Municipal Waste Composting Articles
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Composting MSW in India - Case Study
These 3 BioReactors are part of a comprehensive solid organic processing facility in Goa, India. The BioReactor Composting System by XACT Systems Inc. handles all the composting portion of the waste management treatment. ...
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Composting in the Subarctic – Design
Our Ideal Design The Actium Batch Compost Drum has become an essential tool for Fort Albany First Nation’s community garden. This article details why Fort Albany First Nation needed a composter and why the design of the Actium Batch Compost Drum suited our needs. Why was a composter needed in a remote subarctic community? Fort Albany First Nation (also known as Peetabeck) is a remote and ...
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Application of chicken manure organic fertilizer crusher
Chicken manure organic fertilizer crusher is a more important part of chicken manure organic fertilizer production line. It is a machine exclusively for producing organic fertilizer. The appearance of the crusher greatly reduced the crushing of manpower, and the efficiency was greatly improved. Application of organic fertilizer crusher The advent of chicken manure organic fertilizer crusher has ...
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Kompostwerke Rhein-Sieg GmbH & Co. KG - Swisttal, Germany - Case Study
In 2018, together with Kompostwerke Rhein-Sieg GmbH & Co. KG (KRS) we built a state-of-the-art composting facility for municipal organic waste. We were responsible for the design and construction of all civil and process equipment works. The facility includes a large receiving area and logistical building with air curtains, ventilation systems, nine composting tunnels, a humidifier and three ...
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Prison Produces Proper Professional Product
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 ...
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Conversion of solid organic waste into compost using Trichoderma spp. and its application on some selected vegetables
This study was conducted to evaluate the potentiality of Trichoderma species as a bio-conversion agent for composting of solid organic waste and examine the effects of produced composts on the growth of two types of vegetables. The experiments were conducted both in vitro and in vivo processes. In vitro conversion of solid organic waste, the highest height and weight losses were found 42.64 ...
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The potential of GHG emission savings for programmatic CDM by municipal solid waste composting in the Western Province - Sri Lanka
The Western Province (WP) of Sri Lanka, as the most populated province in the country is burdened with a high level of municipal solid waste generation. Out of the 48 administrative local authorities within the WP, only 16 local authorities are practicing municipal solid waste composting. All other local authorities are practicing the most common method of MSW disposal; open dumping. The study ...
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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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Remediation of heavy metals from urban waste by vermicomposting using earthworms: Eudrilus eugeniae, Eisenia fetida and Perionyx excavatus
This study revealed that three earthworm species, viz., Eudrilus eugeniae, Eisenia fetida and Perionyx excavatus, through vermicomposting remediated heavy metals - Pb, Zn, Cd, Cu and Mn from the urban waste - organic fraction of Municipal Solid Waste [M(O)SW], vegetable Market Waste (MW) and Floral Waste (FW). The concentrations of Zn, Cd and Cu were 36.1, 50.9 and 70.2% higher in M(O)SW compared ...
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Review of current European practice of MBT compost-like output use and application to land in relation to environmental protection
Mechanical-Biological Treatment (MBT) is often a key element in National Strategies for the diversion of Biodegradable Municipal Waste (BMW) from landfill. Unlike incineration, it provides flexibility in the system, which is important in those Member States where the system will have to undergo widespread changes in the amount and quality of residual waste that is dealt with. The main objectives ...
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Municipal composting - Case Study
Application TEG Environmental are world leaders in rapid composting, and as part of a major programme to cut the amount of municipal waste going to landfill, they are installing new state of the art “in-vessel” composting facilities in Rochdale and Bredbury. These will be capable of handling 180,000 tonnes of green and food waste each year, and are scheduled to come on stream from ...
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Effects of C/N ratio on mixed organic waste composting in a rotary drum composter
Effects of Carbon to Nitrogen (C/N) ratio on the rotary drum composting of organic waste were examined by measuring changes in various parameters. It was observed that time courses of four C/N ratios: 16, 22, 30 and 38 were different. Initial C/N ratio 22 produced high-quality compost (total nitrogen-2.1%, total phosphorus-4.3 g/kg) within 20 days. While in case of C/N 16, compost yields 1.8% ...
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Effect of urban waste compost application on soil near-saturated hydraulic conductivity
Received for publication February 22, 2008. Compost application tends to increase soil fertility and is likely to modify soil hydrodynamic properties by acting on soil structural porosity. Two composts, a municipal solid waste compost (MSW) and a co-compost of green wastes and sewage sludge (SGW), have been applied every other year for 6 yr to cultivated plots located on a silt loam soil in the ...
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Effect of covering composting piles with mature compost on ammonia emission and microbial community structure of composting process
Received for publication February 14, 2008. To control ammonia (NH3) volatilization from the dairy cattle (Bos taurus) manure composting process, a compost pile was covered with mature compost and the gas emissions evaluated using the dynamic chamber system. The peak of NH3 volatilization observed immediately after piling up of the compost was reduced from 196 to 62 mg/m3 by covering the compost ...
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New technology for municipal scale compost operations
There is a new facility located in Ontario, Canada that accepts construction and demolition waste (C&D) and 100,000 TPY of source separated organics (SSO) waste. The owners chose a new non-thermal plasma (NTP) system to control the odor in its 120,000 cubic feet of air per minute (CFM) air emissions. This NTP system is very compact, fits easily on a platform, is configured as a number of ...
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Effect of feeding efficient microbial community on aerobic composting of municipal waste and excrement
Each of the total 13 strains of bacteria was isolated based on the characteristics of municipal waste and excrement, which include 6 strains of bacterium, 4 strains of streptomyces and 3 strains of actinomycetes; all of these were appropriate for aerobic composting. The Efficient Microbial Community (EMC) was constructed by these strains combination at certain ratios. A series of experiments were ...
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The state of composting and biological waste treatment in the UK
In 2005/06 3.4 million tonnes of source segregated waste was composted, an increase of 28% on the previous year. 85% was municipal waste, with just over half of this collected at civic amenity sites Less than one per cent of municipal waste was kitchen waste collected at the kerbside 65% of waste composted was composted at dedicated composting / biological treatment sites, with 10% on farm ...
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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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Windrow co-composting of shredded office paper and Broiler Litter
The co-composting of shredded waste office paper with Broiler Litter (BL) in windrows was analysed in this study. Two compost mixes were monitored for five weeks; Mix 1 comprised 322kg BL, 117 kg shredded paper and 310L water and Mix 2 consisted of 112 kg BL, 265 kg shredded paper and 290 L water. The initial wet moisture content, initial porosity and initial wet bulk density for Mix 1 were ...
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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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