Composting Articles

Composting Benefits: ● Improves soil condition and structure ● Increases the soil’s ability to hold water ● Support living organisms ● Helps dissolves mineral forms of nutrients ● Buffers soil from chemical imbalances ● May provide biological control of certain pests ...

Jun. 24, 2017

By Allance Compost Turner Machinery

Here I would like to introduce Industrial Composting Process. Composting is a natural biological process of decomposition of organic materials, historically in a predominantly aerobic environment. Enhancing basic composting with forced aeration ...

Jun. 24, 2017

By Allance Compost Turner Machinery

Composting Benefits: ● Improves soil condition and structure ● Increases the soil’s ability to hold water ● Support living organisms ● Helps dissolves mineral forms of nutrients ● Buffers soil from chemical imbalances ● May provide biological control of certain pests ...

Jun. 24, 2017

By Allance Compost Turner Machinery

The City of Surrey, British Columbia will be opening its 127,000 tons/year food waste and yard trimmings organics recycling operation in June. After eight years of planning and construction, Surrey, British Columbia is set to open an anaerobic digestion facility that will convert up to 127,000 tons of food waste and yard trimmings each year into renewable natural gas and high quality compost. ...

May 1, 2017

By BioCycle Magazine

Facility Owner: Devon Co. Co. / Viridor Waste Management Contact: Mr Graham Sheperd, Devon Co. Co. Location: Broadpath Landfill, Uffculme, Devon, England Contact: 00-353-21-462-1721 Site Area: 1.2 acres Feed stock: Source separated household organics (landscape, food, paper, wood) Capacity: 10,000 tpa Commissioned: May, 2006 Facility History ...

Apr. 4, 2017

By Celtic Bioenergy Limited (CBE Limited)

Facility Owner: Mark Bennion, Rose Hill Recycling 079 77409435 CCUK Contact: Steve Bullock, CCUK, 078 72119638 Location: Dymock, Gloucestershire Site Area: 2 acres Feed stock: Source separated household organics (landscape, food, paper, wood) Capacity: 25,000 tpa Commissioned: June 2008 Facility History The facility has been procecessing up to ...

Apr. 4, 2017

By Celtic Bioenergy Limited (CBE Limited)

Facility Owner: Galway City Council Contact: Mr Garry O’Lochlainn, Galway City Council Location: Carrowbrowne Compost Facility, Headford Road, Galway Contact: 00-353-21-462-1721 Site Area: 2 acres Feed stock: Source separated household and commercial organics (landscape, food, paper, wood) Capacity: 9,000 tpa Commissioned: Due in November, 2007 Facility ...

Apr. 4, 2017

By Celtic Bioenergy Limited (CBE Limited)

Last December during a staff meeting, we got into a discussion about the importance of this Editorial page in BioCycle always conveying optimism about organics recycling and our mission, now 58-years old, to conserve natural resources and build healthy soils. BioCycle’s founding publisher and editor, Jerome Goldstein, was an eternal optimist whose passion, vision and grit inspired many ...

Feb. 1, 2017

By BioCycle Magazine

Allance Organic Fertilizer Machinery is specialized in manufacturing and exporting all kinds of organic fertilizer machines such as compost turner, organic fertilizer raw materials grinder machine, mixer machine, bio organic fertilizer granulator machine, organic fertilizer dryer, cooler, packager etc. We have helped hundreds of government team and ...

Dec. 21, 2016

By Allance Fertilizer Machinery

Compost turner can be divided into 3 kinds. I would like to introduce them to you one by one. 1. Self-propelled Compost Turner Our self-propelled organic fertilizer turner is with 4 wheels. The whole body of the compost ...

Dec. 21, 2016

By Allance Fertilizer Machinery

In October, the Certification Commission of the US Composting Council launched the first professional certification in the U.S. for compost operations managers. The Certification Commission of the US Composting Council (USCC) officially launched the first professional certification in the nation for compost operations managers on October 26, 2016. “There already is a lot ...

Dec. 13, 2016

By BioCycle Magazine

Organic forms of phosphorus, such as biosolids and compost products, contain low to very low levels of water extractable phosphorus, but increasingly are regulated like inorganic P sources. Phosphorus is one of the 16 essential plant nutrients, and is considered one of the three major plant nutrients (along with nitrogen and potassium). Phosphorus is not only important in root development, but ...

Dec. 13, 2016

By BioCycle Magazine

Yard trimmings, post consumer food scraps, wet waste garbage, by the pail, the gallon or the ton, it’s still the same but roughly half as much as it sounds to us in the UK. Its what our colleagues and friends over in the United States have to deal with on a daily basis, at our distributors in NY, NATH Sustainable Solutions, who right now are going through a re-branding ...

Dec. 6, 2016

By Tidy Planet Limited

World hunger is a constant problem. It has been one of the most widely discussed topics in recent years. Rapidly increasing global population, limited natural resources, and climatic changes, has resulted in the need for a sustainable increase in food production. Scientists, governments, and organizations across the world are working together to bring innovations and good farming practices which ...

Nov. 25, 2016

By Agrivi Ltd

In September 2016 another Big Hanna was inaugurated in Italy. Our latest composting project is situated in Casalbuono, a small town in the Province of Salerno in the south west part of Italy.  As always, our Italian partner Achab Group managed the installation and supervised the inauguration.  Negative effects from organic waste Casalbuono, is a ...

Nov. 15, 2016

By Susteco AB

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 ...

Nov. 9, 2016

By Tidy Planet Limited

Fall is a terrific time for making compost, partly because leaves—which have a way of coming down this time of year—are a fantastic source of soil enriching nutrients. And since you probably plan to remove all those leaves from your lawn anyway, recycling them into your compost pile is a win-win proposition. Since leaves need to break down in order to integrate with the ...

Oct. 27, 2016

By DR Power Equipment

One of the main goals of every organic farmer is to build long-term soil fertility and tilth by feeding the soil with a variety of natural amendments. The regular addition of compost is one of the best ways to enhance the soil’s organic and humic content, which helps to build a fertile soil structure. This soil structure makes better use of water and nutrients. It is easier to till and, ...

Oct. 14, 2016

By Agrivi Ltd

Clinic in Brazil uses participation in composting program as therapy for its patients. Since 2011 a drug addiction rehabilitation clinic in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil has been using composting as therapy for its patients. The program, Projeto de Reinserção e Sustentabilidade – Compostagem (Sustainable Social Rehabilitation Through Composting (SSRTC)), is led ...

Oct. 1, 2016

By BioCycle Magazine

Research project collects and analyzes compost use data for three state Departments of Transportation: California, Texas and Washington. Use of compost by state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) for highway construction, erosion and pollution control, and vegetation establishment has dramatically increased since the early 2000s. A recent research project studied compost use by state ...

Oct. 1, 2016

By BioCycle Magazine