Onsite Composting Articles
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Introducing the Sustainability Adaptive ERG
At Adaptive, we aspire every day to create and cultivate a culture of belonging. As a lifelong conservationist and advocate for responsible consumption, for me, bringing my whole self to work means these passions come to the office with me. Since Adaptive’s early years we’ve operated with environmental responsibility at top of mind. Disposal guides developed by lab staff ensure ...
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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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What is `Learn About Composting Day`?
Taking place annually on 29th May, ‘Learn About Composting Day’ is all about getting to know how food waste can be converted into a valuable soil improver – and it’s a day, and purpose, very close to our hearts, here at Tidy ...
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Rocket Composter Investment helps Astrazeneca Reduce Waste and Embrace Circular Economy
Multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has invested in an A900 Rocket Composter from Tidy Planet, to process its 100-acre manufacturing site’s 24 tonnes of annual food and green waste. The investment forms part of the organisation’s wider sustainability target to reduce waste and embrace a circular economy. As part of this environmental commitment, the ...
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Raymond Blanc hotel closes food waste loop with Rocket Composter investment
Raymond Blanc’s Michelin-starred luxury hotel and restaurant Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons has invested in composting and food waste drying technology from Macclesfield-headquartered Tidy Planet, helping the site to compost 94% of its annual food waste. The A1200 Rocket Composter is the waste solutions provider’s third largest machine and can handle up to 2.5 tonnes of ...
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An educational lesson in on-site composting
With food waste costing the education sector over £250 million every year, it’s understandable that sustainability, waste reduction and resource efficiency are high on the environmental agenda of many schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK. But to achieve the ultimate goal of an eco-friendly campus, a more circular – less linear – approach to waste ...
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How three U.S. mini-farms are sowing the seeds of global food security
Tiny, biointensive operations show smallholder farmers from around the world how they can grow far more food than conventional approaches. Her face shaded by a wide-brimmed straw hat, Olawumi Benedict is cheerfully tending to her “little babies” — kale seedlings growing in shallow wooden flats until they’re hardy enough for transplantation into soil beds. Three miles over ...
By Ensia
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High End Golf Course on Site Composting
The Broken Sound Golf Course in Boca Raton, FL uses Managed Organic Recycling, Inc. Compost Covers to speed up the composting curing phase and reduce odors, vectors (animals and insects), and produce quality soil amendment for use on the greens. Compost increases soil health and water retention at the same time reducing costs for chemical fertilizers and green watering. With Managed Organic ...
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Application of household compost bin for diversion of organic wastes in small communities of Thailand
Natural ventilated and aerated composting units were developed for household, fresh market and restaurant wastes. Household wastes required 8-10 weeks of composting period. The final compost product contained N : P : K content higher than organic compost standard. In aerated unit, the composting period was 30-40 days. Economical analysis suggested Benefit-Cost (B/C) ratio and Economical Internal ...
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A cost-effective method for controlling compost air emissions
In October 2007, ECS began conducting trials at California State University Fresno (CSUF) to explore using the new patent pending AC Composter (ACC) covered aerated static pile system to manage dairy manure solids and comply with airquality standards. A two-zone portable pilot system was delivered by ECS and installed at the CSUF research dairy. This research is being conducted under a Phase I ...
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COMPOST HELPS TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE TOPSOIL ON BROWNFIELD SITE
Untitled Document When confronted with the vast expanse of concrete building bases and the shale tip of the long-abandoned coal mine at Tilmanstone in East Kent, Tom La Dell Landscape Architects realised that the topsoil needed for the regeneration of the site had to be created on site. Compost was the only practical and sustainable source of organic matter to mix with the ...
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Model-based investigations into long-term compost application effects on nitrate leaching at different agricultural sites
Organic waste materials may beneficially be used for fertilisation as well as for soil improvement on agricultural sites after composting and subsequent application. If compost is continuously applied at an annual scale of app. 10 Mg dry matter/ha, the content of organic matter in the soil will increase in the long-term, as shown in a field trial in Neu-Eichenberg, conducted 1985-97 by Univ. of ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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