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Food Waste Recycling
Recycling Your Discarded FoodDiscarded Food We once called it trash. Now we make it into compost for growing beautiful lawns, flowers, and gardens. We also used it for making renewable natural gas (RNG), to heat our homes.
Presented by:Scott Pexton & Tom LincolnA1 Organics
What we are going to talk about todayA1 Organics Who are we?Why not put our organics into a landfill?What is compost?What can compost used for?What can and cant be composted?Food Waste Four StepsA1 Organics An Organic Recycler40 years (1954) in the organic recycling businessA1 is the largest organic recycler in the Rocky Mountain RegionRecognized both locally and nationally as a leader in the organics industry.A1 Organics started composting sheep manure (50,000) and moved into composting of all types of agricultural feed stocks, brewery waste, food waste, yard waste, tree trimmings, scrap wood, pallets, and biosolids
What is ORGNAIC?Why not put organics into a landfill?
Think about what you are about to see!Stop for a moment and look at this next picture. Besides the bulldozer, what do you see?You are looking at a picture of a landfill and the garbage going into that landfill.What do you see going into a landfill?
Types of Organic DigestionTwo ways types of organic digestion (bugs eating organic material)Aerobic Digestion With Oxygen ~ What happens when oxygen is needed to decompose organic materials. Anaerobically Digestion Without Oxygen ~ Typically what happens in a landfill
Benefits of Recycling Our OrganicsFoodwaste/organic material sent to a landfill is anaerobically digests producing methane gas CH4 and CO2 Methane holds 20 times more heat than CO2By diverting foodwaste/organic material from a land fill to either composting or production of methane gas, there is a ton-for-ton reduction in greenhouse production. Declining Landfill SpaceLandfills are filling up and closingIt is harder to permit new landfillsNIMBYFewer LandfillsSource US EPA6170 Fewer Landfills in less than 20 years
The Choice is YOURS
Organic Waste traditionally taken to landfills (65%+ is Organic Materials)To Organic RecyclerorSustainability Beneficial use of food waste to make compost and then grow more healthy organic foods for the GeneratorsTo Landfill?OrganicRecycling? A1 OrganicsManufacturing CompostGeneratorsIts YOUR ChoiceCompost for Growing More Food
Collection of Organic Recyclable Materials11Compost What is it?
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Compost - What is It?Compost can be made from anything that was once alive.Things like food waste, leaves or grass clippings or even trees can be composted, its an all natural process.Think about a tree in the forest.
Is this Compost?
The Composting Process ( it is an all natural process.)
MicroorganismsH2OO2Water
Heat
CO2
Raw Organic MaterialsGrass ClippingsTree TrimmingsBioSolidsAnimal ManuresGround up WoodplusWater & OxygenFinished Compost
Stabilized Organic MatterHumusHumic AcidsMicroorganismsMicro-Nutrients
Source: University of Missouri Composting gives offWaterOxygenComposting needs raw organic materials, water, oxygen, and microorganisms15Composting is a Manufacturing Process
It is PlannedControlledDocumentedRegulated by State (CDPH&E), & Local County Governments