report recommending the Army proceed with the development of a deployable WasteAway system. Read More...
WILLIAM S MARTIN JOINS BOULDIN CORP AS LEGAL COUNSEL
July 1, 2008—William S. (Bill) Martin has joined Bouldin Corp and Wastaway as staff legal council, according to CEO Mark Brown. The appointment takes place immediately. Read More...
FLUFF SHIPPED TO CANADA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING
A truckload of Fluff has crossed the Canadian border, bound for an industrial location in Ottawa that will test it as an energy source. Read More...
CANADA INTERESTED IN TESTING FLUFF
Government officials in Canada have expressed an interest in Fluff as a possible fuel. Canada has instituted an aggressive renewable energy policy and the government provides tax credits for the development of alternative energy. Read More...
WastAway and MTV News
WastAway was mentioned in a story by MTV News in connection with Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.
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Wastaway and Bonaroo
For the second year, Wastaway recycled for the Bonaroo Music and Arts Festival. Wastaway recycled more than 300 tons of garbage this year, up from 203 tons of garbage from the previous year's Festival. Read more: www.bonnaroo.com/2007-clean-vibes
WastAway Turns Garbage into Energy
WastAway Services, the award-winning local developer of the WastAway recycling system, recently achieved another milestone with the unveiling ceremony of its newest technology: the conversion of household garbage to clean synthetic gas. According to company officials, the WastAway Recycling System with fluff gasification can help solve three of the biggest problems facing our country today – unsafe landfills, global warming, and dependence on foreign oil.
WastAway Earns International Honor
WastAway's mission of turning trash into treasure has just struck gold. The McMinnville-based company with the vision of forever changing the way garbage is handled recently received a prestigious R&D 100 Award at a black-tie banquet in Chicago.
Recycling Revolution: from the Tennessee Magazine
story by Trish Milburn, Photos by Robin Conover
Throughout history, there have been revolutionary inventions - the light bulb, the automobile, the microwave oven and the home computer. A company in McMinnville has developed a technology that may be added to the list of great inventions that substantially change how we do things.
WastAway Presents Governor with Bench Made from Recycled Garbage
Governor Phil Bredeson is the first governor of Tennessee, perhaps in the nation, to own a park bench made out of recycled household garbage. The bench, which is now on display in the State's Capitol, was presented to the governor by BouldinCorp, a McMinnville-based resource recycler.
Byproduct of Novel Waste Treatment System Promotes Plant Growth
by Ryan Busby and Dick Gebhart from Public Works Digest • July/August 2004
"These evaluations indicate that the material is well suited for returning organic matter to soils on degraded training lands, which is a necessary step in reestablishing productivity. It was also found that large amounts of this material can safely be land applied, further enhancing its usefulness as a large-scale waste disposal alternative."
Garbage Growth
By Kelli Rodda from Nursery Management & Production (NMPro) magazine.
WastAway Services in McMinnville, Tenn., has found a way to transform household garbage into a media component for plants. The patented and proprietary process shreds garbage, turning it into “Fluff,” a material that resembles a cross between dryer lint and wood pulp. The Fluff is the component used in growing media.
WastAway helps county obtain grant money
By CHARLES W. JOHNSON Southern Standard, February 20, 2004
Warren County’s recycling figure of 95 percent, provided thanks to its use of WastAway, has been instrumental in obtaining two matching fund grants in which the state will provide a total of $221,700 and the county will provide matching funds of $95,820.
'The silver bullet to garbage': WastAway becoming talk of trash world
By BILL POOVEY / Associated Press Writer
McMINNVILLE (AP) - Trucks dump tons of unsorted household garbage inside a cavernous room at WastAway, where a conveyor system grinds it, shreds it and heats it.
After about 30 minutes, the garbage has become "fluff," a safe and stink-free product that looks like wood pulp.
Fluff never goes to landfills, and it has so many uses that state and local officials - and even some WastAway competitors - are saying the company's innovative process could provide a real alternative to landfills.