Composting Articles

A Vermont solid waste district utilized a defunct biosolids composting site to create capacity for processing food waste. The Vermont legislature instituted a progressive ban on organics in landfills via Act 148 in 2012. The Act includes the provision that transfer stations/drop-off facilities must accept food scraps by July 1, 2017. The Lamoille Regional Solid Waste Management District (LRSWMD) ...

May 1, 2018

By BioCycle Magazine

Toilets must be odorless as well as available. At sun-baked Tipoff along Grand Canyon National Park’s famed Kaibab Trail, olfactorily gifted hikers could not endure the evilsmelling vault toilets. Little spotted white “paper flowers” stained the landscape. At Tipoff, ACS installed three odorless, waterless, Phoenix composting toilets in a prefabricated, maintenance-friendly ...

May 7, 2018

By Advanced Composting Systems LLC (ACS)

Problem. It’s a long way from the clubhouse’s coffee shop to the 18th hole. Furtively ducking into the nearby woods is an unsatisfactory answer to nature’s call, so mid-course comfort stations are necessities. But perc challenged soils and environmental considerations can preclude septic systems. Sewer connections, utility electricity, and running potable water can be ...

May 7, 2018

By Advanced Composting Systems LLC (ACS)

Toilets must be odorless as well as available. At sun-baked Tipoff along Grand Canyon National Park’s famed Kaibab Trail, olfactorily gifted hikers could not endure the evilsmelling vault toilets. Little spotted white “paper flowers” stained the landscape. At Tipoff, ACS installed three odorless, waterless, Phoenix composting toilets in a prefabricated, maintenance-friendly ...

May 7, 2018

By Advanced Composting Systems LLC (ACS)

Toilets must be odorless as well as available. At sun-baked Tipoff along Grand Canyon National Park’s famed Kaibab Trail, olfactorily gifted hikers could not endure the evilsmelling vault toilets. Little spotted white “paper flowers” stained the landscape. At Tipoff, ACS installed three odorless, waterless, Phoenix composting toilets in a prefabricated, maintenance-friendly ...

May 7, 2018

By Advanced Composting Systems LLC (ACS)

Albany, New York: Composting, Food Recovery And Ad Grant Awards The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) awarded $3.5 million to support food donation and municipal organics recycling projects across the state through the Environmental Protection Fund’s Municipal Recycling and Climate Smart Communities grant programs. Composting grant awardees include: ...

Feb. 1, 2018

By BioCycle Magazine

St. Paul, Minnesota: State DOT Issues New Compost Specs The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MNDOT) updated its specifications for using finished compost in MNDOT projects in the 2018 Edition of its “Standard Specifications For Construction.” The two main changes to the specs, explains Kayla Walsh of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, are: 1) Inclusion of food ...

Jan. 1, 2018

By BioCycle Magazine

Houston, Texas: Composting Sites Weather Hurricane Harvey The LETCO Group LLC, which does business as Living Earth™, is a Dallas-based composting and mulch production company with 18 processing facilities that include retail yards located in the Dallas-Ft. Worth region and Houston, and 3 stand-alone retail yards. BioCycle contacted Mark Rose, president and CEO of The LETCO Group, to ...

Dec. 1, 2017

By BioCycle Magazine

Compostable product disintegration trials conducted in British Columbia help lay groundwork for open source, field testing protocol. Compostable packaging holds great promise to aid in diverting food waste from landfill. However, even when certified compostable, the products disintegrate differently across facility types. A growing number of composting facilities see potential for ...

Sep. 1, 2017

By BioCycle Magazine

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 ...

Aug. 3, 2017

By Tidy Planet Limited

In support of the Millennium Development Goals to provide improved sanitation to the world, a sustainability-inspired composting latrine design based on work in rural Panama, but also applicable to similar situations, is offered here. The design is based on the three aspects of sustainability namely economic, social, and technical. The new design will allow for improved health for current and ...

Jul. 17, 2017

By IWA Publishing

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Jul. 1, 2017

By BioCycle Magazine

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