Compost Harvesting Articles
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Composting Food Waste & Emissions Collection, Anchorage, Alaska - Case Study
For better moisture and odor control, this composter has duct work exhausting air out of the vessel through the discharge end of the composter. If need be, the exhausted air / duct work could be direct to a biofilter. ...
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Composting in the Subarctic – Materials
Determining and sourcing organic materials for Composting Along with having the right composter for the task, the Fort Albany First Nation (FAFN) community needed to determine what organic materials would be added to the Actium Batch Compost Drum and where we could obtain these materials. There are two types of organic materials we wanted to hot compost – “greens” (C:N 30). ...
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Ohh Hengelo Ohh Hengelo...
What’s better than installing one Rocket Composter? Only the obvious…. More! Our colleagues and friends in the Netherlands, specifically the municipality of Hengelo asked Tidy Planet to provide their composting equipment for the purposes of proving the feasibility of providing separate household food waste collections. The food wastes would be brought back to the enormous city farm, ...
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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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Investigations into the possibility to compost paraffincoated packaging materials
Utilisation of biodegradable materials is indispensable for effective economic operation (Soyez, 1998). However, the requirements to be met by the application characteristics sometimes prevent use of such materials. For example, packaging materials for foodstuffs, where protection of the contents is the predominant aim, are required to display hydrophobic properties. Paraffin-coated papers have ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Odour pollution problems caused by composting activities in flanders: current situation and abatement strategies
In Flanders, garden fruit and vegetable (GFV) waste is selectively collected and composted in 7 composting plants, in six of which aerobic indoor composting is used. In the seventh plant waste is anaerobically digested first followed by an aerobic post-treatment. The total amount of waste composted was about 275 000 tons in 1997 (OVAM, 1999). The nominal capacity of the composting plants varies ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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