Nepal: operating a compost plant in the Himalayan kingdom
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Nepal's sole compost plant is located in the city of Bhaktapur. The agricultural and handicrafts-based work of its population accounts for the highly organic waste produced in this city. The city government takes care of the waste collection at designated waste-dropoff areas. The refuse is deposited directly to the compost plant's windrows. Manual sorting is not done due to lack of manpower. As such, the compost produced contains a high level of contaminants. Compost is released depending on demand and not on degree of decomposition. The compost is sold to farmers at very low prices.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1998
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Upgrading performance at compost sites
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The Michigan Compost Operators Training Program was designed to provide a comprehensive training program for compost operators. The program was a collaboration of the Resource Recycling Systems Inc, Southeastern Oakland County Resource Recovery Authority, Michigan State University's Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan Compost Council and Michigan Recycling Coalition. The program provides compost professionals with information necessary for designing, constructing, and operating compost sites to produce salable products which are cost effective and without odors.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1997
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Finding profits from problem materials
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American Composting, which occupies a site of around 68 acres in an undeveloped industrial part of North Little Rock, AR, and a 14 acre site in Little Rock, AR, is able to compost biosolids, yard trimmings and industrial organic by-products at the first site and yard trimmings at the second site. It anticipates that it will process around 80,000 tons in 1998. The company has established a niche market in dealing with problem feedstocks such as dissolved air flotation skimmings from poultry hatcheries, dead birds and paper mill sludge.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1997
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