Compost Odor
Compost Odor
One thing that is surely hurting the composting industry is compost odor. Large composting facilities start off with the best intentions but often people soon start complaining about the smell. Public concern over composting facililty odor can also put planned projects on hold if the developer and city planners do not incorporate [...] Read more...
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Organic Compost
The term Organic Compost is well disputed due to the fact that anything compostable, by definition, is organic. In order to compost, carbon molecules are necessary, and by definition anything organic is organic because it contains at least one carbon molecule. Thus the term organic compost is scientifically redundant, is it not? [...] Read more...
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Worm Bin
What is a Worm Bin?
A Worm Bin can be an excellent way to throw less food down the garbage disposal unit. What is a worm bin exactly? Well the bin itself is basically a box of some kind, usually filled with some kind of moist newspaper scraps, leaves, a little earth and sand, for bedding, [...] Read more...
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Compost Pile
What is a Compost Pile?
Normally a compost pile aka compost heap is just a place out in the backyard where people throw there organic wastes. But when studied, the compost pile becomes a living and thriving focus of knowledge about the world in which we live. A metropolis, of thermophylic microorganisms, that purify all of [...] Read more...
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Compost Tumbler
What is a Compost Tumbler?
A compost tumbler is used as a tool for those interested in composting as a safe and viable alternative to throwing their organic waste away. Normally when composting, people hear about having to turn the compost from time to time. There are reasons for this turning, some say even because it’s [...] Read more...
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Composting
What is Composting?
Simply put, Composting is a way to purify and reuse organic waste produced by human civilizations. Making compost is a simple and natural procedure that involves human cooperation with nature itself. By composting, humanity uses the most energy efficient method for dealing with the most harmful and toxic of organic substances. Below are [...] Read more...
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Compost Bin
What is a Compost Bin?
A compost bin is a safely controlled environment that recycles organic waste in an efficient and natural way, by producing humus, (Lat. earth, soil). Mostly, instead of using a compost bin, our organic waste is flushed down the drain, into the sewers, and thrown away in the trash, but a composting [...] Read more...
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Compost and Soil
What is the Difference Between Compost and Soil?
Are soil and compost different? Compost and soil are very different. Soil can take in some cases, up to 200 years to finally be produced. While compost is the process of making humus (earth or soil), soil itself is broken down over larger periods of time. Usually once [...] Read more...
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Worm Compost
What is Worm Compost?
To most, Worm Compost is a rhetorical statement, because when thinking about compost, worms are usually one of the fist things to come to mind. A worm does one thing in its whole existence, compost nutritious and valuable fertilizer that can be used in gardens to enrich the growth and development of [...] Read more...
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Compost Tea
What is Compost Tea?
For those who love gardening, compost tea is a wonderful way to achieve riper, more lush and tasty vegetables. Compost Tea involves using compost as if it was just that, a tea. Note, however this does NOT mean, dumping buckets of rainwater over any kind of compost and expecting to extract a [...] Read more...
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Mushroom Compost
What is Mushroom Compost?
Mushroom Compost is basically a delicately produced compost of materials for the commercial harvesting of mushrooms. The kind of mushroom to be commercially harvested is pretty much irrelevant, since the basic conditions that permit mushroom farming use the same kinds of composts. Mushroom compost is a fairly new concept that came about [...] Read more...
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Compost Toilet
A compost toilet is an alternative tool for a more sustainable way of human existence. A compost toilet is not just merely some peat moss, or sawdust, mixing itself with our human organic waste, in a bucket. A compost toilet is a way of keeping our rivers drinkable, by not throwing sewage into them. A [...] Read more...
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Shredded Leaf Compost
Shredded leaf compost is practical, beneficial and an efficient way to deal with the lack of nutritious ground soil. Shredded leaf compost is aesthetically pleasing for the gardener (who really needs a safe and productive resource for the garden) and his neighbors who really like to have their lawn looking good. Shredding is a [...] Read more...
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Compost Container
A Compost Container is any container used to contain compost. That is, a compost container is used to keep compost isolated. Since dealing with compost is a way of safely returning humanities used organic wastes to the soil in the form of a rich and healthy humus or finished compost, a containment area [...] Read more...
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Compost Pictures
Compost Pictures
Here are some Compost Pictures from Flickr. I enjoy finding pictures related to composting. If you are going to use these pictures you must go to flickr to read the rules. I will start a good collection here for you to view.
Here is an example of how a rat can chew [...] Read more...
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Mary Appelhof
In Memory of Mary Appelhof – The Worm Women
Now that the ground is frozen here in New England, MA my plan is to recognize and write about those who have contributed to composting. If you are not new to composting with red worms (vermicomposting) you have surely heard of Mary Appelhof. Though people [...] Read more...
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Volvo Adventure Environmental Award
Volvo Adventure Environmental Award
Listen up school teachers and composting hobbyist with children. The Volvo Adventure Conference in May 2006 will be offering an award to young folks who enter and win their competition for local environmental projects that help educate schools and communities.
Here is the award or should we say “reward”:
Win an all expenses paid [...] Read more...
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Humanure Handbook
Humanure: The Safe Disposal and Recycling of Organic Human Byproducts
Mr. Joe Jenkins has written a book for the really passionate do-it-yourself composting enthusiast. His book, “The Humanure Handbook — a Guide to Composting Human Manure” is filled with research and bibliographies that teach us step by step, what we should really be doing [...] Read more...
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Impoverished Nations Composting
Low-Tech Composting on Community Levels in Impoverished Nations
Can composting in a poor low-tech community or nation bring a greater concept of wealth and well-being than a good economy? Does composting have such value?
When people think about gross domestic product that supposedly shows how wealthy a given nation is or is not, the poor of [...] Read more...
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Farm Composting Business
How to effectively create and manage a farm compost business
So we took the big step and purchased a farm. Our goal is to grow one hundred percent organically and start a farm composting business. Yes there are some suppliers of natural fertilizers however; the cost can be a major issue.
But can we not [...] Read more...
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Biodegradable Plastic
Biodegradable plastic, does it exist?
What is the technical definition of biodegradable plastic? To qualify as biodegradable a container, cover, or other object made from plastic must decompose sixty to ninety percent within sixty to one hundred and eighty days.
What if someone could come up with a plastic that was user and earth friendly? Perhaps [...] Read more...
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Afro-Brazilian Composting
Afro-Brazilian Religions and Composting
Not all Americans are familiar with the mystical Afro-Brazilian martial art called Capoeira, even fewer with the Afro-Brazilian religion called Candomblé, much less what they have to do with compost and composting.
They have everything to do with composting, they have even been called a reserve of sustainable practices with nature. Candomblé [...] Read more...
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Earthworm Species
Earthworms in soil and composting
by Kelly Slocum
There are more than 4400 named species of earthworm on this planet, and researchers have broken them into three categories, largely descriptive of their habits in the soil. These three categories are endogeic, anecic and epigeic.
Endogeic worms build complex lateral burrow systems through all layers of the upper mineral [...] Read more...
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Composting for Kids
Composting for Kids – Slideshow
Robert E. Richter, CEA-Horticulture, Travis County and The Texas Agricultural Extension Service put together a great composting slide show for kids. It shows and teaches about the basics of composting in compost bins and trenches in an easy to follow way. I would like to see more educational institutions and [...] Read more...
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Plow and Hearth Compost Crock
Plow and Hearth Compost Crock is an attractive design for your kitchen scraps that makes collecting organic refuse a more acceptable endeavor, eliminating odors and still conforming to low-impact and sustainable concepts that work off of low-tech principles.
Depending on your kitchen, you may want this compost crock in stainless steal or white ceramic, either way; [...] Read more...
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Kitchen Compost Carrier
Kitchen Compost Carrier KC1000 and KC2000 are made by Busch Systems, the perfect thing for those looking to upgrade their organic recycling and compost bin program at home or in the office. Out of stock, see more carriers here!
Busch Systems Kitchen Compost Carriers support sustainable practices in urban spaces not only during their lifespan, but [...] Read more...
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Original Compost Tumbler
The Original Compost Tumbler by PBM Group is the perfect compost tumbling bin for large yards with lots of leaves and grass clippings throughout the gardening months.
Large annuals, vegetable garden, enormous trees, extending lawns and anywhere up to 18 bushels; the Original Compost Tumbler will produce fresh earth smelling humus within just 14 days of [...] Read more...
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Biomass
What is Biomass?
Biomass is a word that has been overused by the fuel and energy industries in recent years and is now becoming a word that can break down into the four F categories, fuel, feed, fiber, and fertilizer.
Ecologically speaking however, biomass is simply the total mass of living organisms in an ecosystem, population or [...] Read more...
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Moores Creek Sewage Treatment
The Moore’s Creek Sewage Treatment Facility in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA has been open since 1984 and producing excellent garden composting from tons of raw sewage each month since then.
But challenges with the outdoor composting create a smell that is intolerable to Woolen Mills residents.
Recently on the 25th of September, discussion was underway as to how [...] Read more...
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NatureMill
NatureMill Automatic Composter is a decent advancement for the civilized that meets your standards of comfort with mother natures standards of sustainability, composting efficiently with modern technology.
This two chamber automatic composting model by NatureMill maintains heat and moisture conditions for a 100% safe hot pot. Just add organic kitchen scraps in the upper tray [...] Read more...
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Sun Mar Garden Composter
Sun-Mar has a kitchen scrap compost tumbler called the Garden Composter that comes with something different in the area of tumblers, a constant flow of ready to use compost.
Sun-Mar has been a leader in composting human organic by-products for more than thirty years, and now they comes with the Garden Composter 200 made for taking [...] Read more...
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Blue Planet Smart Composter
BluePlanetSMART is a composting tumbler unit made for the ecologically aware who enjoy doing something for our sustainable future and make a statement while doing so.
Aesthetically pleasing to the eye, this globe is more than a map of the planets continents and oceans, it is a convenient way to get rid of kitchen scraps and [...] Read more...
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Cold Pile Composting
Fun with Cold Pile Composting
Getting down into that buried pile of kitchen scraps once a week or once every two weeks may not sound like fun to some people, but those who understand the whys and hows of composting on the other hand; can have a lot of fun with a cold pile.
Children just love [...] Read more...
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Tilterator
Composting grass, leaves and other organic yard scraps just got easier with the 100% recycled polyethylene Tilterator manual yard tumbler.
Tilterator makes manually tumbling your organic yard debris a snap with a special tilt, turn and tumble design.
This sturdy cube will hold 17 cubic feet and can be assembled and used by anyone capable of lifting [...] Read more...
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Natureworks Biodegradable Packaging
Biodegradable Packaging at Nature Works LLC
As our nation becomes ever more sustainable and with the invent of biodegradable packaging, so does the world around us.
The dependence upon fossil fuels becomes less and less a concern now that biodegradable packaging is a part of our world economy; being without such an industry would cost us dearly [...] Read more...
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Biodegradable Pots
Different from the traditional peat pots, which have always been biodegradable, Rosso’s International has produced biodegradable pots in many different colors that substitute the environmentally dangerous plastic pots as well as plastic dishes; bioplastics that take no longer than six months to return to the earth.
While a peat pot may sit around for weeks [...] Read more...
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Covered Bridge Hot Composter
Covered Bridge Hot Composter is a “hot pile” composting bin, made to purify even the most polluted of organic materials with sure-fire high temperatures that exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Covered Bridge Hot Composter is an example of modern technology blending with Mother Nature in harmony.
Made from 100 percent post-consumer waste plastics, this high molecular density HDPE [...] Read more...
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Pyramid Composter
Pyramid Composter is a compost bin made of 100% recycled plastics and was designed with sustainability in mind.
Being sustainable means not only knowing how to use our civilizations resources, but also knowing what to do with our waste materials, and that includes last generation plastics, such as those used in Pyramid Composter.
Pyramid Composter itself is [...] Read more...
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Envirolet Compost Accelerator
Envirolet Compost Accelerator can be added with no more than just a tablespoon worth of additive in one cup of warm water every two weeks to increase composting yields drastically, one jar lasting between 9 to 12 months.
Envirolet Compost Accelerator is a unique product that immediately activates a synergy of endospor forming thermophilic bacterial strains [...] Read more...
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Solar Digester
This solar digester was developed as an excellent “hot pile” with the advantage, that it uses the heat of the sun to passively circulate air through the compost pile in the ground.
Solar Digester’s solar trap, speeds up the breakdown process, eliminate foul odors and keeping the compost “all around healthy and balanced.”
Healthy compost means keeping [...] Read more...
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EzComposter Compost Tumbler
EzComposter Compost Tumbler is environmentally respectful, being made from 100% consumer used plastics, the black color further speeds up the decomposing process.
Within just two weeks of filling, EzComposter Compost Tumbler will produce, nutrient-rich fresh organic humus for planting soil.
Ez Composter Compost Tumbler is an efficient hot-pile, it kills harmful bacteria through thermophilic composting that makes [...] Read more...
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Soil Soup Brewers
As one of the most economical ways to use worm castings, Soil Soup 6.5 Gallon Home Brewing Kit and the Soil Soup 25 Gallon Home Brewing System are an easy and efficient way to make ones very own nutrient-rich compost tea.
Microorganisms that enjoy oxygen are excellent for fighting down those bad news anaerobic varmints that [...] Read more...
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Envirocycle Composter
Evirocycle Composter is the ideal compost tumbler for those who live in tight urban spaces and are looking for both natural liquid and natural solid fertilizers.
Envirocycle Composter produces homemade compost tea that is hygienic and powerful.
So powerful is this quality tumbler in fact, that for every one part tea, you can easily add ten parts [...] Read more...
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Urban Compost Tumbler
The Urban Compost Tumbler makes life in small spaces more sustainable through higher rates of aerobic composting that breakdown the traditional composting time by 90%. The Urban Compost Tumbler comes in two varieties the UCT7 and the UCT9.
Urban Compost Tumbler 7
capacity: 7.3 cu. ft.
height: 44″
width: 32″
55 gallons
weight: 35 lbs.
Ground space needed: 32″ x 26″.
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Worm Factory
Worm Factory worm bin was developed specifically to take on five to eight pounds of food and kitchen scraps per day and in doing so, create a plentiful amount of nutrient rich worm castings for the garden once a month.
Worm Factory was designed by Cascade Sales (Home and Garden Experts) to take on some of [...] Read more...
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Soilsaver
Soilsaver Compost Bin was designed for composting in even the coldest of climates with special structural molding foam that insulates the pile from the cold.
Soilsaver is a charcoal black color, 28 inches wide, 28 inches in diameter and 32 inches high and holds up to 11.4 cubic feet of composting material when full.
When empty, Soil [...] Read more...
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My Marvellous Compost Bin Video
My Marvellous Compost Bin
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Wire Compost Bin
For a wire compost bin that holds up to intense weather conditions like, heat, rain, sleet, hail, and all the possible elements in an outdoor compost pile; this PVC coated steel wire compost bin does the job efficiently, allowing more space and air for beneficial microorganisms to flourish.
Wire compost bins are great for improving aeration [...] Read more...
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Mantis Compost Thermometer
A good compost thermometer must be long enough to find the center of your compost pile and read at least up to 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mantis Compost Thermometer will read up to 220 degrees Fahrenheit reaching the core of most compost piles (20 inches in length).
For your “hot pile”, this compost thermometer is sure to do [...] Read more...
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Naturemill Bamboo Composter
Bamboo Composter is made by NatureMill and is of all natural bamboo that has been 100% sustainably harvested.
Bamboo Composter is a stationary outdoor compost bin that holds up to one cubic yard (0.76 cubic meters or 200 gallons) of compost materials, at 36 inches in diameter when at maximum size and only 36 inches high.
Collapsible [...] Read more...
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