On-farm handling of organic residuals
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An increasing number of farmers are considering the composting alternative to manage manure and other organic residuals such aspoultry carcasses and unusable crops. On-farm composting allows for the convenient handling and storage of manure and also allows for the transport of the material to other places where it could be used beneficially. Composting can also provide a good opportunity to produce a marketable product. Bulk salesof compost begin at $5 per ton and can cost as much as $50 per ton. However, there are problems such as time constraints, odor control and state regulationsthat need to be looked into.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1992
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Marketing food residuals as animal feed
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Recycling and marketing food residuals as animal feed has attracted a lot of interest from both the animal industry and various industries and institutions which generate food residuals. The driving force behind this interest in converting food residuals to animal feed is economics. Converting residual food to animal feed results in the fast transformation of waste into a salable product, and the space and equipment requirements are relatively small. Food residuals being recycled into animal feeds are restaurant, grocery store, institutional, and food processing wastes.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1997
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A residuals market grows, chip by chip
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West Oregon Wood Products offers a wide range of items made from sawmill scraps, including wood fuel pellets, laboratory animal bedding and landscape mulch. The company has invested in a screening line, allowing it to offer a range of product sizes, and its plant now has three separate production lines. It has been particularly successful with wood fuel pellets, which account for around 60% of its sales of $3 million a year. It is still looking at diversifying its product range, and has begun bagging and selling a biosolids-based compost.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1997
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