Composting and our city's co-composter
By breepeace
@breepeace (3014)
Canada
May 6, 2007 3:43pm CST
I just started composting this year, and I went to a seminar on Wednesday on the how-tos. The presenter is a master composter for the City of Edmonton, and she mentioned that our city has the largest co-composter in the world.
The city sends approximately 200,000 tonnes of residential solid waste and 22,500 dry tonnes of biosolids to the facility each year. The facility will produce about 80,000 tonnes of compost annually.
The $100-million co-composter allows Edmonton to recycle 65 per cent of its residential waste. The co-composter itself is 38,690 square metres in size, equivalent to 8 football fields.
http://www.edmonton.ca/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_0_271_213_0_43/http%3B/CMSServer/NR/rdonlyres/9D27F2CE-9DE7-479F-983E-762FB499801F/0/Composterforweb.pdf
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
16 Jul 07
That sounds like an excellent idea. They should it have here in Winnipeg. All we do is give out those blue recycle boxes, and tell us to put the stuff in the compost. The city has a compost box sale once a year and even at $30 or so on sale, is a bit out of someone's income. Not everyone has gardens and it freezes in the winter. Not only that, they want us to buy our top soil.
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@seagoddess28 (873)
• Canada
16 Jul 07
I went to the website and I think that the co-composter is excellent! I wonder why a facility like this cannot be constructed in Ontario? It would save millions of dollars being spent right now to ferry Toronto's garbage to Michigan. I think doing our best for the environment locally and in our homes will be for the benefit of our country (Canada) and the entire planet. Thanks for sharing! I will email my friends (those who think and live "green")the website... :-D
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