Graduate student Annette Pelegrin of Pulaski is this year’s winner of the UW-Green Bay Outstanding Thesis Award.
Pelegrin will receive her master’s degree in May in Environmental Science and Policy. Her thesis, “Technical and Economic Feasibility of Solid-liquid Separation for Digested Dairy Manure with Polymer Treatment,” was supervised by Prof. John Katers. Pelegrin will be presented the award at the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association awards program Saturday evening, April 17, at the Weidner Center.
Pelegrin’s project, which aims to make manure management more cost-effective and eco-friendly by better separating liquids from solids, was accomplished with the help of an Agricultural Development and Diversification Grant from Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
The Brown County Waste Transformation Project (BCWTP) is a feasibility study to find economic and environmental solutions for farmers and industries that land apply wate. Agriculture is a $3 billion a year industry in Brown County which provides jobs for 10 percent of the workforce creating an income of $844.5 million in Brown County. The BCWTP is a project that will sustain and even grow this industry.
Brown County faces three primary challenges:
- There is not enough cropland for application of waste.
- The agricultural industry has great economic pressures such as the increasing cost of land, fuel, fertilizer and waste disposal – including the transportation and storage of waste.
FEECO has developed solutions to minimize and control Phosphates from entering the watershed via Agricultural, Municipal, and Industrial processes.
Green Bay, WI (July 1, 2009)- FEECO an industry leader of fertilizer, material handling, and organic waste solutions is currently working with Brown County on the Brown County Waste Transformation Initiative (BCWTI). The principle of the project is to be able to take the county’s organic waste, process it and sell it around the world as nutrient-rich, pathogen-free fertilizer.
Bay Business Journal Vol 17 #3 (June / July 2009)
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Humans do it, animals do it, factories do it. Even cells do it.
Producing waste is just one of those unavoidable evils – right up there with facing our mortality and being accountable to the Internal Revenue Service. But what happens to all the waste we and our fellow biological beings produce, and – no pun intended — where do we go with it?
The Brown County Waste Transformation Initiative (BCWTI) has come up with a possible answer: Process it and sell it around the world as nutrient-rich, pathogen-free fertilizer nuggets.
FEECO International and ENCAP, LLC proudly support the First Annual Green Innovations 2009 Symposium hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay on Earth Day.
Green Bay, WI (April 16, 2009) – FEECO International, an industry leader of material handling, thermal processing & agglomeration equipment, and ENCAP, LLC, a Midwest-based company which creates eco-friendly lawn and garden care products are proud to support the First Annual Green Innovations 2009 Symposium hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay on Earth Day, April 22, 2009.
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