composter Articles
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Quality of compost: the experience of veneto region
The Regional Administration of Veneto Region (Italy) established in 1991 the rules for authorisation of composting plants for treatment of pre-selected organic wastes, including urban sludges, organic fraction of municipal solid wastes and animal manure. Also chemical composition of compost were regulated (Table 1). Some composting plants started working in 1994; at the moment seven farms are ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Residence time and contact volume in sloped compost and compost/vegetated filter beds
Little is known about transport mechanisms in sloped dormant vegetated and compost only filters for roadway runoff. Residence time experiments were carried out in triplicate in 0.254 m wide × 0.65 m long by 0.10 m deep beds using a bromide tracer. Bed slope was 12°. Only at the lowest flow rate tested (0.276 l/min per m of filter width) were mean residence times in compost beds with and without ...
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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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What is an organic waste composting appliance, its purpose, and its working principle
Now, a large amount of waste is generated every day, both at the domestic level and industrial level. It is most important to handle waste effectively. The food is deserte into landfills free of methane which is dangerous for the earth as an entire. Composting is the best method to handle the waste. How to successfully compost? Composting means recycling green waste composter ...
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Composting in the Subarctic – Inputs
Greens and Browns: Composting Input Management Actium Composting equipment allows for environmentally sustainable disposal and reuse of organic materials in the form of compost. The program I work with invested in an Actium Batch Composter Drum, to primarily create local fertilizer for subarctic community gardens located in Fort Albany First Nation, Ontario, Canada. As a secondary benefit, the ...
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Composting in the Subarctic – Moisture
Regulating Compost Moisture during Hot Composting Hot composting is most effective at decomposing organic waste when moisture levels are approximately 50%. A compost with excessive moisture will cause Low temperatures that are below 40°C (104°F); smells foul; and/or brown liquid to be visible or easily freed when squeezing compost. Excessive moisture while composting does not ...
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Waste Management a Problem & Organic Waste Composters a Solution
What would it be like to wake up one day to a planet free of trash and other debris? You can know that this vision is a theory based on your present knowledge of the scenario. Because we’re still more concerned with increasing production than reducing or simply controlling the waste that results, we’ve created this situation. Try to imagine a world populated ...
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Composting in flanders: the vlaco experience
Currently, the Flanders waste policy is based on the so-called ‘ladder of Lansink’. Six aerobic composting and one anaerobic digestion plant are operational for the treatment of biowaste. Some new composting plants are foreseen for 1999 and/or 2000. Composting retention time varies from 10 to 15 weeks. Green waste is treated in 15 open air composting plants. With respect to the use of compost ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Experimental investigations to evaluate benefits of using compost amendments to modify expansive soils
Composting is a successful method of recycling organic waste materials such as yard trimmings, municipal biosolids, animal manure and organic urban wastes into stabilised materials that could be used for bioremediation, erosion control, landscaping, and roadside vegetation. The process of organic wastes composting is expanding rapidly in the USA and other countries since landfill spaces for ...
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Bio-conversion of organic waste using composting technologies – a review
Composting is nowadays evolving as a highly technical process for processing organic waste separately replacing landfilling along with municipal solid waste. Vegetable waste with high organic content can be composted to produce nutrient rich material that can work as soil conditioner instead of dumping in open landfills. Various studies reveal that due to high organic content of vegetable waste ...
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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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Best Practices: 4 Tips for a Foolproof Compost Pile
The Swedish Designed Insulated Jora Composter makes composting at home fast, easy, and odor and rodent free. The Jora has two compartments: one to fill while the other goes through its uninterrupted decomposition cycle and will be ready for use when the other side is full. You will have landscape grade compost in as little as 4-8 weeks after you fill your first side. Before assembling your ...
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How to speed up composting
How to Speed up Composting Composting is a natural process. You can say it’s the most important recycling process in the ecosystem. Every living thing on the planet eventually dies and breaks down into soil to help new plant life (and, subsequently, every other living thing) flourish. By learning about the key factors in making fast compost we can begin making our own compost piles more ...
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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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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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Microbial characterisation of vermicompost and compost of urban waste processed by three earthworm species - Eudrilus eugeniae, Eisenia fetida and Perionyx excavatus
Species diversity of bacteria, fungi and actinomyctes of vermicompost and compost of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste, vegetable market waste and flower waste were assessed using pour plate technique. Of the total 91 entities, 62 were bacteria and 29 were actinomycetes in MW, followed by that of MSW and FW, with 59 and 55 bacterial; 25 and 22 actinomycetes entities, respectively. The ...
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Accumulation and mobility of heavy metals in fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graceum L.) and tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.) grown in the field amended with urban wastes, and their composts and vermicomposts
Accumulation of cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu) and manganese (Mn) in roots, stems and leaves of fenugreek and tomato grown on lateritic soil amended with municipal solid waste, market and floral waste, and their composts and vermicomposts prepared using three earthworm species, were assessed. The heavy metal accumulation in the plant parts showed significant correlations with ...
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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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Label policies, marketing strategies and technical developements of compost market in the European countries
Traditionally the use of soil improvers in agriculture is aimed at the restoration of the organic substance removed from the agro-ecosystem by crops. The addition of humus, as replacement for the portion gradually mineralised by the micro-organisms of the soil, leads to the conservation of its fertility under many point of view: physical (e.g. porosity, drainage, aeration), chemical (availability ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Composting of a mixture of orange and cotton Industrial wastes and the influence of adding olivemill Wastewater
The rapid expansion of the agro-industry during recent decades has led to the increasing production of organic wastes. Some such agroindustrial wastes are olive mill wastewater (OMW), the waste from orange juice extraction (OW) and the waste from cotton gins (CW). The OMW resulting from olive oil production contains olive pulp, mucilage, pectin, oil, the vegetable water of the fruit and the water ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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