Too much or too little moisture can hurt the composting process, causing your waste to decompose too fast or not fast enough. You want to add just enough water to get your scraps wet without submerging them in standing water. Your goal is for the texture at the top of the pile to ...
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for improving a forming efficiency of high quality compost by compost-treating by artificially controlling the course of compost- treating of biowaste, and to diminish a load of a businessman for waste-disposal. SOLUTION: Each optimum value required for...
The fine particulate gave me another idea. I gathered up some waste paper and cardboard and ran it through a micro-shredder, then combined it in an outdoor compost bin with Lomi output at a 2:1 ratio of paper/cardboard to Lomi output. With regular moistening and mixing, this became a ...
Composting is an effective waste management tool used to convert organic wastes into useful products. Various systems and methods for generating compost to improve the disposal and the beneficial re-use of organic wastes, such as garden waste, bio-solids, agricultural waste, municipal solid waste an...
Hello, i was just wanting a bit of clarification. What is the purpose of the three tier system? if i wanted to just compost animal waste, not to use on … what size of worm bin do I need?Not rated yet Hello, how big a bin will I need for 500 African night crawlers? Answer: He...
Two different commercial compost samples (green compost “CV” and mixed compost with sludge “CM”, ∼10 kg) were purchased from a composting plant located near Pavia (Italy). The CV sample mainly derives from green waste as plant debris, while the CM sample is obtained by composting veget...
pollution constrain urban horticulture, and more attention should be paid to the quality of the environment. The main sources of heavy metals in urban soils are atmospheric fallout from fuel combustion, vehicle emissions, fertilizer use, municipal solid waste disposal and industrial waste [3]. Dense...
The production of algal biomass also involves the disposal of countless tons in landfills or via incineration [18]. Both problems require improvements in waste management to reduce disposal costs and to find more environmentally sustainable alternatives [19]. Therefore, composting Rugulopteryx okamurae...