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Home Composting Diversion: Household Level Analysis
The goals of the present study were to (i) verify Parfitt’s (2005) household-level models of home composting diversion, (ii) provide additional insight into how those diversion factors were derived, (iii) extend the modelling approach to consider garden waste in residual and garden waste collections, and (iv) track the performance of compost bins supplied by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action ...
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Home composting of organic waste - part 2: effect of management practices
Home composting (HC) can produce safe compost if properly managed, while reducing municipal disposal costs. This project investigated the sanitary and safety impact of HC management (with/without bulking agent, batch/weekly feeding, with/without regular mixing) using the Plastic (P) and Wood (W) bins, the Rotary Drum (RD) and the Ground Pile (GP) filled with equal wet volumes of food waste (FW) ...
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Policy issues for composting development: notes from Italy
Composting in Italy is growing fast. More than 600 Municipalities are running source separation programs for food waste at present. As a consequence, the number of composting plants for source separated materials is steadily growing: 72 industrial composting sites were recorded in November 1998. This figure does not include those small sites (less than 1000 Mg/y) that compost only yard waste. ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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NNFCC Christmas Wishlist
Top 10 - NNFCC's biobased Christmas Wishlist In such uncertain times, it’s always good to know that some things never change. So as per tradition, here is the new NNFCC biobased Christmas Wishlist for 2020! We’ve drawn out our top 10 of the biobased products that we wouldn’t mind seeing under the tree this year. BiOBUDDi baby toys Get them started early! Even our little ones ...
By NNFCC Ltd.
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Another B1400 Rocket Composter is heading to Paris
We’re excited to announce that social enterprise Les Alchimistes – the recipient of our first-ever B1400 composter – has ordered a second machine for its latest food waste project in Paris. The first B1400 system was installed at the start of the 2019, on an island in the middle of the French capital’s River Seine. It’s able to process up to two tonnes of shredded ...
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Introducing the technique of composting in a rural municipality in Chile
Waste management in Chile Until a few years ago there had been a lack in the supply of basic infrastructure needs like the supply of drinking water, sewage systems, electricity and communication in a lot of rural areas in Chile. With the advancing economic development further necessities have arisen. New objectives are the extended development of infrastructure, the conservation of natural ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Municipality of St. Privee, Orleans, France - Case Study
Equipment: Biocomp 1. Installation date: 2012. Treatment volume: 30 m3/year. Loading: 5 days/ week. Waste: Municipal waste. ...
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Lycée in France - Case Study
Equipment: Biocomp 5. Installation date: 2011. Treatment volume: 40 m3/year. Loading: 5 days/week. Waste: food scraps from school centre (1.200 ...
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Madrid Amusement Park, Spain - Case Study
Equipment: Biocomp 15/45 with loading system. Installation date: 2014. Treatment volume: 120 m3/year. Loading: daily. Waste: food scraps from kitchens and restaurants at the amusement park. ...
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Futamura’s turn: New drives secures UK production - Case Study
Established in Japan in 1950, Futamura is now a global leader in renewable packaging films. At its production site in Cumbria, UK, the company is pursuing renewal of a different sort - by replacing 10 outdated churn drives with Hagglunds hydraulic direct drive systems from Bosch ...
By Hägglunds
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Growing Media compost - fact sheet 9 - use of composted material in growing media for professional growers
Untitled Document Composted material boosts sustainable growing media Composted material can be a major cost-effective component of growing media being not only a sustainable, well-structured substrate but also a source of nutrients and buffering capacity. What is composted material? In the United Kingdom, composted material is made by composting ...
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Caledon Compost Facility - Case Study
About the Project The Regional composting facilities for organics, food and yard waste are located at the Peel Integrated Waste Management Facility and the Caledon Public Waste and Recycling Depot. The program does not replace backyard composting, but enhances it by allowing residents to compost materials that can’t be put in their backyard composter. Currently 9,000 tonnes/year ...
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Caledon Compost Facility - Case Study
About the Project The Regional composting facilities for organics, food and yard waste are located at the Peel Integrated Waste Management Facility and the Caledon Public Waste and Recycling Depot. The program does not replace backyard composting, but enhances it by allowing residents to compost materials that can’t be put in their backyard composter. Currently 9,000 tonnes/year ...
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Best Practices: 4 Tips for a Foolproof Compost Pile
The Swedish Designed Insulated Jora Composter makes composting at home fast, easy, and odor and rodent free. The Jora has two compartments: one to fill while the other goes through its uninterrupted decomposition cycle and will be ready for use when the other side is full. You will have landscape grade compost in as little as 4-8 weeks after you fill your first side. Before assembling your ...
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The wonder of red wiggler worms
Worms are going to play an ever-increasing role in waste management and soil production. Red wiggler worms convert food scraps and paper into nature's finest fertilizer. As nature's original recyclers, they consume approximately half their weight daily!Many municipalities have introduced organic collection programs, and backyard composting is widespread. Vermicomposting is a great alternative for ...
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A Green Revolution of the Synthetic Kind
Richard is a happy man. He stands barefoot in the grass, watching his kids running around on his front lawn, chasing and falling all over each other like puppies. The only thing different in Richard’s front yard, compared to the other yards in his neighborhood, is that his is still green. While drought may have left the rest of the yards dry and brown, Richard’s lawn somehow manages ...
By Forest Grass
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Mixed organic waste composting using rotary drum composter
A combination of vegetable waste, cattle manure and saw dust was utilised for high rate composting in a household rotary drum composter. It was found that temperature remained above 55?C for a period of two days, Faecal Coliforms and Faecal Streptococci decrease from 7.5 ? 108 to 5 ? 102 and 1.5 ? 107 to 5 ? 103 bacteria/g, respectively. Negligible VFAs production indicated full aerobic ...
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Biodegradation of methane and halocarbons in simulated landfill biocover systems containing compost materials
The attenuation potential of methane (CH4) and of selected volatile organic compounds (VOCs) was compared in four types of compost materials using dynamic flow column experiments over a period of 255 d. Garden waste compost mixed with wood chips showed the highest steady-state CH4 oxidation rate (161 g m–2 d–1), followed by a commercial compost product Supermuld (110 g m–2 d–1). In the column ...
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Post-composting techniques of digested household waste
Compost making is a method of recycling whereby organic waste is broken down to organic soil with the help of oxygen demanding microorganisms. There are different ways of making compost. Some require more labour and an exact procedure has to be followed; others neglect the precise procedure, which has advantages and disadvantages. Organic material, including toilet waste, can also be recovered to ...
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Application of household compost bin for diversion of organic wastes in small communities of Thailand
Natural ventilated and aerated composting units were developed for household, fresh market and restaurant wastes. Household wastes required 8-10 weeks of composting period. The final compost product contained N : P : K content higher than organic compost standard. In aerated unit, the composting period was 30-40 days. Economical analysis suggested Benefit-Cost (B/C) ratio and Economical Internal ...
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