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Operations

Dairy cow milking

AD & Biogas, Operations

Digesting Dumped Milk, RNG Sea-Tac

Composting, Operations, Policies + Regulations

USCC Applies For Stand-Alone Industry Code

Collection, Community Composting, Composting, Food Waste, Operations

Letter To The BioCycle Community: COVID-19 And Organics Recycling

Business+Finance, Composting, Operations

Composting Business Management: Net Present Value Of Composting Expenditures

Julie Schilf, U.S. EPA Region 5

Food Waste, Operations

Deep Dive Into Food Waste Management (Sourcing To Digesting)

Tweaking the layout of an operation so processing takes place toward the front of the yard (above), and incoming material is unloaded in the back of the yard, reduces the number of times material has to be handled.

Composting, Operations

Lean Compost Manufacturing

With strict dust control requirements, maximizing composting moisture content and using dust suppression equipment are key to operations in the desert environment.

Composting, Facilities, Operations

Managing Moisture In The Desert

compost microbes

Composting, Facilities, Operations

Composting And Microbial Inoculants

Compost Facility Maintenance

Facilities, Operations

Compost Facility Maintenance

Photos taken from the safety of a vehicle illustrate the level of devastation at the LCEC. High winds at 50 mph spread the Creek Fire through the site, quickly engulfing large equipment.

Composting, Facilities, Operations

Managing Compost And Mulch Fires

Infrared thermography uses a specialty camera (below) that displays and captures images color-coded by temperature (top, right). Users can quickly identify high temperatures on rotating equipment such as a bearing (bottom, right).

Composting, Operations

Composting Facility Maintenance

Climate, Operations

Major Companies Earn Zero Waste Certifications

An open-top truck containing materials passes under a load volume scanner, which maps a 3-D image of the load.

Composting, Operations

Volume-Based Measuring At Composting Facilities

Agromin's Chino, California organics recycling facility.

Composting, Facilities, Operations

Weighting Factors In Organics Recycling Facility Development

Farm Aid’s 30th Anniversary Concert was held at the FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island last summer. It was the venue’s first experience collecting a compostables stream (green bin with green bag, above and at left). Farm Aid requires that all food service items coming into contact with food be compostable.

Climate, Composting, Operations, Policies + Regulations

Farm Aid Plants Seeds Of Sustainability

A “plug and play” Compost Heat Wagon, operating this winter at Vermont Compost Company, includes a high power aeration fan and an Isobar™ heat recovery system.

Composting, Facilities, Operations

Advances In Compost Heat Recovery

Figure 1. Example test location

Composting, Operations

Positive Air, Biofilter Cover Layer Control Biosolids Composting Emissions

Among best practices for food scraps management is situating the unloading/loading areas indoors or in a covered area.

Composting, Operations

Compost Specific Storm Water Management Guidance