Economic realities force shift at composting facility
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The Clinton County Compost Facility in Plattsburgh, NY, which experienced significant difficulties during the 1990s, is now being operated by U.S. Filter Operating Services. The full-service operations, maintenance and management deal includes an initial two-year term and three subsequent five-year terms. The plant is now processing 60 tons a day, with its compost recipe including one ton of biosolids to 0.4 tons of mixed sawdust and wood chips. It is anticipated that the facility will produce 70,000 cubic yards a year of finished compost at full operational capacity of 140 wet tons a day of biosolids.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 2000
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Resort composting keeps costs down
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The Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, NY, and the Basin Harbor Club in Vergennes, VT, are two resorts that are recycling food scraps into compost to reduce waste disposal costs. The facilities use concrete pads where the food scraps collect. The food remainders are emptied onto a composting site where they are mixed with five to six inches of wood chips, shrub trimmings and animal manure. The resulting compost is spread on gardens, gold courses and agricultural tracts of land.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1995
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MSW composter improves process at Canadian facility
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Conporec Inc has made a range of improvements at its mixed waste composting facility in Surel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada. It has installed a secondary refining system and improved aeration, and the quality of compost produced has thus been upgraded. The facility handles municipal solid waste, which is processed in a 157-ft-long bioreactor for between three and four days before being run through a trommel screen. It also occasionally handles biosolids from a local water treatment plant.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1999
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