Composting

Every year Americans throw out 160 billion dollars in food.That’s about 438,356,164 dollars every day.This is a detrimental issue and needs to be changed. Americans throw away excess food everyday and this can be changed by selling “ugly” produce, composting, and feeding the homeless and poor with the food. In America more than 80% of produce doesn’t make it to the shelves because it does not meet cosmetic standards or is close to expiration. Bay Area’s Imperfect Produce will send you a box of…

high technical skills. High yield of RDFs and 60-90% landfill diversion No Biogas production and it consumes energy. It produces Biogas. No biogas production. Needs high fossil energy. MBT with Aerobic Composting/Digestion. The mechanical biological treatment which has aerobic digestion/composting as biological treatment generally called as Aerobic MBT. Process by which organic waste is decomposed by micro-organisms under specific conditions to a biologically stable and end product in the…

Composting school lunches should be mandatory because it helps reduce the amount of trash in landfills and that really helps the enviroment. So much students at schools across the nation don't even eat half of their lunches and throw them away. Instead of throwing them away and hurting our enviroment, the uneaten food from school cafeterias should be composted to help reduce the amount of trash in landfills. When we thow trash into the wastes and oceans, we're putting trash in our oceans which…

Allen operates a compositing bedding pack that consist of manure and sawdust. The way it works is that they have four foot walls to contain the composting area. They always leave about a foot left in the area so the cows do not have a far step from the alleyway. They layer the sawdust up to every other day and after sometime the area starts composting on its own. Allen said the level the manure was at has stayed the same for a couple months now. They use a cultivator hooked to the tractor to…

staff and visitors. There were only 20 piles (at most) and composting takes a few months, which suggests that not much compostable waste is going there. Furthermore, it means that much, if not most, of the waste is going to landfills from Cornell. Also, I was under whelmed by the lack of equipment they had to heat and maintain the piles. I always imagine an affiliate of a highly regarded institution would be more automated, especially composting facilities. However, the only thing they had other…

effective to have an impact on a community or in the world in general. This past summer, I worked for the University of Michigan grounds crew. I helped with sustaining the grounds all over their campus. One of the main things we worked with was composting. Composting is a mixture of various decaying organic substances, as dead leaves or manure, used for fertilizing soil. On our crew we would take all of the weeds and dead plants we picked up around campus and put them in a giant compost pile.…

our school’s greenhouse until they are mature enough to be move into the garden. Keeping these plants in a greenhouse reduces threats during the most vulnerable stages in life while,in turn, saving money. Gardeners could be encouraged to begin composting their kitchen wastes and contributing it to the garden. Lastly, I will be able to directly impact my community by providing fresh fruits and vegetables to my school cafeteria and the greater community for very little…

For my Personal Change Project I decided to partake in Water Conservation, specifically reducing the amount of time I spend taking a shower everyday. As my proposal stated I spend a lot of time in the shower, especially on the weekends because I usually listen to music in the shower. Listening to music in the shower is entertaining and it’s the only place that I can freely sing without my mom having to yell at me saying that I’m a horrible singer. Anyways, the main point is that listening to…

My position on the issue of whether or not recycling and composting initiatives such as the one described in the flyer should be adopted and put into practice in communities throughout the United States is I am for it. There should be laws you should have to follow to recycle. If there were no laws about recycling we wouldnt have as many things to use and there would be a lot more trash everywhere. People should always recycle and put all paper products into one bin and all plastic and…

It’s a rainy cold New England day in the beginning of March. Common in New England the weather is unpredictable and often a logistical consideration for the Co- Operative I was interviewing today. Rain snow, or ice Pedal People an eighteen person Cooperative based out of Northampton Ma collects and transfers trash to local facilities. Today I sat down with fellow Pedal People staff Clarissa Lyon to talk about the mission statement and goal Pedal People operates under. The topic was operations…