composting project Articles
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Industry innovators collaborate to tackle compostable coffee pods in hospitality sector
Here at Tidy Planet, we’ve teamed up with AstraZeneca, Sodexo, Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, and Halo Coffee, to close the loop for one of the hospitality sector’s trickiest, and most abundant, waste streams – coffee pods.It’s estimated that approximately 60 billion of these capsules are manufactured annually – three quarters of which end up in landfill, and can take up to 500 years to fully break ...
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Greenwood Mushroom Farm Composting - Case Study
Envron co-operated with the Canadian Mushroom Growers Association, the Canadian Federal Government, Provincial Government and Greenwood Mushroom Farm on a full-scale mushroom bunker composting odor control project at Greenwood Mushroom farm. This work was based on earlier work conducted with the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture that showed positive odor control with Ozone and mushroom ...
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Project Compo-Ball - Case Study
Compo-Ball is developing a new system for monitoring the temperature and humidity during composting processes. The 3-year research project is funded by the European Commission and brings together 16 partners from 9 European countries. The aim is to bring affordable wireless composting-sensors to the European composting ...
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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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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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Wood innovations grants provide funding for biomass projects
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, has announced the recipients of the 2015 Wood Innovations Grants. More than 40 projects were awarded over $9 million to expand and accelerate wood energy and wood product markets. The $9 million will leverage private investments from partners, resulting in a total of $31 million distributed to grant winners ...
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Slaughterhouse carcass waste composting case study
Slaughterhouse waste was treated with BactiDomus Technology compost accelerator to monitor the effects of the treatment against untreated waste. The goal of the project is to increase the efficiency of the composting process to reduce the total time needed to turn the waste into compost. Two separate bins of waste were treated with BactiDomus Technology compost accelerator, the first on August ...
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Sustainability and replication potential of community-based composting: a case study of Bangladesh
Composting is one of the potential waste reduction strategies of solid waste management. It represents waste not as a problem but as a potential resource in the sustainable development paradigm. A number of community-based composting projects are being piloted in the cities. Some projects are successful to produce lasting impacts; however, many projects could not support themselves or expand ...
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Perspectives on organic waste recovery relative to composting and anaerobic digestion
Generally speaking, organic waste renders its self suitable for recovery purposes owing to the nutrient elements it contains and the energy stored in the biochemical bonds of its constituent organic compounds. Both composting and anaerobic digestion (AD) have been used since a long time ago in reclaiming organic material. It seems that the first modern composting process was developed in 1920s ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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New standardised product sheet for compost in Denmark
The project was initiated in 1996 by the Working Group on Biological Treatment of Waste within the industry association Danish Waste Management Association (ISWA in DK). It should culminate in a voluntary measurement as a way to improve the quality, use and sale of, as well as confidence in compost. At the same time the project should improve the service provided from the professional ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Effects of biowaste compost on vegetative growth, Yield and fruit quality of james grieve apples
In Lower Austria 69 agricultural composting plants are in operation in addition to municipal and commercial composting plants. The agricultural composting plants process separately collected organic household waste as contractual partners for the neighbouring municipalities. The compost produced is used to a large extent on the agricultural fields of the plants' owners. In order to improve the ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Perspectives on organic waste recovery relative to composting and anaerobic digestion
Generally speaking, organic waste renders its self suitable for recovery purposes owing to the nutrient elements it contains and the energy stored in the biochemical bonds of its constituent organic compounds. Both composting and anaerobic digestion (AD) have been used since a long time ago in reclaiming organic material. It seems that the first modern composting process was developed in 1920s ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Combining primary collection with decentralised composting - a solution?
The environmental problems of urban areas extend over a wide range of spatial scales; i.e., the household, the place of work, the neighbourhood, the city, the wider region, and the world. In rapidly growing cities of the developing world, urban solid waste management (SWM) is currently regarded as one of the most immediate and serious problems faced by urban governments. Inadequate or unavailable ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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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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