Thursday, October 22, 2009

All around research on systems and regulations

Below are some websites that discuss different aspects of the composting process. I have separated out the sites into topic areas of interest:

Various systems we could look into using:
http://www.stopwaste.org/docs/composting_alameda%20county,%20ca_12%2020%2006-4.pdf

The actual company site this presentation was made from:
http://www.compostsystems.com/
- This company has done systems world-wide, so cost might be a factor, but they have many different options. I especially like their CompDog product used for aeration.

This is the website for a short video on one type of composting system they use and the CompDog is shown in the second half of the video: http://www.compostsystems.com/ac_composter_video.html

This website is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN:
http://www.fao.org/teca/content/farm-composting-methods-large-scale-passive-aeration
-It mainly covers windrow composting using turned or passive aeration. It gives suggestions on some equipment used and some suggested best practices for composting.

A different way to look at composting large carcasses is outline in this report done at Texas A&M:
http://tammi.tamu.edu/carcasscompostasae032263b.pdf
- This report outlines two very low maintenance ways of composting large animal carcasses, no turning needed

Another site we could use for resources, especially for some standardize testing information:
http://www.compostingcouncil.org/
-They are a national organization dedicated to composting ; They try to standardize their testings to mirror ASTM standards in testing

~Robin~

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