St Helens Organics Recycling - SHOR

04/13/2015

St. Helens Organics Recycling plans open house meetings http://wp.me/p5DHtH-pc

Portland Tribune | by Mark Miller | Friday, 10 April 2015 "Paul Woods, founder of St. Helens Organics Recycling, said there will be “open house” meetings at the St. Helens Armory on Thursday evening, April 16, and Saturday afternoon, April 18." “We want to hear from people what their concerns are,” Woods said. “We want to hear from people what their ideas are.”

04/08/2015

SHOR gets green light, pending crosswalks http://wp.me/p5DHtH-p9

St. Helens Chronicle | Amanda Frink | January 20, 2015 At the city’s Planning Commission meeting on Jan. 13, a public hearing was held to gather testimony in regard to St. Helens Organics Recycling’s (SHOR) request for a conditional use permit to develop and operate a facility that would turn food scraps into energy.

04/08/2015

Meetings scheduled to discuss organic waste recycling http://wp.me/p5DHtH-p6

St. Helens Chronicle | April, 7 2015 Proponents for St Helens Organics Recycling (SHOR), a project that would provide an alternative to sending food scraps to the landfill, will outline their proposal for the public at two community meetings next week. The public is invited to attend meetings, which will be held at the St. Helens Armory, 474 S. 7th Street in St. [ 27 more words. ]

04/01/2015

SHOR’s proposed facility will be built on the former Boise White Paper mill site in the deconstructed area next to the current Cascade Tissue Group operations.

04/01/2015

St Helens Organics Recycling (SHOR) is a proposed organics recycling facility that seeks to be a leader in environmental sustainability by providing an alternative to sending food scraps to the landfill.

04/01/2015

St. Helens to consider proposed organic waste recycling facility
St. Helens Chronicle | Amanda Frink | January 6, 2015

“For as long as there have been living beings, food has been a source of fuel for the body. But in St. Helens, food may soon become a fuel that could power a local manufacturer with renewable energy.”

04/01/2015

St. Helens Organics Recycling, proposed biogas plant, St. Helens Organics Recycling, proposed biogas plant, wins permit approval from city

Portland Tribune | Mark Miller | January, 14 2015

Planning Commission signs off on conditional use permit for facility to operate on Boise-owned land

“The St. Helens Planning Commission unanimously approved a conditional use permit for a proposed biogas production facility in south St. Helens Tuesday, Jan. 13, bringing the plant one step closer to construction.

St. Helens Organics Recycling, LLC, plans to build its facility on a 5-acre parcel of the old Boise Inc. paper mill on land leased from Boise and adjacent to the mill operations of Cascades Tissue Group.”

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04/01/2015

Biogas facility eyed for Boise mill site

Portland Tribune | Mark Miller | January, 9 2015
Food waste would be processed by bacteria at plant

“The St. Helens Planning Commission will hold a public hearing next Tuesday, Jan. 13, to consider granting a conditional use permit to St. Helens Organics Recycling, LLC, an Idaho-based limited-liability company seeking to establish an organic waste recycling facility on the property. ”

http://portlandtribune.com/scs/83-news/246433-114123-biogas-facility-eyed-for-boise-mill-site

04/01/2015

SHOR will use anaerobic digestion, a process that has been in use for over 100 years, to convert the organic food scrap material to renewable energy and soil nutrient products. Anaerobic digestion uses naturally occurring microorganisms in an oxygen free environment to convert food scrap materials to energy.

The food scrap material will be processed the same day it arrives at the proposed SHOR facility. The food scrap materials go through a screening and blending process, then are watered down so they can be pumped into completely-enclosed anaerobic digestion tanks. In the tanks, the methane that is generated from the food is collected for renewable energy use. Once the food scrap material goes through the digestion process, a nutrient-rich liquid and a fibrous mulch-like material remain and can be used at farms as a sustainable alternative to man-made fertilizers.

The anaerobic digesters create a methane gas mixture similar to the natural gas that supplies our homes and businesses. The methane gas mixture can be used as either energy to create electricity, energy to run some of the operations at the mill or as a transportation fuel for the trucks that serve the mill.