green waste Articles
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Organics case study - compost used in top dressing at Croham Hurst Golf Club
Untitled Document Croham Hurst Golf Club is an 18-hole parkland course situated two miles from Croydon. The course is situated above chalk, with good drainage for year round golf playing. Green keeper, Roger Tydeman, is responsible for managing the upkeep of the course. For the past three to four years, Roger has been using a blend of sand and green waste compost as top ...
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KMI Zeolite: A Key Ingredient In Green Waste Compost
General statement: KMI Zeolites are 97+% pure crystalline, hydrated aluminosilicates of alkali and alkaline earth cations which possess three-dimensional crystal structures. They have the ability to lose and gain water reversibly, to adsorb molecules of appropriate cross-sectional diameter and to exchange their constituent cations (NH4+, Na+, K+, Ca2+) without major change in their structure. ...
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Evaluation of FTIR spectroscopy as a maturity index for herbicide-contaminated composts
This paper analyses the use of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy as a maturity index for herbicide-contaminated green wastes composts. Four in-vessel composting systems were set-up with Compost A constituting of uncontaminated grass clippings and Composts B, C and D contaminated with atrazine, 2,4-D and tordon 101 respectively. The physicochemical properties of the composts were ...
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Food and Green Waste Composting at Luxury Golf Course
The Broken Sound Golf Course in Boca Raton, FL uses Managed Organic Recycling, Inc. Compost Covers to speed up the composting curing phase and reduce odors, vectors (aminals and insects), and produce quality soil amendment for use on the greens. Compost increases soil health and water retention at the same time reducing costs for chemical fertilizers and green watering. With Managed Organic ...
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Sulphur mineralization kinetics of cattle manure and green waste compost in soils
Sulphur mineralization of cattle manure (CM) and green waste compost (GWC) added to six agricultural soils with different chemical properties was monitored over 10 weeks in a laboratory incubation experiment. Although the amount of sulphur was higher in CM than in GWC, the cumulative SO4 2--S values in GWC-treated soils were higher than in soil amended with CM. The percentages of mineralized S ...
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Rocket Composter Investment helps Astrazeneca Reduce Waste and Embrace Circular Economy
Multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has invested in an A900 Rocket Composter from Tidy Planet, to process its 100-acre manufacturing site’s 24 tonnes of annual food and green waste. The investment forms part of the organisation’s wider sustainability target to reduce waste and embrace a circular economy. As part of this environmental commitment, the ...
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Composting on the New York Highline
Friends of the High Line will be taking their composting program to a new level using cutting-edge technology to compost in only 14 days. The Rocket composter technology allows for a continuous process of feeding it daily while constantly aerating the mass inside the vessel, producing high enough temperatures to kill pathogens. Friends of the High Line compost program began in 2010 as an effort ...
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Inland Empire Regional Composting Facility (IERCF) - Case Study
The Inland Empire Regional Composting Facility (IERCF) was constructed under a Joint Powers Authority agreement between the Inland Empire Utilities Agency and the LA County Sanitation Districts to manufacture exceptional quality compost that is good: for soil, plants, the environment, and public health. The in-vessel, 150,000 ton per year co-composting facility processes a blend of green ...
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Prison Produces Proper Professional Product
Earlier this year the States of Jersey Prison Service, located on the South West hilltop coastline of Jersey took to recycling their food and green waste at the prison with an A900 Rocket Composter and Dehydra dewatering system, which was supplied and installed by Tidy Planet. The project has proved a Triumphant success thanks to the forward thinking and enthusiasm shown by the team on site and ...
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Tulare Farms - Case Study
Tulare Lake Compost (TLC) is a state-of-the-art 175 acre composting facility located near Kettleman City in Kings County, California. At the facility, an eco-friendly process is used to combine agricultural and green waste from the Central Valley with biosolids from Los Angeles County to create an optimal mixture for composting. TLC employs the covered aerated static pile (ASP) composting ...
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Regulation of nitrogen contents of Composts during composting first experimental results
More than 3 Mio. Mg of compost were produced in Germany in 1998 (Wiemer and Kern 1998). Kitchen and garden waste from households as well as waste from landscaping and parks were used as substrates to a high extent. The composts were mainly used in landscaping, recultivation, horticulture, substrate production and in agriculture. Applied on cultivable land compost can improve the soil structure ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Composting of municipal green waste using a hybrid Mode of the aerated static pile
The aerated static pile (ASP) system developed in Rutgers University (Finstein et al., 1980) is based on a deep understanding of composting as a microbial process. It allows for a good degree of process control and high organic matter stabilisation rates, with relatively low labour and cost. For these reasons, the ASP system has been intensively studied with, among others, the following aims: ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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CA waste facility eliminates odor complaints for their organic green waste and sludge composting operation
The Problem - The large California facility takes in a great deal of green waste (grass clippings, vegetable & fruit waste, leaves and other vegetation) and food processing sludge. It is all combined and recycled into high grade mulch and compost in their site composting operation. The nature of the waste and the composting process leads to the release of high concentrations of odor - ...
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Composting in flanders: the vlaco experience
Currently, the Flanders waste policy is based on the so-called ‘ladder of Lansink’. Six aerobic composting and one anaerobic digestion plant are operational for the treatment of biowaste. Some new composting plants are foreseen for 1999 and/or 2000. Composting retention time varies from 10 to 15 weeks. Green waste is treated in 15 open air composting plants. With respect to the use of compost ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Salvage as a recession hedge: green jobs and other economic stimuli
Two projects combine selective deconstruction with job training. Beyond financial savings, training is a huge bonus during recession. Scarcity shows us opportunity. Waste is an unneeded expense, and deconstruction offers savings and jobs. We illustrate material donor and recipient economics. The road between includes contractors spending labour to lower the material 'price' and refurbishers who ...
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Effect of urban waste compost application on soil near-saturated hydraulic conductivity
Received for publication February 22, 2008. Compost application tends to increase soil fertility and is likely to modify soil hydrodynamic properties by acting on soil structural porosity. Two composts, a municipal solid waste compost (MSW) and a co-compost of green wastes and sewage sludge (SGW), have been applied every other year for 6 yr to cultivated plots located on a silt loam soil in the ...
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Amelioration of physical strength in waste foundry green sands for reuse as a soil amendment
To avoid increasing costs of landfill disposal, it has become increasingly important for U.S. foundries to identify beneficial reuses for the 8 to 12 million tons of waste foundry sand (WFS) generated annually. A major drawback to the reuse of some WFSs as a soil amendment is their high soil strength, under dry conditions, where root growth may be limited. Fifteen WFSs were analyzed for strength ...
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Case Study: Greenview Environmental
Needham Market, Suffolk In terms of tonnage, Greenview is the UK’s largest independent processor of organic material. Established in 1985, the firm now operates from 6 sites around the country and processes over 300,000 tonnes of organic waste each year. The high-quality compost produced goes on to be used for horticultural and agricultural purposes as a soil improver. CompostManager has ...
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Effects of the anaerobic biowaste treatment processes Management on the digestate quality (residues from Digestion/compost, process water/wastewater)
Regarding the municipally-collected biowaste amount in Germany, a quantity of 90 - 100 kg/ per annum per citizen is registered (Gallenkemper and Doedens, 1994). That results in an annual biowaste amount of 6.3 to 7 million tons in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), whereby also sewage sludges and biogenic, industrial wastes are added. According to Hochrein (1994) about 3 million tons of ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Agricultural Use of Different Residual Waste Composts - Current Situation and Experiences in France
ABSTRACT Quality standards have been recently established in France for sewage sludge composts and other urban composts (greenwaste, biowaste and municipal solid waste composts). These standards allow to guarantee the innocuousness of the composts. Other standards have been defined in order to predict the compost effects on soil properties: the index of biological stability (ISB), based on ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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