Innovative operation: growing worms with food residuals

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Worm production entails the proper preparation of combined soil, restaurant residuals, manure, wood chips and yard trimmings in which the worm will be grown. Ivor Benci-Woodward, a worm grower, explains that the soil bed for the worm should measure 4 ft wide, 40 ft and 2 ft deep filled with the bulking materials, 4 ft of which is above the ground. The materials are composted for a year and when they have been leveled to the ground, the worms are then introduced. After that, the food residuals are added then topped with 3 in of compost. Every two days the recycled food is laid out.

Usage, Worms, Worms (Animals), Earthworm culture

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Municipal experiences with marketing compost

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Different marketing strategies have been used by six municipal composting facilities. Palo Alto, California, has chosen Flori Bunda Forest Products to market their compost, which is sold wholesale for $6 per cubic yard. Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, also uses a private contractor called New Solutions, to market their products and they currently sell 6,000 cubic yards each year. Woodbury, Minnesota, has been working with Composting Concepts since 1993. Newspaper advertising is often used to market compost.

Marketing, Compost, Compost plants, Recycling (Waste, etc.), Recycling

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Treating industrial and municipal sewage, naturally

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Burlington, VT-based Living Technologies Inc. uses a patented process developed by nonprofit research and education organization Ocean Ark International's John Todd to treat wastewater from industrial food processors and municipalities. The technology, called Living Machines, simulates the natural purification process that occurs in ponds and marshes by directing wastewater through a series of tanks where the wastes are treated by plants, snails, fish and bacteria.

Recycling industry, living technologies inc.

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