The Kansas route into the composting business
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The Kanza Composting/Recycling Center was founded by Roger Schneider, a farmer from Salina, KS, to properly dispose of cow manure from his farm. The center, which was established in 1997, originally composts dairy manure, leaves, yard trimmings and brush from residents. Eventually, fiberboard residuals such as board cutoffs, scraps and raw wheat straw from a Minneapolis-based fiberboard plant was added. The resulting product were sold according to blend which either consists of pure manure and wheat straw, 15% manure, leaves, fiberboard and grass clippings or yard trimmings only.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1998
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Plans abound for in-vessel composting
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An increasing number of organizations and institutions are initiating their on-site composting projects using small-scale in-vessel systems manufactured by less than 10 vendors in the US. The institutions that are planning or are already involved in on-site composting are the Lower East Side Ecology Center in Manhattan, New York, NY, the Reeds Spring School District in Missouri, the St. Louis Produce Market, the Whidbey Islan Naval Air Station in Oak Harbor, WA, Texas A and M University and the Kelly Green Environmental Services/Bermuda Compost Systems International.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1998
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Checking out the pad
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Many composters prefer their sites to have a paved surface that would allow access on a year-round basis, keep dirt out of their finished products and lower maintenance demands. However, the costs of a paved surface, the threat of more runoff to collect and threat, and scale of operation are holding back composters from paving at least a portion of their sites. Nonetheless, the benefits of having a paved surface far outweigh the costs of installing one in compost facilities.
Publication Name: BioCycle
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0276-5055
Year: 1996
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