| Once the bin is full, the rules of composting say that you should turn the material in the bin every few weeks. |
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| Exhaust fans installed in the composting chamber ensure an odorless system. |
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| Around the world these composting worms are also referred to as tiger worms, brandlings, wigglers or surface litter worms. |
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| All through the summer I've been collecting and composting the used coffee grounds from work. |
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| Manure worms and red worms live in organic debris and are the preferred types for commercial bait production and composting. |
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| One of the easiest ways for a household to reduce their level of waste is to start composting their rubbish. |
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| This involved separating their waste into bins for glass, tins and paper, then composting suitable material. |
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| During the composting season, check your bin regularly to assure optimum moisture and aeration are present in the material being composted. |
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| Once you get hooked on composting, you'll even start going after the local barber for hair, and even saving dryer lint! |
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| The second ground for refusal was that without a composting facility, the company could not deal with the residual sludge from the process. |
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| For those of you who suffer from an inordinate amount of clay in your soil, composting is the answer. |
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| Usually, once the experts are on hand it is easy to put things right, however unappealing your unaided attempts at composting may seem. |
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| Their stances on composting, bike lanes and oil supertankers maintain this pose of progressive concern trolling. |
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| The school is concentrating on reducing and minimising the amount of litter produced, while encouraging recycling and composting. |
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| The arthropodes, like centipedes, beetles, millipedes and worms, bring in the finishing touches to complete the composting. |
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| Back in the car, filled with the fumes of composting grass cuttings, Graham was playing solitaire on his PDA while waiting. |
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| The truth is, neither sewers nor computer chips in composting toilets are functionally or environmentally sustainable. |
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| Mel championed a recycling and composting plan that will push Toronto to the forefront of waste diversion in North America. |
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| The term vermicomposting simply refers to composting organic matter with worms. |
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| The small building also boasts composting toilets, grey water recycling, and the use of natural lighting. |
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| By mulching, cover cropping, and composting, you can work on the soil all season long. |
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| You can top the brown layers with a shovelful of manure or soil to help heat up the pile and speed composting. |
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| I wanted to use a composting toilet, but county wastewater officials weren't receptive to the idea. |
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| It's a modern functioning city with reservoirs for water, septic composting, and highways. |
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| So far, quickest results have been obtained when the composting was done in a closed container with the material stirred by a mixing auger. |
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| I have been composting leaves to spread on my fields as a fertility amendment. |
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| In many states, using a composting toilet allows a property owner to install a smaller septic system. |
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| The autumn leaves have been composting on the pavements ready to succour the soon-to-be emerging weed seedlings. |
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| Projects include approach roads to dumping yards, development of sanitary fills, small and medium composting landfills. |
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| It has also been revealed garden waste has been dumped in landfill because composting sites were unable to cope with the amount being collected. |
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| It suggests increased recycling, composting and diversion of waste away from landfill sites through alternative methods of waste management. |
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| We put everything into our wormery, which turns into compost, and we also have special composting bins for garden waste. |
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| The idea behind the programme is to give students hands-on experience of composting and the use of wormeries. |
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| Stymied, city councilors considered other options including burning, shipping elsewhere and composting. |
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| Bins would be dedicated to composting material, wood waste, tires, consumer recyclables, metals as well as regular solid wastes. |
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| The order of preference in waste handling is waste minimisation, re-use, then recycling and composting followed by energy recovery. |
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| Community composting is in itself the most rewarding activity that a group can partake in. |
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| According to the plan you can reduce waste by a half or more by composting. |
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| Waste Watchers is a pilot project to divert waste from the landfill through composting, grasscycling and recycling. |
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| Supplying enough air to all parts of a compost pile to encourage thorough decomposition is perhaps the key to successful composting. |
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| For home composting, Angela uses all her vegetable peelings, small bits of paper and garden clippings. |
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| The composting facility became operational in March this year and so far, 15 tonnes of vermi compost has been sold. |
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| Think of composting and worms immediately come to mind, not to mention such unsettling concepts as decay and rot. |
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| The potential cost to the environment and human health of pollution caused by badly-managed composting sites justifies the level of new regulation. |
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| FoodShare's Urban Agriculture Project now maintains a rooftop greenhouse and garden, a beehive, and a composting system. |
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| Introduction of a controlled manure composting system in replacement of the current process whereby manure is disposed of on the riverbank. |
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| After that the organic material will be finally maturated by windrow composting. |
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| The city contracts an individual composting specialist as a kind of extension agent to work with apartment complexes in setting up composting. |
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| In Hanoi, collected waste is taken to a newly opened engineered sanitary landfill site or to a pilot composting plant. |
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| While the resulting product, humus, is a valuable soil conditioner, much of the nutrient value is lost during the composting process. |
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| As well as minimizing the amount of vegetation cleared, a system of composting was devised to re-vegetate cleared areas. |
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| During humanure – or thermophilic – composting high temperatures and an array of biologic processes destroy the pathogens in human waste. |
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| Mechanical composting systems employ one or more closed tanks or digesters equipped with rotating vanes that mix and aerate the shredded waste. |
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| Humiliated, De Barra skulks off home, showing the good sense to bung her hat in the composting bin on the way. |
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| Food waste, plant waste, and material from composting toilets are all being collected and recycled into compost to fertilize the course. |
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| There are drawbacks to composting, which may dissuade some farmers from the practice of on-farm composting. |
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| The composting method takes the soil temperature to 80°C, at which most pathogens, and eggs of enteric worms, for example, are killed. |
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| I started composting humanure, as human waste is often known, in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. |
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| In a nod to the local-food movement, the park will include land for farming and composting. |
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| But the sort of recycling where the kit is changing fastest is arguably the humblest: composting. |
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| We should be encouraging composting and natural native plantings in public spaces and in our yards across this country. |
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| And their composting system has now gone on to win awards and set an example of what is possible for other housing co-ops. |
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| Gatineau commissioned a number of studies in preparation for the implementation of a composting program. |
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| New composting technologies are accelerating the turnaround time or improving the quality of end products. |
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| Reduce your ecological footprint now by taking up the art of home composting. |
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| The solution of using conventional manure and composting it before use is also far from rational from the point of view of nutrient management. |
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| By recycling organic waste or composting it if you have a garden, you can help eliminate this problem! |
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| Participants are taught about the benefits of composting and about how using it as fertilizer can increase crop yields. |
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| Per capita, New Yorkers put out between 45 and 70 kilograms of trimmings, almost exactly what we get from our modern wet-waste composting program. |
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| The festival also raises awareness about composting, waste prevention, energy conservation, alternative architecture and local and organic food production. |
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| The festival will also raise awareness about natural health therapies, composting, waste prevention, energy conservation and alternative architecture. |
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| Plans for the houses include water waste disposal via a reed bed located in a pond in communal parkland, dry composting and the collection of rain water for use in the houses. |
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| A wildlife garden will be built on the day, complete with composting displays and a wormery, and don't forget to pick up your free wildflower seeds. |
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| It also suggests buying long-life or refillable goods, stopping the junk mail that comes through your letterbox, and composting your garden refuse and kitchen peelings. |
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| He has taken advantage of the organised activities, taking part in a composting course and now has runner beans and even vines growing in the conservatory. |
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| The tellers of these tales usually neglect to mention that recycling, composting and public-education programs were introduced along with user pay. |
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| There have also been problems with the brown bin or composting bin service, with a handful of households contaminating it with dead animals and non-recyclable waste. |
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| Suitable materials for composting include annual weeds that haven't formed seed, leafy softwood prunings, old bedding plants, autumn leaves and grass clippings. |
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| By improving their soil quality with biointensive techniques, composting and green manure, farmers can grow beans more efficiently and remove the need for expensive fertilizers that swallow up tiny profits. |
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| By building their capacity to provide support to smallholders, NGOs can help communities avoid the potential health problems of composting at home without any safeguards. |
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| This will require a more intensive recycling program, coupled with strong support and public participation, as well as the development of a new composting program. |
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| Display of this logo provides assurance that the product or packaging can be composted in municipal or industrial composting facilities, where accepted in accordance with local compost quality requirements. |
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| At the recycling station the partly sanitized faeces go through a secondary treatment of high temperature composting for complete pathogen destruction. |
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| This regulation does not regulate biogas plants and composting systems. |
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| On site use of composting bins for the disposal of organic waste. |
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| Analysis revealed that more than 90 percent of all waste generated on the Skateway and at Winterlude could have been diverted through recycling or composting. |
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| A new liquid manure composting system that can transform the manure into a nutrient rich, dry organic fertilizer just might offer a viable solution to the challenge. |
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| Shred thick leaves like sycamore, walnut, horse chestnut or sweet chestnut before composting. |
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| The composting technology of fat contaminated waste is based on the use of fat oxidating microorganisms. |
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| Various trainings were also given to communities on techniques of reforestation, composting, grafting, etc. to build their capacities in the restoration of ecosystems. |
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| It further shows that ecological sanitation is by no means untriedthere are hundreds of thousands of dehydrating and composting toilets in use around the world today, mostly in rural areas and small communities. |
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| Residents wanting further information about composting should contact Mission Impossible on 01905 766883 or log on to the website www. |
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| Many of us are aware of composting, a natural process whereby organic material, such as kitchen scraps and yard waste, decomposes into a dark nutrient-rich soil amendment called humus. |
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| Recovering and decontaminating water, cultivating organic food, composting organic waste as well as filtering and cooling down air are all part of a mindset to make our established landscape more sustainable. |
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| In addition to having vegetables that extol the virtues of biological growing, composting is an essential environmental act in helping to control the greenhouse gas effect. |
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| In addition to experiencing a direct impact on climate change, it is also hoped that increased household composting will reduce the number bears frequenting landfills, making communities safer. |
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| More sustainable alternatives include gassing and composting. |
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| The OPTIGEDE partners discovered the sites of Scherwiller and Le Châtenois, a sorting centre, composting unit, waste dropoff centre, and landfill. |
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| Better soil management techniques, composting, water management, and agronomic practices may have an equal or greater impact upon productivity than the variety itself. |
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| At his Canadian estate in Nova Scotia, he experimented with composting toilets and devices to capture water from the atmosphere. |
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| However, waste can also be put to good use through reuse, recycling, composting and thermal treatment. |
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| There, the night soil along with the community refuse is filled in trenches for composting and subsequent use in agriculture. |
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| However, the on-farm manure management practices such as composting and stockpiling will likely further inactivate the drug residues remaining in manures before their land application. |
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| The bio-drying process uses aeration pipes on the floor of the channel that pump air into the composting material and an auger-type device that continuously mixes the manure. |
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| Sustainable or ecological agriculture practices such as the use of farm-yard manure, composting, and green manuring complement diverse and mixed production systems. |
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| Rotations are most effective when combined with such practices as manuring, composting, cover cropping, green manuring, and short pasturing cycles. |
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| The composting process minimises the risks of phylloxera, other diseases, and weed infestations. |
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| Their findings were that the composting process results in the same level of GHG emissions as if the materials were allowed to decay naturally, as on the forest floor. |
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| Seniors and youth were matched up for seeding and planting, as well as for composting activities overseen by an organic vegetable garden landscaper. |
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| So, the composting of organic matter produced every day by municipalities is a valuable means of diverting that useful material from landfill, but more importantly enriches the soils. |
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| Blight can only survive in living tissue, so there's no danger in composting the diseased haulms. |
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| Special features included composting toilets, a solar hot water tank, an insulated cold box that negated the need for a refrigerator, and a wood stove. |
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| Farms in Quesnel and area would utilize unmarketable timber, pine beetle wood, wood waste, stumps, brush etc. in barns, for biomass heaters and composting or to make land improvements. |
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| As with other double-vault toilets, excreta are deposited into one of two chambers which are used alternately, to provide an extended period of composting time before the humus is removed for use as soil conditioner. |
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| Similar to biodegradation, composting is the biological breakdown of organic materials that produces a soil-like product that is used to enhance, amend or replace soil. |
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| The course's waste generation from the restaurant, groundskeeping and toilets closely resembles the waste streams of city living, which makes the links ideal for Dr. Grant's composting experiments. |
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| Cultural practices include crop rotation, culling, cover crops, intercropping, composting, avoidance, and resistance. |
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| Glasbrenner says PLA offers a variety of end-of-life options, including composting, mechanical recycling and hydrolyzing. |
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| They are having litterless lunches, planting trees, composting, picking up and recycling litter and turning off lights and computers when they are no longer needed. |
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| There he stayed with friends who were feeding table scraps to red wiggler worms in a composting bin and using the resultant fertilizer to feed some of their indoor plants. |
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| The Dual Tumbling Composter is the first to offer two compartments, enabling easier and more efficient composting. |
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| Industrial biotreatment of industrial or domestic solid waste is largely confined, at present, to composting wastes with a high proportion of organic materials. |
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| By 2014, to ensure the responsible management of our residues, Gatineau will look into the possibility of building its own waste transfer facilities for waste and composting at the aéroparc industrial environmental site. |
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| To minimize this negative effect, the common technology used is by composting the fresh material before it is applied to the soil. |
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| Mixing green and brown materials as recommended, I filled the black recycled compost rings given out at the composting class. |
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| This bioreactor process joins incineration and composting as Army-approved methods for cleaning up contamination. |
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| For those who want to start composting in their homes, the cheapest method is vermicomposting, which can be done in a small container using, yes, worms. |
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| Ottumwa Community Schools, Pella Community Schools and West Liberty Community Schools have begun the semester by implementing GreenRU composting into their food services. |
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| Grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, unwanted plants, fruit and vegetable peelings, tea bags and even the contents of the vacuum bag are all ideal for composting. |
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| Even nongardening urbanites have begun saving kitchen scraps and yard wastes for their composting neighbors, in order to cut their trash disposal costs. |
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| Some waste is disposed of via composting or use as fertilizer. |
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| Compost will prekopEivEin on composting facility in Humpolci. |
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| It requires local government units to decentralise garbage collection and hauling It also promotes waste segregation, recycling and composting to cut down waste production. |
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| His college background in biology made him a perfect candidate to work in the facility's composting program, set up by Evergreen State College in nearby Olympia. |
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