News & Press Releases
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.