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Community-Scale Composting Systems: A Comprehensive Practical Guide for Closing the Food System Loop and Solving Our Waste Crisis

Composting at scales large enough to capture and recycle the organic wastes of a given community, whether a school, neighborhood, or even a small city, is coming of age, propelled by a growing awareness not only of our food waste crisis, but also the need to restore natural fertility in our soils. In-depth yet accessible, Community-Scale Composting Systems is a technical resource for farmers, designers, service providers, organics recycling entrepreneurs, and advocates of all types, with a focus on developing the next generation of organics recycling infrastructure that can enable communities to close the food-soil loop in their local food systems.

The main scope of the book is dedicated to compost system options and design, from basic sizing and layout to advanced techniques such as aerated static pile composting. Management techniques and operational considerations are also covered, including testing, feedstock characteristics, compost recipe development, and system-specific best management practices.

Though focused on recycling systems that include food scrapsthe fastest growing sector of community-scale compostingthe book is informed by and relevant to other composting sectors and will be a vital resource for anyone invested in diverting organic materials away from landfilling and incineration. Topics covered include:

  • Community-scale models
  • Estimating organics from individual generators and whole communities
  • Food scrap collection
  • Compost system sizing
  • Aerated static pile (ASP) systems design
  • In-vessel systems selection
  • Integrating animals with composting
  • Compatibility with compost heat recovery, vermicomposting, and other specialized methodologies
  • Composting best management practices
  • Nuisance management
  • Mitigating persistent herbicides
  • End uses, marketing, and sales

Whether youre an engineer, community organizer, permaculturalist, public sector waste manager, farmer, or just a dirt lover, Community-Scale Composting Systems is the definitive manual on composting, written at a crucial time when communities are just starting to see what the composting movement will ultimately offer our food systems, local and regional economies, and planet.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 1452g
  • Dimensions: 204 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Jan 2019
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781603586542

About James McSweeneyJamie McSweeneyVesna Main

James McSweeney is a composting consultant and educator. Through his work at the Highfields Center for Composting and current consultancy Compost Technical Services James has worked with hundreds of composters large and small on everything from site planning design and management to compost heat recovery and livestock feeding systems. He coauthored Growing Local Fertility: A Guide to Community Composting and has been an ardent proponent and collaborator in the community composting movement in the United States. With a background in agroecology and permaculture restoring ecological integrity to our local farm and food systems is at the heart of Jamess work. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife Amanda and three kids.

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